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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This patch adds an ethernet announce function that will minimize downtime
when doing a live migration. This code originates from KVM.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch introduces a command line parameter and monitor command for starting
a live migration. The next patch will provide an example of how to use these
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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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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Replace signalfd with signal handler/pipe. There is no way to interrupt
the CPU execution loop when a file descriptor becomes readable. This
results in a large performance regression in sparc emulation during
bootup.
This patch switches us to signal handler/pipe which was originally
suggested by Ian Jackson. The signal handler lets us interrupt the
CPU emulation loop while the write to a pipe lets us avoid the
select/signal race condition.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Introduce a max_cpus per-machine variable, allowing individual boards
to limit it's number of CPUs. Check requested number of CPUs in setup
code and exit if it exceeds the supported number for the machine.
This also renders the static MAX_CPUS check obsolete, so remove this
from vl.c.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch replaces the static memory savevm/loadvm handler with a "live" one.
This handler is used even if performing a non-live migration.
The key difference between this handler and the previous is that each page is
prefixed with the address of the page. The QEMUFile rate limiting code, in
combination with the live migration dirty tracking bits, is used to determine
which pages should be sent and how many should be sent.
The live save code "converges" when the number of dirty pages reaches a fixed
amount. Currently, this is 10 pages. This is something that should eventually
be derived from whatever the bandwidth limitation is.
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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To support live migration, we override QEMUFile so that instead of writing to
disk, the save/restore state happens over a network connection.
This patch makes QEMUFile read/write operations function pointers so that we
can override them for live migration.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga,
-cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes
an argument, so that:
qemu -std-vga becomes qemu -vga std
qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus
qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmware
Update documentation accordingly.
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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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This patch adds support for removing USB devices by host address.
Which is usefull for things like libvirtd because there is no easy way to
find guest USB address of the host device.
In other words you can now do:
usb_add host:3.5
...
usb_del host:3.5
Before the patch 'usb_del' did not support 'host:' notation.
----
Syntax for specifying auto connect filters has been improved.
Old syntax was
host:bus.dev
host:pid:vid
New syntax is
host:auto:bus.dev[:pid:vid]
In both the cases any attribute can be set to "*".
New syntax is more flexible and lets you do things like
host:3.*:5533:* /* grab any device on bus 3 with vendor id 5533 */
It's now possible to remove auto filters. For example:
usb_del host:auto:3.*:5533:*
Active filters are printed after all host devices in 'info usb' output.
Which now looks like this:
Device 1.1, speed 480 Mb/s
Hub: USB device 1d6b:0002, EHCI Host Controller
Device 1.4, speed 480 Mb/s
Class 00: USB device 1058:0704, External HDD
Auto filters:
Device 3.* ID *:*
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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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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When CONFIG_SLIRP is not defined, we should not try to use
-net user as a default.
Patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> (who is a Citrix
staff member).
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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The direction bit in the control register should not be directly
set using PPWCONTROL. The kernel gives the following debug message.
parport0 (ppdev0): use data_reverse for this!
More over setting the data pins to forward mode does not work,
perhaps a bug in the Linux PP driver. The right way to do this is
to use PPDATADIR to set the direction. The patch checks if the
user is toggling the direction bit, and invokes PPDATADIR to
do the job.
Signed-off-by: Vijay Kumar B <vijaykumar@bravegnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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Add idle field to DisplayState struct, so drivers can figure
the display is idle and take advantage of that.
The xen framebuffer driver will use this to communicate the
idle state to the guest, so it knows it can stop doing updates
to a virtual display which is invisible anyway.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch makes qemu handle signals better. It sets the request_shutdown
flag, making the main_loop exit and qemu taking the usual exit route, with
atexit handlers being called and so on, instead of qemu just being killed
by the signal.
To avoid calling vm_start() from the signal handler main_loop() got an
additional check so qemu_system_shutdown_request() works even when the
vm is in stopped state.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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QEMU can now automatically grab host USB devices that match the filter.
For now I just extended 'host:X.Y' and 'host:VID:PID' syntax to handle
wildcards. So for example if you do something like
usb_add host:5.*
QEMU will automatically grab any non-hub device with host address 5.*.
Same with the 'host:PID:*', we grab any device that matches PID.
Filtering itself is very generic so we can probably add more elaborate
syntax like 'host:BUS.ADDR:VID:PID'. So that we can do 'host:5.*:6000:*'.
Anyway, it's implemented using a periodic timer that scans host devices
and grabs those that match the filter. Timer is started when the first
filter is added.
We now keep the list of all host devices that we grabbed to make sure that
we do not grab the same device twice.
btw It's currently possible to grab the same host device more than once.
ie You can just do "usb_add host:1.1" more than once, which of course does
not work. So this patch fixes that issue too.
Along with auto disconnect patch that I send a minute ago the setup is very
seamless now. You can just allocate some usb ports to the VMs and plug/unplug
devices at any time.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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I got really annoyed by the fact that you have to manually do
usb_del in the monitor when host device is unplugged and decided
to fix it :)
Basically we now automatically remove guest USB device
when the actual host device is disconnected.
At first I've extended set_fd_handlerX() stuff to support checking
for exceptions on fds. But unfortunately usbfs code does not wake up
user-space process when device is removed, which means we need a
timer to periodically check if device is still there. So I removed
fd exception stuff and implemented it with the timer.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This patch upgrades the emulated UART to 16550A, the code comes from
xen-unstable. The main improvement was introduced with the following patch and
subsequent email thread:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-12/msg00129.html
The changes compared to previous version are:
- change clock_gettime to qemu_get_clock
- no token bucket anymore;
- fixed a small bug handling IRQs; this was the problem that prevented
kgdb to work over the serial (thanks to Jason Wessel for the help
spotting and reproducing this bug).
- many many style fixes;
- savevm version number increased;
- not including termios.h and sys/ioctl.h anymore, declaring static
constants in qemu-char.h instead;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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