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authorPaul Durrant2013-09-17 18:46:08 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2013-09-19 20:03:51 +0200
commit279f438e36c0a70b23b86d2090aeec50155034a9 (patch)
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xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until the vif is shut down
Without this patch, if a frontend cycles through states Closing and Closed (which Windows frontends need to do) then the netdev will be destroyed and requires re-invocation of hotplug scripts to restore state before the frontend can move to Connected. Thus when udev is not in use the backend gets stuck in InitWait. With this patch, the netdev is left alone whilst the backend is still online and is only de-registered and freed just prior to destroying the vif (which is also nicely symmetrical with the netdev allocation and registration being done during probe) so no re-invocation of hotplug scripts is required. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h b/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
index a1977430ddfb..5715318d6bab 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ int xenvif_connect(struct xenvif *vif, unsigned long tx_ring_ref,
unsigned long rx_ring_ref, unsigned int tx_evtchn,
unsigned int rx_evtchn);
void xenvif_disconnect(struct xenvif *vif);
+void xenvif_free(struct xenvif *vif);
int xenvif_xenbus_init(void);
void xenvif_xenbus_fini(void);