Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv8 09/30] aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup and helper functions

2013-08-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 10/08/2013 13:05, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > Despite the fact we both dislike the name TimerListGroup, I > think the way to go here is (1). (2) does not really save lines > of code (certainly not compiled instructions) - it's main saving > is removing a pile of commenting from include/qemu/timer.h

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv8 09/30] aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup and helper functions

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Paolo, --On 11 August 2013 09:53:38 +0200 Paolo Bonzini wrote: There is actually a disadvantage of moving TimerListGroup to AioContext. The disadvantage is that GSources can only work with millisecond resolution. Thus you would need anyway some special casing of the "timer AioContext" to g

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Disassembly with external objdump

2013-08-11 Thread Blue Swirl
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > We have one host platform (aarch64), and three target platforms > (openrisc, unicore32, xtensa) with no built-in disassembly support, > thanks largely to gplv3 silliness. > > Here's a first-cut at handling these cases with an external tool

[Qemu-devel] [VAC] mjt is at vacation

2013-08-11 Thread Michael Tokarev
We're going to a (hopefully) 3-week vacation starting today, and I don't expect any internet access there. So I wont be able to handle trivial-patches during this time (till Aug-2013). Thanks, /mjt

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running > >operating systems without a driver for this device will have problems > >when qemu will be upgraded (from qemu without t

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1087114] Re: assertion "QLIST_EMPTY(&bs->tracked_requests)" failed

2013-08-11 Thread Rainer Müller
I was unable to reproduce the original issue on Mac OS X 10.8.4 using the current master. However, I was also unable to reproduce the original issue on the stable-1.5 branch which does not have the fix by Izumi Tsutsui linked above. As this second fix is only for a problem that appears in certain l

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] virtio-serial: Do not notify virtqueue if no element was pushed back.

2013-08-11 Thread Gal Hammer
The redundant notification caused the Windows' driver to duplicate the pending write request's buffer. The driver was fixed, but I think this change is still required. Signed-off-by: Gal Hammer --- hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c | 6 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-1.6 1/2] hw/virtio/virtio: Don't allow guests to add/remove queues

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:41:27PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > A queue size of 0 is used to indicate a nonexistent queue, so > don't allow the guest to flip a queue between zero-size and > non-zero-size. Don't permit setting of negative queue sizes > either. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell R

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-1.6 2/2] hw/virtio/virtio-mmio: Make QueueNumMax read 0 for unavailable queues

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:41:28PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > The virtio-mmio spec says that QueueNumMax must read zero for queues > which are unavailable; implement this, rather than always returning > VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-1.6 0/2] virtio-mmio: fixes to QueueNum, QueueNumMax

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 04:47:40PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 July 2013 16:41, Peter Maydell wrote: > > These patches fix a couple of bugs in virtio-mmio's > > handling of the registers that deal with the queue size: > > > > * as mst points out, letting the guest flip a queue between > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] pci: Introduce helper to retrieve a PCI device's DMA address space

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 01:09:08AM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > A PCI device's DMA address space (possibly an IOMMU) is returned by a > method on the PCIBus. At the moment that only has one caller, so the > method is simply open coded. We'll need another caller for VFIO, so > this patch i

Re: [Qemu-devel] peculiar make check problems: tests/libqtest.c

2013-08-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 10.08.2013 13:20, schrieb Alex Bligh: > Occasionally running make check I am seeing the following opaque error: > ERROR:tests/libqtest.c:69:init_socket: assertion failed (ret != -1): (-1 > != -1) > > Rerunning it it runs clean. Any ideas? Most likely a previous qtest will have failed, lea

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] pci: Introduce helper to retrieve a PCI device's DMA address space

2013-08-11 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 08/11/2013 11:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 01:09:08AM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> A PCI device's DMA address space (possibly an IOMMU) is returned by a >> method on the PCIBus. At the moment that only has one caller, so the >> method is simply open coded.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running >>> operating systems without a driver for this device will have probl

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1210212] Re: qemu core dumps with -serial mon:vc

2013-08-11 Thread Lei Li
Hi, This problem has been solved by commit 7b7ab18d0b9769b5f39e663fa55caed461b1202e: Author: Michael Roth Date: Tue Jul 30 13:04:22 2013 -0500 chardev: fix CHR_EVENT_OPENED events for mux chardevs Patch link: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/263458/ ** Changed in: qemu Status: New

Re: [Qemu-devel] peculiar make check problems: tests/libqtest.c

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
On 11 Aug 2013, at 15:22, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 10.08.2013 13:20, schrieb Alex Bligh: >> Occasionally running make check I am seeing the following opaque error: >> ERROR:tests/libqtest.c:69:init_socket: assertion failed (ret != -1): (-1 >> != -1) >> >> Rerunning it it runs clean. Any ideas?

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 V2 1/2] hw/misc: don't create pvpanic device by default

2013-08-11 Thread Marcel Apfelbaum
This patch is based on Hu Tao's: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg00124.html No need to hard-code pvpanic as part of the machine. It can be added with "-device pvpanic" from command line (The next patch). Anyway, for backport compatibility it is still part of 1.5 machine.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 V2 2/2] hw/misc: make pvpanic known to user

2013-08-11 Thread Marcel Apfelbaum
This patch is based on Hu Tao's: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg00125.html The pvpanic device may be enabled now with "-device pvpanic" from command line. Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum --- Changes from V1: - Addressed Andreas Färber review (removed bus type) - Sma

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs runnin

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 V2 0/2] pvpanic: Separate pvpanic from machine type

2013-08-11 Thread Marcel Apfelbaum
Creating the pvpanic device as part of the machine type has the potential to trigger guest OS, guest firmware and driver bugs. The potential of such was originally viewed as minimal. However, since releasing 1.5 with pvpanic as part of the builtin machine type, several issues were observed in the f

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Marcel Apfelbaum
On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 16:45 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running > >>>

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] vmdk: support vmfsSparse files

2013-08-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
VMware ESX hosts use a variant of the VMDK3 format, identified by the vmfsSparse create type ad the VMFSSPARSE extent type. It has 16 KB grain tables (L2) and a variable-size grain directory (L1). In addition, the grain size is always 512, but that is not a problem because it is included in the he

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vmdk: support vmfs files

2013-08-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
VMware ESX hosts also use different create and extent types for flat files, respectively "vmfs" and "VMFS". This is not documented, but it can be found at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/10002511 (Recreating a missing virtual machine disk (VMDK) descriptor file). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- block/

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] vmdk: Support ESX files

2013-08-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
So I thought I was on vacation, but my neighbor (who has a small data recovery company) asked me if I knew how to extract metadata from ESX images. Sure, said I, thinking there would be no better test case for my metadata dump patches. However, ESX files are slightly different from "hosted" files

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 02/31] aio / timers: Rename qemu_new_clock and expose clock types

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Rename qemu_new_clock to qemu_clock_new. Expose clock types. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h |4 qemu-timer.c | 12 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/qemu/timer.h b/include/qemu/timer.h index a9afdb3..da43cb

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 03/31] aio / timers: add qemu-timer.c utility functions

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add utility functions to qemu-timer.c for nanosecond timing. Add qemu_clock_deadline_ns to calculate deadlines to nanosecond accuracy. Add utility function qemu_soonest_timeout to calculate soonest deadline. Add qemu_timeout_ns_to_ms to convert a timeout in nanoseconds back to milliseconds for w

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 06/31] aio / timers: Add prctl(PR_SET_TIMERSLACK, 1, ...) to reduce timer slack

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Where supported, called prctl(PR_SET_TIMERSLACK, 1, ...) to set one nanosecond timer slack to increase precision of timer calls. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- configure| 18 ++ qemu-timer.c |7 +++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configur

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 11/31] aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup to AioContext

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add a QEMUTimerListGroup each AioContext (meaning a QEMUTimerList associated with each clock is added) and delete it when the AioContext is freed. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- async.c |2 ++ include/block/aio.h |4 tests/test-aio.c |3 +++ tests/te

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 14/31] aio / timers: Add aio_timer_init & aio_timer_new wrappers

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add aio_timer_init and aio_timer_new wrapper functions. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/block/aio.h | 43 +++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/block/aio.h b/include/block/aio.h index a13f6e8..07d5053 100644 --- a/include/block

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 17/31] aio / timers: On timer modification, qemu_notify or aio_notify

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
On qemu_mod_timer_ns, ensure qemu_notify or aio_notify is called to end the appropriate poll(), irrespective of use_icount value. On qemu_clock_enable, ensure qemu_notify or aio_notify is called for all QEMUTimerLists attached to the QEMUClock. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 16/31] aio / timers: Convert mainloop to use timeout

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Convert mainloop to use timeout from default timerlist group (i.e. the current 3 static timers) Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- main-loop.c | 45 ++--- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/main-loop.c b/main-loop.c index a44fff6.

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 18/31] aio / timers: Introduce new API timer_new and friends

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Introduce new API for creating timers - timer_new and _ns, _ms, _us derivatives. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 69 ++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/qemu/timer.h b/include/qemu/timer.h index 11a6c61.

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 01/31] aio / timers: Rename qemu_timer_* functions

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Rename four functions in preparation for new API. Rename qemu_timer_expired to timer_expired Rename qemu_timer_expire_time_ns to timer_expire_time_ns Rename qemu_timer_pending to timer_pending Rename qemu_timer_expired_ns to timer_expired_ns Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- backends/baum.c

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 28/31] aio / timers: Add test harness for AioContext timers

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add a test harness for AioContext timers. The g_source equivalent is unsatisfactory as it suffers from false wakeups. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- tests/test-aio.c | 136 ++ 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/test-aio.c b/t

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 15/31] aio / timers: Convert aio_poll to use AioContext timers' deadline

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Convert aio_poll to use deadline based on AioContext's timers. aio_poll has been changed to return accurately whether progress has occurred. Prior to this commit, aio_poll always returned true if g_poll was entered, whether or not any progress was made. This required a change to tests/test-aio.c w

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 20/31] aio / timers: Add documentation and new format calls

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add documentation for existing qemu timer calls. Add new format calls of the format timer_XXX rather than qemu_XXX_timer for consistency. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 206 -- 1 file changed, 184 insertions(+), 22 deletions(

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 31/31] aio / timers: Remove legacy interface

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Remove the legacy interface from include/qemu/timers.h. Ensure struct QEMUClock is not exposed at all. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 214 +- qemu-timer.c | 35 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 244 delet

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 13/31] aio / timers: aio_ctx_prepare sets timeout from AioContext timers

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Calculate the timeout in aio_ctx_prepare taking into account the timers attached to the AioContext. Alter aio_ctx_check similarly. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- async.c | 13 +++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/async.c b/async.c index 2b9ba9b..d8656cc

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 26/31] aio / timers: Convert rtc_clock to be a QEMUClockType

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Convert rtc_clock to be a QEMUClockType Move rtc_clock users to use the new API Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- hw/arm/omap1.c|4 ++-- hw/arm/pxa2xx.c | 35 +++ hw/arm/strongarm.c| 10 +- hw/timer/m48t59.c |

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 00/31] aio / timers: Add AioContext timers and use ppoll

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
[ This patch set is available from git at: https://github.com/abligh/qemu/tree/aio-timers10 As autogenerated patch 30 of the series is too large for the mailing list. ] This patch series adds support for timers attached to an AioContext clock which get called within aio_poll. In doing so it re

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 09/31] aio / timers: Untangle include files

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
include/qemu/timer.h has no need to include main-loop.h and doing so causes an issue for the next patch. Unfortunately various files assume including timers.h will pull in main-loop.h. Untangle this mess. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- dma-helpers.c |1 + hw/dma/xilinx_axidma.c

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 24/31] aio / timers: Rearrange timer.h & make legacy functions call non-legacy

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Rearrange timer.h so it is in order by function type. Make legacy functions call non-legacy functions rather than vice-versa. Convert cpus.c to use new API. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- cpus.c | 112 - hw/acpi/piix4.c |2 +- hw/input/tsc2005.c |4 +- hw/i

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 22/31] aio / timers: Remove legacy qemu_clock_deadline & qemu_timerlist_deadline

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Remove qemu_clock_deadline and qemu_timerlist_deadline now we are using the ns functions throughout. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 16 qemu-timer.c | 20 2 files changed, 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/qemu/timer.h b

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 19/31] aio / timers: Use all timerlists in icount warp calculations

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Notify all timerlists derived from vm_clock in icount warp calculations. When calculating timer delay based on vm_clock deadline, use all timerlists. For compatibility, maintain an apparent bug where when using icount, if no vm_clock timer was set, qemu_clock_deadline would return INT32_MAX and a

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 08/31] aio / timers: Split QEMUClock into QEMUClock and QEMUTimerList

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Split QEMUClock into QEMUClock and QEMUTimerList so that we can have more than one QEMUTimerList associated with the same clock. Introduce a main_loop_timerlist concept and make existing qemu_clock_* calls that actually should operate on a QEMUTimerList call the relevant QEMUTimerList implementati

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 27/31] aio / timers: convert block_job_sleep_ns and co_sleep_ns to new API

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Convert block_job_sleep_ns and co_sleep_ns to use the new timer API. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- block/backup.c|4 ++-- block/commit.c|2 +- block/mirror.c|4 ++-- block/stream.c|2 +- blockjob.c|4 ++-- includ

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 25/31] aio / timers: Remove main_loop_timerlist

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Now we have timerlistgroups implemented and main_loop_tlg, we no longer need the concept of a default timer list associated with each clock. Remove it and simplify initialisation of clocks and timer lists. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h |6 + qemu-timer.c |

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 21/31] aio / timers: Remove alarm timers

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Remove alarm timers from qemu-timers.c now we use g_poll / ppoll instead. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h |3 - main-loop.c |4 - qemu-timer.c | 500 +- vl.c |4 +- 4 files changed, 4

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 07/31] aio / timers: Make qemu_run_timers and qemu_run_all_timers return progress

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Make qemu_run_timers and qemu_run_all_timers return progress so that aio_poll etc. can determine whether a timer has been run. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 21 +++-- qemu-timer.c | 18 -- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 del

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 23/31] aio / timers: Add qemu_clock_get_ms and qemu_clock_get_ms

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add utility functions qemu_clock_get_ms and qemu_clock_get_us Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- include/qemu/timer.h | 28 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/qemu/timer.h b/include/qemu/timer.h index 899a11a..8a154c2 100644 --- a/include/qemu/timer.

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 29/31] aio / timers: Add scripts/switch-timer-api

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add scripts/switch-timer-api to programatically rewrite source files to use the new timer system. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- scripts/switch-timer-api | 178 ++ 1 file changed, 178 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/switch-timer-api b/scripts/switc

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add qemu-img convert -C option (skip target volume creation)

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add a -C option to skip volume creation on qemu-img convert. This is useful for targets such as rbd / ceph, where the target volume may already exist; we cannot always rely on qemu-img convert to create the image, as dependent on the output format, there may be parameters which are not possible to

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 05/31] aio / timers: add ppoll support with qemu_poll_ns

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add qemu_poll_ns which works like g_poll but takes a nanosecond timeout. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- configure| 19 +++ include/qemu/timer.h | 12 qemu-timer.c | 24 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+) diff --git a/

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 04/31] aio / timers: Consistent treatment of disabled clocks for deadlines

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Make treatment of disabled clocks consistent in deadline calculation Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- qemu-timer.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qemu-timer.c b/qemu-timer.c index df8f12b..be29adf 100644 --- a/qemu-timer.c +++ b/qemu-timer.c @@ -264,7 +264,7

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 10/31] aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup and helper functions

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add QEMUTimerListGroup and helper functions, to represent a QEMUTimerList associated with each clock. Add a default QEMUTimerListGroup representing the default timer lists which are not associated with any other object (e.g. an AioContext as added by future patches). Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh ---

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 12/31] aio / timers: Add a notify callback to QEMUTimerList

2013-08-11 Thread Alex Bligh
Add a notify pointer to QEMUTimerList so it knows what to notify on a timer change. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh --- async.c |7 ++- include/qemu/timer.h | 27 +++ qemu-timer.c | 31 --- 3 files changed, 53 inserti

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gdb: Fix gdb error

2013-08-11 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Don't update the global register count if not requested. Without this patch a remote gdb session gives (gdb) target remote localhost:1234 Remote debugging using localhost:1234 Remote 'g' packet reply is too long: 2884c0ccba50c0c ... ... (

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] virtio: allow byte swapping for vring and config access

2013-08-11 Thread Rusty Russell
Anthony Liguori writes: > Rusty Russell writes: >> (Qemu run under eatmydata to eliminate syncs) > > FYI, cache=unsafe is equivalent to using eatmydata. Ah, thanks! > I can reproduce this although I also see a larger standard deviation. > > BEFORE: > MIN: 496 > MAX: 1055 > A

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] virtio: allow byte swapping for vring and config access

2013-08-11 Thread Rusty Russell
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > This whole exercise should have nothing to do with the current endian > mode of the CPU. If for example you are running lx86 (the x86 emulator > IBM provides) which exploits MSR:LE on POWER7 to run x86 binaries in > userspace, you don't want virtio to suddenly chan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] virtio: allow byte swapping for vring and config access

2013-08-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 09:58 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > This whole exercise should have nothing to do with the current endian > > mode of the CPU. If for example you are running lx86 (the x86 emulator > > IBM provides) which exploits MSR:LE on POWER7 to run x86

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] vmdk: support vmfsSparse files

2013-08-11 Thread Fam Zheng
On Sun, 08/11 18:13, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > VMware ESX hosts use a variant of the VMDK3 format, identified by the > vmfsSparse create type ad the VMFSSPARSE extent type. > > It has 16 KB grain tables (L2) and a variable-size grain directory (L1). > In addition, the grain size is always 512, but th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 V2 1/2] hw/misc: don't create pvpanic device by default

2013-08-11 Thread Hu Tao
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 06:10:42PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > This patch is based on Hu Tao's: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg00124.html > > No need to hard-code pvpanic as part of the machine. > It can be added with "-device pvpanic" from command line (The next

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 V2 2/2] hw/misc: make pvpanic known to user

2013-08-11 Thread Hu Tao
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 06:10:43PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > This patch is based on Hu Tao's: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg00125.html > > The pvpanic device may be enabled now with "-device pvpanic" > from command line. > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] [v3] target-ppc: Enhance CPU nodes of device tree to be PAPR compliant.

2013-08-11 Thread Prerna Saxena
On 08/08/2013 04:04 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 08.08.2013 09:26, schrieb Prerna Saxena: >> >> From: Prerna Saxena >> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 06:38:03 +0530 >> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Enhance CPU nodes of device tree to be PAPR compliant. >> >> This is based on patch from Andreas which enables the d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 2/2] [v3] target-ppc: Enhance CPU nodes of device tree to be PAPR compliant.

2013-08-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:07 +0530, Prerna Saxena wrote: .../... > I dont know what context lead to this observation. > However, PAPR mentions the following nomenclature guideline: > > "The value of this property shall be of the form: “PowerPC,”, > where is the name of the processor chip which

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] acpi: hide 64-bit PCI hole for Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 08/10/13 05:10, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:25:00AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> I don't think SeaBIOS should continue to do the above once the tables >>> are moved to QEMU. QEMU has all the info SeaBIOS has, so it can >>> generate the tables correctly on its own. >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add qemu-img convert -C option (skip target volume creation)

2013-08-11 Thread Fam Zheng
On Sun, 08/11 18:31, Alex Bligh wrote: > Add a -C option to skip volume creation on qemu-img convert. > This is useful for targets such as rbd / ceph, where the > target volume may already exist; we cannot always rely on > qemu-img convert to create the image, as dependent on the > output format, t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] acpi: hide 64-bit PCI hole for Windows XP

2013-08-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > If we make it a rule that PCI is`setup before ACPI tables > are read, then QEMU can do the patching itself when > it detects BIOS reading the tables. Approach makes sense to me. The ordering constrain shouldn't be a big burden, hardware detection+bringup (including pci setup) is the firs

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Convert AioContext to Gsource sub classes

2013-08-11 Thread Wenchao Xia
> Il 10/08/2013 05:24, Wenchao Xia ha scritto: >> Hi folks, >>I'd like form a series which remove AioContext's concept and >> bind to glib's main loop more closely. Since changed place will be >> a bit much so want to know your opinion before real coding: > > I'm not sure I understand... What

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv8 09/30] aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup and helper functions

2013-08-11 Thread Wenchao Xia
于 2013-8-10 19:05, Alex Bligh 写道: Paolo, On 9 Aug 2013, at 15:59, Paolo Bonzini wrote: It's not papering over anything. Timers right now are provided by the event loop. If you make AioContexts have timers, you can have a new AioContext for the timers that the event loop handles before your p