From: Michael S. Tsirkin Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:55:44 +0000 (+0200) Subject: virtio: core support for config generation X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.19/fixes-rc1~32^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d71de9ec6ba806104439d3a669befda84757b5af;p=pandora-kernel.git virtio: core support for config generation virtio 1.0 spec says: Drivers MUST NOT assume reads from fields greater than 32 bits wide are atomic, nor are reads from multiple fields: drivers SHOULD read device configuration space fields like so: u32 before, after; do { before = get_config_generation(device); // read config entry/entries. after = get_config_generation(device); } while (after != before); Do exactly this, for transports that support it. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- Reading git-diff-tree failed