[virtio-dev] [PATCH v5 0/1] Define a low power mode for devices

The Linux patch [1] added support for suspending virtio devices using
native PCI power management. However, Linux does PCI power management
during the noirq phase of suspend and resume. Without a mechanism to
suspend/resume virtio devices when the driver is suspended/resumed in
the early phase of suspend/late phase of resume, there is a window where
interrupts can be lost.

This revision of the patch tries to reconcile with the similar proposal
[2], which was pulled out of one of a patch series attempting to add
live migration support to virtio [3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

v4 -> v5:
 - Use a device status bit instead of a pci capability.
 - Reconcile differences with [2] by specifying that devices should
   finish processing buffers before suspending and that devices
   shouldn't access virtqueues while suspended.
 - Add more details about state transition acknowledgment.
v3 -> v4:
 - Define virtio-pci specific power management that can be used in
   conjunction with PCI power management.
v2 -> v3:
 - Use different words for some concepts to avoid conflicts with other
   parts of the spec.
 - Rewrite various sentences to improve clarity.
v1 -> v2:
 - Define virtio-pci support on top of PCI power management.
 - Add more conformance requirements.

David Stevens (1):
  Add SUSPEND bit to device status

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 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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