Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-11-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
frontends should avoid accessing CharDriver struct where possible
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-6-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
qemu_chr_fe_get_driver() is unsafe, frontends with hotswap support
should not access CharDriver ptr directly as CharDriver might change.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-5-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend
removal.
Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e.
frontend would continue its regular operation.
However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends
via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and it's not (generally) possible to replay
that setup entirely in a backend code, as different chardevs respond
to the setup calls differently, so do frontends work differently basing
on those setup responses.
Moreover, some frontend can generally get and save the backend pointer
(qemu_chr_fe_get_driver()), and it will become invalid after backend change.
So, a frontend which would like to support chardev hotswap has to register
a "backend change" handler, and redo its backend setup there.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-4-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Frontends should have an interface to setup the handler of a backend change.
The interface will be used in the next commits
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-3-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fix regression from commit 4d43a603c7, where the serial and parallel
headers got removed from char.c, which broke the alias table.
Move the HAVE_CHARDEV_SERIAL/HAVE_CHARDEV_PARPORT to osdep.h instead
of being in separate headers.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This simplifies removing a backend for a frontend user (no need to
retrieve the associated driver and separate delete call etc).
NB: many frontends have questionable handling of ending a chardev. They
should probably delete the backend to prevent broken reusage.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Move all the frontend struct and methods to a seperate unit. This avoids
accidentally mixing backend and frontend calls, and helps with readabilty.
Make qemu_chr_replay() a macro shared by both char and char-fe.
Export qemu_chr_write(), and use a macro for qemu_chr_write_all()
(nb: yes, CharBackend is for char frontend :)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
So they are all in one place. The following patch will move serial &
parallel declarations to the respective headers.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
