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2017-10-16docs/devel/loads-stores.rst: Document our various load and store APIsPeter Maydell1-0/+396
QEMU has a wide selection of different functions for doing loads and stores; provide some overview documentation of what they do and how to pick which one to use. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1507813181-11860-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-27migration: pre_save return intDr. David Alan Gilbert1-1/+1
Modify the pre_save method on VMStateDescription to return an int rather than void so that it potentially can fail. Changed zillions of devices to make them return 0; the only case I've made it return non-0 is hw/intc/s390_flic_kvm.c that already had an error_report/return case. Note: If you add an error exit in your pre_save you must emit an error_report to say why. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20170925112917.21340-2-dgilbert@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
2017-09-21memory: avoid "resurrection" of dead FlatViewsPaolo Bonzini1-0/+1
It's possible for address_space_get_flatview() as it currently stands to cause a use-after-free for the returned FlatView, if the reference count is incremented after the FlatView has been replaced by a writer: thread 1 thread 2 RCU thread ------------------------------------------------------------- rcu_read_lock read as->current_map set as->current_map flatview_unref '--> call_rcu flatview_ref [ref=1] rcu_read_unlock flatview_destroy <badness> Since FlatViews are not updated very often, we can just detect the situation using a new atomic op atomic_fetch_inc_nonzero, similar to Linux's atomic_inc_not_zero, which performs the refcount increment only if it hasn't already hit zero. This is similar to Linux commit de09a9771a53 ("CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials", 2010-07-29). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-21atomic: update documentationPaolo Bonzini1-1/+12
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-19Makefile: Remove libqemustub.aPaolo Bonzini1-9/+9
Using two libraries (libqemuutil.a and libqemustub.a) would sometimes result in circular dependencies. To avoid these issues let's just combine both into a single library that functions as both. Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Message-Id: <54e6458745493d10901964624479a7d9a872f481.1503077821.git.alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-04qapi: Generate FOO_str() macro for QAPI enum FOOMarkus Armbruster1-0/+3
The next commit will put it to use. May look pointless now, but we're going to change the FOO_lookup's type, and then it'll help. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1503564371-26090-13-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2017-09-04qapi: Update qapi-code-gen.txt examples to match current codeMarkus Armbruster1-9/+38
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1503564371-26090-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2017-08-01trace: add trace_event_get_state_backends()Stefan Hajnoczi1-1/+1
Code that checks dstate is unaware of SystemTap and LTTng UST dstate, so the following trace event will not fire when solely enabled by SystemTap or LTTng UST: if (trace_event_get_state(TRACE_MY_EVENT)) { str = g_strdup_printf("Expensive string to generate ...", ...); trace_my_event(str); g_free(str); } Add trace_event_get_state_backends() to fetch backend dstate. Those backends that use QEMU dstate fetch it as part of generate_h_backend_dstate(). Update existing trace_event_get_state() callers to use trace_event_get_state_backends() instead. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170731140718.22010-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-07-31docs: fix broken paths to docs/devel/atomics.txtPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé1-1/+1
With the move of some docs/ to docs/devel/ on ac06724a71, a couple of references were not updated. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-07-31docs: fix broken paths to docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txtPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé1-1/+1
With the move of some docs to docs/interop on ac06724a71, a couple of references were not updated. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-07-31docs: fix broken paths to docs/interop dirCleber Rosa1-1/+1
With the move of some docs to docs/interop on d59157e, a couple of references were not updated. Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> [PMD: fixed a typo and another reference of docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt] Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-07-24qapi: Introduce a first class 'null' typeMarkus Armbruster1-4/+6
I expect the 'null' type to be useful mostly for members of alternate types. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2017-07-18Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/cody/tags/block-pull-request' into stagingPeter Maydell1-505/+0
# gpg: Signature made Tue 18 Jul 2017 05:15:03 BST # gpg: using RSA key 0xBDBE7B27C0DE3057 # gpg: Good signature from "Jeffrey Cody <jcody@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Jeffrey Cody <jeff@codyprime.org>" # gpg: aka "Jeffrey Cody <codyprime@gmail.com>" # Primary key fingerprint: 9957 4B4D 3474 90E7 9D98 D624 BDBE 7B27 C0DE 3057 * remotes/cody/tags/block-pull-request: live-block-ops.txt: Rename, rewrite, and improve it bitmaps.md: Convert to rST; move it into 'interop' dir Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-07-18bitmaps.md: Convert to rST; move it into 'interop' dirKashyap Chamarthy1-505/+0
This is part of the on-going effort to convert QEMU upstream documentation syntax to reStructuredText (rST). The conversion to rST was done using: $ pandoc -f markdown -t rst bitmaps.md -o bitmaps.rst Then, make a couple of small syntactical adjustments. While at it, reword a statement to avoid ambiguity. Addressing the feedback from this thread: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-06/msg05428.html Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170717105205.32639-2-kchamart@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
2017-07-17Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stefanha/tags/tracing-pull-request' ↵Peter Maydell1-2/+1
into staging # gpg: Signature made Mon 17 Jul 2017 13:11:17 BST # gpg: using RSA key 0x9CA4ABB381AB73C8 # gpg: Good signature from "Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>" # Primary key fingerprint: 8695 A8BF D3F9 7CDA AC35 775A 9CA4 ABB3 81AB 73C8 * remotes/stefanha/tags/tracing-pull-request: trace: update old trace events in docs trace: [trivial] Statically enable all guest events trace: [tcg, trivial] Re-align generated code trace: [tcg] Do not generate TCG code to trace dynamically-disabled events exec: [tcg] Use different TBs according to the vCPU's dynamic tracing state trace: [tcg] Delay changes to dynamic state when translating trace: Allocate cpu->trace_dstate in place Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-07-17trace: update old trace events in docsStefan Hajnoczi1-2/+1
Commit c5f1ad429cdf26023cf331075a7d327708e3db6d ("block: Remove bdrv_aio_readv/writev/flush()") removed bdrv_aio_readv()/bdrv_aio_writev() so the example in the tracing documentation is no longer valid. Reported-by: Wang Dong <dongdwdw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170714133111.27359-1-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-07-14docs/devel/memory.txt: Add section about RAM migrationPeter Maydell1-0/+31
Add a section to docs/devel/memory.txt about migration of the backing memory for RAM regions. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 1499438577-7674-12-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2017-06-07docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectoriesPaolo Bonzini15-0/+6128
Developer documentation should be its own manual. As a start, move all developer-oriented files to a separate directory. Also move non-text files to their own directories: docs/config/ for QEMU -readconfig input, and docs/spin/ for formal models to be used with the SPIN model checker. Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>