virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
add a new hook to do this.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
index 057a2e0..f508c65 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
* This re-enables callbacks; it returns "false" if there are pending
* buffers in the queue, to detect a possible race between the driver
* checking for more work, and enabling callbacks.
+ * @detach_unused_buf: detach first unused buffer
+ * vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
+ * Returns NULL or the "data" token handed to add_buf
*
* Locking rules are straightforward: the driver is responsible for
* locking. No two operations may be invoked simultaneously, with the exception
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@
void (*disable_cb)(struct virtqueue *vq);
bool (*enable_cb)(struct virtqueue *vq);
+ void *(*detach_unused_buf)(struct virtqueue *vq);
};
/**