QEMU With E2K User Support
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Previously we clean up the queues when we got CLOSED event. It was used
to make sure we won't send leftover replies/events of a old client to a
new client which makes perfect sense. However this will also drop the
replies/events even if the output port of the previous chardev backend
is still open, which can lead to missing of the last replies/events.
Now this patch does an extra operation to flush the response queue
before cleaning up.
In most cases, a QMP session will be based on a bidirectional channel (a
TCP port, for example, we read/write to the same socket handle), so in
port and out port of the backend chardev are fundamentally the same
port. In these cases, it does not really matter much on whether we'll
flush the response queue since flushing will fail anyway. However there
can be cases where in & out ports of the QMP monitor's backend chardev
are separated. Here is an example:
cat $QMP_COMMANDS | qemu -qmp stdio ... | filter_commands
In this case, the backend is fd-typed, and it is connected to stdio
where in port is stdin and out port is stdout. Now if we drop all the
events on the response queue then filter_command process might miss some
events that it might expect. The thing is that, when stdin closes,
stdout might still be there alive!
In practice, I encountered SHUTDOWN event missing when running test with
iotest 087 with Out-Of-Band enabled. Here is one of the ways that this
can happen (after "quit" command is executed and QEMU quits the main
loop):
1. [main thread] QEMU queues a SHUTDOWN event into response queue.
2. "cat" terminates (to distinguish it from the animal, I quote it).
3. [monitor iothread] QEMU's monitor iothread reads EOF from stdin.
4. [monitor iothread] QEMU's monitor iothread calls the CLOSED event
hook for the monitor, which will destroy the response queue of the
monitor, then the SHUTDOWN event is dropped.
5. [main thread] QEMU's main thread cleans up the monitors in
monitor_cleanup(). When trying to flush pending responses, it sees
nothing. SHUTDOWN is lost forever.
Note that before the monitor iothread was introduced, step [4]/[5] could
never happen since the main loop was the only place to detect the EOF
event of stdin and run the CLOSED event hooks. Now things can happen in
parallel in the iothread.
Without this patch, iotest 087 will have ~10% chance to miss the
SHUTDOWN event and fail when with Out-Of-Band enabled:
--- /home/peterx/git/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/087.out
+++ /home/peterx/git/qemu/bin/tests/qemu-iotests/087.out.bad
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
{"return": {}}
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "'node-name' must be
specified for the root node"}}
{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds": TIMESTAMP, "microseconds": TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
=== Duplicate ID ===
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@
{"return": {}}
{"return": {}}
{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds": TIMESTAMP, "microseconds": TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
This patch fixes the problem.
Fixes:
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| accel | ||
| audio | ||
| backends | ||
| block | ||
| bsd-user | ||
| capstone@22ead3e0bf | ||
| chardev | ||
| contrib | ||
| crypto | ||
| default-configs | ||
| disas | ||
| docs | ||
| dtc@e54388015a | ||
| fpu | ||
| fsdev | ||
| gdb-xml | ||
| hw | ||
| include | ||
| io | ||
| libdecnumber | ||
| linux-headers | ||
| linux-user | ||
| migration | ||
| nbd | ||
| net | ||
| pc-bios | ||
| po | ||
| qapi | ||
| qga | ||
| qobject | ||
| qom | ||
| replay | ||
| roms | ||
| scripts | ||
| scsi | ||
| slirp | ||
| stubs | ||
| target | ||
| tcg | ||
| tests | ||
| trace | ||
| ui | ||
| util | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .exrc | ||
| .gdbinit | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .gitmodules | ||
| .gitpublish | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .shippable.yml | ||
| .travis.yml | ||
| arch_init.c | ||
| balloon.c | ||
| block.c | ||
| blockdev-nbd.c | ||
| blockdev.c | ||
| blockjob.c | ||
| bootdevice.c | ||
| bt-host.c | ||
| bt-vhci.c | ||
| Changelog | ||
| CODING_STYLE | ||
| configure | ||
| COPYING | ||
| COPYING.LIB | ||
| cpus-common.c | ||
| cpus.c | ||
| device_tree.c | ||
| device-hotplug.c | ||
| disas.c | ||
| dma-helpers.c | ||
| dump.c | ||
| exec.c | ||
| gdbstub.c | ||
| HACKING | ||
| hmp-commands-info.hx | ||
| hmp-commands.hx | ||
| hmp.c | ||
| hmp.h | ||
| ioport.c | ||
| iothread.c | ||
| job-qmp.c | ||
| job.c | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.objs | ||
| Makefile.target | ||
| memory_ldst.inc.c | ||
| memory_mapping.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| module-common.c | ||
| monitor.c | ||
| numa.c | ||
| os-posix.c | ||
| os-win32.c | ||
| qdev-monitor.c | ||
| qdict-test-data.txt | ||
| qemu-bridge-helper.c | ||
| qemu-doc.texi | ||
| qemu-ga.texi | ||
| qemu-img-cmds.hx | ||
| qemu-img.c | ||
| qemu-img.texi | ||
| qemu-io-cmds.c | ||
| qemu-io.c | ||
| qemu-keymap.c | ||
| qemu-nbd.c | ||
| qemu-nbd.texi | ||
| qemu-option-trace.texi | ||
| qemu-options-wrapper.h | ||
| qemu-options.h | ||
| qemu-options.hx | ||
| qemu-seccomp.c | ||
| qemu-tech.texi | ||
| qemu.nsi | ||
| qemu.sasl | ||
| qmp.c | ||
| qtest.c | ||
| README | ||
| replication.c | ||
| replication.h | ||
| rules.mak | ||
| thunk.c | ||
| tpm.c | ||
| trace-events | ||
| VERSION | ||
| version.rc | ||
| vl.c | ||
| win_dump.c | ||
| win_dump.h | ||
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
-- End