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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2023-12-11 09:13:41 +0000
committerAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2024-01-08 13:58:59 +0000
commit7b571ef3c75ac35522c817219cbfa765753a36c5 (patch)
tree5c968fa259d16a3ef2b62251456eb675d43ad94a /chardev
parent1f881ea4a444ef36a8b6907b0b82be4b3af253a2 (diff)
chardev: force write all when recording replay logs
This is mostly a problem within avocado as serial generally isn't busy enough to overfill pipes. However the consequences of recording a failed write will haunt us on replay when the log will be out of sync to the playback. Fixes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2010 Acked-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20231211091346.14616-13-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'chardev')
-rw-r--r--chardev/char.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index 996a024c7a..48f28881c2 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ int qemu_chr_write(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, int len, bool write_all)
return res;
}
+ if (replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_RECORD) {
+ /*
+ * When recording we don't want temporary conditions to
+ * perturb the result. By ensuring we write everything we can
+ * while recording we avoid playback being out of sync if it
+ * doesn't encounter the same temporary conditions (usually
+ * triggered by external programs not reading the chardev fast
+ * enough and pipes filling up).
+ */
+ write_all = true;
+ }
+
res = qemu_chr_write_buffer(s, buf, len, &offset, write_all);
if (qemu_chr_replay(s) && replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_RECORD) {