[PULL,11/18] hw/misc/vmcoreinfo: Add comment about reset handler

Commit Message

Eduardo Habkost Oct. 15, 2019, 9:37 p.m. UTC

From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[e-mail]>

The VM coreinfo device does not sit on a bus, so it won't be
reset automatically. This is why it calls qemu_register_reset().

Add a comment about it, so we don't convert its reset handler
to a DeviceReset method.

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Li Qiang <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <[e-mail]>
---
 hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c b/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
index 326a3ce8f4..a9d718fc23 100644
--- a/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
+++ b/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@  static void vmcoreinfo_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
                              NULL, fw_cfg_vmci_write, s,
                              &s->vmcoreinfo, sizeof(s->vmcoreinfo), false);
 
+    /*
+     * This device requires to register a global reset because it is
+     * not plugged to a bus (which, as its QOM parent, would reset it).
+     */
     qemu_register_reset(vmcoreinfo_reset, dev);
     vmcoreinfo_state = s;
 }