linux-kernel - Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] qemu: Implement virtio-pstore device

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Message-ID: <20160728130841.GL22677@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:08:41 +0100
From:	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@...hat.com>
To:	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
Cc:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] qemu: Implement virtio-pstore device

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 01:56:07PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:39:53PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:02:54AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:08:30AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > > +static ssize_t virtio_pstore_do_write(VirtIOPstore *s, struct iovec *out_sg,
> > > > +                                      unsigned int out_num,
> > > > +                                      struct virtio_pstore_req *req)
> > > > +{
> > > > +    char path[PATH_MAX];
> > > > +    int fd;
> > > > +    ssize_t len;
> > > > +    unsigned short type;
> > > > +    int flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT;
> > > > +
> > > > +    /* we already consume the req */
> > > > +    iov_discard_front(&out_sg, &out_num, sizeof(*req));
> > > > +
> > > > +    virtio_pstore_to_filename(s, path, sizeof(path), req);
> > > > +
> > > > +    type = le16_to_cpu(req->type);
> > > > +
> > > > +    if (type == VIRTIO_PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG) {
> > > > +        flags |= O_TRUNC;
> > > > +    } else if (type == VIRTIO_PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE) {
> > > > +        flags |= O_APPEND;
> > > > +    }
> > > > +
> > > > +    fd = open(path, flags, 0644);
> > > > +    if (fd < 0) {
> > > > +        error_report("cannot open %s", path);
> > > > +        return -1;
> > > > +    }
> > > > +    len = writev(fd, out_sg, out_num);
> > > > +    close(fd);
> > > > +
> > > > +    return len;
> > > 
> > > All this is blocking VM until host io completes.
> > 
> > Hmm.. I don't know about the internals of qemu.  So does it make guest
> > stop?  If so, that's what I want to do for _DMESG. :)  As it's called
> > only on kernel oops I think it's admittable.  But for _CONSOLE, it
> > needs to do asynchronously.  Maybe I can add a thread to do the work.
> 
> Please look at include/io/channel.h.  QEMU is event-driven and tends to
> use asynchronous I/O instead of spawning threads.  The include/io/ APIs
> allow you to do asynchronous I/O in the event loop.

That is true, except for I/O to/from plain files - the QIOChannelFile
impl doesn't do anything special (yet) to make that work correctly in
non-blocking mode. Of course that could be fixed...

Regards,
Daniel
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