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Anton Nefedov 0ec846bfac char: don't exit on hmp 'chardev-add help'
qemu_chr_new_from_opts() is used from both vl.c and hmp,
and it is quite confusing to see qemu suddenly exit after receiving a help
option in hmp.

Do exit(0) from vl.c instead.

Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1500977081-120929-1-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-08-01 17:27:33 +02:00
Anton Nefedov 75b601602b hmp: add hmp analogue for qmp-chardev-change
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-11-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-07-14 11:04:34 +02:00
Anton Nefedov 7bb86085e6 char: chardevice hotswap
This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend
removal.

Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e.
frontend would continue its regular operation.
However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends
via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and it's not (generally) possible to replay
that setup entirely in a backend code, as different chardevs respond
to the setup calls differently, so do frontends work differently basing
on those setup responses.
Moreover, some frontend can generally get and save the backend pointer
(qemu_chr_fe_get_driver()), and it will become invalid after backend change.

So, a frontend which would like to support chardev hotswap has to register
a "backend change" handler, and redo its backend setup there.

Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-4-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-07-14 11:04:33 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau 4d43a603c7 char: move CharBackend handling in char-fe unit
Move all the frontend struct and methods to a seperate unit. This avoids
accidentally mixing backend and frontend calls, and helps with readabilty.

Make qemu_chr_replay() a macro shared by both char and char-fe.

Export qemu_chr_write(), and use a macro for qemu_chr_write_all()

(nb: yes, CharBackend is for char frontend :)

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
2017-06-02 11:33:53 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau 7566c6efe7 chardev: serial & parallel declaration to own headers
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
2017-06-02 11:33:52 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau 8228e353d8 chardev: move headers to include/chardev
So they are all in one place. The following patch will move serial &
parallel declarations to the respective headers.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
2017-06-02 11:33:52 +04:00
Renamed from include/sysemu/char.h (Browse further)