When QEMU is built with --enable-modules, the module_block.py script
parses block/*.c to find block drivers that are built as modules. The
script generates a table of block drivers called block_driver_modules[].
This table is used for block driver module loading.
The blkio.c driver uses macros to define its BlockDriver structs. This
was done to avoid code duplication but the module_block.py script is
unable to parse the macro. The result is that libblkio-based block
drivers can be built as modules but will not be found at runtime.
One fix is to make the module_block.py script or build system fancier so
it can parse C macros (e.g. by parsing the preprocessed source code). I
chose not to do this because it raises the complexity of the build,
making future issues harder to debug.
Keep things simple: use the macro to avoid duplicating BlockDriver
function pointers but define .format_name and .protocol_name manually
for each BlockDriver. This way the module_block.py is able to parse the
code.
Also get rid of the block driver name macros (e.g. DRIVER_IO_URING)
because module_block.py cannot parse them either.
Fixes: fd66dbd424f5 ("blkio: add libblkio block driver")
Reported-by: Qing Wang <qinwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20230704123436.187761-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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