[libvirt] [Xen-devel] Setting devid for emulated NICs (Xen 4.3.1 / libvirt 1.2.0) using libxl driver

[Stefan Bader]

On 18.12.2013 14:28, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:12 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> On 18.12.2013 13:27, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:32 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Might this libxl fix be relevant:
>>>>>         commit 5420f26507fc5c9853eb1076401a8658d72669da
>>>>>         Author: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>>>>>         Date:   Fri Jan 11 12:22:26 2013 +0000
>>>>>         
>>>>>             libxl: Set vfb and vkb devid if not done so by the caller
>>>>>             
>>>>>             Other devices set a sensible devid if the caller has not done so.
>>>>>             Do the same for vfb and vkb.  While at it, factor out the common code
>>>>>             used to determine a sensible devid, so it can be used by other
>>>>>             libxl__device_*_add functions.
>>>>>             
>>>>>             Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>>>>>             Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
>>>>>             Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
>>>>>         
>>>>> and a follow up in dfeccbeaa. Although the comment implies that nic's
>>>>> were already correctly assigning a devid if the caller specified -1, so
>>>>> I don't know why it doesn't work for you :-(
>>>>
>>>> Ok, yes, the commit above indeed changes libxl__device_nic_add to call
>>>> libxl__device_nextid for the devid... Just how is this actually called.
>>>> Maybe not sufficient but "git grep libxl__device_nic_add" in the xen code only
>>>> shows the definition and a declaration in libxl_internal.h to me...
>>>
>>> I have a feeling a macro might be involved...
>>>
>>> Here we go, look for DEFINE_DEVICE_REMOVE in libxl.c. We should really
>>> add the eventual function names in comments to provide grep fodder....
>>
>> Oh duh, yeah. So in DEFINE_DEVICE_ADD a libxl_device_nic_add is created which
>> calls to libxl__device_nic_add. When I look for the single _ version I find a
>> call from xl_cmdimpl.c and its public declaration in libxl.h.
>> So I guess the bug is that libvirt in the libxl driver never seems to do so
> 
> The macro creates libxl__add_nics which adds the nics from the
> libxl_domain_config->nics array. I don't think libvirt needs to call
> libxl_device_nic_add manually unless it is hotplugging a new nic at
> runtime.

Bah, this is another one, DEFINE_DEVICES_ADD in libxl_devices.c, that does that.
That seems to be used from a few places. That needs more research to understand
the call paths. Probably simpler starting from the entry which looks to be
libxl_domain_create_new from libvirt's side.

> 
>> . Ok,
>> thanks a lot for digging the out the DEFINE. As nice those are to create similar
>> functions from template, grep and tags fail to be helpful with them.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>>
>>> Ian.
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