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Marc-André Lureau
1812a2d366 doc/style: CLang -> Clang
It's not the way it is usually written (see https://clang.llvm.org/).

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220420132624.2439741-17-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2022-04-21 17:03:51 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau
7a42e6885a docs: trace-events-all is installed without renaming
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220420132624.2439741-13-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2022-04-21 17:03:51 +04:00
Alex Bennée
ab20edf59d docs/devel: drop :hidden: and :includehidden: tags
This was confusing and in the case of qtest was hiding the details of
the qgraph sub-document in the qtest pages.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220419091020.3008144-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-04-20 16:04:20 +01:00
Alex Bennée
396408ee92 docs/devel: add some notes on the binfmt-image-debian targets
We document some of this on the wiki but lets move it into our
official developer notes documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220419091020.3008144-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-04-20 16:04:20 +01:00
Marc-André Lureau
ee3eb3a7ce Replace TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
Convert the TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN macro, similarly to what was done
with HOST_BIG_ENDIAN. The new TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN macro is either 0 or 1,
and thus should always be defined to prevent misuse.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220323155743.1585078-8-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-04-06 10:50:37 +02:00
Christoph Muellner
0f37cf2f71 docs/tcg-plugins: document QEMU_PLUGIN behaviour
QEMU plugins can be loaded via command line arguments or via
the QEMU_PLUGIN environment variable. Currently, only the first method
is documented. Let's document QEMU_PLUGIN.

As drive-by cleanup, this patch fixes the path to the plugins
in the same section of the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Muellner <cmuellner@linux.com>
Message-Id: <20220316181412.1550044-1-cmuellner@linux.com>
[AJB: fixed some minor typos]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-03-23 10:38:09 +00:00
Alex Bennée
c6afd2bdfd docs/devel: try and impose some organisation
We have a growing set of developer docs but the index is currently in
order of when stuff was added. Try and make things a bit easier to
find my adding sub indexes and organising into themes.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220315121251.2280317-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-03-23 10:37:49 +00:00
Peter Maydell
1862198702 migration: Remove load_state_old and minimum_version_id_old
There are no longer any VMStateDescription structs in the tree which
use the load_state_old support for custom handling of incoming
migration from very old QEMU.  Remove the mechanism entirely.

This includes removing one stray useless setting of
minimum_version_id_old in a VMStateDescription with no load_state_old
function, which crept in after the global weeding-out of them in
commit 17e3134061.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220215175705.3846411-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <francisco.iglesias@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
2022-03-02 18:20:45 +00:00
Alex Bennée
cc44a16002 gitlab: add a new aarch32 custom runner definition
Although running on aarch64 hardware we can still target 32bit builds
with a cross compiler and run the resulting binaries.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220225172021.3493923-10-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-02-28 16:42:12 +00:00
Peter Maydell
922268067f * More Meson conversions (0.59.x now required rather than suggested)
* UMIP support for TCG x86
 * Fix migration crash
 * Restore error output for check-block
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream' into staging

* More Meson conversions (0.59.x now required rather than suggested)
* UMIP support for TCG x86
* Fix migration crash
* Restore error output for check-block

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* remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream: (29 commits)
  configure, meson: move CONFIG_IASL to a Meson option
  meson, configure: move ntddscsi API check to meson
  meson: require dynamic linking for VSS support
  qga/vss-win32: require widl/midl, remove pre-built TLB file
  meson: do not make qga/vss-win32/meson.build conditional on C++ presence
  configure, meson: replace VSS SDK checks and options with --enable-vss-sdk
  qga/vss: use standard windows headers location
  qga/vss-win32: use widl if available
  meson: drop --with-win-sdk
  qga/vss-win32: fix midl arguments
  meson: refine check for whether to look for virglrenderer
  configure, meson: move guest-agent, tools to meson
  configure, meson: move smbd options to meson_options.txt
  configure, meson: move coroutine options to meson_options.txt
  configure, meson: move some default-disabled options to meson_options.txt
  meson: define qemu_cflags/qemu_ldflags
  configure, meson: move block layer options to meson_options.txt
  configure, meson: move image format options to meson_options.txt
  configure, meson: cleanup qemu-ga libraries
  configure, meson: move TPM check to meson
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2022-02-21 17:24:05 +00:00
Peter Maydell
b5bf5a53d1 Kconfig: Add I2C_DEVICES device group
Currently there is no way for a board model's Kconfig stanza to
say "I have an i2c bus which the user can plug an i2c device into,
build all the free-standing i2c devices". The Kconfig mechanism
for this is the "device group". Add an I2C_DEVICES group along
the same lines as the existing PCI_DEVICES. Simple free-standing
i2c devices which a user might plausibly want to be able to
plug in on the QEMU commandline should have
   default y if I2C_DEVICES
and board models which have an i2c bus that is user-accessible
should use
   imply I2C_DEVICES
to cause those pluggable devices to be built.

In this commit we mark only a fairly conservative set of i2c devices
as belonging to the I2C_DEVICES group: the simple sensors and RTCs
(not including PMBus devices or devices which need GPIO lines to be
connected).

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Hao Wu <wuhaotsh@google.com>
Message-id: 20220208155911.3408455-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2022-02-21 13:30:20 +00:00
Paolo Bonzini
0d04c4c9de configure, meson: move TPM check to meson
The check is simply for a POSIX system.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 10:35:53 +01:00
Alex Bennée
d9a6bad542 docs: remove references to TCG tracing
Users wanting this sort of functionality should turn to TCG plugins
instead.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Luis Vilanova <vilanova@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220204204335.1689602-18-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-02-09 12:08:42 +00:00
Alex Bennée
bda8bebad0 docs/devel: mention our .editorconfig
Ideally we should keep all our automatic formatting gubins in here.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220204204335.1689602-13-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-02-09 12:08:42 +00:00
Peter Maydell
7a1043cef9 * configure and meson fixes
* "meson test" switch for iotests
 * deprecation of old SGX QAPI
 * unexport InterruptStatsProviderClass-related functions
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream' into staging

* configure and meson fixes
* "meson test" switch for iotests
* deprecation of old SGX QAPI
* unexport InterruptStatsProviderClass-related functions

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* remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream:
  configure: fix parameter expansion of --cross-cc-cflags options
  qapi: Cleanup SGX related comments and restore @section-size
  check-block: replace -makecheck with TAP output
  qemu-iotests: require at least an argument to check-block.sh
  build: make check-block a meson test
  scripts/mtest2make: add support for SPEED=thorough
  check-block.sh: passthrough -jN flag of make to -j N flag of check
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  meson.build: Use a function from libfdt 1.5.1 for the library check
  intc: Unexport InterruptStatsProviderClass-related functions
  docker: add msitools to Fedora/mingw cross
  build-sys: fix undefined ARCH error
  build-sys: fix a meson deprecation warning

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2022-01-28 14:04:01 +00:00
Matheus Ferst
479ca4ccd5 configure: fix parameter expansion of --cross-cc-cflags options
Without this fix, any use of --cross-cc-cflags-* causes a message like:
$ ../configure --cross-cc-ppc64le=clang --cross-cc-cflags-ppc64le="-target powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu -sysroot ..."
../configure: 1: eval: cross_cc_cflags_--cross-cc-cflags-ppc64le=-target: not found
../configure: 3816: export: cross_cc_cflags_--cross-cc-cflags-ppc64le: bad variable name

Signed-off-by: Matheus Ferst <matheus.ferst@eldorado.org.br>
Message-Id: <20220120173142.2755077-1-matheus.ferst@eldorado.org.br>
[Fix other occurrences too, noted by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-01-28 11:13:33 +01:00
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
ff8e4827ad docs/qapi-code-gen: update to cover trace events code generation
Previous commits enabled trace events generation for most of QAPI
generated code (except for tests/ and qga/). Let's update documentation
to illustrate it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20220126161130.3240892-6-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2022-01-27 15:16:28 +01:00
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
167d913f34 qapi/commands: refactor error handling code
Move error_propagate() to if (err) and make "if (err)" block mandatory.
This is to simplify further commit, which will bring trace events
generation for QMP commands.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220126161130.3240892-3-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2022-01-27 11:25:09 +01:00
Peter Maydell
3d228a741a Various testing and other misc updates:
- fix compiler warnings with ui and sdl
   - update QXL/spice dependancy
   - skip I/O tests on Alpine
   - update fedora image to latest version
   - integrate lcitool and regenerate docker images
   - favour CONFIG_LINUX_USER over CONFIG_LINUX
   - add libfuse3 dependencies to docker images
   - add dtb-kaslr-seed control knob to virt machine
   - fix build breakage from HMP update
   - update docs for C standard and suffix usage
   - add more logging for debugging user hole finding
   - expand reserve for brk() for static 64 bit programs
   - fix bug with linux-user hole calculation
   - avoid affecting flags when printing results in float tests
   - add float reference files for ppc64
   - update FreeBSD to 12.3
   - add bison dependancy to tricore images
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-for-7.0-180122-2' into staging

Various testing and other misc updates:

  - fix compiler warnings with ui and sdl
  - update QXL/spice dependancy
  - skip I/O tests on Alpine
  - update fedora image to latest version
  - integrate lcitool and regenerate docker images
  - favour CONFIG_LINUX_USER over CONFIG_LINUX
  - add libfuse3 dependencies to docker images
  - add dtb-kaslr-seed control knob to virt machine
  - fix build breakage from HMP update
  - update docs for C standard and suffix usage
  - add more logging for debugging user hole finding
  - expand reserve for brk() for static 64 bit programs
  - fix bug with linux-user hole calculation
  - avoid affecting flags when printing results in float tests
  - add float reference files for ppc64
  - update FreeBSD to 12.3
  - add bison dependancy to tricore images

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* remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-for-7.0-180122-2: (31 commits)
  docker: include bison in debian-tricore-cross
  FreeBSD: Upgrade to 12.3 release
  test/tcg/ppc64le: Add float reference files
  tests/tcg/multiarch: Read fp flags before printf
  linux-user: don't adjust base of found hole
  linux-user/elfload: add extra logging for hole finding
  linux-user: expand reserved brk space for 64bit guests
  docs/devel: more documentation on the use of suffixes
  docs/devel: update C standard to C11
  monitor: move x-query-profile into accel/tcg to fix build
  hw/arm: add control knob to disable kaslr_seed via DTB
  tests/docker: add libfuse3 development headers
  tests/tcg: use CONFIG_LINUX_USER, not CONFIG_LINUX
  tests/docker: auto-generate alpine.docker with lcitool
  tests/docker: fully expand the alpine package list
  tests/docker: fix sorting of alpine image package lists
  tests/docker: updates to alpine package list
  .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus: auto-generate variables with lcitool
  tests/docker: remove ubuntu.docker container
  tests/docker: auto-generate opensuse-leap.docker with lcitool
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2022-01-19 11:49:56 +00:00
Alex Bennée
3918fe16b0 docs/devel: more documentation on the use of suffixes
Using _qemu is a little confusing. Let's use _compat for these sorts
of things. We should also mention _impl which is another common suffix
in the code base.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220105135009.1584676-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-01-18 16:42:42 +00:00
Alex Bennée
a68e025bf5 docs/devel: update C standard to C11
Since 8a9d3d5640 (configure: Use -std=gnu11) we have allowed C11 code
so lets reflect that in the style guide.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220105135009.1584676-24-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-01-18 16:42:42 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
4ebb040f1f tests: integrate lcitool for generating build env manifests
This introduces

  https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci

as a git submodule at tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci

The 'lcitool' program within this submodule will be used to
automatically generate build environment manifests from a definition
of requirements in tests/lcitool/projects/qemu.yml

It will ultimately be capable of generating

 - Dockerfiles
 - Package lists for installation in VMs
 - Variables for configuring Cirrus CI environments

When a new build pre-requisite is needed for QEMU, if this package
is not currently known to libvirt-ci, it must first be added to the
'mappings.yml' file in the above git repo.

Then the submodule can be updated and the build pre-requisite added
to the tests/lcitool/projects/qemu.yml file. Now all the build env
manifests can be re-generated using  'make lcitool-refresh'

This ensures that when a new build pre-requisite is introduced, it
is added to all the different OS containers, VMs and Cirrus CI
environments consistently.

It also facilitates the addition of containers targetting new distros
or updating existing containers to new versions of the same distro,
where packages might have been renamed.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20211215141949.3512719-8-berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220105135009.1584676-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-01-18 16:42:41 +00:00
Alex Bennée
9d696cd504 docs/devel: add some clarifying text for aliases
We do mention the limitation of single parenthood for
memory_region_add_subregion but lets also make it clear how aliases
help solve that conundrum.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220110175104.2908956-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
2022-01-18 12:56:29 +01:00
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
c5ba621954 docs: Render binary names as monospaced text
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211118192744.64325-1-philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
Stefan Weil
b980c1aec6 Fix some typos in documentation (found by codespell)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20211117210702.1393570-1-sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
[thuth: "what's" --> "what is" as suggested by philmd]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
93e86b1664 docs: List more commit-message tags in "submitting-a-patch"
Add some more examples of commonly used commit-message tags.

(Thanks: Alex Bennée)

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211119193118.949698-3-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
cd6b1674d6 docs: Fix botched rST conversion of 'submitting-a-patch.rst'
I completely botched up the merged[0] rST conversion of this document by
accidentally dropping entire hunks (!) of text. :-(  I made it very hard
for reviewers to spot it, as the omitted text was buried deep in the
document.  To fix my hatchet job, I reconverted the "SubmitAPatch"
wiki[1] page from scratch and replaced the existing rST with it, while
making sure I incorporated previous feedback.

In summary, in this reconverted edition:

- I did a careful (to the extent my eyes allowed) para-by-para
  comparison of the wiki and the rST to make sure I didn't omit
  anything accidentally.

- I made sure to work in the cosmetic feedback[2] that Thomas Huth
  pointed out in the merged (and botched) edition:

   - fix the hyperlinks in "Split up long patches"

   - replace ".". with "does not end with a dot" (in "Write a meaningful
     commit message" section)

   - replace "---" with ``---`` so that it doesn't render as an em-dash
     (there were two other occurrences; I fixed those too)

- Use "QEMU" spelling consistently in prose usage

- Add a consistent "refer to git-config" link where appropriate

Thanks to Thomas Huth and Alex Bennée for noticing it on IRC.  And sorry
for my sloppiness.

Fixes: 9f73de8df0 ("docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPatch" wiki")

[0] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9f73de8df033
[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&oldid=10387
[2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg03600.html

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211119193118.949698-2-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[thuth: Some more cosmetical changes, fixed links from external to internal]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
Richard Henderson
8627edfb3f Bugfixes for 6.2.
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Merge tag 'for-upstream' of https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu into staging

Bugfixes for 6.2.

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* tag 'for-upstream' of https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu:
  chardev/wctable: don't free the instance in wctablet_chr_finalize
  meson.build: Support ncurses on MacOS and OpenBSD
  docs: Spell QEMU all caps
  qtest/am53c974-test: add test for reset before transfer
  esp: ensure that async_len is reset to 0 during esp_hard_reset()
  nvmm: Fix support for stable version
  meson: fix botched compile check conversions

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2021-11-19 17:16:57 +01:00
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
5135fe7110 docs: Spell QEMU all caps
Replace Qemu -> QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211118143401.4101497-1-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-11-19 10:16:58 +01:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
9f73de8df0 docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPatch" wiki
- The original wiki is here[1]. I copied the wiki source[2] into a .wiki
  file, and used `pandoc` to convert it to rST:

    $> pandoc -f Mediawiki -t rst submitting-a-patch.wiki -o
       submitting-a-patch.rst

- The only minor touch-ups I did was to fix URLs.  But 99%, it is a 1-1
  conversion.

  (An example of a "touch-up": under the section "Patch emails must
  include a Signed-off-by: line", I updated the "see SubmittingPatches
  1.12"  to "1.12) Sign your work")

- I have also converted a couple other related wiki pages (included in
  this patch series) that were hyperlinked within the SubmitAPatch page,
  or a page that it refers to:

  - SubmitAPullRequest: https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPullRequest
  - TrivialPatches: https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches

- Over time, many people contributed to this wiki page; you can find all
  the authors in the wiki history[3].

[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
[2] http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&action=edit
[3] http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&action=history

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211110144902.388183-4-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
[thuth: Cosmetic fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-17 10:17:28 +01:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
0ff0dcf6b5 docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPullRequest" wiki
The original wiki is here[1].  I converted by copying the wiki source
into a .wiki file and convert to rST using `pandoc`:

    $ pandoc -f Mediawiki -t rst submitting-a-pull-request.wiki \
        -o submitting-a-pull-request.rst

This is a 1-1 conversion; no content changes.

[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPullRequest

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211110144902.388183-3-kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-17 10:17:28 +01:00
Kashyap Chamarthy
0c8c45140c docs: rSTify the "TrivialPatches" wiki
The original wiki is here[1].  I converted by copying the wiki source
into a .wiki file and convert to rST using `pandoc`:

        $ pandoc -f Mediawiki -t rst trivial-patches.wiki -o trivial-patches.rst

Update the active maintainer names (and drop Michael Tokarev's inactive
repo) to reflect current reality.

[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211110144902.388183-2-kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2021-11-17 10:17:28 +01:00
Cleber Rosa
d7c2e2b3f4 Jobs based on custom runners: add CentOS Stream 8
This introduces three different parts of a job designed to run
on a custom runner managed by Red Hat.  The goals include:

  a) propose a model for other organizations that want to onboard
     their own runners, with their specific platforms, build
     configuration and tests.

  b) bring awareness to the differences between upstream QEMU and the
     version available under CentOS Stream, which is "A preview of
     upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor and major releases".

  c) because of b), it should be easier to identify and reduce the gap
     between Red Hat's downstream and upstream QEMU.

The components of this custom job are:

  I) OS build environment setup code:

     - additions to the existing "build-environment.yml" playbook
       that can be used to set up CentOS/EL 8 systems.

     - a CentOS Stream 8 specific "build-environment.yml" playbook
       that adds to the generic one.

 II) QEMU build configuration: a script that will produce binaries with
     features as similar as possible to the ones built and packaged on
     CentOS stream 8.

III) Scripts that define the minimum amount of testing that the
     binaries built with the given configuration (point II) under the
     given OS build environment (point I) should be subjected to.

 IV) Job definition: GitLab CI jobs that will dispatch the build/test
     jobs (see points #II and #III) to the machine specifically
     configured according to #I.

Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211111160501.862396-2-crosa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211115142915.3797652-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2021-11-16 16:19:53 +00:00
Markus Armbruster
53e9e547d2 docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Belatedly document feature documentation
Commit 6a8c0b5102 "qapi: Add feature flags to struct types" neglected
to document how to document feature flags.  Make up for that.

Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211026111023.76937-3-armbru@redhat.com>
[Editing accident fixed]
2021-11-10 06:10:11 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
13b86cbd2c docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Drop a duplicate paragraph
Commit 55ec69f8b1 "docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt: Update to new rST
backend conventions" accidentally duplicated a paragraph.  Drop it.

Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211026111023.76937-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-11-10 06:10:11 +01:00
Richard Henderson
114f3c8cc4 Integration testing patches
- Rename tests/acceptance/ -> tests/avocado/
 - Rename avocado_qemu.Test -> avocado_qemu.QemuSystemTest
 - Introduce QemuUserTest class
 - Add the first linux-user test, covering the bFLT loader
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/philmd/tags/avocado-20211108' into staging

Integration testing patches

- Rename tests/acceptance/ -> tests/avocado/
- Rename avocado_qemu.Test -> avocado_qemu.QemuSystemTest
- Introduce QemuUserTest class
- Add the first linux-user test, covering the bFLT loader

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* remotes/philmd/tags/avocado-20211108:
  tests/avocado: Remove p7zip binary availability check
  tests/avocado: Rename avocado_qemu.Test -> QemuSystemTest
  tests/avocado: Add bFLT loader linux-user test
  tests/avocado: Share useful helpers from virtiofs_submounts test
  tests/avocado: Introduce QemuUserTest base class
  tests/avocado: Make pick_default_qemu_bin() more generic
  tests/avocado: Extract QemuBaseTest from Test
  tests/acceptance: rename tests acceptance to tests avocado
  tests/acceptance: introduce new check-avocado target

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2021-11-08 18:50:09 +01:00
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2283b627bc tests/avocado: Rename avocado_qemu.Test -> QemuSystemTest
To run user-mode emulation tests, we introduced the
avocado_qemu.QemuUserTest which inherits from avocado_qemu.QemuBaseTest.
System-mode emulation tests are based on the avocado_qemu.Test class,
which also inherits avocado_qemu.QemuBaseTest. To avoid confusion,
rename it as avocado_qemu.QemuSystemTest.

Suggested-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20211105143416.148332-7-f4bug@amsat.org>
2021-11-08 17:00:22 +01:00
Willian Rampazzo
bbbd9b6ec6 tests/acceptance: rename tests acceptance to tests avocado
In the discussion about renaming the `tests/acceptance` [1], the
conclusion was that the folders inside `tests` are related to the
framework running the tests and not directly related to the type of
the tests.

This changes the folder to `tests/avocado` and adjusts the MAKEFILE, the
CI related files and the documentation.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-05/msg06553.html

Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211105155354.154864-3-willianr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
2021-11-08 17:00:22 +01:00
Richard Henderson
5e10ccc270 * Fix off-by-one in MODE SELECT commands
* extend --extra-*flags behavior to meson-based tests
 * allow using snappy in static builds
 * i386 TCG fixes
 * fix build failure when libgbm is not available
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into staging

* Fix off-by-one in MODE SELECT commands
* extend --extra-*flags behavior to meson-based tests
* allow using snappy in static builds
* i386 TCG fixes
* fix build failure when libgbm is not available

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* remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream:
  ui/gtk-egl: Fix build failure when libgbm is not available
  configure: ignore preexisting QEMU_*FLAGS envvars
  configure: propagate --extra-cflags and --extra-ldflags to meson compile tests
  configure: preserve CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS in config.status
  configure: simplify calls to meson_quote
  docs: adjust for demise of scripts/create_config
  meson: perform snappy test with the C++ compiler if used
  hw/scsi/scsi-disk: MODE_PAGE_ALLS not allowed in MODE SELECT commands
  target-i386: mmu: fix handling of noncanonical virtual addresses
  target-i386: mmu: use pg_mode instead of HF_LMA_MASK

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2021-11-08 16:23:32 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
4933436f6a docs: adjust for demise of scripts/create_config
The config-host.h, $TARGET_NAME-config-target.h,
$TARGET_NAME-config-devices.h files are now generated by
configure_file() rather than scripts/create_config.  Adjust
he relevant paragraph in docs/devel/build-system.rst, and take
the occasion to fix a preexisting confusion of *.h vs *.mak.

Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-11-08 10:55:59 +01:00
John Snow
ca0a0d122c docs: (further) remove non-reference uses of single backticks
The series rotted already. Here's the new changes.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
[ extra backticks fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211004215238.1523082-3-jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-11-08 12:27:23 +04:00
John Snow
450e0f28a4 docs: remove non-reference uses of single backticks
The single backtick markup in ReST is the "default role". Currently,
Sphinx's default role is called "content". Sphinx suggests you can use
the "Any" role instead to turn any single-backtick enclosed item into a
cross-reference.

This is useful for things like autodoc for Python docstrings, where it's
often nicer to reference other types with `foo` instead of the more
laborious :py:meth:`foo`. It's also useful in multi-domain cases to
easily reference definitions from other Sphinx domains, such as
referencing C code definitions from outside of kerneldoc comments.

Before we do that, though, we'll need to turn all existing usages of the
"content" role to inline verbatim markup wherever it does not correctly
resolve into a cross-refernece by using double backticks instead.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Message-Id: <20211004215238.1523082-2-jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-11-08 12:27:23 +04:00
Mahmoud Mandour
b8312e04c8 docs/tcg-plugins: add L2 arguments to cache docs
cache plugin now allows optional L2 per-core cache emulation that can be
configured through plugin arguments, this commit adds this functionality
to the docs.

While I'm at it, I editted the bullet point for cache plugin to say:
    contrib/plugins/cache.c
instead of
    contrib/plugins/cache
to match other plugins.

Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210810134844.166490-6-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20211026102234.3961636-18-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2021-11-04 10:32:01 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
3d312f417d docs/devel: document expectations for HMP commands in the future
We no longer wish to have commands implemented in HMP only. All commands
should start with a QMP implementation and the HMP merely be a shim
around this. To reduce the burden of implementing QMP commands where
there is low expectation of machine usage, requirements for QAPI
modelling are relaxed provided the command is under the "x-" name
prefix.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
a45cfcbb01 docs/devel: add example of command returning unstructured text
This illustrates how to add a QMP command returning unstructured text,
following the guidelines added in the previous patch. The example uses
a simplified version of 'info roms'.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
f2de406f29 docs/devel: document expectations for QAPI data modelling for QMP
Traditionally we have required that newly added QMP commands will model
any returned data using fine grained QAPI types. This is good for
commands that are intended to be consumed by machines, where clear data
representation is very important. Commands that don't satisfy this have
generally been added to HMP only.

In effect the decision of whether to add a new command to QMP vs HMP has
been used as a proxy for the decision of whether the cost of designing a
fine grained QAPI type is justified by the potential benefits.

As a result the commands present in QMP and HMP are non-overlapping
sets, although HMP comamnds can be accessed indirectly via the QMP
command 'human-monitor-command'.

One of the downsides of 'human-monitor-command' is that the QEMU monitor
APIs remain tied into various internal parts of the QEMU code. For
example any exclusively HMP command will need to use 'monitor_printf'
to get data out. It would be desirable to be able to fully isolate the
monitor implementation from QEMU internals, however, this is only
possible if all commands are exclusively based on QAPI with direct
QMP exposure.

The way to achieve this desired end goal is to finese the requirements
for QMP command design. For cases where the output of a command is only
intended for human consumption, it is reasonable to want to simplify
the implementation by returning a plain string containing formatted
data instead of designing a fine grained QAPI data type. This can be
permitted if-and-only-if the command is exposed under the 'x-' name
prefix. This indicates that the command data format is liable to
future change and that it is not following QAPI design best practice.

The poster child example for this would be the 'info registers' HMP
command which returns printf formatted data representing CPU state.
This information varies enourmously across target architectures and
changes relatively frequently as new CPU features are implemented.
It is there as debugging data for human operators, and any machine
usage would treat it as an opaque blob. It is thus reasonable to
expose this in QMP as 'x-query-registers' returning a 'str' field.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
6fa6b54f5b docs/devel: update error handling guidance for HMP commands
Best practice is to use the 'hmp_handle_error' function, not
'monitor_printf' or 'error_report_err'. This ensures that the
message always gets an 'Error: ' prefix, distinguishing it
from normal command output.

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
fa2613afa1 docs/devel: tweak headings in monitor command docs
The new headings reflect the intended structure of the document and will
better suit additions that follow.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
0e33e3d2c4 docs/devel: rename file for writing monitor commands
The file already covers writing HMP commands, in addition to
the QMP commands, so it deserves a more general name.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-11-02 15:55:13 +00:00
Markus Armbruster
a3c45b3e62 qapi: New special feature flag "unstable"
By convention, names starting with "x-" are experimental.  The parts
of external interfaces so named may be withdrawn or changed
incompatibly in future releases.

The naming convention makes unstable interfaces easy to recognize.
Promoting something from experimental to stable involves a name
change.  Client code needs to be updated.  Occasionally bothersome.

Worse, the convention is not universally observed:

* QOM type "input-barrier" has properties "x-origin", "y-origin".
  Looks accidental, but it's ABI since 4.2.

* QOM types "memory-backend-file", "memory-backend-memfd",
  "memory-backend-ram", and "memory-backend-epc" have a property
  "x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id" that is documented to be
  stable despite its name.

We could document these exceptions, but documentation helps only
humans.  We want to recognize "unstable" in code, like "deprecated".

So support recognizing it the same way: introduce new special feature
flag "unstable".  It will be treated specially by the QAPI generator,
like the existing feature flag "deprecated", and unlike regular
feature flags.

This commit updates documentation and prepares tests.  The next commit
updates the QAPI schema.  The remaining patches update the QAPI
generator and wire up -compat policy checking.

Management applications can then use query-qmp-schema and -compat to
manage or guard against use of unstable interfaces the same way as for
deprecated interfaces.

docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt no longer mandates the naming convention.
Using it anyway might help writers of programs that aren't
full-fledged management applications.  Not using it can save us
bothersome renames.  We'll see how that shakes out.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211028102520.747396-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-29 15:55:52 +02:00