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[v3,01/21] include/hw/virtio: more comment for VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE

Message ID 20220726192150.2435175-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series virtio-gpio and various virtio cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Alex Bennée July 26, 2022, 7:21 p.m. UTC 
When debugging a new vhost user you may be surprised to see
VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL getting squashed in the maze of
backend_features, acked_features and guest_features. Expand the
description here to help the next poor soul trying to work through
this.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

---
v3
  - s/vhost/vhost-user/
---
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index db1c0ddf6b..9bb2485415 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@ 
 #include "qom/object.h"
 #include "hw/virtio/vhost.h"
 
-/* A guest should never accept this.  It implies negotiation is broken. */
+/*
+ * A guest should never accept this. It implies negotiation is broken
+ * between the driver frontend and the device. This bit is re-used for
+ * vhost-user to advertise VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES between QEMU
+ * and a vhost-user backend.
+ */
 #define VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE		30
 
 #define VIRTIO_LEGACY_FEATURES ((0x1ULL << VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE) | \