gwj / at91sam9263 · Commits

  • support colon in filenames ...
    707c0dbc 
    Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is
interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".

This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0

anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
backslash.

Here are couple of examples:

scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
file:scsi:0:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
file:http://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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  • Prevent CD-ROM media eject while device is locked ...
    aea2a33c 
    Section 10.8.25 ("START/STOP UNIT Command") of SFF-8020i states that
if the device is locked we should refuse to eject if the device is
locked.

ASC_MEDIA_REMOVAL_PREVENTED is the appropriate return in this case.

In order to stop itself from ejecting the media it is running from,
Fedora's installer (anaconda) requires the CDROMEJECT ioctl() to fail
if the drive has been previously locked.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/501412

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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  • Convert all block drivers to new bdrv_create ...
    0e7e1989 
    Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself.

bdrv_create2() contains an emulation of the old interface to simplify the
transition.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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  • block: support known backing format for image create and open (Uri Lublin) ...
    5eb45639 
    Added a backing_format field to BlockDriverState.
Added bdrv_create2 and drv->bdrv_create2 to create an image with
a known backing file format.
Upon bdrv_open2 if backing format is known use it, instead of
probing the (backing) image.

Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • new scsi-generic abstraction, use SG_IO (Christoph Hellwig) ...
    221f715d 
    Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in the
new world order.

I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/write
interface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom
devices, too.  See Hannes patch on the kvm list from August for an
example.

Now that we always do ioctls we don't need another abstraction than
bdrv_ioctl for the synchronous requests for now, and for asynchronous
requests I've added a aio_ioctl abstraction keeping it simple.

Long-term we might want to move the ops to a higher-level abstraction
and let the low-level code fill out the request header, but I'm lazy
enough to leave that to the people trying to support scsi-passthrough
on a non-Linux OS.

Tested lightly by issuing various sg_ commands from sg3-utils in a guest
to a host CDROM device.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • Add specialized block driver scsi generic API (Avi Kivity) ...
    7d780669 
    When a scsi device is backed by a scsi generic device instead of an
ordinary host block device, the block API is abused in a couple of annoying
ways:

 - nb_sectors is negative, and specifies a byte count instead of a sector count
 - offset is ignored, since scsi-generic is essentially a packet protocol

This overloading makes hacking the block layer difficult.  Remove it by
introducing a new explicit API for scsi-generic devices.  The new API
is still backed by the old implementation, but at least the users are
insulated.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • monitor: Rework API (Jan Kiszka) ...
    376253ec 
    Refactor the monitor API and prepare it for decoupled terminals:
term_print functions are renamed to monitor_* and all monitor services
gain a new parameter (mon) that will once refer to the monitor instance
the output is supposed to appear on. However, the argument remains
unused for now. All monitor command callbacks are also extended by a mon
parameter so that command handlers are able to pass an appropriate
reference to monitor output services.

For the case that monitor outputs so far happen without clearly
identifiable context, the global variable cur_mon is introduced that
shall once provide a pointer either to the current active monitor (while
processing commands) or to the default one. On the mid or long term,
those use case will be obsoleted so that this variable can be removed
again.

Due to the broad usage of the monitor interface, this patch mostly deals
with converting users of the monitor API. A few of them are already
extended to pass 'mon' from the command handler further down to internal
functions that invoke monitor_printf.

At this chance, monitor-related prototypes are moved from console.h to
a new monitor.h. The same is done for the readline API.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • monitor: Rework early disk password inquiry (Jan Kiszka) ...
    c0f4ce77 
    Reading the passwords for encrypted hard disks during early startup is
broken (I guess for quiet a while now):
 - No monitor terminal is ready for input at this point
 - Forcing all mux'ed terminals into monitor mode can confuse other
   users of that channels

To overcome these issues and to lay the ground for a clean decoupling of
monitor terminals, this patch changes the initial password inquiry as
follows:
 - Prevent autostart if there is some encrypted disk
 - Once the user tries to resume the VM, prompt for all missing
   passwords
 - Only resume if all passwords were accepted

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • block: Introduce bdrv_get_encrypted_filename (Jan Kiszka) ...
    045df330 
    Introduce bdrv_get_encrypted_filename service to allow more informative
password prompting.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • block: Improve bdrv_iterate (Jan Kiszka) ...
    51de9760 
    Make bdrv_iterate more useful by passing the BlockDriverState to the
iterator instead of the device name.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>


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  • Use writeback caching by default with qcow2 ...
    4dc822d7 
    qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update.  This causes
performance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback.  This is most
noticeable when using savevm.  Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format
regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in
the correct order.  Considering this, I think it's somewhat reasonable to use
writeback caching by default with qcow2 files.

It at least avoids the massive performance regression for users until we sort
out the issues in qcow2. 

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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  • Expand cache= option and use write-through caching by default ...
    9f7965c7 
    This patch changes the cache= option to accept none, writeback, or writethough
to control the host page cache behavior.  By default, writethrough caching is
now used which internally is implemented by using O_DSYNC to open the disk
images.  When using -snapshot, writeback is used by default since data integrity
it not at all an issue.

cache=none has the same behavior as cache=off previously.  The later syntax is
still supported by now deprecated.  I also cleaned up the O_DIRECT
implementation to avoid many of the #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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  • Add bdrv_flush_all() ...
    c6ca28d6 
    This patch adds a bdrv_flush_all() function.  It's necessary to ensure that all
IO operations have been flushed to disk before completely a live migration.

N.B. we don't actually use this now.  We really should flush the block drivers
using an live savevm callback to avoid unnecessary guest down time.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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  • Refactor AIO to allow multiple AIO implementations ...
    a76bab49 
    This patch refactors the AIO layer to allow multiple AIO implementations.  It's
only possible because of the recent signalfd() patch.  

Right now, the AIO infrastructure is pretty specific to the block raw backend.
For other block devices to implement AIO, the qemu_aio_wait function must
support registration.  This patch introduces a new function,
qemu_aio_set_fd_handler, which can be used to register a file descriptor to be
called back.  qemu_aio_wait() now polls a set of file descriptors registered
with this function until one becomes readable or writable.

This patch should allow the implementation of alternative AIO backends (via a
thread pool or linux-aio) and AIO backends in non-traditional block devices
(like NBD).

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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  • Use common objects for qemu-img and qemu-nbd ...
    03ff3ca3 
    Right now, we sprinkle #if defined(QEMU_IMG) && defined(QEMU_NBD) all over the
code.  It's ugly and causes us to have to build multiple object files for
linking against qemu and the tools.

This patch introduces a new file, qemu-tool.c which contains enough for
qemu-img, qemu-nbd, and QEMU to all share the same objects.

This also required getting qemu-nbd to be a bit more Windows friendly.  I also
changed the Windows block-raw to use normal IO instead of overlapping IO since
we don't actually do AIO yet on Windows.  I changed the various #if 0's to
 #if WIN32_AIO to make it easier for someone to eventually fix AIO on Windows.

After this patch, there are no longer any #ifdef's related to qemu-img and
qemu-nbd.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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  • Use signalfd() to work around signal/select race ...
    baf35cb9 
    This patch introduces signalfd() to work around the signal/select race in
checking for AIO completions.  For platforms that don't support signalfd(), we
emulate it with threads.

There was a long discussion about this approach.  I don't believe there are any
fundamental problems with this approach and I believe eliminating the use of
signals is a good thing.

I've tested Windows and Linux using Windows and Linux guests.  I've also checked
for disk IO performance regressions.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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