• This patch makes qemu keep track of the character devices in use and
    implements a "info chardev" monitor command to print a list.
    
    qemu_chr_open() sticks the devices into a linked list now.  It got a new
    argument (label), so there is a name for each device.  It also assigns a
    filename to each character device.  By default it just copyes the
    filename passed in.  Individual drivers can fill in something else
    though.  qemu_chr_open_pty() sets the filename to name of the pseudo tty
    allocated.
    
    Output looks like this:
    
      (qemu) info chardev
      monitor: filename=unix:/tmp/run.sh-26827/monitor,server,nowait
      serial0: filename=unix:/tmp/run.sh-26827/console,server
      serial1: filename=pty:/dev/pts/5
      parallel0: filename=vc:640x480
    
    Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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  • The current DMA routines are driven by a call in main_loop_wait() after every
    select.
    
    This patch converts the DMA code to be driven by a constantly rescheduled
    bottom half.  The advantage of using a scheduled bottom half is that we can
    stop scheduling the bottom half when there no DMA channels are runnable.  This
    means we can potentially detect this case and sleep longer in the main loop.
    
    The only two architectures implementing DMA_run() are cris and i386.  For cris,
    I converted it to a simple repeating bottom half.  I've only compile tested
    this as cris does not seem to work on a 64-bit host.  It should be functionally
    identical to the previous implementation so I expect it to work.
    
    For x86, I've made sure to only fire the DMA bottom half if there is a DMA
    channel that is runnable.  The effect of this is that unless you're using sb16
    or a floppy disk, the DMA bottom half never fires.
    
    You probably should test this malc.  My own benchmarks actually show slight
    improvement by it's possible the change in timing could affect your demos.
    
    Since v1, I've changed the code to use a BH instead of a timer.  cris at least
    seems to depend on faster than 10ms polling.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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  • this patch allows to fully use a tape device connected to qemu through
    the scsi-generic interface.
    
    Previous patch introduced tape SCSI commands management, this one
    improve error case management:
    
    - the SCSI controller command completion must be called with the status
    value, not the sense value. In the case of scsi-generic, the SCSI status
    is given by the field status of sg_io_hdr_t (the value is left shifted
    by one regarding status codes defined in /usr/include/scsi/scsi.h)
    
    - when a read is aborted due to a mark/EOF/EOD/EOM, the len reported to
    controller can be 0. LSI controller emulation doesn't know how to manage
    this. A workaround found is to call the completion routine with
    SCSI_REASON_DONE just after calling it with SCSI_REASON_DATA with len=0.
    
    This patch also manages correctly the block size of the tape device.
    
    This patch has been tested with a real tape device "HP C5683A", linux
    guest (debian etch) and tools like "mt", "tar" and "btape".
    
    Windows guest is not better supported than before...
    
    Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
    Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
    
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  • This patch allows QEMUFile's read and write operations to return 
    negative error codes.  This is necessary to detect things like closed 
    streams during live migration.
    
    It also removes unused code for QEMUFileFD write path.  Finally, it 
    makes sure to avoid attempting to flush an output buffer if the file
    is only being used for input.  This was spotted by Uri Lublin.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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  • The DIAGNOSE command in the qemu IDE implementation has an error when
    use dfor packet devices. 
    
    The status register value is dependant on the drive being a packet
    device or not, this patch corrects the returned status.
    
    From the ATA/PI specification (V6 draft):
    
    "If the device implements the PACKET command feature set, the device
    SHALL clear bits 6,5,4,3,2 and 0 in the Status register to zero."
    
    A selection of physical devices have been checked and do conform to
    the specifications behaviour.
    
    Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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  • The current savevm/loadvm protocol has some draw backs.  It does not support
    the ability to do progressive saving which means it cannot be used for live
    checkpointing or migration.  The sections sizes are 32-bit integers which
    means that it will not function when using more than 4GB of memory for a guest.
    It attempts to seek within the output file which means it cannot be streamed.
    The current protocol also is pretty lax about how it supports forward
    compatibility.  If a saved section version is greater than what the restore
    code support, the restore code generally treats the saved data as being in
    whatever version it supports.  This means that restoring a saved VM on an older
    version of QEMU will likely result in silent guest failure.
    
    This patch introduces a new version of the savevm protocol.  It has the
    following features:
    
     * Support for progressive save of sections (for live checkpoint/migration)
     * An asynchronous API for doing save
     * Support for interleaving multiple progressive save sections
       (for future support of memory hot-add/storage migration)
     * Fully streaming format
     * Strong section version checking
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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