qemu-ga: add guest-sync-delimited

guest-sync leaves it as an exercise to the user as to how to reliably
obtain the response to guest-sync if the client had previously read in a
partial response (due qemu-ga previously being restarted mid-"sentence"
due to reboot, forced restart, etc).

qemu-ga handles this situation on its end by having a client precede
their guest-sync request with a 0xFF byte (invalid UTF-8), which
qemu-ga/QEMU JSON parsers will treat as a flush event. Thus we can
reliably flush the qemu-ga parser state in preparation for receiving
the guest-sync request.

guest-sync-delimited provides the same functionality for a client: when
a guest-sync-delimited is issued, qemu-ga will precede it's response
with a 0xFF byte that the client can use as an indicator to flush its
buffer/parser state in preparation for reliably receiving the
guest-sync-delimited response.

It is also useful as an optimization for clients, since, after issuing a
guest-sync-delimited, clients can safely discard all stale data read
from the channel until the 0xFF is found.

More information available on the wiki:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#QEMU_Guest_Agent_Protocol

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qga/commands.c b/qga/commands.c
index b27407d5d7..5bcceaae34 100644
--- a/qga/commands.c
+++ b/qga/commands.c
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ void slog(const gchar *fmt, ...)
     va_end(ap);
 }
 
+int64_t qmp_guest_sync_delimited(int64_t id, Error **errp)
+{
+    ga_set_response_delimited(ga_state);
+    return id;
+}
+
 int64_t qmp_guest_sync(int64_t id, Error **errp)
 {
     return id;