On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:16:43 +0100
Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/07/2021 00:10, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:43:47 -0600
> > Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:01:37 +0200
> >> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Switch from QemuOpts to keyval. This enables the introduction
> >>> of non-scalar machine properties, and JSON syntax in the future.
> >>>
> >>> For JSON syntax to be supported right now, we would have to
> >>> consider what would happen if string-based dictionaries (produced by
> >>> -M key=val) were to be merged with strongly-typed dictionaries
> >>> (produced by -M {'key': 123}).
> >>>
> >>> The simplest way out is to never enter the situation, and only allow one
> >>> -M option when JSON syntax is in use. However, we want options such as
> >>> -smp to become syntactic sugar for -M, and this is a problem; as soon
> >>> as -smp becomes a shortcut for -M, QEMU would forbid using -M '{....}'
> >>> together with -smp. Therefore, allowing JSON syntax right now for -M
> >>> would be a forward-compatibility nightmare and it would be impossible
> >>> anyway to introduce -M incrementally in tools.
> >>>
> >>> Instead, support for JSON syntax is delayed until after the main
> >>> options are converted to QOM compound properties. These include -boot,
> >>> -acpitable, -smbios, -m, -semihosting-config, -rtc and -fw_cfg. Once JSON
> >>> syntax is introduced, these options will _also_ be forbidden together
> >>> with -M '{...}'.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> softmmu/vl.c | 315 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> >>> 1 file changed, 146 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> This breaks the below long standing test VM. libvirt log and xml
> >> provided below. I'm using libvirt version 7.3.0.
> >
> > A trivial reproducer:
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -blockdev
> > '{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd","node-name":"pflash0-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}'
> > -blockdev
> > '{"node-name":"pflash0-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"pflash0-storage"}'
> > -machine pc,pflash0=pflash0-format
> >
> > backtrace:
> >
> > #0 error_setg_internal
> > (errp=0x7fffffffd6c8, src=0x55555618bc10
> > "../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c", line=172,
> > func=0x55555618bf20 <__func__.27> "qobject_input_get_object",
> > fmt=0x55555618bc98 "Parameter '%s' is missing") at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/util/error.c:93
> > #1 0x0000555555f8d255 in qobject_input_get_object (qiv=0x5555569c59b0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", consume=true, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8) at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c:172
> > #2 0x0000555555f8d28b in qobject_input_get_keyval (qiv=0x5555569c59b0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", errp=0x7fffffffd6c8) at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c:184
> > #3 0x0000555555f8e3a9 in qobject_input_type_str_keyval (v=0x5555569c59b0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", obj=0x7fffffffd5a8, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c:551
> > #4 0x0000555555f59e51 in visit_type_str (v=0x5555569c59b0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", obj=0x7fffffffd5a8, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8) at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c:337
> > #5 0x00005555558c3b70 in set_drive_helper (obj=0x5555569208a0,
> > v=0x5555569c59b0, name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", opaque=0x5555564c8300
> > <pflash_cfi01_properties>, iothread=false, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8)
> > at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c:97
> > #6 0x00005555558c3e0b in set_drive (obj=0x5555569208a0, v=0x5555569c59b0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", opaque=0x5555564c8300
> > <pflash_cfi01_properties>, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8)
> > at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c:171
> > #7 0x0000555555edb821 in field_prop_set (obj=0x5555569208a0,
> > v=0x5555569c59b0, name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", opaque=0x5555564c8300
> > <pflash_cfi01_properties>, errp=0x7fffffffd6c8)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/hw/core/qdev-properties.c:86
> > #8 0x0000555555eb7f15 in object_property_set (obj=0x5555569208a0,
> > name=0x555556920ef0 "drive", v=0x5555569c59b0, errp=0x7fffffffd768) at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qom/object.c:1402
> > #9 0x0000555555ebad9e in property_set_alias (obj=0x55555683dde0,
> > v=0x5555569c59b0, name=0x5555566fc8a0 "pflash0", opaque=0x555556920ed0,
> > errp=0x7fffffffd768)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qom/object.c:2695
> > #10 0x0000555555eb7f15 in object_property_set (obj=0x55555683dde0,
> > name=0x5555566fc8a0 "pflash0", v=0x5555569c59b0, errp=0x7fffffffd7b8) at
> > ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qom/object.c:1402
> > #11 0x0000555555eb3aa3 in object_set_properties_from_qdict
> > (obj=0x55555683dde0, qdict=0x5555566fa5b0, v=0x5555569c59b0,
> > errp=0x5555565d9308 <error_fatal>)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qom/object_interfaces.c:55
> > #12 0x0000555555eb3bc3 in object_set_properties_from_keyval
> > (obj=0x55555683dde0, qdict=0x5555566fa5b0, from_json=false,
> > errp=0x5555565d9308 <error_fatal>)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/qom/object_interfaces.c:79
> > #13 0x0000555555cb3f5f in qemu_apply_machine_options (qdict=0x5555566fa5b0)
> > at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/softmmu/vl.c:1833
> > #14 0x0000555555cb8606 in qemu_init (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffdae8,
> > envp=0x7fffffffdb28) at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/softmmu/vl.c:3634
> > #15 0x00005555558326d1 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffdae8,
> > envp=0x7fffffffdb28) at ../../home/alwillia/Work/qemu.git/softmmu/main.c:49
> >
>
> Is this the same bug fixed by the proposed patch at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-07/msg03324.html?
Nope, doesn't fix it. Thanks,
Alex
