[libvirt] [PATCH] Force FLR on for buggy SR-IOV devices.

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Jul 23 19:34:23 UTC 2010


On 07/23/2010 01:21 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Some buggy PCI devices actually support FLR, but
> forget to advertise that fact in their PCI config space.
> However, Virtual Functions on SR-IOV devices are
> *required* to support FLR by the spec, so force has_flr
> on if this is a virtual function.
>
> +
> +    if (virAsprintf(&path, PCI_SYSFS "devices/%s/physfn", dev->name)<  0) {

Weird spacing around <

> +        VIR_ERROR("Failed to allocate memory when checking FLR for device %s",
> +                  dev->id);

If this fails, it is likely that other code will run out of memory soon, 
too.  Why not just call the standard git OOM handler here?

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