multi-process: add proxy communication functions

Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: d54edb4176361eed86b903e8f27058363b6c83b3.1611938319.git.jag.raman@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c b/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c
index 4ee1128285..f5e9e01923 100644
--- a/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c
+++ b/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c
@@ -182,6 +182,40 @@ fail:
     return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Send msg and wait for a reply with command code RET_MSG.
+ * Returns the message received of size u64 or UINT64_MAX
+ * on error.
+ * Called from VCPU thread in non-coroutine context.
+ * Used by the Proxy object to communicate to remote processes.
+ */
+uint64_t mpqemu_msg_send_and_await_reply(MPQemuMsg *msg, PCIProxyDev *pdev,
+                                         Error **errp)
+{
+    ERRP_GUARD();
+    MPQemuMsg msg_reply = {0};
+    uint64_t ret = UINT64_MAX;
+
+    assert(!qemu_in_coroutine());
+
+    QEMU_LOCK_GUARD(&pdev->io_mutex);
+    if (!mpqemu_msg_send(msg, pdev->ioc, errp)) {
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    if (!mpqemu_msg_recv(&msg_reply, pdev->ioc, errp)) {
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    if (!mpqemu_msg_valid(&msg_reply)) {
+        error_setg(errp, "ERROR: Invalid reply received for command %d",
+                         msg->cmd);
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    return msg_reply.data.u64;
+}
+
 bool mpqemu_msg_valid(MPQemuMsg *msg)
 {
     if (msg->cmd >= MPQEMU_CMD_MAX && msg->cmd < 0) {