Added unit-test's expected aml files to be compared
with the actual ACPI tables.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
cgcc complains that -ENOSYS is not a good value for 'bool'.
A dummy virtio will never have pending queue entries, so let us return
false.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Minimize the storage used for AppleSMC's _STA (8bit), relying on ASL
to implicitly convert it to the officially specified 32bit value.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
AppleSMC (-device isa-applesmc) is required to boot OS X guests.
OS X expects a SMC node to be present in the ACPI DSDT. This patch
adds a SMC node to the DSDT, and dynamically patches the return value
of SMC._STA to either 0x0B if the chip is present, or otherwise to 0x00,
before booting the guest.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* qemu-kvm/uq/master:
kvm: always update the MPX model specific register
KVM: fix addr type for KVM_IOEVENTFD
KVM: Retry KVM_CREATE_VM on EINTR
mempath prefault: fix off-by-one error
kvm: x86: Separately write feature control MSR on reset
roms: Flush icache when writing roms to guest memory
target-i386: clear guest TSC on reset
target-i386: do not special case TSC writeback
target-i386: Intel MPX
Conflicts:
exec.c
aliguori: fix trivial merge conflict in exec.c
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
* otubo/seccomp:
seccomp: add some basic shared memory syscalls to the whitelist
seccomp: add mkdir() and fchmod() to the whitelist
Message-id: 1390231004-18392-1-git-send-email-otubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'sweil/tags/for_anthony' into staging
Initial patch for QEMU GTK support on Windows
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* sweil/tags/for_anthony:
gtk: Support keyboard translation for hosts running Windows
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Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/tags/pull-usb-2' into staging
usb core+hid: add support for microsoft os descriptors
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* kraxel/tags/pull-usb-2:
usb-hid: add microsoft os descriptor support
usb: add support for microsoft os descriptors
Message-id: 1390299772-5368-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
* bonzini/scsi-next:
scsi: Support TEST UNIT READY in the dummy LUN0
block: add .bdrv_reopen_prepare() stub for iscsi
virtio-scsi: Prevent assertion on missed events
virtio-scsi: Cleanup of I/Os that never started
scsi: Assign cancel_io vector for scsi_disk_emulate_ops
Conflicts:
block/iscsi.c
aliguori: resolve trivial merge conflict in block/iscsi.c
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/tags/for-anthony' into staging
Block patches
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* kwolf/tags/for-anthony: (93 commits)
block: Switch bdrv_io_limits_intercept() to byte granularity
qemu-iotests: Test pwritev RMW logic
qemu-io: New command 'sleep'
blkdebug: Make required alignment configurable
iscsi: Set bs->request_alignment
block: Make bdrv_pwrite() a bdrv_prwv_co() wrapper
block: Make bdrv_pread() a bdrv_prwv_co() wrapper
block: Change coroutine wrapper to byte granularity
block: Assert serialisation assumptions in pwritev
block: Align requests in bdrv_co_do_pwritev()
block: Allow wait_serialising_requests() at any point
block: Make overlap range for serialisation dynamic
block: Generalise and optimise COR serialisation
block: Make zero-after-EOF work with larger alignment
block: Allow waiting for overlapping requests between begin/end
block: Switch BdrvTrackedRequest to byte granularity
block: Introduce bdrv_co_do_pwritev()
block: write: Handle COR dependency after I/O throttling
block: Introduce bdrv_aligned_pwritev()
block: Introduce bdrv_co_do_preadv()
...
Message-id: 1390584136-24703-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Request sizes used to be rounded down to the next sector boundary,
allowing to bypass the I/O limit. Now all requests are accounted for
with their exact byte size.
Reported-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
There is no easy way to check that a request correctly waits for a
different request. With a sleep command we can at least approximate it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The new 'align' option of blkdebug can be used in order to emulate
backends with a required 4k alignment on hosts which only really require
512 byte alignment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The iSCSI backend already gets the block size from the READ CAPACITY
command it sends. Save it so that the generic block layer gets it
too.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Instead of implementing the alignment adjustment here, use the now
existing functionality of bdrv_co_do_pwritev().
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Instead of implementing the alignment adjustment here, use the now
existing functionality of bdrv_co_do_preadv().
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
If a request calls wait_serialising_requests() and actually has to wait
in this function (i.e. a coroutine yield), other requests can run and
previously read data (like the head or tail buffer) could become
outdated. In this case, we would have to restart from the beginning to
read in the updated data.
However, we're lucky and don't actually need to do that: A request can
only wait in the first call of wait_serialising_requests() because we
mark it as serialising before that call, so any later requests would
wait. So as we don't wait in practice, we don't have to reload the data.
This is an important assumption that may not be broken or data
corruption will happen. Document it with some assertions.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This patch changes bdrv_co_do_pwritev() to actually be what its name
promises. If requests aren't properly aligned, it performs a RMW.
Requests touching the same block are serialised against the RMW request.
Further optimisation of this is possible by differentiating types of
requests (concurrent reads should actually be okay here).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
We can only have a single wait_serialising_requests() call per request
because otherwise we can run into deadlocks where requests are waiting
for each other. The same is true when wait_serialising_requests() is not
at the very beginning of a request, so that other requests can be issued
between the start of the tracking and wait_serialising_requests().
Fix this by changing wait_serialising_requests() to ignore requests that
are already (directly or indirectly) waiting for the calling request.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Copy on Read wants to serialise with all requests touching the same
cluster, so wait_serialising_requests() rounded to cluster boundaries.
Other users like alignment RMW will have different requirements, though
(requests touching the same sector), so make it dynamic.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Change the API so that specific requests can be marked serialising. Only
these requests are checked for overlaps then.
This means that during a Copy on Read operation, not all requests
overlapping other requests are serialised any more, but only those that
actually overlap with the specific COR request.
Also remove COR from function and variable names because this
functionality can be useful in other contexts.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Odd file sizes could make bdrv_aligned_preadv() shorten the request in
non-aligned ways. Fix it by rounding to the required alignment instead
of 512 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Previously, it was not possible to use wait_for_overlapping_requests()
between tracked_request_begin()/end() because it would wait for itself.
Ignore the current request in the overlap check and run more of the
bdrv_co_do_preadv/pwritev code with a BdrvTrackedRequest present.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
This is going to become the bdrv_co_do_preadv() equivalent for writes.
In this patch, however, just a function taking byte offsets is created,
it doesn't align anything yet.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
First waiting for all COR requests to complete and calling the
throttling function afterwards means that the request could be delayed
and we still need to wait for the COR request even if it was issued only
after the throttled write request.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
This separates the part of bdrv_co_do_writev() that needs to happen
before the request is modified to match the backend alignment, and a
part that needs to be executed afterwards and passes the request to the
BlockDriver.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Similar to bdrv_pread(), which aligns byte-aligned request to 512 byte
sectors, bdrv_co_do_preadv() takes a byte-aligned request and aligns it
to the alignment specified in bs->request_alignment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
This separates the part of bdrv_co_do_readv() that needs to happen
before the request is modified to match the backend alignment, and a
part that needs to be executed afterwards and passes the request to the
BlockDriver.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Add a bs->request_alignment field that contains the required
offset/length alignment for I/O requests and fill it in the raw block
drivers. Use ioctls if possible, else see what alignment it takes for
O_DIRECT to succeed.
While at it, also expose the memory alignment requirements, which may be
(and in practice are) different from the disk alignment requirements.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The alignment field is now set to the value that is promised to the
guest, rather than required by the host. The next patches will make
QEMU aware of the host-provided values, so make this clear.
The alignment is also not about memory buffers, but about the sectors on
the disk, change the documentation of the field.
At this point, the field is set by the device emulation, but completely
ignored by the block layer.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
bs->buffer_alignment is set by the device emulation and contains the
logical block size of the guest device. This isn't something that the
block layer should know, and even less something to use for determining
the right alignment of buffers to be used for the host.
The new BlockLimits field opt_mem_alignment tells the qemu block layer
the optimal alignment to be used so that no bounce buffer must be used
in the driver.
This patch may change the buffer alignment from 4k to 512 for all
callers that used qemu_blockalign() with the top-level image format
BlockDriverState. The value was never propagated to other levels in the
tree, so in particular raw-posix never required anything else than 512.
While on disks with 4k sectors direct I/O requires a 4k alignment,
memory may still be okay when aligned to 512 byte boundaries. This is
what must have happened in practice, because otherwise this would
already have failed earlier. Therefore I don't expect regressions even
with this intermediate state. Later, raw-posix can implement the hook
and expose a different memory alignment requirement.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
For an O_DIRECT request to succeed, it's not only necessary that all
base addresses in the qiov are aligned, but also that each length in it
is aligned.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The functions used by qemu_memalign() require an alignment that is at
least sizeof(void*). Adjust it if it is too small.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
When reopening with different flags, or when backing files disappear
from the chain, the limits may change. Make sure they get updated in
these cases.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
When there is a format driver between the backend, it's not guaranteed
that exposing the opt_transfer_length for the format driver results in
the optimal requests (because of fragmentation etc.), but it can't make
things worse, so let's just do it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
This function separates filling the BlockLimits from bdrv_open(), which
allows it to call it from other operations which may change the limits
(e.g. modifications to the backing file chain or bdrv_reopen)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
bdrv_commit() could return 0 or 1 on success, depending on whether or
not the last sector was allocated in the overlay and whether the overlay
format had a .bdrv_make_empty callback.
Most callers ignored it, but qemu-img commit would print an error
message while the operation actually succeeded.
Also clean up the handling of I/O errors to return the real error code
instead of -EIO.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
This updates the documentation for commiting snapshot images.
Specifically, this highlights what happens when the base image
is either smaller or larger than the snapshot image being committed.
In the case of the base image being smaller, it is resized to the
larger size of the snapshot image. In the case of the base image
being larger, it is not resized automatically, but once the commit
has completed it is safe for the user to truncate the base image.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If the top image to commit is the active layer, and also larger than
the base image, then an I/O error will likely be returned during
block-commit.
For instance, if we have a base image with a virtual size 10G, and a
active layer image of size 20G, then committing the snapshot via
'block-commit' will likely fail.
This will automatically attempt to resize the base image, if the
active layer image to be committed is larger.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Currently, if an image file is logically larger than its backing file,
committing it via 'qemu-img commit' will fail.
For instance, if we have a base image with a virtual size 10G, and a
snapshot image of size 20G, then committing the snapshot offline with
'qemu-img commit' will likely fail.
This will automatically attempt to resize the base image, if the
snapshot image to be committed is larger.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
libcurl versions 7.16.0 and later have a timer callback interface which
must be implemented in order for libcurl to make forward progress (it
will sometimes rely on being called back on the timeout if there are
no file descriptors registered). Implement the callback, and use a
QEMU AIO timer to ensure we prod libcurl again when it asks us to.
Based on Peter's original patch plus my fix to add curl_multi_timeout_do.
Should compile just fine even on older versions of libcurl.
I also tried copy-on-read and streaming:
$ ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o \
backing_file=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Live/x86_64/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1.iso \
foo.qcow2 1G
$ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-drive if=none,file=foo.qcow2,copy-on-read=on,id=cd \
-device ide-cd,drive=cd --enable-kvm -m 1024
Direct http usage is probably too slow, but with copy-on-read ultimately
the image does boot!
After some time, streaming gets canceled by an EIO, which needs further
investigation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
There was two candidate ways to implement named node manipulation:
1)
{ 'command': 'block_passwd', 'data': {'*device': 'str',
'*node-name': 'str', 'password': 'str'}
}
2)
{ 'command': 'block_passwd', 'data': {'device': 'str',
'*device-is-node': 'bool',
'password': 'str'} }
Luiz proposed 1 and says 2 was an abuse of the QMP interface and proposed to
rewrite the QMP block interface for 2.0.
Luiz does not like in 1 the fact that 2 fields are optional but one of them must
be specified leading to an abuse of the QMP semantic.
Kevin argumented that 2 what a clear abuse of the device field and would not be
practical when reading fast some log file because the user would read "device"
and think that a device is manipulated when it's in fact a node name.
Documentation of 1 make it pretty clear what to do for the user.
Kevin argued that all bs are node including devices ones so 2 does not make
sense.
Kevin also argued that rewriting the QMP block interface would not make disapear
the current one.
Kevin pushed the argument that making the QAPI generator compatible with the
semantic of the operation would need a rewrite that no one has done yet.
A vote has been done on the list to elect the version to use and 1 won.
For reference the complete thread is:
"[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 4/7] qmp: Allow to change password on names block driver
states."
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
