Committing to the current --preconfig / exit-preconfig interface
before it has seen any use is premature. Mark both as experimental,
the former in documentation, the latter by renaming it to
x-exit-preconfig.
See the previous commit for more detailed rationale.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180705091402.26244-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
[Straightforward conflict with commit 514337c142 resolved]
According to commit 047f7038f5, option --preconfig
[...] allows pausing QEMU in the new RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG state,
allowing the configuration of QEMU from QMP before the machine
jumps into board initialization code of machine_run_board_init()
The intent is to allow management to query machine state and
additionally configure it using previous query results within one
QEMU instance (i.e. eliminate the need to start QEMU twice, 1st to
query board specific parameters and 2nd for actual VM start using
query results for additional parameters).
The implementation is a bit of a hack: it splices in an additional
main loop before machine creation, in special runstate preconfig. New
command exit-preconfig exits that main loop. QEMU continues
initializing, creates the machine, and runs the good old main loop.
The replacement of the main loop is transparent to monitors.
Sadly, some commands expect initialization to be complete. Running
them in --preconfig's main loop violates their preconditions. Since
we don't really know which commands are safe, we use a whitelist.
This drags the concept of run state into the QMP core.
The whitelist is done as a command flag in the QAPI schema (commit
d6fe3d02e9). Drags the concept of run state further into the QAPI
language.
The command flag is exposed in query-qmp-schema (also commit
d6fe3d02e9). This makes it ABI.
I consider the whole thing an offensively ugly hack, but sometimes an
ugly hack is the best we can do to solve a problem people have.
The need described by the commit message quote above is genuine. The
proper solution would be a main loop that permits complete
configuration via QMP. This is out of reach, thus the hack.
However, even though the need is genuine, it isn't urgent: libvirt is
not going to use this anytime soon. Baking a hack into ABI before it
has any users is a bad idea.
This commit reverts the parts of commit d6fe3d02e9 that affect ABI
via query-qmp-schema. The commit did the following:
(1) Add command flag 'allow-preconfig' to the QAPI schema language
(2) Pass it to code generators
(3) Have the commands.py code generator pass it to the command
registry (so commit 047f7038f5 can use it as whitelist)
(4) Add 'allow-preconfig' to SchemaInfoCommand (neglecting to update
qapi-code-gen.txt section "Client JSON Protocol introspection")
(5) Set 'allow-preconfig': true for commands qmp_capabilities,
query-commands, query-command-line-options, query-status
Revert exactly (4), plus a bit of documentation added to
qemu-tech.info in commit 047f7038f5.
Shrinks query-qmp-schema's output from 126.5KiB to 121.8KiB for me.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180705091402.26244-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
[Straightforward conflict with commit d626b6c1ae resolved]
This option allows pausing QEMU in the new RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG state,
allowing the configuration of QEMU from QMP before the machine jumps
into board initialization code of machine_run_board_init()
The intent is to allow management to query machine state and additionally
configure it using previous query results within one QEMU instance
(i.e. eliminate the need to start QEMU twice, 1st to query board specific
parameters and 2nd for actual VM start using query results for
additional parameters).
The new option complements -S option and could be used with or without
it. The difference is that -S pauses QEMU when the machine is completely
initialized with all devices wired up and ready to execute guest code
(QEMU needs only to unpause VCPUs to let guest execute its code),
while the "preconfig" option pauses QEMU early before board specific init
callback (machine_run_board_init) is executed and allows the configuration
of machine parameters which will be used by board init code.
When early introspection/configuration is done, command 'exit-preconfig'
should be used to exit RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG and transition to the next
requested state (i.e. if -S is used then QEMU will pause the second
time when board/device initialization is completed or start guest
execution if -S isn't provided on CLI)
PS:
Initially 'preconfig' is planned to be used for configuring numa
topology depending on board specified possible cpus layout.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1526059483-42847-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com>
[ehabkost: Changed "since 2.13" to "since 3.0"]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Merge what is left of qemu-tech into the main manual as an appendix.
Ultimately we should have a new internals manual built from docs/, and
then the "Translator Internals" parts of qemu-tech could move to docs/
as well. The bits on limitation and features of CPU emulation should
remain in qemu-doc.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Drop most the device emulation part and merge the rest into the description
of the MMU. Make some bits more up-to-date.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Split more parts into separate chapters, place comparison last,
rename "Introduction" to "CPU emulation".
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
These are interesting for users too, since nowadays most
qemu-user users are going to be somewhat technical rather than
just people that want to run Wine. Some detail is lost, on
the other hand some of the information I removed (e.g. basic
block unchaining) was obsolete.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Unlike the other sections, they are pretty specific to a particular CPU.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The user manual has an obsolete introduction, and the one in
the internals manual lists QEMU's features quite nicely.
Drop the obsolete content and remove generic user-level
documentation from qemu-tech.
Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The HPPA backend has been removed by the following commit:
802b508123
tcg-hppa: Remove tcg backend
But some small pieces of the HPPA backend still survived until
today. Since we also do not have support for a HPPA target in
QEMU, we can nowadays safely remove the remaining HPPA parts
(like the disassembler code, or the detection of HPPA in the
configure script).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Rename the per-architecture tcg-target.c files to tcg-target.inc.c.
This makes it clearer that they are not intended to be standalone
C files, but are instead #included into another source file.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <1456238983-10160-2-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
The TwoOStwo and Willows page seem to have disappeared completely,
and also some of the other links were not pointing to the right
locations anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1443173916-8895-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Debug option is available since QEMU-1.2; FP coprocessor and
coprocessor context is available since QEMU-1.3.
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Although the rule also allows 'an' for historical reasons,
'a' is more common because 'h' is pronounced.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
It's been orphaned, not compiling for a long time and despite Apple's
drop of their Rosetta ppc emulation technology with Mac OS X Lion no one
has stepped up to fix it.
Testing necessary changes wrt QOM'ification thus is impossible, so we
might as well remove it completely.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Remove libqemu related stuff from the document since libqemu.a is not supported
anymore.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Wei-Ren <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Update the document since the default code cache size is 32 MB now.
Signed-off-by: chenwj <chenwj@cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
At least for Linux distributions UTF-8 is now standard,
so the QEMU documentation should use this encoding, too.
Even if there was currently only a single special character
using ISO-8859-1, this might change in the future.
So the texinfo keywords @documentlanguage and
@documentencoding now document the language and the
encoding. The special character was changed to UTF-8
(it could also have been changed to an x, but the
original cross looks really nice if it is displayed
correctly).
These changes fix the html presentation at
http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC65
(ARM System emulator).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
update-info-dir maintains an index of all available
documentation in info format (the file /usr/share/info/dir).
It reads special @direntry tags in info files.
This patch (extracted from a larger patch provided by
Dirk Ullrich) adds these tags for qemu-doc.info and
qemu-tech.info.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
kqemu introduces a number of restrictions on the i386 target. The worst is that
it prevents large memory from working in the default build.
Furthermore, kqemu is fundamentally flawed in a number of ways. It relies on
the TSC as a time source which will not be reliable on a multiple processor
system in userspace. Since most modern processors are multicore, this severely
limits the utility of kqemu.
kvm is a viable alternative for people looking to accelerate qemu and has the
benefit of being supported by the upstream Linux kernel. If someone can
implement work arounds to remove the restrictions introduced by kqemu, I'm
happy to avoid and/or revert this patch.
N.B. kqemu will still function in the 0.11 series but this patch removes it from
the 0.12 series.
Paul, please Ack or Nack this patch.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Markus Armbruster
Igor Mammedov
Paolo Bonzini
Thomas Huth
Peter Maydell
Gonglei
Max Filippov
Stefan Weil
Andreas Färber
Chen Wei-Ren
Stefan Weil
Anthony Liguori
Blue Swirl
blueswir1
ths
bellard