The floppy controller devices desugar their drive properties into
floppy devices (since commit a92bd191a4 "fdc: Move qdev properties to
FloppyDrive", v2.8.0). This involves some bad magic in
fdctrl_connect_drives(), and exists for backward compatibility.
The functions for boards to create floppy controller devices
fdctrl_init_isa(), fdctrl_init_sysbus(), and sun4m_fdctrl_init()
desugar -drive if=floppy to these floppy controller drive properties.
If you use both -drive if=floppy (or its -fda / -fdb sugar) and
-global isa-fdc for the same floppy device, -global silently loses the
conflict, and both backends involved end up with the floppy device
frontend attached, as demonstrated by iotest 172 (see commit before
previous). This is wrong.
Desugar -drive if=floppy straight to floppy devices instead, with
helper fdctrl_init_drives(). The conflict now gets rejected cleanly:
first, fdctrl_connect_drives() creates the floppy for the controller's
property, then fdctrl_init_drives() attempts to create the floppy for
-drive if=floppy, but fails because the unit is already in use.
Output of iotest 172 changes in three ways:
1. The clash gets rejected.
2. In one test case, "info qtree" has the floppy devices swapped, and
"info block" has their QOM paths swapped. This is because the
floppy device for -fda now gets created after the one for -global
isa-fdc.driveB.
3. The error message for -global floppy.drive=floppy0 changes. Before
the patch, we set isa-fdc.driveA to -fda's block backend, then
create the floppy device for it, then move the backend from
isa-fdc.driveA to floppy.drive. Floppy creation fails when
applying -global floppy.drive=floppy0, because floppy0 is still
attached to isa-fdc. After the patch, we create the floppy for
-fda, then set its drive property to floppy0. Now floppy creation
succeeds, but setting the drive property fails, because -global
already set it. Yes, this is exasperatingly complicated.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200622094227.1271650-5-armbru@redhat.com>
=== This is the QEMU I/O test suite ===
* Intro
This package contains a simple test suite for the I/O layer of qemu.
It does not require a guest, but only the qemu, qemu-img and qemu-io
binaries. This does limit it to exercise the low-level I/O path only
but no actual block drivers like ide, scsi or virtio.
* Usage
Just run ./check to run all tests for the raw image format, or ./check
-qcow2 to test the qcow2 image format. The output of ./check -h explains
additional options to test further image formats or I/O methods.
* Feedback and patches
Please send improvements to the test suite, general feedback or just
reports of failing tests cases to qemu-devel@nongnu.org with a CC:
to qemu-block@nongnu.org.
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