[libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for multiple serial ports to Xen driver

Michal Novotny minovotn at redhat.com
Thu Jan 20 14:07:55 UTC 2011


On 01/20/2011 03:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:06:11PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> On 01/20/2011 02:53 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> this is the patch for to support multiple serial ports
>>>> for Xen driver. The definition for Xen has been
>>>> introduced in BZ #614004 and this is adding
>>>> support to libvirt-based tools.
>>>>
>>>> The patch was originally written for RHEL-5 and libvirt
>>>> 0.8.2 (RHEL-5.6) where it has been tested using
>>>> the virsh command and correct device creation has
>>>> been confirmed in the xend.log to have the same data
>>>> for serial ports using both `xm create` and `virsh
>>>> start` commands. Also, domains with both single and
>>>> multiple serial ports has been tested to confirm
>>>> it won't introduce any regression and everything
>>>> was working fine according to my testing. This patch
>>>> is the forward-port of RHEL-5 version of the patch.
>>>>
>>>> Michal
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny<minovotn at redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   src/xen/xend_internal.c |   19 ++++++++++++-
>>>>   src/xen/xm_internal.c   |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>>>   3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/xen/xend_internal.c b/src/xen/xend_internal.c
>>>> index 44d5a22..35cdd3c 100644
>>>> --- a/src/xen/xend_internal.c
>>>> +++ b/src/xen/xend_internal.c
>>>> @@ -5959,8 +5959,23 @@ xenDaemonFormatSxpr(virConnectPtr conn,
>>>>               }
>>>>               if (def->serials) {
>>>>                   virBufferAddLit(&buf, "(serial ");
>>>> -                if (xenDaemonFormatSxprChr(def->serials[0],&buf)<   0)
>>>> -                    goto error;
>>>> +                /*
>>>> +                 * If domain doesn't have multiple serial ports defined we
>>>> +                 * keep the old-style formatting not to fail the sexpr tests
>>>> +                 */
>>>> +                if (def->nserials>   1) {
>>>> +                    for (i = 0; i<   def->nserials; i++) {
>>>> +                        virBufferAddLit(&buf, "(");
>>>> +                        if (xenDaemonFormatSxprChr(def->serials[i],&buf)<   0)
>>>> +                            goto error;
>>>> +                        virBufferAddLit(&buf, ")");
>>>> +                    }
>>>> +                }
>>>> +                else {
>>>> +                    if (xenDaemonFormatSxprChr(def->serials[0],&buf)<   0)
>>>> +                        goto error;
>>>> +                }
>>>> +
>>>>                   virBufferAddLit(&buf, ")");
>>>>               } else {
>>>>                   virBufferAddLit(&buf, "(serial none)");
>>>> diff --git a/src/xen/xm_internal.c b/src/xen/xm_internal.c
>>>> index bfb6698..1bb62d7 100644
>>>> --- a/src/xen/xm_internal.c
>>>> +++ b/src/xen/xm_internal.c
>>>> @@ -1432,20 +1432,64 @@ xenXMDomainConfigParse(virConnectPtr conn, virConfPtr conf) {
>>>>               chr = NULL;
>>>>           }
>>>>
>>>> -        if (xenXMConfigGetString(conf, "serial",&str, NULL)<   0)
>>>> -            goto cleanup;
>>>> -        if (str&&   STRNEQ(str, "none")&&
>>>> -            !(chr = xenDaemonParseSxprChar(str, NULL)))
>>>> -            goto cleanup;
>>>> +        /* Try to get the list of values to support multiple serial ports */
>>>> +        list = virConfGetValue(conf, "serial");
>>>> +        if (list&&   list->type == VIR_CONF_LIST) {
>>>> +            list = list->list;
>>>> +            while (list) {
>>>> +                char *port;
>>>> +
>>>> +                if ((list->type != VIR_CONF_STRING) || (list->str == NULL))
>>>> +                    goto skipport;
>>>> +
>>>> +                port = list->str;
>>>> +                if (VIR_ALLOC(chr)<   0)
>>>> +                    goto no_memory;
>>>>
>>>> -        if (chr) {
>>>> -            if (VIR_ALLOC_N(def->serials, 1)<   0) {
>>>> +                if (!(chr = xenDaemonParseSxprChar(port, NULL)))
>>>> +                    goto skipport;
>>>> +
>>>> +                if (VIR_REALLOC_N(def->serials, def->nserials+1)<   0)
>>>> +                    goto no_memory;
>>>> +
>>>> +                chr->targetType = VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TARGET_TYPE_SERIAL;
>>>> +                chr->type = VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_PTY;
>>>> +
>>>> +                /* Implement device type of serial port when appropriate */
>>>> +                if (STRPREFIX(port, "/dev")) {
>>>> +                    chr->type = VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_DEV;
>>>> +                    chr->target.port = def->nserials;
>>>> +                    chr->data.file.path = strdup(port);
>>>> +
>>>> +                    if (!chr->data.file.path)
>>>> +                        goto no_memory;
>>>> +                }
>>>> +
>>>> +                def->serials[def->nserials++] = chr;
>>>> +                chr = NULL;
>>>> +
>>>> +                skipport:
>>>> +                list = list->next;
>>>>                   virDomainChrDefFree(chr);
>>>> -                goto no_memory;
>>>>               }
>>>> -            chr->deviceType = VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL;
>>>> -            def->serials[0] = chr;
>>>> -            def->nserials++;
>>>> +        }
>>>> +        /* If domain is not using multiple serial ports we parse data old way */
>>>> +        else {
>>>> +            if (xenXMConfigGetString(conf, "serial",&str, NULL)<   0)
>>>> +                goto cleanup;
>>>> +            if (str&&   STRNEQ(str, "none")&&
>>>> +                !(chr = xenDaemonParseSxprChar(str, NULL)))
>>>> +                goto cleanup;
>>>> +
>>>> +            if (chr) {
>>>> +                if (VIR_ALLOC_N(def->serials, 1)<   0) {
>>>> +                    virDomainChrDefFree(chr);
>>>> +                    goto no_memory;
>>>> +                }
>>>> +                chr->targetType = VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TARGET_TYPE_SERIAL;
>>>> +                def->serials[0] = chr;
>>>> +                def->nserials++;
>>>> +            }
>>>>           }
>>>>       } else {
>>>>           if (!(def->console = xenDaemonParseSxprChar("pty", NULL)))
>>> Hmm, unless I'm missing something, this patch only seems
>>> todo half the job. It lets you parse XM configs, or generate
>>> SEXPRS, needed to start/create guests. It doesn't let you
>>> parse SEXPRS to query XML, or write XM configs to save an
>>> updated guest config.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>> Good point Daniel. What's the good test for that? Just to issue
>> virsh edit and try to change&  save something ?
> The tests/ directory has   xmconfigtest, xensexpr2xmltest and
> xenxml2sexprtest which can be used to validate all directions
> by giving sample config files
>
> Daniel
Well, those tests (all except xencapstest) passed the testing.

Michal

-- 
Michal Novotny<minovotn at redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat




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