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Author SHA1 Message Date
Wei Liu
94fcfa9f1f virtio-queue: add safety comments for impl ByteValued
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <liuwe@microsoft.com>
2021-11-17 14:40:51 +00:00
Sebastien Boeuf
7c19ae92b8 virtio-queue: Introduce new crate forked from rust-vmm/vm-virtio
This crate contains a new definition of the Queue, AvailIter,
DescriptorChain and Descriptor structures forked from the upstream
crate rust-vmm/vm-virtio d62f2246568d4f544e848b23c025b268effac5ca.

The following patches have been applied on top of this base in order to
make it work correctly with Cloud Hypervisor requirements:

- Add MSI vector field to the Queue

  In order to help with MSI/MSI-X support, it is convenient to store the
  value of the interrupt vector inside the Queue directly.

- Handle address translations

  For devices with access to data in memory being translated, we add to
  the Queue the ability to translate the address stored in the
  descriptor.
  It is very helpful as it performs the translation right after the
  untranslated address is read from memory, avoiding any errors from
  happening from the consumer's crate perspective. It also allows the
  consumer to reduce greatly the amount of duplicated code for applying
  the translation in many different places.

- Add helpers for Queue structure

  They are meant to help crate's consumers getting/setting information
  about the Queue.

These patches can be found on the 'ch' branch from the Cloud Hypervisor
fork: https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/vm-virtio.git

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2021-10-22 11:38:55 +02:00