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Currenty we do not have any RTAS event that is reported by the event-scan interface. The existing events, RTAS_LOG_TYPE_EPOW and RTAS_LOG_TYPE_HOTPLUG, are being reported by the check-exception interface and, as such, marked as 'exception=true'. Commit 79853e18d9, 'spapr_events: event-scan RTAS interface', added the event_scan interface because the guest kernel requires it to initialize other required interfaces. It is acting since then as a stub because no events that would be reported by it were added since then. However, the existence of the 'exception' boolean adds an unnecessary load in the future migration of the pending_events, sPAPREventLogEntry QTAILQ that hosts the pending RTAS events. To make the code cleaner and ease the future migration changes, this patch makes the following changes: - remove the 'exception' boolean that filter these events. There is nothing to filter since all events are reported by check-exception; - functions rtas_event_log_queue, rtas_event_log_dequeue and rtas_event_log_contains don't receive the 'exception' boolean as parameter; - event_scan function was simplified. It was calling 'rtas_event_log_dequeue(mask, false)' that was always returning 'NULL' because we have no events that are created with exception=false, thus in the end it would execute a jump to 'out_no_events' all the time. The function now assumes that this will always be the case and all the remaining logic were deleted. In the future, when or if we add new RTAS events that should be reported with the event_scan interface, we can refer to the changes made in this patch to add the event_scan logic back. Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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