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Thomas Weißschuh
56fa4f346a docs/interop/firmware.json: Fix doc for FirmwareFlashMode
The doc title did not match the actual definition.

Fixes: 2720ceda05 ("docs: expand firmware descriptor to allow flash without NVRAM")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20240307-qapi-firmware-json-v2-2-3b29eabb9b9a@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
2024-03-09 19:17:01 +01:00
Thomas Weißschuh
3d6753ef18 docs/interop/firmware.json: Align examples
Adjust indentation for commit d23055b8db (qapi: Require descriptions
and tagged sections to be indented).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240307-qapi-firmware-json-v2-1-3b29eabb9b9a@linutronix.de>
[PMD: Reword description using Markus suggestion]
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
2024-03-09 19:17:01 +01:00
Manos Pitsidianakis
c555b504d0 docs: correct typos
Correct typos automatically found with the `typos` tool
<https://crates.io/crates/typos>

Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
(mjt: trivial fixup)
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2024-02-20 22:20:48 +03:00
Andrey Ignatov
aa05bd9ef4 vhost-user.rst: Fix vring address description
There is no "size" field in vring address structure. Remove it.

Fixes: 5fc0e00291 ("Add vhost-user protocol documentation")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@apple.com>
Message-Id: <20240112004555.64900-1-rdna@apple.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2024-02-14 06:09:32 -05:00
Angel M. Villegas
b68d8b677e guest-agent: improve help for --allow-rpcs and --block-rpcs
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1757

Updates to qga help output and documentation for --allow-rpcs and --blocks-rpcs

Signed-off-by: "Angel M. Villegas" <anvilleg@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
2024-01-30 12:10:37 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
7cbdabb5d6 docs/interop/bitmaps: Clean up a reference to qemu-qmp-ref
docs/interop/bitmaps.rst uses references like

    `qemu-qmp-ref <qemu-qmp-ref.html>`_
    `query-block <qemu-qmp-ref.html#index-query_002dblock>`_

to refer to and into docs/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.rst.

Clean up the former: use :doc:`qemu-qmp-ref`.

I don't know how to clean up the latter.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2024-01-26 07:04:53 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
3bc8dc8aa8 docs: Replace dangling references to docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt
Deletion of docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt left two dangling references
behind.  Replace them by references to docs/interop/qmp-spec.rst.

Fixes: 0ec4468f23 (docs/interop: Delete qmp-intro.txt)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2024-01-26 07:04:53 +01:00
Hanna Czenczek
019233096c vhost-user.rst: Migrating back-end-internal state
For vhost-user devices, qemu can migrate the virtio state, but not the
back-end's internal state.  To do so, we need to be able to transfer
this internal state between front-end (qemu) and back-end.

At this point, this new feature is added for the purpose of virtio-fs
migration.  Because virtiofsd's internal state will not be too large, we
believe it is best to transfer it as a single binary blob after the
streaming phase.

These are the additions to the protocol:
- New vhost-user protocol feature VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_DEVICE_STATE
- SET_DEVICE_STATE_FD function: Front-end and back-end negotiate a file
  descriptor over which to transfer the state.
- CHECK_DEVICE_STATE: After the state has been transferred through the
  file descriptor, the front-end invokes this function to verify
  success.  There is no in-band way (through the file descriptor) to
  indicate failure, so we need to check explicitly.

Once the transfer FD has been established via SET_DEVICE_STATE_FD
(which includes establishing the direction of transfer and migration
phase), the sending side writes its data into it, and the reading side
reads it until it sees an EOF.  Then, the front-end will check for
success via CHECK_DEVICE_STATE, which on the destination side includes
checking for integrity (i.e. errors during deserialization).

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231016134243.68248-5-hreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-11-07 03:39:10 -05:00
Hanna Czenczek
a6e76dd3c3 vhost-user.rst: Introduce suspended state
In vDPA, GET_VRING_BASE does not stop the queried vring, which is why
SUSPEND was introduced so that the returned index would be stable.  In
vhost-user, it does stop the vring, so under the same reasoning, it can
get away without SUSPEND.

Still, we do want to clarify that if the device is completely stopped,
i.e. all vrings are stopped, the back-end should cease to modify any
state relating to the guest.  Do this by calling it "suspended".

Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231016134243.68248-4-hreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-11-07 03:39:10 -05:00
Hanna Czenczek
eae69cc36b vhost-user.rst: Clarify enabling/disabling vrings
Currently, the vhost-user documentation says that rings are to be
initialized in a disabled state when VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES is
negotiated.  However, by the time of feature negotiation, all rings have
already been initialized, so it is not entirely clear what this means.

At least the vhost-user-backend Rust crate's implementation interpreted
it to mean that whenever this feature is negotiated, all rings are to
put into a disabled state, which means that every SET_FEATURES call
would disable all rings, effectively halting the device.  This is
problematic because the VHOST_F_LOG_ALL feature is also set or cleared
this way, which happens during migration.  Doing so should not halt the
device.

Other implementations have interpreted this to mean that the device is
to be initialized with all rings disabled, and a subsequent SET_FEATURES
call that does not set VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES will enable all of
them.  Here, SET_FEATURES will never disable any ring.

This interpretation does not suffer the problem of unintentionally
halting the device whenever features are set or cleared, so it seems
better and more reasonable.

We can clarify this in the documentation by making it explicit that the
enabled/disabled state is tracked even while the vring is stopped.
Every vring is initialized in a disabled state, and SET_FEATURES without
VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES simply becomes one way to enable all
vrings.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231016134243.68248-3-hreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-11-07 03:39:10 -05:00
Hanna Czenczek
c7f2181661 vhost-user.rst: Improve [GS]ET_VRING_BASE doc
GET_VRING_BASE does not mention that it stops the respective ring.  Fix
that.

Furthermore, it is not fully clear what the "base offset" these
commands' documentation refers to is; an offset could be many things.
Be more precise and verbose about it, especially given that these
commands use different payload structures depending on whether the vring
is split or packed.

Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231016134243.68248-2-hreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-11-07 03:39:10 -05:00
Hanna Czenczek
d4eb503808 vhost-user: Fix protocol feature bit conflict
The VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_XEN_MMAP feature bit was defined in
f21e95ee97, which has been part of qemu's 8.1.0 release.  However, it
seems it was never added to qemu's code, but it is well possible that it
is already used by different front-ends outside of qemu (i.e., Xen).

VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHARED_OBJECT in contrast was added to qemu's code
in 1609476662, but never defined in the vhost-user specification.  As a
consequence, both bits were defined to be 17, which cannot work.

Regardless of whether actual code or the specification should take
precedence, F_XEN_MMAP is already part of a qemu release, while
F_SHARED_OBJECT is not.  Therefore, bump the latter to take number 18
instead of 17, and add this to the specification.

Take the opportunity to add at least a little note on the
VhostUserShared structure to the specification.  This structure is
referenced by the new commands introduced in 1609476662, but was not
defined.

Fixes: 1609476662
       ("vhost-user: add shared_object msg")
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231016083201.23736-1-hreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanouil Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-10-22 05:18:17 -04:00
Eric Blake
2dcbb11b39 nbd/server: Add FLAG_PAYLOAD support to CMD_BLOCK_STATUS
Allow a client to request a subset of negotiated meta contexts.  For
example, a client may ask to use a single connection to learn about
both block status and dirty bitmaps, but where the dirty bitmap
queries only need to be performed on a subset of the disk; forcing the
server to compute that information on block status queries in the rest
of the disk is wasted effort (both at the server, and on the amount of
traffic sent over the wire to be parsed and ignored by the client).

Qemu as an NBD client never requests to use more than one meta
context, so it has no need to use block status payloads.  Testing this
instead requires support from libnbd, which CAN access multiple meta
contexts in parallel from a single NBD connection; an interop test
submitted to the libnbd project at the same time as this patch
demonstrates the feature working, as well as testing some corner cases
(for example, when the payload length is longer than the export
length), although other corner cases (like passing the same id
duplicated) requires a protocol fuzzer because libnbd is not wired up
to break the protocol that badly.

This also includes tweaks to 'qemu-nbd --list' to show when a server
is advertising the capability, and to the testsuite to reflect the
addition to that output.

Of note: qemu will always advertise the new feature bit during
NBD_OPT_INFO if extended headers have alreay been negotiated
(regardless of whether any NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT negotiation has
occurred); but for NBD_OPT_GO, qemu only advertises the feature if
block status is also enabled (that is, if the client does not
negotiate any contexts, then NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS cannot be used, so
the feature is not advertised).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230925192229.3186470-26-eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: fix logic to reject unnegotiated contexts]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2023-10-05 11:02:08 -05:00
Eric Blake
9c1d261437 nbd/server: Enable initial support for extended headers
Time to start supporting clients that request extended headers.  Now
we can finally reach the code added across several previous patches.

Even though the NBD spec has been altered to allow us to accept
NBD_CMD_READ larger than the max payload size (provided our response
is a hole or broken up over more than one data chunk), we are not
planning to take advantage of that, and continue to cap NBD_CMD_READ
to 32M regardless of header size.

For NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES and NBD_CMD_TRIM, the block layer already
supports 64-bit operations without any effort on our part.  For
NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS, the client's length is a hint, and the previous
patch took care of implementing the required
NBD_REPLY_TYPE_BLOCK_STATUS_EXT.

We do not yet support clients that want to do request payload
filtering of NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS; that will be added in later
patches, but is not essential for qemu as a client since qemu only
requests the single context base:allocation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Message-ID: <20230925192229.3186470-19-eblake@redhat.com>
2023-10-05 11:02:08 -05:00
Albert Esteve
1609476662 vhost-user: add shared_object msg
Add three new vhost-user protocol
`VHOST_USER_BACKEND_SHARED_OBJECT_* messages`.
These new messages are sent from vhost-user
back-ends to interact with the virtio-dmabuf
table in order to add or remove themselves as
virtio exporters, or lookup for virtio dma-buf
shared objects.

The action taken in the front-end depends
on the type stored in the virtio shared
object hash table.

When the table holds a pointer to a vhost
backend for a given UUID, the front-end sends
a VHOST_USER_GET_SHARED_OBJECT to the
backend holding the shared object.

The messages can only be sent after successfully
negotiating a new VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHARED_OBJECT
vhost-user protocol feature bit.

Finally, refactor code to send response message so
that all common parts both for the common REPLY_ACK
case, and other data responses, can call it and
avoid code repetition.

Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231002065706.94707-4-aesteve@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-10-04 18:15:06 -04:00
Erico Nunes
75f217b4ad docs: vhost-user-gpu: add protocol changes for dmabuf modifiers
VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT2 is defined as a message with all the
contents of VHOST_USER_GPU_DMABUF_SCANOUT plus the dmabuf modifiers
which were ommitted.

The VHOST_USER_GPU_PROTOCOL_F_DMABUF2 protocol feature is defined as a
way to check whether this new message is supported or not.

Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <ernunes@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230714153900.475857-2-ernunes@redhat.com>
2023-09-12 10:37:01 +04:00
Richard Henderson
2bb9d628a7 pc,pci,virtio: cleanups, fixes, features
vhost-user-gpu: edid
 vhost-user-scmi device
 vhost-vdpa: _F_CTRL_RX and _F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA support for svq
 
 cleanups, fixes all over the place.
 
 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'for_upstream' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu into staging

pc,pci,virtio: cleanups, fixes, features

vhost-user-gpu: edid
vhost-user-scmi device
vhost-vdpa: _F_CTRL_RX and _F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA support for svq

cleanups, fixes all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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* tag 'for_upstream' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu: (66 commits)
  vdpa: Allow VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA in SVQ
  vdpa: Restore packet receive filtering state relative with _F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA feature
  vdpa: Allow VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX in SVQ
  vdpa: Avoid forwarding large CVQ command failures
  vdpa: Accessing CVQ header through its structure
  vhost: Fix false positive out-of-bounds
  vdpa: Restore packet receive filtering state relative with _F_CTRL_RX feature
  vdpa: Restore MAC address filtering state
  vdpa: Use iovec for vhost_vdpa_net_load_cmd()
  pcie: Specify 0 for ARI next function numbers
  pcie: Use common ARI next function number
  include/hw/virtio: document some more usage of notifiers
  include/hw/virtio: add kerneldoc for virtio_init
  include/hw/virtio: document virtio_notify_config
  hw/virtio: fix typo in VIRTIO_CONFIG_IRQ_IDX comments
  include/hw: document the device_class_set_parent_* fns
  include: attempt to document device_class_set_props
  vdpa: Fix possible use-after-free for VirtQueueElement
  pcie: Add hotplug detect state register to cmask
  virtio-iommu: Rework the traces in virtio_iommu_set_page_size_mask()
  ...

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2023-07-11 09:33:12 +01:00
Erico Nunes
50cbd5b4b3 docs: vhost-user-gpu: add protocol changes for EDID
VHOST_USER_GPU_GET_EDID is defined as a message from the backend to the
frontend to retrieve the EDID data for a given scanout.

The VHOST_USER_GPU_PROTOCOL_F_EDID protocol feature is defined as a way
to check whether this new message is supported or not.

Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <ernunes@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230626164708.1163239-3-ernunes@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-07-10 16:17:07 -04:00
Konstantin Kostiuk
133789e1bf qga: Add new option --allow-rpcs
The allow-rpcs option accepts a comma-separated list of RPCs to
enable. This option is opposite to --block-rpcs. Using --block-rpcs
and --allow-rpcs at the same time is not allowed.

resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1505

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
2023-07-10 15:54:40 +03:00
Eric Blake
5cf899e215 qcow2: Explicit mention of padding bytes
Although we already covered the need for padding bytes with our
changes in commit 3ae3fcfa, commit 66fcbca5 (both v5.0.0) added one
byte and relied on the rest of the text for implicitly covering 7
padding bytes.  For consistency with other parts of the header (such
as the header extension format listing padding from n - m, or the
snapshot table entry listing variable padding), we might as well call
out the remaining 7 bytes as padding until such time (as any) as they
gain another meaning.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Message-Id: <20230522184631.47211-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
2023-06-02 11:24:18 -05:00
Richard Henderson
886c0453cb QAPI patches patches for 2023-05-17
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* tag 'pull-qapi-2023-05-17-v2' of https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru:
  docs/interop: Delete qmp-intro.txt
  docs/interop/qmp-spec: Update error description for parsing errors
  docs/interop: Convert qmp-spec.txt to rST
  qapi: Improve error message for description following section

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2023-05-22 15:54:21 -07:00
Peter Maydell
0ec4468f23 docs/interop: Delete qmp-intro.txt
qmp-intro.txt is quite small and provides very little information
that isn't already in the documentation elsewhere.  Fold the example
command lines into qemu-options.hx, and delete the now-unneeded plain
text document.

While we're touching the qemu-options.hx documentation text,
wordsmith it a little bit and improve the rST formatting.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230515162245.3964307-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-05-22 10:22:29 +02:00
Peter Maydell
8a85b8ec3d docs/interop/qmp-spec: Update error description for parsing errors
The description text for a parsing error has changed since the
spec doc was first written; update the example in the docs.

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230515162245.3964307-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-05-22 10:22:29 +02:00
Peter Maydell
d56572584d docs/interop: Convert qmp-spec.txt to rST
Convert the qmp-spec.txt document to restructuredText.
Notable points about the conversion:
 * numbers at the start of section headings are removed, to match
   the style of the rest of the manual
 * cross-references to other sections or documents are hyperlinked
 * various formatting tweaks (notably the examples, which need the
   -> and <- prefixed so the QMP code-block lexer will accept them)
 * English prose fixed in a few places

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230515162245.3964307-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[.. code-block:: dumbed down to :: to work around CI failure]
2023-05-22 10:21:01 +02:00
Akihiro Suda
41f8b63339 docs/interop/qcow2.txt: fix description about "zlib" clusters
"zlib" clusters are actually raw deflate (RFC1951) clusters without
zlib headers.

Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp>
Message-Id: <168424874322.11954.1340942046351859521-0@git.sr.ht>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-05-19 19:12:12 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
f1a787b5f4 qapi: @foo should be used to reference, not `foo`
Documentation suggests @foo is merely shorthand for ``foo``.  It's
not, it carries additional meaning: it's a reference to a QAPI schema
name.

Reword the documentation to spell that out.

Fix up the few ``foo`` that should be @foo.

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: <20230425064223.820979-7-armbru@redhat.com>
2023-04-28 11:48:34 +02:00
Viresh Kumar
f21e95ee97 docs: vhost-user: Add Xen specific memory mapping support
The current model of memory mapping at the back-end works fine where a
standard call to mmap() (for the respective file descriptor) is enough
before the front-end can start accessing the guest memory.

There are other complex cases though where the back-end needs more
information and simple mmap() isn't enough. For example Xen, a type-1
hypervisor, currently supports memory mapping via two different methods,
foreign-mapping (via /dev/privcmd) and grant-dev (via /dev/gntdev). In
both these cases, the back-end needs to call mmap() and ioctl(), with
extra information like the Xen domain-id of the guest whose memory we
are trying to map.

Add a new protocol feature, 'VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_XEN_MMAP', which lets
the back-end know about the additional memory mapping requirements.
When this feature is negotiated, the front-end will send the additional
information within the memory regions themselves.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <6d0bd7f0e1aeec3ddb603ae4ff334c75c7d0d7b3.1678351495.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2023-04-21 04:25:52 -04:00
Viresh Kumar
17c67f6849 docs: vhost-user: Define memory region separately
The same layout is defined twice, once in "single memory region
description" and then in "memory regions description".

Separate out details of memory region from these two and reuse the same
definition later on.

While at it, also rename "memory regions description" to "multiple
memory regions description", to avoid potential confusion around similar
names. And define single region before multiple ones.

This is just a documentation optimization, the protocol remains the same.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <7c3718e5eb99178b22696682ae73aca6df1899c7.1678351495.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2023-04-21 04:25:52 -04:00
Maxime Coquelin
e9ca9f33f5 docs: vhost-user: replace _SLAVE_ with _BACKEND_
Backend's message and protocol features names were still
using "_SLAVE_" naming. For consistency with the new naming
convention, replace it with _BACKEND_.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230208203259.381326-2-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2023-03-02 03:10:47 -05:00
Alex Bennée
2c46bc240a docs: add an introduction to the system docs
Drop the frankly misleading quickstart section for a more rounded
introduction section. This new section gives an overview of the
accelerators as well as a high level introduction to some of the key
features of the emulator. We also expand on a general form for a QEMU
command line with a hopefully not too scary worked example of what
this looks like.

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-23-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2023-02-02 11:48:18 +00:00
Thomas Huth
d88ce91299 docs/interop: Change the vnc-ledstate-Pseudo-encoding doc into .rst
The file seems to contain perfectly valid rst syntax already, so
rename it to .rst and wire it up in the index.

Message-Id: <20221213101806.46640-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2023-01-09 13:50:47 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann
23b45173fa docs: add firmware feature flags
Add new firmware feature flags for the recently added confidential
computing operating modes by amd and intel.

While being at it also fix the path to the amd sev documentation.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220930133220.1771336-1-kraxel@redhat.com>
2022-10-12 11:02:44 +02:00
Thomas Huth
582a098e6c qga: Replace 'blacklist' command line and config file options by 'block-rpcs'
Let's use a more appropriate wording for this command line and config
file option. The old ones are still accepted for compatibility reasons,
but marked as deprecated now so that it could be removed in a future
version of QEMU.

This change is based on earlier patches from Philippe Mathieu-Daudé,
with the idea for the new option name suggested by BALATON Zoltan.

And while we're at it, replace the "?" in the help text with "help"
since that does not have the problem of conflicting with the wildcard
character of the shells.

Message-Id: <20220727092135.302915-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2022-09-20 12:37:00 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
7a21bee2aa misc: fix commonly doubled up words
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220707163720.1421716-5-berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2022-08-01 11:58:02 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
ea06220600 docs/vhost-user: Fix mismerge
This reverts commit 76b1b64370.

The commit only duplicated some text that had already been merged in
commit 31009d13cc.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220627134500.94842-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2022-06-27 18:53:18 -04:00
Peter Maydell
9323e79f10 Fix 'writeable' typos
We have about 30 instances of the typo/variant spelling 'writeable',
and over 500 of the more common 'writable'.  Standardize on the
latter.

Change produced with:

  sed -i -e 's/\([Ww][Rr][Ii][Tt]\)[Ee]\([Aa][Bb][Ll][Ee]\)/\1\2/g' $(git grep -il writeable)

and then hand-undoing the instance in linux-headers/linux/kvm.h.

Most of these changes are in comments or documentation; the
exceptions are:
 * a local variable in accel/hvf/hvf-accel-ops.c
 * a local variable in accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
 * the PMCR_WRITABLE_MASK macro in target/arm/internals.h
 * the EPT_VIOLATION_GPA_WRITABLE macro in target/i386/hvf/vmcs.h
   (which is never used anywhere)
 * the AR_TYPE_WRITABLE_MASK macro in target/i386/hvf/vmx.h
   (which is never used anywhere)

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-id: 20220505095015.2714666-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2022-06-08 19:38:47 +01:00
Kevin Wolf
76b1b64370 docs/vhost-user: Clarifications for VHOST_USER_ADD/REM_MEM_REG
The specification for VHOST_USER_ADD/REM_MEM_REG messages is unclear
in several points, which has led to clients having incompatible
implementations. This changes the specification to be more explicit
about them:

* VHOST_USER_ADD_MEM_REG is not specified as receiving a file
  descriptor, though it obviously does need to do so. All
  implementations agree on this one, fix the specification.

* VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG is not specified as receiving a file
  descriptor either, and it also has no reason to do so. rust-vmm does
  not send file descriptors for removing a memory region (in agreement
  with the specification), libvhost-user and QEMU do (which is a bug),
  though libvhost-user doesn't actually make any use of it.

  Change the specification so that for compatibility QEMU's behaviour
  becomes legal, even if discouraged, but rust-vmm's behaviour becomes
  the explicitly recommended mode of operation.

* VHOST_USER_ADD_MEM_REG doesn't have a documented return value, which
  is the desired behaviour in the non-postcopy case. It also implemented
  like this in QEMU and rust-vmm, though libvhost-user is buggy and
  sometimes sends an unexpected reply. This will be fixed in a separate
  patch.

  However, in postcopy mode it does reply like VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE.
  This behaviour is shared between libvhost-user and QEMU; rust-vmm
  doesn't implement postcopy mode yet. Mention it explicitly in the
  spec.

* The specification doesn't mention how VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG
  identifies the memory region to be removed. Change it to describe the
  existing behaviour of libvhost-user (guest address, user address and
  size must match).

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220407133657.155281-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2022-05-16 16:15:40 -04:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
37cbfcebdd vhost-user: more master/slave things
we switched to front-end/back-end, but newer patches
reintroduced old language. Fix this up.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-05-16 16:15:40 -04:00
Alex Bennée
fa9972662c vhost-user.rst: add clarifying language about protocol negotiation
Make the language about feature negotiation explicitly clear about the
handling of the VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES feature bit. Try and
avoid the sort of bug introduced in vhost.rs REPLY_ACK processing:

  https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost/pull/24

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <gerry@linux.alibaba.com>
Message-Id: <20210226111619.21178-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Message-Id: <20220321153037.3622127-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
Paolo Bonzini
bd59f2a182 docs: vhost-user: replace master/slave with front-end/back-end
This matches the nomenclature that is generally used.  Also commonly used
is client/server, but it is not as clear because sometimes the front-end
exposes a passive (server) socket that the back-end connects to.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210226143413.188046-4-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220321153037.3622127-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
Paolo Bonzini
0647098d2e docs: vhost-user: rewrite section on ring state machine
This section is using the word "back-end" to refer to the
"slave's back-end", and talking about the "client" for
what the rest of the document calls the "slave".

Rework it to free the use of the term "back-end", which in
the next patch will replace "slave".

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210226143413.188046-3-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220321153037.3622127-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
Paolo Bonzini
43725d4844 docs: vhost-user: clean up request/reply description
It is not necessary to mention which side is sending/receiving
each payload; it is more interesting to say which is the request
and which is the reply.  This also matches what vhost-user-gpu.rst
already does.

While at it, ensure that all messages list both the request and
the reply payload.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210226143413.188046-2-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220321153037.3622127-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
Eric Blake
58a6fdcc9e nbd/server: Allow MULTI_CONN for shared writable exports
According to the NBD spec, a server that advertises
NBD_FLAG_CAN_MULTI_CONN promises that multiple client connections will
not see any cache inconsistencies: when properly separated by a single
flush, actions performed by one client will be visible to another
client, regardless of which client did the flush.

We always satisfy these conditions in qemu - even when we support
multiple clients, ALL clients go through a single point of reference
into the block layer, with no local caching.  The effect of one client
is instantly visible to the next client.  Even if our backend were a
network device, we argue that any multi-path caching effects that
would cause inconsistencies in back-to-back actions not seeing the
effect of previous actions would be a bug in that backend, and not the
fault of caching in qemu.  As such, it is safe to unconditionally
advertise CAN_MULTI_CONN for any qemu NBD server situation that
supports parallel clients.

Note, however, that we don't want to advertise CAN_MULTI_CONN when we
know that a second client cannot connect (for historical reasons,
qemu-nbd defaults to a single connection while nbd-server-add and QMP
commands default to unlimited connections; but we already have
existing means to let either style of NBD server creation alter those
defaults).  This is visible by no longer advertising MULTI_CONN for
'qemu-nbd -r' without -e, as in the iotest nbd-qemu-allocation.

The harder part of this patch is setting up an iotest to demonstrate
behavior of multiple NBD clients to a single server.  It might be
possible with parallel qemu-io processes, but I found it easier to do
in python with the help of libnbd, and help from Nir and Vladimir in
writing the test.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <v.sementsov-og@mail.ru>
Message-Id: <20220512004924.417153-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2022-05-12 13:10:52 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
31009d13cc docs/vhost-user: Clarifications for VHOST_USER_ADD/REM_MEM_REG
The specification for VHOST_USER_ADD/REM_MEM_REG messages is unclear
in several points, which has led to clients having incompatible
implementations. This changes the specification to be more explicit
about them:

* VHOST_USER_ADD_MEM_REG is not specified as receiving a file
  descriptor, though it obviously does need to do so. All
  implementations agree on this one, fix the specification.

* VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG is not specified as receiving a file
  descriptor either, and it also has no reason to do so. rust-vmm does
  not send file descriptors for removing a memory region (in agreement
  with the specification), libvhost-user and QEMU do (which is a bug),
  though libvhost-user doesn't actually make any use of it.

  Change the specification so that for compatibility QEMU's behaviour
  becomes legal, even if discouraged, but rust-vmm's behaviour becomes
  the explicitly recommended mode of operation.

* VHOST_USER_ADD_MEM_REG doesn't have a documented return value, which
  is the desired behaviour in the non-postcopy case. It also implemented
  like this in QEMU and rust-vmm, though libvhost-user is buggy and
  sometimes sends an unexpected reply. This will be fixed in a separate
  patch.

  However, in postcopy mode it does reply like VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE.
  This behaviour is shared between libvhost-user and QEMU; rust-vmm
  doesn't implement postcopy mode yet. Mention it explicitly in the
  spec.

* The specification doesn't mention how VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG
  identifies the memory region to be removed. Change it to describe the
  existing behaviour of libvhost-user (guest address, user address and
  size must match).

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220407133657.155281-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2022-05-04 15:55:23 +02:00
Sergio Lopez
b51082905f docs: vhost-user: add subsection for non-Linux platforms
Add a section explaining how vhost-user is supported on platforms
other than Linux.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220304100854.14829-5-slp@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-03-06 06:19:47 -05:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
2720ceda05 docs: expand firmware descriptor to allow flash without NVRAM
The current firmware descriptor schema for flash requires that both the
executable to NVRAM template paths be provided. This is fine for the
most common usage of EDK2 builds in virtualization where the separate
_CODE and _VARS files are provided.

With confidential computing technology like AMD SEV, persistent storage
of variables may be completely disabled because the firmware requires a
known clean state on every cold boot. There is no way to express this
in the firmware descriptor today.

Even with regular EDK2 builds it is possible to create a firmware that
has both executable code and variable persistence in a single file. This
hasn't been commonly used, since it would mean every guest bootup would
need to clone the full firmware file, leading to redundant duplicate
storage of the code portion. In some scenarios this may not matter and
might even be beneficial. For example if a public cloud allows users to
bring their own firmware, such that the user can pre-enroll their own
secure boot keys, you're going to have this copied on disk for each
tenant already. At this point the it can be simpler to just deal with
a single file rather than split builds. The firmware descriptor ought
to be able to express this combined firmware model too.

This all points towards expanding the schema for flash with a 'mode'
concept:

 - "split" - the current implicit behaviour with separate files
   for code and variables.

 - "combined" - the alternate behaviour where a single file contains
   both code and variables.

 - "stateless" - the confidential computing use case where storage
   of variables is completely disable, leaving only the code.

Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2022-02-16 18:53:26 +00:00
Thomas Huth
14dc58e3e0 docs: reSTify virtio-balloon-stats documentation and move to docs/interop
The virtio-balloon-stats documentation might be useful for people that
are implementing software that talks to QEMU via QMP, so this should
reside in the docs/interop/ directory. While we're at it, also convert
the file to restructured text and mention it in the MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220105115245.420945-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2022-01-07 19:30:13 -05:00
Marc-André Lureau
ef20c5ba08 docs: add dbus-display documentation
Wire up the dbus-display documentation. The interface and feature is
implemented next.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2021-12-21 10:50:21 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau
d2f25776ca docs: move D-Bus VMState documentation to source XML
Use the source XML document as single reference, importing its
documentation via the dbus-doc directive.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2021-12-21 10:50:21 +04:00
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