We do not need a dedicated section for notes. By eliminating a specially
parsed section, these notes can be treated as normal rST paragraphs in
the new QMP reference manual, and can be placed and styled much more
flexibly.
Convert all existing "Note" and "Notes" sections to pure rST. As part of
the conversion, capitalize the first letter of each sentence and add
trailing punctuation where appropriate to ensure notes look sensible and
consistent in rendered HTML documentation. Markup is also re-aligned to
the de-facto standard of 3 spaces for directives.
Update docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst to reflect the new paradigm, and
update the QAPI parser to prohibit "Note" sections while suggesting a
new syntax. The exact formatting to use is a matter of taste, but a good
candidate is simply:
.. note:: lorem ipsum ...
... dolor sit amet ...
... consectetur adipiscing elit ...
... but there are other choices, too. The Sphinx readthedocs theme
offers theming for the following forms (capitalization unimportant); all
are adorned with a (!) symbol () in the title bar for rendered HTML
docs.
See
https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/demo/demo.html#admonitions
for examples of each directive/admonition in use.
These are rendered in orange:
.. Attention:: ...
.. Caution:: ...
.. WARNING:: ...
These are rendered in red:
.. DANGER:: ...
.. Error:: ...
These are rendered in green:
.. Hint:: ...
.. Important:: ...
.. Tip:: ...
These are rendered in blue:
.. Note:: ...
.. admonition:: custom title
admonition body text
This patch uses ".. note::" almost everywhere, with just two "caution"
directives. Several instances of "Notes:" have been converted to
merely ".. note::", or multiple ".. note::" where appropriate.
".. admonition:: notes" is used in a few places where we had an
ordered list of multiple notes that would not make sense as
standalone/separate admonitions. Two "Note:" following "Example:"
have been turned into ordinary paragraphs within the example.
NOTE: Because qapidoc.py does not attempt to preserve source ordering of
sections, the conversion of Notes from a "tagged section" to an
"untagged section" means that rendering order for some notes *may
change* as a result of this patch. The forthcoming qapidoc.py rewrite
strictly preserves source ordering in the rendered documentation, so
this issue will be rectified in the new generator.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> [for block*.json]
Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-11-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message clarified slightly, period added to one more note]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240325104504.1358734-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Update qapi/pragma.json]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Low-hanging fruit, and except for StatsFilter, the only members of
these unions lacking documentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-16-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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]
Peter Maydell's commit 100cc4fe0f explains:
rST insists on a blank line before and after a bulleted list [...]
Add some extra blank lines in the doc comments so they're
acceptable rST input.
It missed one in qapi/trace.json.
Paolo Bonzini later added another instance in qapi/stats.json,
providing further, if unintended, evidence for his quip that rST is
the Perl of ASCII-based markups.
Both are parsed as ordinary paragraph, resulting in garbled output.
John Snow missed the need for a blank line when converting
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt to rST.
Add the blank lines we need to get the bullet lists recognized as
such.
Kevin Wolf and Lukas Straub added two more, but indented. Sphinx
recognizes them as (indented) bullet lists. The indentation looks
slightly off.
Insert a blank line and delete the extra indentation.
Fixes: 100cc4fe0f (qapi: Add blank lines before bulleted lists)
Fixes: 467ef823d8 (qmp: add filtering of statistics by target vCPU)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230425064223.820979-10-armbru@redhat.com>
[Fix of docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst squashed, commit message adjusted]
Now we can use "query-stats" QMP command to query statistics of
crypto devices. (Originally this was designed to show statistics
by '{"execute": "query-cryptodev"}'. Daniel Berrangé suggested that
querying configuration info by "query-cryptodev", and querying
runtime performance info by "query-stats". This makes sense!)
Example:
~# virsh qemu-monitor-command vm '{"execute": "query-stats", \
"arguments": {"target": "cryptodev"} }' | jq
{
"return": [
{
"provider": "cryptodev",
"stats": [
{
"name": "asym-verify-bytes",
"value": 7680
},
...
{
"name": "asym-decrypt-ops",
"value": 32
},
{
"name": "asym-encrypt-ops",
"value": 48
}
],
"qom-path": "/objects/cryptodev0" # support asym only
},
{
"provider": "cryptodev",
"stats": [
{
"name": "asym-verify-bytes",
"value": 0
},
...
{
"name": "sym-decrypt-bytes",
"value": 5376
},
...
],
"qom-path": "/objects/cryptodev1" # support asym/sym
}
],
"id": "libvirt-422"
}
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@bytedance.com>
Message-Id: <20230301105847.253084-12-pizhenwei@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The next version of Linux will introduce boolean statistics, which
can only have 0 or 1 values. Support them in the schema and in
the HMP command.
Suggested-by: Amneesh Singh <natto@weirdnatto.in>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allow retrieving only a subset of statistics. This can be useful
for example in order to plot a subset of the statistics many times
a second: KVM publishes ~40 statistics for each vCPU on x86; retrieving
and serializing all of them would be useless.
Another use will be in HMP in the following patch; implementing the
filter in the backend is easy enough that it was deemed okay to make
this a public interface.
Example:
{ "execute": "query-stats",
"arguments": {
"target": "vcpu",
"vcpus": [ "/machine/unattached/device[2]",
"/machine/unattached/device[4]" ],
"providers": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"names": [ "l1d_flush", "exits" ] } } }
{ "return": {
"vcpus": [
{ "path": "/machine/unattached/device[2]"
"providers": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"stats": [ { "name": "l1d_flush", "value": 41213 },
{ "name": "exits", "value": 74291 } ] } ] },
{ "path": "/machine/unattached/device[4]"
"providers": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"stats": [ { "name": "l1d_flush", "value": 16132 },
{ "name": "exits", "value": 57922 } ] } ] } ] } }
Extracted from a patch by Mark Kanda.
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allow retrieving the statistics from a specific provider only.
This can be used in the future by HMP commands such as "info
sync-profile" or "info profile". The next patch also adds
filter-by-provider capabilities to the HMP equivalent of
query-stats, "info stats".
Example:
{ "execute": "query-stats",
"arguments": {
"target": "vm",
"providers": [
{ "provider": "kvm" } ] } }
The QAPI is a bit more verbose than just a list of StatsProvider,
so that it can be subsequently extended with filtering of statistics
by name.
If a provider is specified more than once in the filter, each request
will be included separately in the output.
Extracted from a patch by Mark Kanda.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Introduce a simple filtering of statistics, that allows to retrieve
statistics for a subset of the guest vCPUs. This will be used for
example by the HMP monitor, in order to retrieve the statistics
for the currently selected CPU.
Example:
{ "execute": "query-stats",
"arguments": {
"target": "vcpu",
"vcpus": [ "/machine/unattached/device[2]",
"/machine/unattached/device[4]" ] } }
Extracted from a patch by Mark Kanda.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add support for querying fd-based KVM stats - as introduced by Linux kernel
commit:
cb082bfab59a ("KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data")
This allows the user to analyze the behavior of the VM without access
to debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Gathering statistics is important for development, for monitoring and
for performance measurement. There are tools such as kvm_stat that do
this and they rely on the _user_ knowing the interesting data points
rather than the tool (which can treat them as opaque).
The commands introduced in this commit introduce QMP support for
querying stats; the goal is to take the capabilities of these tools
and making them available throughout the whole virtualization stack,
so that one can observe, monitor and measure virtual machines without
having shell access + root on the host that runs them.
query-stats returns a list of all stats per target type (only VM
and vCPU to start); future commits add extra options for specifying
stat names, vCPU qom paths, and providers. All these are used by the
HMP command "info stats". Because of the development usecases around
statistics, a good HMP interface is important.
query-stats-schemas returns a list of stats included in each target
type, with an option for specifying the provider. The concepts in the
schema are based on the KVM binary stats' own introspection data, just
translated to QAPI.
There are two reasons to have a separate schema that is not tied to
the QAPI schema. The first is the contents of the schemas: the new
introspection data provides different information than the QAPI data,
namely unit of measurement, how the numbers are gathered and change
(peak/instant/cumulative/histogram), and histogram bucket sizes.
There's really no reason to have this kind of metadata in the QAPI
introspection schema (except possibly for the unit of measure, but
there's a very weak justification).
Another reason is the dynamicity of the schema. The QAPI introspection
data is very much static; and while QOM is somewhat more dynamic,
generally we consider that to be a bug rather than a feature these days.
On the other hand, the statistics that are exposed by QEMU might be
passed through from another source, such as KVM, and the disadvantages of
manually updating the QAPI schema for outweight the benefits from vetting
the statistics and filtering out anything that seems "too unstable".
Running old QEMU with new kernel is a supported usecase; if old QEMU
cannot expose statistics from a new kernel, or if a kernel developer
needs to change QEMU before gathering new info from the new kernel,
then that is a poor user interface.
The framework provides a method to register callbacks for these QMP
commands. Most of the work in fact is done by the callbacks, and a
large majority of this patch is new QAPI structs and commands.
Examples (with KVM stats):
- Query all VM stats:
{ "execute": "query-stats", "arguments" : { "target": "vm" } }
{ "return": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"stats": [
{ "name": "max_mmu_page_hash_collisions", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "max_mmu_rmap_size", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "nx_lpage_splits", "value": 148 },
... ] },
{ "provider": "xyz",
"stats": [ ... ] }
] }
- Query all vCPU stats:
{ "execute": "query-stats", "arguments" : { "target": "vcpu" } }
{ "return": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"qom_path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]"
"stats": [
{ "name": "guest_mode", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "directed_yield_successful", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "directed_yield_attempted", "value": 106 },
... ] },
{ "provider": "kvm",
"qom_path": "/machine/unattached/device[1]"
"stats": [
{ "name": "guest_mode", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "directed_yield_successful", "value": 0 },
{ "name": "directed_yield_attempted", "value": 106 },
... ] },
] }
- Retrieve the schemas:
{ "execute": "query-stats-schemas" }
{ "return": [
{ "provider": "kvm",
"target": "vcpu",
"stats": [
{ "name": "guest_mode",
"unit": "none",
"base": 10,
"exponent": 0,
"type": "instant" },
{ "name": "directed_yield_successful",
"unit": "none",
"base": 10,
"exponent": 0,
"type": "cumulative" },
... ]
},
{ "provider": "kvm",
"target": "vm",
"stats": [
{ "name": "max_mmu_page_hash_collisions",
"unit": "none",
"base": 10,
"exponent": 0,
"type": "peak" },
... ]
},
{ "provider": "xyz",
"target": "vm",
"stats": [ ... ]
}
] }
Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
