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2010-04-28virtio-serial: Implement flow control for individual portsAmit Shah
Individual ports can now signal to the virtio-serial core to stop sending data if the ports cannot immediately handle new data. When a port later unthrottles, any data queued up in the virtqueue are sent to the port. Disable throttling once a port is closed (and we discard all the unconsumed buffers in the vq). The guest kernel can reclaim the buffers when it receives the port close event or when a port is being removed. Ensure we free up the buffers before we send out any events to the guest. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-28virtio-serial: Apps should consume all data that guest sends out / Fix ↵Amit Shah
virtio api abuse We cannot indicate to the guest how much data was consumed by an app for out_bufs. So we just have to assume the apps will consume all the data that are handed over to them. Fix the virtio api abuse in control_out() and handle_output(). Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-28virtio-serial: Update copyright year to 2010Amit Shah
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-28virtio-serial: Use control messages to notify guest of new portsAmit Shah
Allow the port 'id's to be set by a user on the command line. This is needed by management apps that will want a stable port numbering scheme for hot-plug/unplug and migration. Since the port numbers are shared with the guest (to identify ports in control messages), we just send a control message to the guest indicating addition of new ports (hot-plug) or notifying the guest of the available ports when the guest sends us a DEVICE_READY control message. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20virtio-serial-bus: Add ability to hot-unplug portsAmit Shah
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20virtio-serial-bus: Add a port 'name' property for port discovery in guestsAmit Shah
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>
2010-01-20virtio-serial-bus: Maintain guest and host port open/close stateAmit Shah
Via control channel messages, the guest can tell us whether a port got opened or closed. Similarly, we can also indicate to the guest of host port open/close events. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20virtio-console: qdev conversion, new virtio-serial-busAmit Shah
This commit converts the virtio-console device to create a new virtio-serial bus that can host console and generic serial ports. The file hosting this code is now called virtio-serial-bus.c. The virtio console is now a very simple qdev device that sits on the virtio-serial-bus and communicates between the bus and qemu's chardevs. This commit also includes a few changes to the virtio backing code for pci and s390 to spawn the virtio-serial bus. As a result of the qdev conversion, we get rid of a lot of legacy code. The old-style way of instantiating a virtio console using -virtioconsole ... is maintained, but the new, preferred way is to use -device virtio-serial -device virtconsole,chardev=... With this commit, multiple devices as well as multiple ports with a single device can be supported. For multiple ports support, each port gets an IO vq pair. Since the guest needs to know in advance how many vqs a particular device will need, we have to set this number as a property of the virtio-serial device and also as a config option. In addition, we also spawn a pair of control IO vqs. This is an internal channel meant for guest-host communication for things like port open/close, sending port properties over to the guest, etc. This commit is a part of a series of other commits to get the full implementation of multiport support. Future commits will add other support as well as ride on the savevm version that we bump up here. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>