tests/qmp-test tests an out-of-band command overtaking a slow in-band
command. To do that, it needs:
1. An in-band command that *reliably* takes long enough to be
overtaken.
2. An out-of-band command to do the overtaking.
3. To avoid delays, a way to make the in-band command complete quickly
after it was overtaken.
To satisfy these needs, commit 469638f9cb provides the rather
peculiar oob-capable QMP command x-oob-test:
* With "lock": true, it waits for a global semaphore.
* With "lock": false, it signals the global semaphore.
To satisfy 1., the test runs x-oob-test in-band with "lock": true.
To satisfy 2. and 3., it runs x-oob-test out-of-band with "lock": false.
Note that waiting for a semaphore violates the rules for oob-capable
commands. Running x-oob-test with "lock": true hangs the monitor
until you run x-oob-test with "lock": false on another monitor (which
you might not have set up).
Having an externally visible QMP command that may hang the monitor is
not nice. Let's apply a little more ingenuity to the problem. Idea:
have an existing command block on reading a FIFO special file, unblock
it by opening the FIFO for writing.
For 1., use
{"execute": "blockdev-add", "id": ID1,
"arguments": {
"driver": "blkdebug", "node-name": ID1, "config": FIFO,
"image": { "driver": "null-co"}}}
where ID1 is an arbitrary string, and FIFO is the name of the FIFO.
For 2., use
{"execute": "migrate-pause", "id": ID2, "control": {"run-oob": true}}
where ID2 is a different arbitrary string. Since there's no migration
to pause, the command will fail, but that's fine; instant failure is
still a test of out-of-band responses overtaking in-band commands.
For 3., open FIFO for writing.
Drop QMP command x-oob-test.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-6-armbru@redhat.com>
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