Documentation generated for SchemaInfo looks like
The members of "SchemaInfoBuiltin" when "meta-type" is ""builtin""
The members of "SchemaInfoEnum" when "meta-type" is ""enum""
The members of "SchemaInfoArray" when "meta-type" is ""array""
The members of "SchemaInfoObject" when "meta-type" is ""object""
The members of "SchemaInfoAlternate" when "meta-type" is ""alternate""
The members of "SchemaInfoCommand" when "meta-type" is ""command""
The members of "SchemaInfoEvent" when "meta-type" is ""event""
Additional members depend on the value of "meta-type".
The last line became redundant when commit 88f63467c5 (qapi2texi:
Generate reference to base type members) added the lines preceding it.
Drop it.
BlockdevOptions has the same issue. Drop
Remaining options are determined by the block driver.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240129115008.674248-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
docs/interop/bitmaps.rst uses references like
`qemu-qmp-ref <qemu-qmp-ref.html>`_
`query-block <qemu-qmp-ref.html#index-query_002dblock>`_
to refer to and into docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.rst.
Clean up the former: use :doc:`qemu-qmp-ref`.
I don't know how to clean up the latter.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Conversion of docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST left several
dangling references behind. Fix them to point to
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst.
Fixes: f7aa076dbd (docs: convert qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Change
# @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
# do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
to
# @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
# do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
See recent commit "qapi: Relax doc string @name: description
indentation rules" for rationale.
Reflow paragraphs to 70 columns width, and consistently use two spaces
to separate sentences.
To check the generated documentation does not change, I compared the
generated HTML before and after this commit with "wdiff -3". Finds no
differences. Comparing with diff is not useful, as the reflown
paragraphs are visible there.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-18-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
[Straightforward conflicts in qapi/audio.json qapi/misc-target.json
qapi/run-state.json resolved]
This is quite similar to commit 84ab008687 "qapi: Add feature flags to
struct members", only for enums instead of structs.
Special feature flag 'deprecated' is silently ignored there. This is
okay only because it will be implemented shortly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211025042405.3762351-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
The next commit will add feature flags to enum members. There's a
problem, though: query-qmp-schema shows an enum type's members as an
array of member names (SchemaInfoEnum member @values). If it showed
an array of objects with a name member, we could simply add more
members to these objects. Since it's just strings, we can't.
I can see three ways to correct this design mistake:
1. Do it the way we should have done it, plus compatibility goo.
We want a ['SchemaInfoEnumMember'] member in SchemaInfoEnum. Since
changing @values would be a compatibility break, add a new member
@members instead.
@values is now redundant. In my testing, output of
qemu-system-x86_64's query-qmp-schema grows by 11% (18.5KiB).
We can deprecate @values now and drop it later. This will break
outmoded clients. Well-behaved clients such as libvirt are
expected to break cleanly.
2. Like 1, but omit "boring" elements of @member, and empty @member.
@values does not become redundant. @members augments it. Somewhat
cumbersome, but output of query-qmp-schema grows only as we make
enum members non-boring.
There is nothing to deprecate here.
3. Versioned query-qmp-schema.
query-qmp-schema provides either @values or @members. The QMP
client can select which version it wants. There is no redundant
output.
We can deprecate old versions and eventually drop them. This will
break outmoded clients. Breaking cleanly is easier than for 1.
While 1 and 2 operate within the common rules for compatible
evolution apply (section "Compatibility considerations" in
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst), 3 bypasses them. Attractive when
operating within the rules is just too awkward. Not the case here.
This commit implements 1. Libvirt developers prefer it.
Deprecate @values in favour of @members. Since query-qmp-schema
compatibility is pretty fundamental for management applications, an
extended grace period is advised.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211025042405.3762351-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
QMP commands return their response as a generated QAPI type, which the
monitor core converts to JSON via QObject.
query-qmp-schema's response is the generated introspection data. This
is a QLitObject since commit 7d0f982bfb "qapi: generate a literal
qobject for introspection", v2.12). Before, it was a string. Instead
of converting QLitObject / string -> QObject -> QAPI type
SchemaInfoList -> QObject -> JSON, we take a shortcut: the command is
'gen': false, so it can return the QObject instead of the QAPI type.
Slightly simpler and more efficient.
The next commit will filter the response for output policy, and this
is easier in the SchemaInfoList representation. Drop the shortcut.
This replaces the manual command registration by a generated one. The
manual registration makes the command available before the machine is
built by passing flag QCO_ALLOW_PRECONFIG. To keep it available
there, we need need to add 'allow-preconfig': true to its definition
in the schema.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210318155519.1224118-7-armbru@redhat.com>
The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
in, well, pretty much everything.
Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200729185024.121766-1-abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
In v4.1.0, we added feature flags just to struct types (commit
6a8c0b5102^..f3ed93d545), to satisfy an immediate need (commit
c9d4070991 "file-posix: Add dynamic-auto-read-only QAPI feature"). In
v4.2.0, we added them to commands (commit 23394b4c39 "qapi: Add
feature flags to commands") to satisfy another immediate need (commit
d76744e65e "qapi: Allow introspecting fix for savevm's cooperation
with blockdev").
Add them to the remaining definitions: enumeration types, union types,
alternate types, and events.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-13-armbru@redhat.com>
The current doc generation doesn't care much about indentation levels,
but we would like to switch to an rST format, and rST does care about
indentation.
Make the doc comments more strongly consistent about indentation
for multiline constructs like:
@arg: description line 1
description line 2
Returns: line one
line 2
so that there is always exactly one space after the colon, and
subsequent lines align with the first.
This commit is a purely whitespace change, and it does not alter the
generated .texi files (because the texi generation code strips away
all the extra whitespace). This does mean that we end up with some
over-length lines.
Note that when the documentation for an argument fits on a single
line like this:
@arg: one line only
then stray extra spaces after the ':' don't affect the rST output, so
I have not attempted to methodically fix them, though the preference
is a single space here too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200213175647.17628-10-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Similarly to features for struct types introduce the feature flags also
for commands. This will allow notifying management layers of fixes and
compatible changes in the behaviour of a command which may not be
detectable any other way.
The changes were heavily inspired by commit 6a8c0b5102.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191018081454.21369-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Sometimes, the behaviour of QEMU changes without a change in the QMP
syntax (usually by allowing values or operations that previously
resulted in an error). QMP clients may still need to know whether
they can rely on the changed behavior.
Let's add feature flags to the QAPI schema language, so that we can make
such changes visible with schema introspection.
An example for a schema definition using feature flags looks like this:
{ 'struct': 'TestType',
'data': { 'number': 'int' },
'features': [ 'allow-negative-numbers' ] }
Introspection information then looks like this:
{ "name": "TestType", "meta-type": "object",
"members": [
{ "name": "number", "type": "int" } ],
"features": [ "allow-negative-numbers" ] }
This patch implements feature flags only for struct types. We'll
implement them more widely as needed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190606153803.5278-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Making 'allow-oob' optional in SchemaInfoCommand permits omitting it
in the common case. Shrinks query-qmp-schema's output from 122.1KiB
to 118.6KiB for me.
Note that out-of-band execution is still experimental (you have to
configure the monitor with x-oob=on to use it).
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180718090557.17248-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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]
New option will be used to allow commands, which are prepared/need
to run, during preconfig state. Other commands that should be able
to run in preconfig state, should be amended to not expect machine
in initialized state or deal with it.
For compatibility reasons, commands that don't use new flag
'allow-preconfig' explicitly are not permitted to run in
preconfig state but allowed in all other states like they used
to be.
Within this patch allow following commands in preconfig state:
qmp_capabilities
query-qmp-schema
query-commands
query-command-line-options
query-status
exit-preconfig
to allow qmp connection, basic introspection and moving to the next
state.
PS:
set-numa-node and query-hotpluggable-cpus will be enabled later in
a separate patches.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1526057503-39287-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[ehabkost: Changed "since 2.13" to "since 3.0"]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Here "oob" stands for "Out-Of-Band". When "allow-oob" is set, it means
the command allows out-of-band execution.
The "oob" idea is proposed by Markus Armbruster in following thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg02057.html
This new "allow-oob" boolean will be exposed by "query-qmp-schema" as
well for command entries, so that QMP clients can know which commands
can be used in out-of-band calls. For example the command "migrate"
originally looks like:
{"name": "migrate", "ret-type": "17", "meta-type": "command",
"arg-type": "86"}
And it'll be changed into:
{"name": "migrate", "ret-type": "17", "allow-oob": false,
"meta-type": "command", "arg-type": "86"}
This patch only provides the QMP interface level changes. It does not
contain the real out-of-band execution implementation yet.
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180309090006.10018-18-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: rebase on introspection done by qlit]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Bug: introspection documentation is in section "Tracing commands".
Cause: sub-schema qapi/introspect.json lacks a section header, and
therefore goes into whatever section precedes its include.
Fix: add a section header.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1503602048-12268-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
With the move of some docs to docs/interop on ac06724a71,
a couple of references were not updated.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
We traditionally mark optional members #optional in the doc comment.
Before commit 3313b61, this was entirely manual.
Commit 3313b61 added some automation because its qapi2texi.py relied
on #optional to determine whether a member is optional. This is no
longer the case since the previous commit: the only thing qapi2texi.py
still does with #optional is stripping it out. We still reject bogus
qapi-schema.json and six places for qga/qapi-schema.json.
Thus, you can't actually rely on #optional to see whether something is
optional. Yet we still make people add it manually. That's just
busy-work.
Drop the code to check, fix up and strip out #optional, along with all
instances of #optional. To keep it out, add code to reject it, to be
dropped again once the dust settles.
No change to generated documentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-18-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Now that the generator supports it, we might as well use an
anonymous base rather than breaking out a single-use Base
structure, for all three of our current QMP flat unions.
Oddly enough, this change does not affect the resulting
introspection output (because we already inline the members of
a base type into an object, and had no independent use of the
base type reachable from a command).
The case_whitelist now has to list the name of an implicit
type; which is not too bad (consider it a feature if it makes
it harder for developers to make the whitelist grow :)
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458254921-17042-16-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
