4 files changed, 50 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h
index 4fe9aeecc0..a9305c5e6c 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h
@@ -28,7 +28,17 @@ struct VHostUserGPIO {
     VhostUserState vhost_user;
     VirtQueue *command_vq;
     VirtQueue *interrupt_vq;
+    /**
+     * There are at least two steps of initialization of the
+     * vhost-user device. The first is a "connect" step and
+     * second is a "start" step. Make a separation between
+     * those initialization phases by using two fields.
+     *
+     * @connected: see vu_gpio_connect()/vu_gpio_disconnect()
+     * @started_vu: see vu_gpio_start()/vu_gpio_stop()
+     */
     bool connected;
+    bool started_vu;
     /*< public >*/
 };
 
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h
index c6e693cd3f..191216a74f 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h
@@ -68,4 +68,22 @@ bool vhost_user_init(VhostUserState *user, CharBackend *chr, Error **errp);
  */
 void vhost_user_cleanup(VhostUserState *user);
 
+/**
+ * vhost_user_async_close() - cleanup vhost-user post connection drop
+ * @d: DeviceState for the associated device (passed to callback)
+ * @chardev: the CharBackend associated with the connection
+ * @vhost: the common vhost device
+ * @cb: the user callback function to complete the clean-up
+ *
+ * This function is used to handle the shutdown of a vhost-user
+ * connection to a backend. We handle this centrally to make sure we
+ * do all the steps and handle potential races due to VM shutdowns.
+ * Once the connection is disabled we call a backhalf to ensure
+ */
+typedef void (*vu_async_close_fn)(DeviceState *cb);
+
+void vhost_user_async_close(DeviceState *d,
+                            CharBackend *chardev, struct vhost_dev *vhost,
+                            vu_async_close_fn cb);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/vhost.h b/include/hw/virtio/vhost.h
index 353252ac3e..67a6807fac 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/vhost.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/vhost.h
@@ -184,24 +184,26 @@ static inline bool vhost_dev_is_started(struct vhost_dev *hdev)
  * vhost_dev_start() - start the vhost device
  * @hdev: common vhost_dev structure
  * @vdev: the VirtIODevice structure
+ * @vrings: true to have vrings enabled in this call
  *
  * Starts the vhost device. From this point VirtIO feature negotiation
  * can start and the device can start processing VirtIO transactions.
  *
  * Return: 0 on success, < 0 on error.
  */
-int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev);
+int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev, bool vrings);
 
 /**
  * vhost_dev_stop() - stop the vhost device
  * @hdev: common vhost_dev structure
  * @vdev: the VirtIODevice structure
+ * @vrings: true to have vrings disabled in this call
  *
  * Stop the vhost device. After the device is stopped the notifiers
  * can be disabled (@vhost_dev_disable_notifiers) and the device can
  * be torn down (@vhost_dev_cleanup).
  */
-void vhost_dev_stop(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev);
+void vhost_dev_stop(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev, bool vrings);
 
 /**
  * DOC: vhost device configuration handling
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index a973811cbf..acfd4df125 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ struct VirtIODevice
     bool broken; /* device in invalid state, needs reset */
     bool use_disabled_flag; /* allow use of 'disable' flag when needed */
     bool disabled; /* device in temporarily disabled state */
+    /**
+     * @use_started: true if the @started flag should be used to check the
+     * current state of the VirtIO device. Otherwise status bits
+     * should be checked for a current status of the device.
+     * @use_started is only set via QMP and defaults to true for all
+     * modern machines (since 4.1).
+     */
     bool use_started;
     bool started;
     bool start_on_kick; /* when virtio 1.0 feature has not been negotiated */
@@ -391,6 +398,16 @@ static inline bool virtio_is_big_endian(VirtIODevice *vdev)
     return false;
 }
 
+/**
+ * virtio_device_started() - check if device started
+ * @vdev - the VirtIO device
+ * @status - the devices status bits
+ *
+ * Check if the device is started. For most modern machines this is
+ * tracked via the @vdev->started field (to support migration),
+ * otherwise we check for the final negotiated status bit that
+ * indicates everything is ready.
+ */
 static inline bool virtio_device_started(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t status)
 {
     if (vdev->use_started) {
@@ -411,15 +428,11 @@ static inline bool virtio_device_started(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t status)
  */
 static inline bool virtio_device_should_start(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t status)
 {
-    if (vdev->use_started) {
-        return vdev->started;
-    }
-
     if (!vdev->vm_running) {
         return false;
     }
 
-    return status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK;
+    return virtio_device_started(vdev, status);
 }
 
 static inline void virtio_set_started(VirtIODevice *vdev, bool started)