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| author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2018-03-09 23:23:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2018-03-20 02:29:10 +0200 |
| commit | 619a2785480f3275767b81a02cead33aaba4e801 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f08fb037b5301e4b685541c7fbf9393039ae3a3 /content.tex | |
| parent | 323f8193da1c07cdea4677b92b7658f650554ffe (diff) | |
split-ring: generalize text
Update generic text to talk about available/used buffers, not rings.
Move some split-ring specific text to the correct section.
Update conformance section with link to the new conformance clause.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Approved-by: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/virtio/ballot.php?id=3177
Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/3
Diffstat (limited to 'content.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | content.tex | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index 60f51bb..c577133 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -381,12 +381,10 @@ of a device are live once the device has been reset. \drivernormative{\subsection}{Device Cleanup}{General Initialization And Device Operation / Device Cleanup} -A driver MUST NOT alter descriptor table entries which have been -exposed in the available ring (and not marked consumed by the device -in the used ring) of a live virtqueue. - -A driver MUST NOT decrement the available \field{idx} on a live virtqueue (ie. -there is no way to ``unexpose'' buffers). +A driver MUST NOT alter virtqueue entries for exposed buffers - +i.e. buffers which have been +made available to the device (and not been used by the device) +of a live virtqueue. Thus a driver MUST ensure a virtqueue isn't live (by device reset) before removing exposed buffers. |