virtio-serial-bus: Add a port 'name' property for port discovery in guests

The port 'id' or number is internal state between the guest kernel and
our bus implementation. This is invocation-dependent and isn't part of
the guest-host ABI.

To correcly enumerate and map ports between the host and the guest, the
'name' property is used.

Example:

    -device virtserialport,name=org.qemu.port.0

This invocation will get us a char device in the guest at:

    /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.port.0

which can be a symlink to

    /dev/vport0p3

This 'name' property is exposed by the guest kernel in a sysfs
attribute:

    /sys/kernel/virtio-ports/vport0p3/name

A simple udev script can pick up this name and create the symlink
mentioned above.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/virtio-serial.h b/hw/virtio-serial.h
index d9c7acba3d..28ea7da8b7 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-serial.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-serial.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct virtio_console_control {
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_CONSOLE_PORT	1
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_RESIZE		2
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_OPEN	3
+#define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_NAME	4
 
 /* == In-qemu interface == */
 
@@ -84,6 +85,13 @@ struct VirtIOSerialPort {
     VirtQueue *ivq, *ovq;
 
     /*
+     * This name is sent to the guest and exported via sysfs.
+     * The guest could create symlinks based on this information.
+     * The name is in the reverse fqdn format, like org.qemu.console.0
+     */
+    char *name;
+
+    /*
      * This id helps identify ports between the guest and the host.
      * The guest sends a "header" with this id with each data packet
      * that it sends and the host can then find out which associated