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Commit ab7a2375 authored by Cornelia Huck's avatar Cornelia Huck Committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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virtio: hint if callbacks surprisingly might sleep



A virtio transport is free to implement some of the callbacks in
virtio_config_ops in a matter that they cannot be called from
atomic context (e.g. virtio-ccw, which maps a lot of the callbacks
to channel I/O, which is an inherently asynchronous mechanism).
This can be very surprising for developers using the much more
common virtio-pci transport, just to find out that things break
when used on s390.

The documentation for virtio_config_ops now contains a comment
explaining this, but it makes sense to add a might_sleep() annotation
to various wrapper functions in the virtio core to avoid surprises
later.

Note that annotations are NOT added to two classes of calls:
- direct calls from device drivers (all current callers should be
  fine, however)
- calls which clearly won't be made from atomic context (such as
  those ultimately coming in via the driver core)

Signed-off-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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