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Paolo Bonzini
d195325b05 qapi: fix error propagation
Don't overwrite / leak previously set errors.
Make traversal cope with missing mandatory sub-structs.
Don't try to end a container that could not be started.

v1->v2:
- unchanged

v2->v3:
- instead of examining, assert that we never overwrite errors with
  error_set()
- allow visitors to set a NULL struct pointer successfully, so traversal
  of incomplete objects can continue
- check for a NULL "obj" before accessing "(*obj)->has_XXX" (this is not a
  typo, "obj != NULL" implies "*obj != NULL" here)
- fix start_struct / end_struct balance for unions as well

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-23 11:55:17 +01:00
Stefan Weil
43ffe61f9c Fix some more Qemus in documentation and help text
Hopefully they will be eliminated one day.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-21 10:54:40 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann
0f58f68b58 usb: add usb attached scsi emulation
$subject says all.  First cut.

It's a pure UAS (usb attached scsi) emulation, without BOT (bulk-only
transport) compatibility.  If your guest can't handle it use usb-storage
instead.

The emulation works like any other scsi hba emulation (eps, lsi, virtio,
megasas, ...).  It provides just the HBA where you can attach scsi
devices as you like using '-device'.  A single scsi target with up to
256 luns is supported.

For now only usb 2.0 transport is supported.  This will change in the
future though as I plan to use this as playground when codeing up &
testing usb 3.0 transport and streams support in the qemu usb core and
the xhci emulation.

No migration support yet.  I'm planning to add usb 3.0 support first as
this probably requires saving additional state.

Special thanks go to Paolo for bringing the qemu scsi emulation into
shape, so this can be added nicely without having to touch a single line
of scsi code.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-07-12 15:00:39 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
c73e3771ea spapr: Add "memop" hypercall
This adds a qemu-specific hypervisor call to the pseries machine
which allows to do what amounts to memmove, memcpy and xor over
regions of physical memory such as the framebuffer.

This is the simplest way to get usable framebuffer speed from
SLOF since the framebuffer isn't mapped in the VRMA and so would
otherwise require an hcall per 8 bytes access.

The performance is still not great but usable, and can be improved
with a more complex implementation of the hcall itself if needed.

This also adds some documentation for the qemu-specific hypercalls
that we add to PAPR along with a new qemu,hypertas-functions property
that mirrors ibm,hypertas-functions and provides some discoverability
for the new calls.

Note: I chose note to advertise H_RTAS to the guest via that mechanism.
This is done on purpose, the guest uses the normal RTAS interfaces
provided by qemu (including SLOF) which internally calls H_RTAS.

We might in the future implement part (or even all) of RTAS inside the
guest like IBM's firmware does and replace H_RTAS with some finer grained
set of private hypercalls.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-06-24 01:04:45 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
e78bd5ab07 xhci: add usage info to docs
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-05-30 10:28:44 +08:00
Zhi Yong Wu
bf3f363a5b docs: fix one issue in qcow2 specs
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:39:39 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
4fabffc112 Specification for qcow2 version 3
This updates the qcow2 specification to cover version 3. It contains the
following changes:

- Added compatible/incompatible/auto-clear feature bits plus an optional
  feature name table to allow useful error messages even if an older
  version doesn't know some feature at all.

- Configurable refcount width. If you don't want to use internal
  snapshots, make refcounts one bit and save cache space and I/O.

- Zero cluster flags. This allows discard even with a backing file that
  doesn't contain zeros. It is also useful for copy-on-read/image
  streaming, as you'll want to keep sparseness without accessing the
  remote image for an unallocated cluster all the time.

- Fixed internal snapshot metadata to use 64 bit VM state size. You
  can't save a snapshot of a VM with >= 4 GB RAM today.

- Extended internal snapshot metadata to contain the disk size, so that
  resizing images that have snapshots can be allowed in the future.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-04-20 15:57:27 +02:00
Alex Williamson
9290f364c1 acpi_piix4: Re-define PCI hotplug eject register read
The PCI hotplug eject register has always returned 0, so let's redefine
it as a hotplug feature register.  The existing model of using separate
up & down read-only registers and an eject via write to this register
becomes the base implementation.  As we make use of new interfaces we'll
set bits here to allow the BIOS and AML implementation to optimize for
the platform implementation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:23 +03:00
Alex Williamson
31745aabcd acpi_piix4: Remove PCI_RMV_BASE write code
Clarify this register as read-only and remove write code.  No
change in existing behavior.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:23 +03:00
Alex Williamson
ba737541ed acpi_piix4: Disallow write to up/down PCI hotplug registers
The write side of these registers is never used and actually can't be
used as defined because any read/modify/write sequence from the guest
potentially races with qemu.  Drop the write support and define these
as read-only registers.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:22 +03:00
Stefan Weil
6576b74b0b Replace Qemu by QEMU in internal documentation
The official spelling is QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-04-07 13:58:25 +00:00
Paolo Bonzini
3a86a0fa76 qapi: untangle next_list
Right now, the semantics of next_list are complicated.  The caller must:

* call start_list

* call next_list for each element *including the first*

* on the first call to next_list, the second argument should point to
NULL and the result is the head of the list.  On subsequent calls,
the second argument should point to the last node (last result of
next_list) and next_list itself tacks the element at the tail of the
list.

This works for both input and output visitor, but having the visitor
write memory when it is only reading the list is ugly.  Plus, relying
on *list to detect the first call is tricky and undocumented.

We can initialize so->entry in next_list instead of start_list, leaving
it NULL in start_list.  This way next_list sees clearly whether it is
on the first call---as a bonus, it discriminates the cases based on
internal state of the visitor rather than external state.  We can
also pull the assignment of the list head from generated code up to
next_list.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-27 09:14:19 -03:00
Anthony Liguori
33cf629a37 Merge remote-tracking branch 'sstabellini/saverestore-8' into staging
* sstabellini/saverestore-8:
  xen: do not allocate RAM during INMIGRATE runstate
  xen mapcache: check if memory region has moved.
  xen: record physmap changes to xenstore
  Set runstate to INMIGRATE earlier
  Introduce "xen-save-devices-state"
  cirrus_vga: do not reset videoram

Conflicts:
	qapi-schema.json

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-19 13:39:42 -05:00
Stefano Stabellini
a7ae8355b4 Introduce "xen-save-devices-state"
- add an "is_ram" flag to SaveStateEntry;

- register_savevm_live sets is_ram for live_savevm devices;

- introduce a "xen-save-devices-state" QAPI command that can be used to save
the state of all devices, but not the RAM or the block devices of the
VM.

Changes in v8:

- rename save-devices-state to xen-save-devices-state.

Changes in v7:

- rename save_devices to save-devices-state.

Changes in v6:

- remove the is_ram parameter from register_savevm_live and sets is_ram
if the device is a live_savevm device;

- introduce save_devices as a QAPI command, write a better description
for it;

- fix CODING_STYLE;

- introduce a new doc to explain the save format used by save_devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2012-03-19 18:21:00 +00:00
Jun Koi
324883aafe docs: correct ./configure line in tracing.txt
This patch corrects the configure's trace option in docs/tracing.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-12 10:12:34 +00:00
Lluís Vilanova
b7d66a761f trace: Provide a per-event status define for conditional compilation
Adds a 'TRACE_${NAME}_ENABLED' preprocessor define for each tracing event in
"trace.h".

This lets the user conditionally compile code with a relatively high execution
cost that is only necessary when producing the tracing information for an event
that is enabled.

Note that events using this define will probably have the "disable" property by
default, in order to avoid such costs on regular builds.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-12 10:12:34 +00:00
Stefan Weil
4a84ebe6a6 libcacard: Spelling and grammar fixes in documentation
* it's -> its

* it's -> it is (that's no fix, but makes future checks easier)

* this functions -> this function

* replacable -> replaceable

* reader's -> readers

* logins into -> logs into

v2:
Also replace 'aid' by 'AID' (thanks to Peter Maydell for this hint).

v3:
Fix sentence (contributed by Alon Levy / Robert Relyea).

Cc: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Relyea <rrelyea@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-08 15:22:11 +00:00
Marcelo Tosatti
094f1ba10a docs: describe live block operations
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-01-26 14:49:18 +01:00
Stefan Weil
dabdf39425 Spelling fixes in comments and documentation
Codespell detected these new spelling issues.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-13 10:36:59 +00:00
Anthony Liguori
cde7fc31de Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/memory/mutators' into staging
Conflicts:
	memory.h
2011-12-19 09:12:25 -06:00
Kevin Wolf
c2c9a46609 qcow2: Allow >4 GB VM state
This is a compatible extension to the snapshot header format that allows
saving a 64 bit VM state size.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-15 12:40:33 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
9423a2e8dd Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/trivial-patches-next' into staging 2011-12-14 07:59:21 -06:00
Avi Kivity
a6c5c07990 docs: document memory API interaction with migration
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-12-07 18:57:41 +02:00
Luiz Capitulino
4b389b5d6e docs: Add writing-qmp-commands.txt
Explains how to write QMP commands using the QAPI.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2011-12-06 11:40:00 -02:00
Ademar de Souza Reis Jr
69ddaf6659 memory: minor documentation fixes/enhancements
Fix typos and minor documentation errors in both memory.h and
docs/memory.txt.

Also add missing documentation formatting tags to transaction
functions.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Ademar de Souza Reis Jr <areis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-06 10:10:21 +00:00
Matthias Brugger
e6d89f8c25 Fixing some spelling in docs/libcacard.txt
Reviewed-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-17 12:57:49 +00:00
Stefan Weil
4238e26416 Fix some spelling bugs in documentation and comments
These errors were detected by codespell:

remaing -> remaining
soley -> solely
virutal -> virtual
seperate -> separate

libcacard.txt still needs some more patches.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-17 12:57:36 +00:00
Stefan Weil
b5e4946f96 Fix spelling in documentation and comments (similiar -> similar)
This bug was detected by codespell.
In mips_mipssim.c a grammatical error was fixed, too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-17 12:57:36 +00:00
Anthony Liguori
0ffcb2ca8d Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/tracing' into staging 2011-11-01 13:08:33 -05:00
Mark Wu
454e202d52 trace: Add wildcard trace event support
A basic wildcard matching is supported in both the monitor command
"trace-event" and the events list file. That means you can enable/disable
the events having a common prefix in a batch. For example, virtio-blk trace
events could be enabled using:
    trace-event virtio_blk_* on

Signed-off-by: Mark Wu <wudxw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-01 14:12:15 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
acf8394eae qapi: fix typos in documentation JSON examples
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-01 06:23:48 +00:00
Zhi Yong Wu
3789985f40 qcow2: fix some errors and typo in qcow2.txt
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Lluís Vilanova
4b710a3cd4 trace: Update docs to use example events that exist
The events 'qemu_malloc' and 'qemu_free' used in the examples no longer exist,
so use 'qemu_vmalloc' and 'qemu_vfree' instead.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-21 11:32:37 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
8f6421179a trace: allow trace events with string arguments
String arguments are useful for producing human-readable traces without
post-processing (e.g. stderr backend).  Although the simple backend
cannot handles strings all others can.  Strings should be allowed and
the simple backend can be extended to support them.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-21 11:29:45 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
913540a376 trace: allow PRI*64 at beginning and ending of format string
The tracetool parser only picks up PRI*64 and other format string macros
when enclosed between double quoted strings.  Lift this restriction by
extracting everything after the closing ')' as the format string:

  cpu_set_apic_base(uint64_t val) "%016"PRIx64
                                  ^^        ^^

One trick here: it turns out that backslashes in the format string like
"\n" were being interpreted by echo(1).  Fix this by using the POSIX
printf(1) command instead.  Although it normally does not make sense to
include backslashes in trace event format strings, an injected newline
causes tracetool to emit a broken header file and I want to eliminate
cases where broken output is emitted, even if the input was bad.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 15:14:05 +00:00
Markus Armbruster
6e93a44bc5 docs: Fix qdev-device-use.txt typo in -chardev serial, path=COM<NUM>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-09 09:43:17 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
88adbdfdf4 Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/tracing' into staging 2011-09-02 10:08:48 -05:00
Lluís
9a82b6a590 trace: [stderr] add support for dynamically enabling/disabling events
Uses the generic interface provided in "trace/control.h" in order to provide
a programmatic interface as well as command line and monitor controls.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
03727e6a06 trace: [simple] disable all trace points by default
Note that this refers to the backend-specific state (whether the output must be
generated), not the event "disabled" property (which always uses the "nop"
backend).

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
dd215f646c trace: always use the "nop" backend on events with the "disable" keyword
Any event with the keyword/property "disable" generates an empty trace event
using the "nop" backend, regardless of the current backend.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
23d15e860b trace: add "-trace events" argument to control initial state
The "-trace events" argument can be used to provide a file with a list of trace
event names that will be enabled prior to starting execution, thus providing
early tracing.

This saves the user from manually toggling event states through the monitor
interface or whichever backend-specific interface.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
31965ae27b trace: always compile support for controlling and querying trace event states
The current interface is generic for this small set of operations, and thus
other backends can easily modify the "trace/control.c" file to add their own
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís
49926043c1 trace: generalize the "property" concept in the trace-events file
This adds/modifies the following functions:

* get_name: Get _only_ the event name
* has_property: Return whether an event has a property (keyword before the event
  name)

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Stefan Weil
2542bfd51c Fix spelling in comments and debug messages (recieve -> receive)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-29 11:47:33 +01:00
Avi Kivity
7075ba3097 memory: correct documentation typos
Noted by Drew Jones.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-08-12 08:31:30 -05:00
Avi Kivity
9d3a4736cb Add memory API documentation
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-29 08:25:42 -05:00
Michael Roth
b84da83195 qapi: add QAPI code generation documentation
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@gmail.com>
2011-07-21 16:48:15 -03:00
Gerd Hoffmann
76f30473da usb: update documentation
Add a paragraph on companion controller mode and a
configuration file which sets it all up for you.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-07-08 11:25:56 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann
f72e502e5f usb: documentation update
Add some more informations to docs/usb2.txt about using usb2 (also usb1)
devices.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-06-14 12:56:49 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
23bf93b215 docs: qdev-device-use.txt has become stale, update it
Document more bus addresses.

Update for bugs fixed.

Describe where exactly the -drive options go.

Update for recent split of qdev ide-drive into ide-{cd,hd},
scsi-disk into scsi-{cd,hd}.

Document scsi-hd's removable property only for usb-storage, because
that's where it's used.

Fix description of -global isa.fdc.

Document usb-storage lossage.

Clean up misleading description of network device's split into guest
and host part.

Document -vga's machine dependence.

New qdevs: virtconsole, qxl-vga, isa-vga, intel-hda, usb-ccid

Update for changed pci-assign property iommu.

New section "Default Devices".

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-06-07 13:52:10 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann
94527ead7e usb: add ehci adapter
This patch finally merges the EHCI host adapter aka USB 2.0 support.

Based on the ehci bits collected @ git://git.kiszka.org/qemu.git ehci

EHCI has a long out-of-tree history.  Project was started by Mark
Burkley, with contributions by Niels de Vos.  David S. Ahern continued
working on it.  Kevin Wolf, Jan Kiszka and Vincent Palatin contributed
bugfixes.

/me (Gerd Hoffmann) picked it up where it left off, prepared the code
for merge, fixed a few bugs and added basic user docs.

Cc: David S. Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <mail@kevin-wolf.de>
Cc: Vincent Palatin <vincent.palatin_qemu@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-05-26 11:57:09 +02:00
Lluís
7b92e5bc6d docs/tracing.txt: minor documentation fixes
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-04-26 13:14:49 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
e6a750aab5 docs: Trace events must not expect pointer dereferencing
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-04-26 13:14:49 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
d54f10bba7 docs: Describe zero data clusters in QED specification
Zero data clusters are a space-efficient way of storing zeroed regions
of the image.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-04-13 12:06:40 +02:00
Alon Levy
1056c02b7b ccid: add docs
Add documentation for the usb-ccid device and accompanying two card
devices, ccid-card-emulated and ccid-card-passthru.

Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
2011-04-01 19:07:49 -05:00
Robert Relyea
65794b435c libcacard: add docs 2011-04-01 19:07:49 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
03feae7305 Add qcow2 documentation
This adds a description of the qcow2 file format to the docs/ directory.
Besides documenting what's there, which is never wrong, the document should
provide a good basis for the discussion of format extensions (called "qcow3"
in previous discussions)

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-16 09:56:18 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
0b5538c300 simpletrace: Thread-safe tracing
Trace events outside the global mutex cannot be used with the simple
trace backend since it is not thread-safe.  There is no check to prevent
them being enabled so people sometimes learn this the hard way.

This patch restructures the simple trace backend with a ring buffer
suitable for multiple concurrent writers.  A writeout thread empties the
trace buffer when threshold fill levels are reached.  Should the
writeout thread be unable to keep up with trace generation, records will
simply be dropped.

Each time events are dropped a special record is written to the trace
file indicating how many events were dropped.  The event ID is
0xfffffffffffffffe and its signature is dropped(uint32_t count).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-07 15:34:17 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
b48c20f723 docs: Update stderr and simple backend, add systemtap backend
The following additions to the tracing documentation are included:

1. Move "stderr" backend documentation to top-level and out of "simple"
   backend.  Include hints on when this backend is useful.

2. Document the "simple" backend thread-safety limitation.

3. Document the "dtrace" backend for SystemTap.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-03-06 19:11:47 +01:00
Gleb Natapov
466b58648a Add boot index documentation.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Fabien Chouteau
320fba2a1f New trace-event backend: stderr
This backend sends trace events to standard error output during the emulation.

Also add a "--list-backends" option to tracetool, so configure script can
display the list of available backends.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-01-29 22:52:00 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
a5c062edd2 docs: Document scsi-disk and usb-storage removable parameter
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-01-24 21:39:22 +01:00
Marcelo Tosatti
9c046d96d4 document QEMU<->ACPIBIOS PCI hotplug interface
Document how QEMU communicates with ACPI BIOS for PCI hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-17 17:29:42 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
65d6dcbde8 docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-01-10 14:44:16 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
e59d688ad1 docs: Fix missing carets in QED specification
For some reason the carets ('^') in the QED specification disappeared.
This patch puts them back.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 17:05:06 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
71af014f14 docs: Add QED image format specification
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 16:11:04 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
cf85cf8e97 trace: Format strings must begin/end with double quotes
Document the restriction that format strings must begin and end with
double quotes.  This is for easy parsing since we don't run cpp over
trace-events.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-10-20 16:41:31 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
9a85d39447 trace: Use portable format strings
It is not portable to use "%ld" for int64_t because int64_t may have
type long on 64-bit platforms and long long on 32-bit platforms.  Use
the standard library PRId64 macros to keep format strings portable.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2010-10-09 08:16:45 +00:00
Stefan Weil
dda5336eac docs: Improve documentation
Fix some inconsistencies (tabs and punctuation)
and try to improve grammar and spelling.

Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
2010-10-05 13:53:55 -05:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
d9d334176c blkverify: Add block driver for verifying I/O
The blkverify block driver makes investigating image format data
corruption much easier.  A raw image initialized with the same contents
as the test image (e.g. qcow2 file) must be provided.  The raw image
mirrors read/write operations and is used to verify that data read from
the test image is correct.

See docs/blkverify.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-09-21 17:00:53 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
81a97d9d97 trace: Add user documentation
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-09 16:22:44 -05:00
Cam Macdonell
b6828931eb Device specification for shared memory PCI device
Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-10 16:25:15 -05:00
Juan Quintela
f58ae59c02 Initial documentation for migration
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-07-26 16:19:51 -05:00
Markus Armbruster
96560cb34c docs: New qdev-device-use.txt
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-13 17:14:16 -06:00