This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend
removal.
Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e.
frontend would continue its regular operation.
However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends
via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and it's not (generally) possible to replay
that setup entirely in a backend code, as different chardevs respond
to the setup calls differently, so do frontends work differently basing
on those setup responses.
Moreover, some frontend can generally get and save the backend pointer
(qemu_chr_fe_get_driver()), and it will become invalid after backend change.
So, a frontend which would like to support chardev hotswap has to register
a "backend change" handler, and redo its backend setup there.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-4-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Sending a break on a serial console can be useful for debugging the
guest. But not all chardev backends support sending breaks (only telnet
and mux do). The chardev-send-break command allows to send a break even
if using other backends.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170611074817.13621-1-sf@sfritsch.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Use 'send a break' in all 3 pieces of text as suggested by eblake
This simplifies removing a backend for a frontend user (no need to
retrieve the associated driver and separate delete call etc).
NB: many frontends have questionable handling of ending a chardev. They
should probably delete the backend to prevent broken reusage.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
There is no clear reason to have those functions associated with
frontend.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Move all the frontend struct and methods to a seperate unit. This avoids
accidentally mixing backend and frontend calls, and helps with readabilty.
Make qemu_chr_replay() a macro shared by both char and char-fe.
Export qemu_chr_write(), and use a macro for qemu_chr_write_all()
(nb: yes, CharBackend is for char frontend :)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
qemu_chr_fe_write() is similar to qemu_chr_write_all(): the later write
all with a chardev backend.
Make qemu_chr_write() and qemu_chr_fe_write_buffer() take an 'all'
argument. If false, handle 'partial' write the way qemu_chr_fe_write()
use to, and call qemu_chr_write() from qemu_chr_fe_write().
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
So they are all in one place. The following patch will move serial &
parallel declarations to the respective headers.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Only the console handle shouldn't be closed, however, the "file" handle
should.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
hcom is the name of the file handle, regardless of the actual chardev
driver (serial, file, console etc..). Rename it to be more explicit.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Those 2 functions are specific to serial chardev, make it more clear.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
The "len" argument can be passed directly to win_chr_read()
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
win_chr_read_poll() is always used before win_chr_read().
We can easily fold win_chr_readfile() too.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
chardev/char.c: In function 'chardev_name_foreach':
chardev/char.c:546:19: error: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Werror=type-limits]
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(chardev_alias_table); i++) {
^
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20170530120919.8874-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
SocketAddressLegacy is a simple union, and simple unions are awkward:
they have their variant members wrapped in a "data" object on the
wire, and require additional indirections in C. SocketAddress is the
equivalent flat union. Convert all users of SocketAddressLegacy to
SocketAddress, except for existing external interfaces.
See also commit fce5d53..9445673 and 85a82e8..c5f1ae3.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1493192202-3184-7-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[Minor editing accident fixed, commit message and a comment tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
