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Lei Li
a1bca57f75 qga: add guest-set-time command
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

*added stub for w32

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-11 18:53:47 -05:00
Lei Li
6912e6a94c qga: add guest-get-time command
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

*added stub for w32

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-03-11 18:53:47 -05:00
Michael Roth
39097daf15 qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart
Hosts hold on to handles provided by guest-file-open for periods that can
span beyond the life of the qemu-ga process that issued them. Since these
are issued starting from 0 on every restart, we run the risk of issuing
duplicate handles after restarts/reboots.

As a result, users with a stale copy of these handles may end up
reading/writing corrupted data due to their existing handles effectively
being re-assigned to an unexpected file or offset.

We unfortunately do not issue handles as strings, but as integers, so a
solution such as using UUIDs can't be implemented without introducing a
new interface.

As a workaround, we fix this by implementing a persistent key-value store
that will be used to track the value of the last handle that was issued
across restarts/reboots to avoid issuing duplicates.

The store is automatically written to the same directory we currently
set via --statedir to track fsfreeze state, and so should be applicable
for stable releases where this flag is supported.

A follow-up can use this same store for handling fsfreeze state, but
that change is cosmetic and left out for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org

* fixed guest_file_handle_add() return value from uint64_t to int64_t
2013-03-11 18:53:47 -05:00
Markus Armbruster
10a2158f52 qemu-ga: Plug leaks on qmp_guest_network_get_interfaces() error paths
Spotted by Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-28 13:46:54 -06:00
Markus Armbruster
6f6867493c qemu-ga: Plug memory leak in guest_fsfreeze_cleanup()
Neglects to free errors allocated by qmp_guest_fsfreeze_thaw().
Spotted by Coverity.

While there, drop the test whether return value is negative (it's
never true), and improve logging.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-28 13:46:18 -06:00
Stefan Weil
e4ada48242 Replace non-portable asprintf by g_strdup_printf
g_strdup_printf already handles OOM errors, so some error handling in
QEMU code can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2013-01-19 10:24:43 +00:00
Tomoki Sekiyama
ec0f694c11 qemu-ga: execute hook to quiesce the guest on fsfreeze-freeze/thaw
To use the online disk snapshot for online-backup, application-level
consistency of the snapshot image is required. However, currently the
guest agent can provide only filesystem-level consistency, and the
snapshot may contain dirty data, for example, incomplete transactions.
This patch provides the opportunity to quiesce applications before
snapshot is taken.

If --fsfreeze-hook option is specified, the hook is executed with
"freeze" argument before the filesystem is frozen by fsfreeze-freeze
command. As for fsfreeze-thaw command, the hook is executed with "thaw"
argument after the filesystem is thawed.

This patch depends on patchset to improve error reporting by Luiz Capitulino:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-11/msg03016.html

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

*clarified usage in help output

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:12 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
7b3760879b qemu-ga: guest_suspend(): improve error reporting
Most errors are QERR_UNDEFINED_ERROR today.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:12 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
6b26e837a4 qemu-ga: bios_supports_mode(): improve error reporting
Most errors are QERR_UNDEFINED_ERROR today.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:12 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
878a0ae0ab qemu-ga: qmp_guest_network_get_interfaces(): get rid of snprintf() + error_set()
Convert them to error_setg_errno().

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
071673b090 qemu-ga: qmp_guest_fstrim(): get rid of sprintf() + error_set()
Convert them to error_setg_errno().

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
617fbbc132 qemu-ga: qmp_guest_fsfreeze_*(): get rid of sprintf() + error_set()
Convert them to error_setg_errno().

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
261551d1cc qemu-ga: build_fs_mount_list(): take an Error argument
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
d220a6dfea qemu-ga: qmp_guest_shutdown(): improve error reporting
Most errors are QERR_UNDEFINED_ERROR. Also, adds ga_wait_child() as
a future commit will use it too.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
db3edb6655 qemu-ga: qmp_guest_file_*: improve error reporting
Use error_setg_errno() when possible with an improved error description.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:11 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
3ac4b7c51e qemu-ga: qmp_guest_file_close(): fix fclose() error check
fclose() returns EOF on error.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:10 -06:00
Luiz Capitulino
a9de6d01df qemu-ga: guest_file_handle_find(): take an Error argument
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

*Fixed missing space character in error message

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08 16:38:10 -06:00
Paolo Bonzini
1de7afc984 misc: move include files to include/qemu/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19 08:32:39 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
7b1b5d1913 qapi: move include files to include/qobject/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19 08:31:31 +01:00
Aurelien Jarno
048d3612a5 Merge branch 'trivial-patches' of git://github.com/stefanha/qemu
* 'trivial-patches' of git://github.com/stefanha/qemu:
  versatilepb: Use symbolic indices for ARM PIC
  qdev: kill bogus comment
  qemu-barrier: Fix compiler version check for future gcc versions
  hw: Add missing 'static' attribute for QEMUMachine
  cleanup useless return sentence
  qemu-sockets: Fix compiler warning (regression for MinGW)
  vnc: Fix spelling (hellmen -> hellman) in comment
  slirp: Fix spelling in comment (enought -> enough, insure -> ensure)
  tcg/arm: Use tcg_out_mov_reg rather than inline equivalent code
  cpu: Add missing 'static' attribute to qemu_global_mutex
  configure: Support empty target list (--target-list=)
  hw: Fix return value check for bdrv_read, bdrv_write
2012-10-06 18:54:14 +02:00
Amos Kong
4d5b97da35 cleanup useless return sentence
This patch cleans up return sentences in the end of void functions.

Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
2012-10-05 15:10:21 +02:00
Jim Meyering
1ab516ed9b qemu-ga: prefer pstrcpy: consistently NUL-terminate ifreq.ifr_name
NUL-termination of the .ifr_name field is not required, but is fine
(and preferable to using strncpy and leaving the reader to wonder),
since the first thing the linux kernel does is to clear the last byte.
Besides, using pstrcpy here makes this setting of ifr_name consistent
with the other code (e.g., net/tap-linux.c) that does the same thing.

Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-10-05 07:58:37 -05:00
Paolo Bonzini
eab5fd5989 qemu-ga: add guest-fstrim command
FITRIM is a mounted filesystem feature to discard (or "trim") blocks which
are not in use by the filesystem. This is useful for solid-state drives
(SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.  Provide access to the feature
from the host so that filesystems can be trimmed periodically or before
migration.

Here is an example using scsi_debug:

    # modprobe scsi_debug lbpu=1 lbpws=1
    # sg_vpd -p0xb2 /dev/sdb
    Logical block provisioning VPD page (SBC):
      Unmap command supported (LBPU): 1
      Write same (16) with unmap bit supported (LBWS): 1
      Write same (10) with unmap bit supported (LBWS10): 0
    # mke2fs /dev/sdb
    # cat /sys/bus/pseudo/drivers/scsi_debug/map
    1-616,16257-16383
    # mount /dev/sdb /run/media/pbonzini/test
    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/run/media/pbonzini/test/file
    # cat map
    1-616,645-1588,1599-4026,4029-16383
    # rm /run/media/pbonzini/test/file
    # ./qemu-ga /dev/fd/0
    {"execute":"guest-fstrim"}
    {"return": {}}
    # cat map
    1-612

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-06-21 17:59:27 -05:00
Paolo Bonzini
af02203fbe qemu-ga: make names more generic for mount list functions
We will use these functions and types for more than FSFREEZE, so rename them.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-06-21 17:59:18 -05:00
Michael Roth
9e2fa418fb qemu-ga: avoid blocking on atime update when reading /etc/mtab
Currently we re-read/re-process /etc/mtab to get an updated list of
mounts when guest-fsfreeze-thaw is called. This can cause an atime
update on /etc/mtab, which will block if we're in a frozen state.

Instead, use /proc's version of mtab, which may not be up-to-date with
options passed via -o remount, but is compatible for our use cases since
we only care about the filesystem type.

Reported-by: Matsuda, Daiki <matsudadik@intellilink.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-29 21:00:42 -05:00
Andreas Färber
eecae14724 qemu-ga: Fix use of environ on Darwin
Use _NSGetEnviron() helper to access the environment.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Cc: Charlie Somerville <charlie@charliesomerville.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-29 21:00:40 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
2c02cbf6e9 qemu-ga: Fix missing environ declaration
Commit 3674838cd0 uses the environ global
variable, but is relying on environ to be declared somewhere else.

This worked for me because on F16 environ is declared in <unistd.h>, but
that doesn't happen in OpenBSD for example, causing a build failure.

This commit fixes the build error by declaring environ if it hasn't
being declared yet.

Also fixes a build warning due to a missing <sys/wait.h> include.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-24 13:06:33 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
3674838cd0 qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: use only async-signal-safe functions
POSIX mandates[1] that a child process of a multi-thread program uses
only async-signal-safe functions before exec(). We consider qemu-ga
to be multi-thread, because it uses glib.

However, qmp_guest_shutdown() uses functions that are not
async-signal-safe. Fix it the following way:

- fclose() -> reopen_fd_to_null()
- execl() -> execle()
- exit() -> _exit()
- drop slog() usage (which is not safe)

  [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fork.html

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-15 09:15:16 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
d5dd3498eb qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: become synchronous
Last commit dropped qemu-ga's SIGCHLD handler, used to automatically
reap terminated children processes. This introduced a bug to
qmp_guest_shutdown(): it will generate zombies.

This problem probably doesn't matter in the success case, as the VM
will shutdown anyway, but let's do the right thing and reap the
created process. This ultimately means that guest-shutdown is now a
synchronous command.

An interesting side effect is that guest-shutdown is now able to
report an error to the client if shutting down fails.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-15 09:15:16 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
dc8764f061 qemu-ga: guest-suspend: make the API synchronous
Currently, qemu-ga has a SIGCHLD handler that automatically reaps terminated
children processes. The idea is to avoid having qemu-ga commands blocked
waiting for children to terminate.

That approach has two problems:

 1. qemu-ga is unable to detect errors in the child, meaning that qemu-ga
    returns success even if the child fails to perform its task

 2. if a command does depend on the child exit status, the command has to
    play tricks to bypass the automatic reaper

Case 2 impacts the guest-suspend-* API, because it has to execute an external
program to check for suspend support. Today, to bypass the automatic reaper,
suspend code has to double fork and pass exit status information through a
pipe. Besides being complex, this is prone to race condition bugs. Indeed,
the current code does have such bugs.

Making the guest-suspend-* API synchronous (ie. by dropping the SIGCHLD
handler and calling waitpid() from commands) is a much simpler approach,
which fixes current race conditions bugs and enables commands to detect
errors in the child.

This commit does just that. There's a side effect though, guest-shutdown
will generate zombies if shutting down fails. This will be fixed by the
next commit.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-15 09:15:16 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
04b4e75f33 qemu-ga: make reopen_fd_to_null() public
The next commit wants to use it.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-15 09:15:16 -05:00
Jim Meyering
a31f053129 fix some common typos
These were identified using: http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check
and run like this to create a bourne shell script using GNU sed's
-i option:

git ls-files|grep -vF .bin | misspellings -f - |grep -v '^ERROR:' |perl \
-pe 's/^(.*?)\[(\d+)\]: (\w+) -> "(.*?)"$/sed -i '\''${2}s!$3!$4!'\'' $1/'

Manually eliding the FP, "rela->real" and resolving "addres" to
address (not "adders") we get this:

  sed -i '450s!thru!through!' Changelog
  sed -i '260s!neccessary!necessary!' coroutine-sigaltstack.c
  sed -i '54s!miniscule!minuscule!' disas.c
  sed -i '1094s!thru!through!' hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c
  sed -i '1095s!thru!through!' hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c
  sed -i '21s!unecessary!unnecessary!' qapi-schema-guest.json
  sed -i '307s!explictly!explicitly!' qemu-ga.c
  sed -i '490s!preceeding!preceding!' qga/commands-posix.c
  sed -i '792s!addres!address!' qga/commands-posix.c
  sed -i '6s!beeing!being!' tests/tcg/test-mmap.c

Also, manually fix "arithmentic", spotted by Peter Maydell:

  sed -i 's!arithmentic!arithmetic!' coroutine-sigaltstack.c

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2012-05-14 07:27:24 +02:00
Michael Roth
f22d85e9e6 qemu-ga: add a whitelist for fsfreeze-safe commands
Currently we rely on fsfreeze/thaw commands disabling/enabling logging
then having other commands check whether logging is disabled to avoid
executing if they aren't safe for running while a filesystem is frozen.

Instead, have an explicit whitelist of fsfreeze-safe commands, and
consolidate logging and command enablement/disablement into a pair
of helper functions: ga_set_frozen()/ga_unset_frozen()

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30 08:42:10 -05:00
Michael Roth
9e8aded432 qemu-ga: improve recovery options for fsfreeze
guest-fsfreeze-thaw relies on state information obtained from
guest-fsfreeze-freeze to determine what filesystems to unfreeze.
This is unreliable due to the fact that that state does not account
for FIFREEZE being issued by other processes, or previous instances
of qemu-ga. This means in certain situations we cannot thaw
filesystems even with a responsive qemu-ga instance at our disposal.

This patch allows guest-fsfreeze-thaw to be issued unconditionally.
It also adds some additional logic to allow us to thaw filesystems
regardless of how many times the filesystem's "frozen" refcount has
been incremented by any guest processes.

Also, guest-fsfreeze-freeze now operates atomically: on success all
freezable filesystems are frozen, and on error all filesystems are
thawed. The ambiguous "GUEST_FSFREEZE_STATUS_ERROR" state is no
longer entered.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30 08:41:40 -05:00
Michael Roth
d35d4cb517 qemu-ga: generate missing stubs for fsfreeze
When linux-specific commands (including guest-fsfreeze-*) were consolidated
under defined(__linux__), we forgot to account for the case where
defined(__linux__) && !defined(FIFREEZE). As a result stubs are no longer
being generated on linux hosts that don't have FIFREEZE support. Fix
this.

Tested-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-04-19 10:42:59 -05:00
Michael Roth
e72c3f2ed9 qemu-ga: fix bsd build, and re-org linux-specific implementations 2012-03-25 14:34:20 -05:00
Michael Roth
3cf0bed836 qemu-ga: add guest-sync-delimited
guest-sync leaves it as an exercise to the user as to how to reliably
obtain the response to guest-sync if the client had previously read in a
partial response (due qemu-ga previously being restarted mid-"sentence"
due to reboot, forced restart, etc).

qemu-ga handles this situation on its end by having a client precede
their guest-sync request with a 0xFF byte (invalid UTF-8), which
qemu-ga/QEMU JSON parsers will treat as a flush event. Thus we can
reliably flush the qemu-ga parser state in preparation for receiving
the guest-sync request.

guest-sync-delimited provides the same functionality for a client: when
a guest-sync-delimited is issued, qemu-ga will precede it's response
with a 0xFF byte that the client can use as an indicator to flush its
buffer/parser state in preparation for reliably receiving the
guest-sync-delimited response.

It is also useful as an optimization for clients, since, after issuing a
guest-sync-delimited, clients can safely discard all stale data read
from the channel until the 0xFF is found.

More information available on the wiki:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#QEMU_Guest_Agent_Protocol

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-12 15:09:23 -05:00
Michal Privoznik
3424fc9f16 qemu-ga: add guest-network-get-interfaces command
This command returns an array of:

 [ifname, hwaddr, [ipaddr, ipaddr_family, prefix] ]

for each interface in the system.
Currently, only IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2012-03-12 15:09:18 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
95f4f404e1 qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-hybrid
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-12 15:09:18 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
fbf42210c1 qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-ram
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-12 15:09:18 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
11d0f1255b qemu-ga: add guest-suspend-disk
As the command name implies, this command suspends the guest to disk.

The suspend operation is implemented by two functions: bios_supports_mode()
and guest_suspend(). Both functions are generic enough to be used by
other suspend modes (introduced by next commits).

Both functions will try to use the scripts provided by the pm-utils
package if it's available. If it's not available, a manual method,
which consists of directly writing to '/sys/power/state', will be used.

To reap terminated children, a new signal handler is installed in the
parent to catch SIGCHLD signals and a non-blocking call to waitpid()
is done to collect their exit statuses. The statuses, however, are
discarded.

The approach used to query the guest for suspend support deserves some
explanation. It's implemented by bios_supports_mode() and shown below:

  qemu-ga
     |
 create pipe
     |
   fork()
     -----------------
     |               |
     |               |
     |             fork()
     |               --------------------------
     |               |                        |
     |               |                        |
     |               |               exec('pm-is-supported')
     |               |
     |              wait()
     |       write exit status to pipe
     |              exit
     |
  read pipe

This might look complex, but the resulting code is quite simple.
The purpose of that approach is to allow qemu-ga to reap its children
(semi-)automatically from its SIGCHLD handler.

Implementing this the obvious way, that's, doing the exec() call from
the first child process, would force us to introduce a more complex way
to reap qemu-ga's children. Like registering PIDs to be reaped and
having a way to wait for them when returning their exit status to
qemu-ga is necessary. The approach explained above avoids that complexity.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-12 15:09:18 -05:00
Michael Roth
c216e5add1 qemu-ga: rename guest-agent-commands.c -> commands-posix.c 2012-02-23 15:40:16 -06:00