The function qemu_chr_fe_init already treats be->fe_open as a bool and
if it acts like a bool it should be one. While we are at it make the
variable name more descriptive and add kdoc decorations.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231211145959.93759-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
In commit 6f974c843c ("gtk: overwrite the console.c char driver"), I
shared the VC console parse handler with GTK. And later on in commit
d8aec9d9 ("display: add -display spice-app launching a Spice client"),
I also used it to handle spice-app VC.
This is not necessary, the VC console options (width/height/cols/rows)
are specific, and unused by tty-level GTK/Spice VC.
This is not a breaking change, as those options are still being parsed
by QAPI ChardevVC. Adjust the documentation about it.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230830093843.3531473-44-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Make source buffers const for char be write functions.
This allows using buffers returned by fifo as buf parameter and source buffer
should not be changed by write functions anyway.
Signed-off-by: Arwed Meyer <arwed.meyer@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220911181840.8933-3-arwed.meyer@gmx.de>
Leading underscores are ill-advised because such identifiers are
reserved. Trailing underscores are merely ugly. Strip both.
Our header guards commonly end in _H. Normalize the exceptions.
Macros should be ALL_CAPS. Normalize the exception.
Done with scripts/clean-header-guards.pl.
include/hw/xen/interface/ and tools/virtiofsd/ left alone, because
these were imported from Xen and libfuse respectively.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220506134911.2856099-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
One less qemu-specific macro. It also helps to make some headers/units
only depend on glib, and thus moved in standalone projects eventually.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Add a new chardev backend which allows D-Bus client to handle the
chardev stream & events.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
"chr_option_parsed" is only implemented by the "mux" chardev, we can
specialize the code there to avoid the needless generic class method.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since commit 9894dc0cdc "char: convert
from GIOChannel to QIOChannel", the first argument to the watch callback
can actually be a QIOChannel, which is not a GIOChannel (but a QEMU
Object).
Even though we never used that pointer, change the callback type to warn
the users. Possibly a better fix later, we may want to store the
callback and call it from intermediary functions.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When changing from chardev-socket (which supports yank) to
chardev-socket again, it fails, because the new chardev attempts
to register a new yank instance. This in turn fails, as there
still is the yank instance from the current chardev. Also,
the old chardev shouldn't unregister the yank instance when it
is freed.
To fix this, now the new chardev only registers a yank instance if
the current chardev doesn't support yank and thus hasn't registered
one already. Also, when the old chardev is freed, it now only
unregisters the yank instance if the new chardev doesn't need it.
If the initialization of the new chardev fails, it still has
chr->handover_yank_instance set and won't unregister the yank
instance when it is freed.
s->registered_yank is always true here, as chardev-change only works
on user-visible chardevs and those are guraranteed to register a
yank instance as they are initialized via
chardev_new()
qemu_char_open()
cc->open() (qmp_chardev_open_socket()).
Signed-off-by: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Li Zhang <li.zhang@cloud.ionos.com>
Message-Id: <9637888d7591d2971975188478bb707299a1dc04.1617127849.git.lukasstraub2@web.de>
machine_init_done is not the right flag to check when preconfig
is taken into account; for example "./qemu-system-x86_64 -serial
mon:stdio -preconfig" does not print the QEMU monitor header until after
exit_preconfig. Add back a custom bool for mux character devices. This
partially undoes commit c7278b4355 ("chardev: introduce chr_machine_done
hook", 2018-03-12), but it keeps the cleaner logic using a function
pointer in ChardevClass.
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Initialize spice before chardevs. That allows to register the spice
chardevs directly in the init function and removes the need to maintain
a linked list of chardevs just for registration.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20201014121120.13482-5-kraxel@redhat.com
Some typedefs and macros are defined after the type check macros.
This makes it difficult to automatically replace their
definitions with OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE.
Patch generated using:
$ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i \
--pattern=QOMStructTypedefSplit $(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')
which will split "typdef struct { ... } TypedefName"
declarations.
Followed by:
$ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i --pattern=MoveSymbols \
$(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')
which will:
- move the typedefs and #defines above the type check macros
- add missing #include "qom/object.h" lines if necessary
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-9-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-10-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-11-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
No file out of chardev/ requires access to this header,
restrict its scope.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200423202112.644-5-philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
The Chardev events are listed in the QEMUChrEvent enum.
By using the enum in the IOEventHandler typedef we:
- make the IOEventHandler type more explicit (this handler
process out-of-band information, while the IOReadHandler
is in-band),
- help static code analyzers.
This patch was produced with the following spatch script:
@match@
expression backend, opaque, context, set_open;
identifier fd_can_read, fd_read, fd_event, be_change;
@@
qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(backend, fd_can_read, fd_read, fd_event,
be_change, opaque, context, set_open);
@depends on match@
identifier opaque, event;
identifier match.fd_event;
@@
static
-void fd_event(void *opaque, int event)
+void fd_event(void *opaque, QEMUChrEvent event)
{
...
}
Then the typedef was modified manually in
include/chardev/char-fe.h.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191218172009.8868-15-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This uses the QEMUChrEvent enum everywhere except in IOEventHandler.
The IOEventHandler change needs to happen at once for all front ends and
is done with Coccinelle in the next patch.
(Extracted from a patch by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In my "build everything" tree, changing qemu/main-loop.h triggers a
recompile of some 5600 out of 6600 objects (not counting tests and
objects that don't depend on qemu/osdep.h). It includes block/aio.h,
which in turn includes qemu/event_notifier.h, qemu/notify.h,
qemu/processor.h, qemu/qsp.h, qemu/queue.h, qemu/thread-posix.h,
qemu/thread.h, qemu/timer.h, and a few more.
Include qemu/main-loop.h only where it's needed. Touching it now
recompiles only some 1700 objects. For block/aio.h and
qemu/event_notifier.h, these numbers drop from 5600 to 2800. For the
others, they shrink only slightly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190812052359.30071-21-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
No header includes qemu-common.h after this commit, as prescribed by
qemu-common.h's file comment.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190523143508.25387-5-armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased with conflicts resolved automatically, except for
include/hw/arm/xlnx-zynqmp.h hw/arm/nrf51_soc.c hw/arm/msf2-soc.c
block/qcow2-refcount.c block/qcow2-cluster.c block/qcow2-cache.c
target/arm/cpu.h target/lm32/cpu.h target/m68k/cpu.h target/mips/cpu.h
target/moxie/cpu.h target/nios2/cpu.h target/openrisc/cpu.h
target/riscv/cpu.h target/tilegx/cpu.h target/tricore/cpu.h
target/unicore32/cpu.h target/xtensa/cpu.h; bsd-user/main.c and
net/tap-bsd.c fixed up]
Leading underscores are ill-advised because such identifiers are
reserved. Trailing underscores are merely ugly. Strip both.
Our header guards commonly end in _H. Normalize the exceptions.
Done with scripts/clean-header-guards.pl.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190315145123.28030-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
[Changes to slirp/ dropped, as we're about to spin it off]
Instead of handling mux chardev in a special way in
qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(), we may use the chr_update_read_handler
class callback instead.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190206174328.9736-2-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This will be needed by vhost-user-test, when each test switches to
its own GMainLoop and GMainContext. Otherwise, for a reconnecting
socket the initial connection will happen on the default GMainContext,
and no one will be listening on it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190202110834.24880-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
When chardev is multiplexed (mux=on) there are a lot of cases where
CHR_EVENT_OPENED/CHR_EVENT_CLOSED events pairing (expected from
frontend side) is broken. There are either generation of multiple
repeated or extra CHR_EVENT_OPENED events, or CHR_EVENT_CLOSED just
isn't generated at all.
This is mostly because 'qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers()' function makes its
own (and often wrong) implicit decision on updated frontend state and
invokes 'fd_event' callback with 'CHR_EVENT_OPENED'. And even worse,
it doesn't do symmetric action in opposite direction, as someone may
expect (i.e. it doesn't invoke previously set 'fd_event' with
'CHR_EVENT_CLOSED'). Muxed chardev uses trick by calling this function
again to replace callback handlers with its own ones, but it doesn't
account for such side effect.
Fix that using extended version of this function with added argument
for disabling side effect and keep original function for compatibility
with lots of frontends already using this interface and being
"tolerant" to its side effects.
One more source of event duplication is just line of code in
char-mux.c, which does far more than comment above says (obvious fix).
Signed-off-by: Artem Pisarenko <artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <7dde6abbd21682857f8294644013173c0b9949b3.1541507990.git.artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_GCONTEXT declares the character device can switch
GMainContext.
Assert we don't switch context when the character device doesn't
provide this feature. Character device users must not violate this
restriction. In particular, user configurations that violate them
must be rejected.
Existing frontend that rely on context switching would now assert() if
the backend doesn't allow it (instead of silently producing undesired
events in the default context). Following patches improve the
situation by reporting an error earlier instead, on the frontend side.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181205203737.9011-4-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This is mostly for readability of the code. Let's make it clear which
callers can create an implicit monitor when the chardev is muxed.
This will also enforce a safer behaviour, as we don't really support
creating monitor anywhere/anytime at the moment. Add an assert() to
make sure the programmer explicitely wanted that behaviour.
There are documented cases, such as: -serial/-parallel/-virtioconsole
and to less extent -debugcon.
Less obvious and questionable ones are -gdb, SLIRP -guestfwd and Xen
console. Add a FIXME note for those, but keep the support for now.
Other qemu_chr_new() callers either have a fixed parameter/filename
string or do not need it, such as -qtest:
* qtest.c: qtest_init()
Afaik, only used by tests/libqtest.c, without mux. I don't think we
support it outside of qemu testing: drop support for implicit mux
monitor (qemu_chr_new() call: no implicit mux now).
* hw/
All with literal @filename argument that doesn't enable mux monitor.
* tests/
All with @filename argument that doesn't enable mux monitor.
On a related note, the list of monitor creation places:
- the chardev creators listed above: all from command line (except
perhaps Xen console?)
- -gdb & hmp gdbserver will create a "GDB monitor command" chardev
that is wired to an HMP monitor.
- -mon command line option
From this short study, I would like to think that a monitor may only
be created in the main thread today, though I remain skeptical :)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Fix up conformance to GTK-Doc function comment style, as documented in
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk-doc-manual/stable/documenting_symbols.html.en
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Fixup some typos in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova <jusual@mail.ru>
Message-Id: <20180813093402.10852-1-jusual@mail.ru>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It was unclear before on what does the CLOSED event mean. Meanwhile we
add a TODO to fix up the CLOSED event in the future when the in/out
ports are different for a chardev.
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180620073223.31964-2-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Introduce ChardevClass.chr_machine_done() hook so that chardevs can run
customized procedures after machine init.
There was an existing mux user already that did similar thing but used a
raw machine done notifier. Generalize it into a framework, and let the
mux chardevs provide such a class-specific hook to achieve the same
thing. Then we can move the mux related code to the char-mux.c file.
Since at it, replace the mux_realized variable with the global
machine_init_done varible.
This notifier framework will be further leverged by other type of
chardevs soon.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180306053320.15401-6-peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In my "build everything" tree, a change to the types in
qapi-schema.json triggers a recompile of about 4800 out of 5100
objects.
The previous commit split up qmp-commands.h, qmp-event.h, qmp-visit.h,
qapi-types.h. Each of these headers still includes all its shards.
Reduce compile time by including just the shards we actually need.
To illustrate the benefits: adding a type to qapi/migration.json now
recompiles some 2300 instead of 4800 objects. The next commit will
improve it further.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-24-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
[eblake: rebase to master]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
qemu-common.h includes qemu/option.h, but most places that include the
former don't actually need the latter. Drop the include, and add it
to the places that actually need it.
While there, drop superfluous includes of both headers, and
separate #include from file comment with a blank line.
This cleanup makes the number of objects depending on qemu/option.h
drop from 4545 (out of 4743) to 284 in my "build everything" tree.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180201111846.21846-20-armbru@redhat.com>
[Semantic conflict with commit bdd6a90a9e in block/nvme.c resolved]
It's a replacement of g_timeout_add[_seconds]() for chardevs. Chardevs
now can have dedicated gcontext, we should always bind chardev tasks
onto those gcontext rather than the default main context. Since there
are quite a few of g_timeout_add[_seconds]() callers, a new function
qemu_chr_timeout_add_ms() is introduced.
One thing to mention is that, terminal3270 is still always running on
main gcontext. However let's convert that as well since it's still part
of chardev codes and in case one day we'll miss that when we move it out
of main gcontext too.
Also, convert all the timers from GSource tags into GSource pointers.
Gsource tag IDs and g_source_remove()s can only work with default
gcontext, while now these GSources can logically be attached to other
contexts. So let's use explicit g_source_destroy() plus another
g_source_unref() to remove a timer.
Note: when in the timer handler, we don't need the g_source_destroy()
any more since that'll be done automatically if the timer handler
returns false (and that's what all the current handlers do).
Yet another note: in pty_chr_rearm_timer() we take special care for
ms=1000. This patch merged the two cases into one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180104141835.17987-4-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Kirill noticied that on recent versions on QEMU he was not able to
trigger SysRq to invoke debug capabilites of Linux Kernel. He tracked
it down to qemu_chr_be_event() ignoring CHR_EVENT_BREAK due s->be
being NULL. The bug was introduced in 2.8, commit a4afa548fc ("char:
move front end handlers in CharBackend"). Since the commit, the
qemu_chr_be_event() failed to deliver CHR_EVENT_BREAK due to
qemu_chr_fe_init() does not set s->be in case of mux.
Let's fix this by teaching mux to send an event to the frontend with
the focus.
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Fixes: a4afa548fc ("char: move front end handlers in CharBackend")
Message-Id: <20171103152824.21948-2-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We had a per-chardev cache for context, then we don't need this
parameter to be passed in every time when chr_update_read_handler()
called. As long as we are calling chr_update_read_handler() using
qemu_chr_be_update_read_handlers() we'll be fine.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1505975754-21555-5-git-send-email-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It caches the gcontext that is used to poll the chardev IO. Before this
patch, we only passed it in via chr_update_read_handlers(). However
that may not be enough if the char backend is disconnected and
reconnected afterward. There are chardev codes that still assumed the
context be NULL (which is the main context). Will fix that up in
following up patches.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1505975754-21555-3-git-send-email-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add a wrapper for the chr_update_read_handler().
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1505975754-21555-2-git-send-email-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
qemu_chr_new_from_opts() is used from both vl.c and hmp,
and it is quite confusing to see qemu suddenly exit after receiving a help
option in hmp.
Do exit(0) from vl.c instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1500977081-120929-1-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Apparently unused since it was introduced in commit
a29753f8aa. Now, it can be trivially
accessed by CHARDEV() of self.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170720100046.4424-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-11-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
frontends should avoid accessing CharDriver struct where possible
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-6-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
qemu_chr_fe_get_driver() is unsafe, frontends with hotswap support
should not access CharDriver ptr directly as CharDriver might change.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-5-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend
removal.
Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e.
frontend would continue its regular operation.
However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends
via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and it's not (generally) possible to replay
that setup entirely in a backend code, as different chardevs respond
to the setup calls differently, so do frontends work differently basing
on those setup responses.
Moreover, some frontend can generally get and save the backend pointer
(qemu_chr_fe_get_driver()), and it will become invalid after backend change.
So, a frontend which would like to support chardev hotswap has to register
a "backend change" handler, and redo its backend setup there.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-4-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
