* Deprecate the rdma code
* Fix flaky npcm7xx_timer test
* i2c-echo license statement and Kconfig switch
* Disable the failing riscv64-debian-cross CI job by default
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Merge tag 'pull-request-2023-10-12' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* Fix CVE-2023-1544
* Deprecate the rdma code
* Fix flaky npcm7xx_timer test
* i2c-echo license statement and Kconfig switch
* Disable the failing riscv64-debian-cross CI job by default
* tag 'pull-request-2023-10-12' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
gitlab-ci: Disable the riscv64-debian-cross-container by default
MAINTAINERS: Add include/sysemu/qtest.h to the qtest section
hw/misc/Kconfig: add switch for i2c-echo
hw/misc/i2c-echo: add copyright/license note
tests/qtest: Fix npcm7xx_timer-test.c flaky test
hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma subsystem
hw/pvrdma: Protect against buggy or malicious guest driver
Conflicts:
docs/about/deprecated.rst
Context conflict between RISC-V and RDMA deprecation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
At this moment there are eleven CPU extension properties that starts
with capital 'Z': Zifencei, Zicsr, Zihintntl, Zihintpause, Zawrs, Zfa,
Zfh, Zfhmin, Zve32f, Zve64f and Zve64d. All other extensions are named
with lower-case letters.
We want all properties to be named with lower-case letters since it's
consistent with the riscv-isa string that we create in the FDT. Having
these 11 properties to be exceptions can be confusing.
Deprecate all of them. Create their lower-case counterpart to be used as
maintained CPU properties. When trying to use any deprecated property a
warning message will be displayed, recommending users to switch to the
lower-case variant:
./build/qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -cpu rv64,Zifencei=true --nographic
qemu-system-riscv64: warning: CPU property 'Zifencei' is deprecated. Please use 'zifencei' instead
This will give users some time to change their scripts before we remove
the capital 'Z' properties entirely.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Message-ID: <20231009112817.8896-2-dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
The 'any' CPU type was introduced in commit dc5bd18fa5 ("RISC-V CPU
Core Definition"), being around since the beginning. It's not an easy
CPU to use: it's undocumented and its name doesn't tell users much about
what the CPU is supposed to bring. 'git log' doesn't help us either in
knowing what was the original design of this CPU type.
The closest we have is a comment from Alistair [1] where he recalls from
memory that the 'any' CPU is supposed to behave like the newly added
'max' CPU. He also suggested that the 'any' CPU should be removed.
The default CPUs are rv32 and rv64, so removing the 'any' CPU will have
impact only on users that might have a script that uses '-cpu any'.
And those users are better off using the default CPUs or the new 'max'
CPU.
We would love to just remove the code and be done with it, but one does
not simply remove a feature in QEMU. We'll put the CPU in quarantine
first, letting users know that we have the intent of removing it in the
future.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-07/msg02891.html
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20230912132423.268494-13-dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Make VNC use the default backend again if one is defined.
The recently introduced support for disabling the VNC audio
extension is still used, in case no default backend exists.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It is now possible to specify the options for the default audio device
using -audio, so there is no need anymore to use a fake -audiodev option.
Remove the fall back to QTAILQ_FIRST(&audio_states), instead remember the
AudioState that was created from default_audiodevs and use that one.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Match what is done for other options, for example -monitor, and also
the behavior of QEMU 8.1 (see the "legacy_config" variable). Require
the user to specify a backend if one is specified on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This build option has been deprecated since 8.0.
Remove all CONFIG_GPROF code that depends on that,
including one errant check using TARGET_GPROF.
Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
These have been deprecated for a long time, and the introduction of
-audio in 7.1.0 has cemented the new way of specifying an audio backend's
parameters. However, there is still a need for simple configuration
of the audio backend in the desktop case; therefore, if no audiodev is
passed to audio_init(), go through a bunch of simple Audiodev* structures
and pick the first that can be initialized successfully.
The only QEMU_AUDIO_* option that is left in, waiting for a better idea,
is QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none which is used by qtest.
Remove all the parsing code, including the concept of "can_be_default"
audio drivers: now that audio_prio_list[] is only used in a single place,
wav can be excluded directly in that function.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If there is no audiodev do not send the audio ack in response to
VNC_ENCODING_AUDIO, so that clients aren't told audio exists, and
immediately drop the client if they try to send any audio control messages
when audio is not advertised.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
These are the last users of the 128K SeaBIOS blob in the i440FX family.
Removing them allows us to drop PCI support from the 128K blob,
thus making it easier to update SeaBIOS to newer versions.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
HAX is deprecated since commits 73741fda6c ("MAINTAINERS: Abort
HAXM maintenance") and 90c167a1da ("docs/about/deprecated: Mark
HAXM in QEMU as deprecated"), released in v8.0.0.
Per the latest HAXM release (v7.8 [*]), the latest QEMU supported
is v7.2:
Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0.
The next commit (https://github.com/intel/haxm/commit/da1b8ec072)
added:
HAXM v7.8.0 is our last release and we will not accept
pull requests or respond to issues after this.
It became very hard to build and test HAXM. Its previous
maintainers made it clear they won't help. It doesn't seem to be
a very good use of QEMU maintainers to spend their time in a dead
project. Save our time by removing this orphan zombie code.
[*] https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230831082016.60885-1-philmd@linaro.org>
In early 2021 (see commit 2ad784339e "docs: update README to use
GitLab repo URLs") almost all of the code base was converted to
point to GitLab instead of git.qemu.org. During 2023, git.qemu.org
switched from a git mirror to a http redirect to GitLab (see [1]).
Update the LICENSE URL to match its previous content, displaying
the file raw content similarly to gitweb 'blob_plain' format ([2]).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CABgObfZu3mFc8tM20K-yXdt7F-7eV-uKZN4sKDarSeu7DYoRbA@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb#Documentation/gitweb.txt-blobplain
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230822125716.55295-1-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230730180329.851576-1-sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Has return zero for more than 10 years.
Specifically we introduced the field in 1.5.0
commit f1c72795af
Author: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Date: Tue Mar 26 10:58:37 2013 +0100
migration: do not sent zero pages in bulk stage
during bulk stage of ram migration if a page is a
zero page do not send it at all.
the memory at the destination reads as zero anyway.
even if there is an madvise with QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED
at the target upon receipt of a zero page I have observed
that the target starts swapping if the memory is overcommitted.
it seems that the pages are dropped asynchronously.
this patch also updates QMP to return the number of
skipped pages in MigrationStats.
but removed its usage in 1.5.3
commit 9ef051e553
Author: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Date: Mon Jun 10 12:14:19 2013 +0200
Revert "migration: do not sent zero pages in bulk stage"
Not sending zero pages breaks migration if a page is zero
at the source but not at the destination. This can e.g. happen
if different BIOS versions are used at source and destination.
It has also been reported that migration on pseries is completely
broken with this patch.
This effectively reverts commit f1c72795af.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230612193344.3796-2-quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
We recently introduced "-run-with" for options that influence the
runtime behavior of QEMU. This option has the big advantage that it
can group related options (so that it is easier for the users to spot
them) and that the options become introspectable via QMP this way.
So let's start moving more switches into this option group, starting
with "-chroot" now.
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230703074447.17044-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
As recent CVE-2023-2861 (fixed by f6b0de53fb) once again showed, the 9p
'proxy' fs driver is in bad shape. Using the 'proxy' backend was already
discouraged for safety reasons before and we recommended to use the
'local' backend (preferably in conjunction with its 'mapped' security
model) instead, but now it is time to officially deprecate the 'proxy'
backend.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <E1qDkmw-0007M1-8f@lizzy.crudebyte.com>
I don't think I can remove the parameters directly but certainly mark
them as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230526165401.574474-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org
Message-Id: <20230524133952.3971948-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Also rename the section to make the fact this is part of the
management protocol even clearer.
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230526165401.574474-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This commit enables each CXL Type-3 device to contain one volatile
memory region and one persistent region.
Two new properties have been added to cxl-type3 device initialization:
[volatile-memdev] and [persistent-memdev]
The existing [memdev] property has been deprecated and will default the
memory region to a persistent memory region (although a user may assign
the region to a ram or file backed region). It cannot be used in
combination with the new [persistent-memdev] property.
Partitioning volatile memory from persistent memory is not yet supported.
Volatile memory is mapped at DPA(0x0), while Persistent memory is mapped
at DPA(vmem->size), per CXL Spec 8.2.9.8.2.0 - Get Partition Info.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20230421160827.2227-4-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Python 3.6 was EOL 2021-12-31. Newer versions of upstream libraries have
begun dropping support for this version and it is becoming more
cumbersome to support. Avocado-framework and qemu.qmp each have their
own reasons for wanting to drop Python 3.6, but won't until QEMU does.
Versions of Python available in our supported build platforms as of today,
with optional versions available in parentheses:
openSUSE Leap 15.4: 3.6.15 (3.9.10, 3.10.2)
CentOS Stream 8: 3.6.8 (3.8.13, 3.9.16)
CentOS Stream 9: 3.9.13
Fedora 36: 3.10
Fedora 37: 3.11
Debian 11: 3.9.2
Alpine 3.14, 3.15: 3.9.16
Alpine 3.16, 3.17: 3.10.10
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: 3.8.10
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: 3.10.4
NetBSD 9.3: 3.9.13*
FreeBSD 12.4: 3.9.16
FreeBSD 13.1: 3.9.16
OpenBSD 7.2: 3.9.16
Note: Our VM tests install 3.9 explicitly for FreeBSD and 3.10 for
NetBSD; the default for "python" or "python3" in FreeBSD is
3.9.16. NetBSD does not appear to have a default meta-package, but
offers several options, the lowest of which is 3.7.15. "python39"
appears to be a pre-requisite to one of the other packages we request in
tests/vm/netbsd. pip, ensurepip and other Python essentials are
currently only available for Python 3.10 for NetBSD.
CentOS and OpenSUSE support parallel installation of multiple Python
interpreters, and binaries in /usr/bin will always use Python 3.6. However,
the newly introduced support for virtual environments ensures that all build
steps that execute QEMU Python code use a single interpreter.
Since it is safe to under our supported platform policy, bump our
minimum supported version of Python to 3.7.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230511035435.734312-24-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Duplicated word "are".
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Yang <sledgeh4w@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230511080119.99018-1-sledgeh4w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Add new -run-with option with an async-teardown=on|off parameter. It is
visible in the output of query-command-line-options QMP command, so it
can be discovered and used by libvirt.
The option -async-teardown is now redundant, deprecate it.
Reported-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: c891c24b1a ("os-posix: asynchronous teardown for shutdown on Linux")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20230505120051.36605-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
[thuth: Add curly braces to fix error with GCC 8.5, fix bug in deprecated.rst]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
In commit 5242876f37 we deprecated the dtb-kaslr-seed property of
the virt board, but forgot the "since n.n" tag in the documentation
of this in deprecated.rst.
This deprecation note first appeared in the 7.1 release, so
retrospectively add the correct "since 7.1" annotation to it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230420122256.1023709-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
The 'singlestep' member of StatusInfo has never done what the QMP
documentation claims it does. What it actually reports is whether
TCG is working in "one guest instruction per translation block" mode.
We no longer need this field for the HMP 'info status' command, as
we've moved that information to 'info jit'. It seems unlikely that
anybody is monitoring the state of this obscure TCG setting via QMP,
especially since QMP provides no means for changing the setting. So
simply deprecate the field, without providing any replacement.
Until we do eventually delete the member, correct the misstatements
in the QAPI documentation about it.
If we do find that there are users for this, then the most likely way
we would provide replacement access to the information would be to
put the accelerator QOM object at a well-known path such as
/machine/accel, which could then be used with the existing qom-set
and qom-get commands.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-11-peter.maydell@linaro.org
The 'singlestep' HMP command is confusing, because it doesn't
actually have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it
does do is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each
TB, which can be useful in some situations.
Create a new HMP command 'one-insn-per-tb', so we can document that
'singlestep' is just a deprecated synonym for it, and eventually
perhaps drop it.
We aren't obliged to do deprecate-and-drop for HMP commands,
but it's easy enough to do so, so we do.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-9-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Document that the -singlestep command line option is now
deprecated, as it is replaced by either the TCG accelerator
property 'one-insn-per-tb' for system emulation or the new
'-one-insn-per-tb' option for usermode emulation, and remove
the only use of the deprecated syntax from a README.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org
This reverts commit 1d0a8eba38.
The commit made the wrong assumption that 64-bit distros are most
common these days on arm devices, but as Liviu Ionescu pointed out,
the recommended OS for the very popular Raspberry Pi boards is still
the 32-bit variant, and thus likely still used by a lot of people:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
Thus it's likely still a little bit too early to put this host
environment on the deprecation list and we should wait a little
bit longer 'til 64-bit distros are the predominant ones.
Message-Id: <20230317165504.613172-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
For running QEMU in system emulation mode, the user needs a rather
strong host system, i.e. not only an embedded low-frequency controller.
All recent beefy arm host machines should support 64-bit now, it's
unlikely that anybody is still seriously using QEMU on a 32-bit arm
CPU, so we deprecate the 32-bit arm hosts here to finally save use
some time and precious CI minutes.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Hardly anybody still uses 32-bit x86 hosts today, so we should start
deprecating them to stop wasting our time and CI minutes here.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
For long-term distributions that release a new version only very
seldom, we limit the support to five years after the initial release.
Otherwise, we might need to support distros like openSUSE 15 for
up to 7 or even more years in total due to our "two more years
after the next major release" rule, which is just way too much to
handle in a project like QEMU that only has limited human resources.
Message-Id: <20230223193257.1068205-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Similar to "-no-hpet", the "-no-acpi" switch is a legacy command
line option that should be replaced with the "acpi" machine parameter
nowadays.
Message-Id: <20230224090543.1129677-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Historically, the critical dependency for both building and running
QEMU has been the distro packages. Because QEMU is written in C and C's
package management has been tied to distros (at least if you do not want
to bundle libraries with the binary, otherwise I suppose you could use
something like conda or wrapdb), C dependencies of QEMU would target the
version that is shipped in relatively old but still commonly used distros.
For non-C libraries, however, the situation is different, as these
languages have their own package management tool (cpan, pip, gem, npm,
and so on). For some of these languages, the amount of dependencies
for even a simple program can easily balloon to the point that many
distros have given up on packaging non-C code. For this reason, it has
become increasingly normal for developers to download dependencies into
a self-contained local environment, instead of relying on distro packages.
Fortunately, this affects QEMU only at build time, as qemu.git does
not package non-C artifacts such as the qemu.qmp package; but still,
as we make more use of Python, we experience a clash between a support
policy that is written for the C world, and dependencies (both direct
and indirect) that increasingly do not care for the distro versions
and are quick at moving past Python runtime versions that are declared
end-of-life.
For example, Python 3.6 has been EOL'd since December 2021 and Meson 0.62
(released the following March) already dropped support for it. Yet,
Python 3.6 is the default version of the Python runtime for RHEL/CentOS
8 and SLE 15, respectively the penultimate and the most recent version
of two distros that QEMU would like to support. (It is also the version
used by Ubuntu 18.04, but QEMU stopped supporting it in April 2022).
There are good reasons to move forward with the deprecation of Python
3.6 in QEMU as well: completing the configure->meson switch (which
requires Meson 0.63), and making the QAPI generator fully typed (which
requires newer versions of not just mypy but also Python, due to PEP563).
Fortunately, these long-term support distros do include newer versions of
the Python runtime. However, these more recent runtimes only come with
a very small subset of the Python packages that the distro includes.
Because most dependencies are optional tests (avocado, mypy, flake8)
and Meson is bundled with QEMU, the most noticeably missing package is
Sphinx (and the readthedocs theme). There are four possibilities:
* we change the support policy and stop supporting CentOS 8 and SLE 15;
not a good idea since CentOS 8 is not an unreasonable distro for us to
want to continue to support
* we keep supporting Python 3.6 until CentOS 8 and SLE 15 stop being
supported. This is a possibility---but we may want to revise the support
policy anyway because SLE 16 has not even been released, so this would
mean delaying those desirable reasons for perhaps three years;
* we support Python 3.6 just for building documentation, i.e. we are
careful not to use Python 3.7+ features in our Sphinx extensions but are
free to use them elsewhere. Besides being more complicated to understand
for developers, this can be quite limiting; parts of the QAPI generator
run at sphinx-build time, which would exclude one of the areas which
would benefit from a newer version of the runtime;
* we only support Python 3.7+, which means CentOS 8 CI and users
have to either install Sphinx from pip or disable documentation.
This proposed update to the support policy chooses the last of these
possibilities. It does by modifying three aspects of the support
policy:
* it introduces different support periods for *native* vs. *non-native*
dependencies. Non-native dependencies are currently Python ones only,
and for simplicity the policy only mentions Python; however, the concept
generalizes to other languages with a well-known upstream package
manager, that users of older distributions can fetch dependencies from;
* it opens up the possibility of taking non-native dependencies from their
own package index instead of using the version in the distribution. The
wording right now is specific to dependencies that are only required at
build time. In the future we may have to refine it if, for example, parts
of QEMU will be written in Rust; in that case, crates would be handled
in a similar way to submodules and vendored in the release tarballs.
* it mentions specifically that optional build dependencies are excluded
from the platform policy. Tools such as mypy don't affect the ability
to build QEMU and move fast enough that distros cannot standardize on
a single version of them (for example RHEL9 does not package them at
all, nor does it run them at rpmbuild time). In other cases, such as
cross compilers, we have alternatives.
Right now, non-native dependencies have to be download manually by
running "pip" before "configure". In the future, it will be desirable
for configure to set up a virtual environment and download them in the
same way that it populates git submodules (but, in this case, without
vendoring them in the release tarballs).
Just like with submodules, this would make things easier for people
that can afford accessing the network in their build environment; the
option to populate the build environment manually would remain for
people whose build machines lack network access. The change to the
support policy neither requires nor forbids this future change.
[Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé, Peter Maydell and others for discussions
that were copied or summarized in the above commit message]
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move the deprecation message, since it's now gone.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This has been replaced by the 'password-secret' option,
which references a 'secret' object instance.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Support for referencing secret objects was added in
commit b189346eb1
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jan 21 14:19:21 2016 +0000
iscsi: add support for getting CHAP password via QCryptoSecret API
The existing 'password' option is overdue for deprecation and
subsequent removal.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's been deprecated since QEMU v6.2, so it should be OK to
finally remove this now.
Message-Id: <20230209161540.1054669-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
As gprof relies on instrumentation you rarely get useful data compared
to a real optimised build. Lets deprecate the build option and
simplify the CI configuration as a result.
Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1338
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230131094224.861621-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
- update playbooks for custom runners
- add section timing support to gitlab
- upgrade fedora images to 37
- purge perl from the build system and deps
- disable unstable tests in CI
- improve intro, emulation and semihosting docs
- semihosting bug fix and O_BINARY default
- add memory-sve test
- fix some races in qht
- improve plugin handling of memory helpers
- optimise plugin hooks
- fix some plugin deadlocks
- reduce win64-cross build time by dropping some targets
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Merge tag 'pull-jan-omnibus-020223-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu into staging
Testing, docs, semihosting and plugin updates
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- upgrade fedora images to 37
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- optimise plugin hooks
- fix some plugin deadlocks
- reduce win64-cross build time by dropping some targets
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* tag 'pull-jan-omnibus-020223-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu: (36 commits)
gitlab: cut even more from cross-win64-system build
plugins: Iterate on cb_lists in qemu_plugin_user_exit
cpu-exec: assert that plugin_mem_cbs is NULL after execution
tcg: exclude non-memory effecting helpers from instrumentation
translator: always pair plugin_gen_insn_{start, end} calls
plugins: fix optimization in plugin_gen_disable_mem_helpers
plugins: make qemu_plugin_user_exit's locking order consistent with fork_start's
util/qht: use striped locks under TSAN
thread: de-const qemu_spin_destroy
util/qht: add missing atomic_set(hashes[i])
cpu: free cpu->tb_jmp_cache with RCU
tests/tcg: add memory-sve test for aarch64
semihosting: add O_BINARY flag in host_open for NT compatibility
semihosting: Write back semihosting data before completion callback
docs: add an introduction to the system docs
semihosting: add semihosting section to the docs
docs: add a new section to outline emulation support
docs: add hotlinks to about preface text
MAINTAINERS: Fix the entry for tests/tcg/nios2
gitlab: wrap up test results for custom runners
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The main reason to do this is to document our O_BINARY implementation
decision somewhere. However I've also moved some of the implementation
details out of qemu-options and added links between the two. As a
bonus I've highlighted the scary warnings about host access with the
appropriate RST tags.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This affects both system and user mode emulation so we should probably
list it up front.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-21-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Make it easier to navigate the documentation.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-20-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The HAXM project has been retired (see https://github.com/intel/haxm#status),
so we should mark the code in QEMU as deprecated (and finally remove it
unless somebody else picks the project up again - which is quite unlikely
since there are now whpx and hvf on these operating systems, too).
Message-Id: <20230126121034.1035138-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
'-drive if=none' is meant for configuring back-end devices only, so this
got marked as deprecated in QEMU 6.2. Users should now only use the new
way with '-drive if=pflash' instead.
Message-Id: <20230112083921.887828-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
This support was limited to the Malta board, drop it.
I do not have a machine that can run VZ KVM, so I am assuming
that it works for -M malta as well.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221221091718.71844-1-philmd@linaro.org>
* Rework and improvements of the EINTR handling by Nikita
* Deprecate the -no-hpet command line option
* Disable the qtests in the 32-bit Windows CI job again
* Some other misc fixes here and there
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Merge tag 'pull-request-2023-01-09' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* s390x header clean-ups from Philippe
* Rework and improvements of the EINTR handling by Nikita
* Deprecate the -no-hpet command line option
* Disable the qtests in the 32-bit Windows CI job again
* Some other misc fixes here and there
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* tag 'pull-request-2023-01-09' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
.gitlab-ci.d/windows: Do not run the qtests in the msys2-32bit job
error handling: Use RETRY_ON_EINTR() macro where applicable
Refactoring: refactor TFR() macro to RETRY_ON_EINTR()
docs/interop: Change the vnc-ledstate-Pseudo-encoding doc into .rst
i386: Deprecate the -no-hpet QEMU command line option
tests/qtest/bios-tables-test: Replace -no-hpet with hpet=off machine parameter
tests/readconfig: spice doesn't support unix socket on windows yet
target/s390x: Restrict sysemu/reset.h to system emulation
target/s390x/tcg/excp_helper: Restrict system headers to sysemu
target/s390x/tcg/misc_helper: Remove unused "memory.h" include
hw/s390x/pv: Restrict Protected Virtualization to sysemu
exec/memory: Expose memory_region_access_valid()
MAINTAINERS: Add MIPS-related docs and configs to the MIPS architecture section
tests/vm: Update get_default_jobs() to work on non-x86_64 non-KVM hosts
qemu-iotests/stream-under-throttle: do not shutdown QEMU
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property a while ago
already, so we should finally do the next step and deprecate the
legacy CLI option, too.
Message-Id: <20221229114913.260400-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
