The new virFileCache will nicely handle the caching logic for any data
that we would like to cache. For each type of data we will just need
to implement few handlers that will take care of creating, validating,
loading and saving the cached data.
The cached data must be an instance of virObject.
Currently we cache QEMU capabilities which will start using
virFileCache.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
It is more related to a domain as we might use it even when there is
no systemd and it does not use any dbus/systemd functions. In order
not to use code from conf/ in util/ pass machineName in cgroups code
as a parameter. That also fixes a leak of machineName in the lxc
driver and cleans up and de-duplicates some code.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 328bd24443.
As it turns out, this is not portable and very Linux & glibc
specific. Worse, this may lead to not starving writers on Linux
but everywhere else. Revert this and if the starvation occurs
resolve it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Up until now we only had virObjectLockable which uses mutexes for
mutually excluding each other in critical section. Well, this is
not enough. Future work will require RW locks so we might as well
have virObjectRWLockable which is introduced here.
Moreover, polymorphism is introduced to our code for the first
time. Yay! More specifically, virObjectLock will grab a write
lock, virObjectLockRead will grab a read lock then (what a
surprise right?). This has great advantage that an object can be
made derived from virObjectRWLockable in a single line and still
continue functioning properly (mutexes can be viewed as grabbing
write locks only). Then just those critical sections that can
grab a read lock need fixing. Therefore the resulting change is
going to be way smaller.
In order to avoid writer starvation, the object initializes RW
lock that prefers writers.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We already have virRWLockInit. But this uses pthread defaults
which prefer reader to initialize the RW lock. This may lead to
writer starvation. Therefore we need to have the counterpart that
prefers writers. Now, according to the
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np() man page setting
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP attribute is no-op. Therefore we
need to use PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP
attribute. So much for good enum value names.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Currently, @port is type of string. Well, that's overkill and
waste of memory. Port is always an integer. Use it as such.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
A new function virNetDevOpenvswitchUpdateVlan has been created to instruct
OVS of the changes. qemuDomainChangeNet has been modified to handle the
update of the VLAN configuration for a running guest and rely on
virNetDevOpenvswitchUpdateVlan to do the actual update if needed.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
While searching for an element using a function it may be
desirable to know the element key for future operation.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
The purpose of this function is to tell if the current position
in given FD is in data section or a hole and how much bytes there
is remaining until the end of the section. This is achieved by
couple of lseeks(). The most important part is that we reposition
the FD back, so that the position is unchanged from the caller
POV. And until now the final lseek() back to the original
position was done with no check for errors. And I was convinced
that that's okay since nothing can go wrong. However, review
feedback from a related series persuaded me, that it's better to
be safe than sorry. Therefore, lets check if the final lseek()
succeeded and if it doesn't report an error.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Fill them in right away rather than having to figure out at runtime
whether they are necessary or not.
virStorageSourceNetworkDefaultPort does not need to be exported any
more.
This reverts commit e4b980c853.
When a binary links against a .a archive (as opposed to a shared library),
any symbols which are marked as 'weak' get silently dropped. As a result
when the binary later runs, those 'weak' functions have an address of
0x0 and thus crash when run.
This happened with virtlogd and virtlockd because they don't link to
libvirt.so, but instead just libvirt_util.a and libvirt_rpc.a. The
virRandomBits symbols was weak and so left out of the virtlogd &
virtlockd binaries, despite being required by virHashTable functions.
Various other binaries like libvirt_lxc, libvirt_iohelper, etc also
link directly to .a files instead of libvirt.so, so are potentially
at risk of dropping symbols leading to a later runtime crash.
This is normal linker behaviour because a weak symbol is not treated
as undefined, so nothing forces it to be pulled in from the .a You
have to force the linker to pull in weak symbols using -u$SYMNAME
which is not a practical approach.
This risk is silent bad linkage that affects runtime behaviour is
not acceptable for a fix that was merely trying to fix the test
suite. So stop using __weak__ again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently the scan of the /proc/mounts file used to find cgroup mount
points doesn't take into account that mount points may hidden by other
mount points. For, example in certain Kubernetes environments the
/proc/mounts contains the following lines:
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_prio,net_cls cgroup ...
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs ...
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup ...
In this particular environment the first mount point is hidden by the
second one. The correct mount point is the third one, but libvirt will
never process it because it only checks the first mount point for each
controller (net_cls in this case). So libvirt will try to use the first
mount point, which doesn't actually exist, and the complete detection
process will fail.
To avoid that issue this patch changes the virCgroupDetectMountsFromFile
function so that when there are duplicates it takes the information from
the last line in /proc/mounts. This requires removing the previous
explicit condition to skip duplicates, and adding code to free the
memory used by the processing of duplicated lines.
Related-To: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1468214
Related-To: https://github.com/kubevirt/libvirt/issues/4
Signed-off-by: Juan Hernandez <jhernand@redhat.com>
Currently all mockable functions are annotated with the 'noinline'
attribute. This is insufficient to guarantee that a function can
be reliably mocked with an LD_PRELOAD. The C language spec allows
the compiler to assume there is only a single implementation of
each function. It can thus do things like propagating constant
return values into the caller at compile time, or creating
multiple specialized copies of the function body each optimized
for a different caller. To prevent these optimizations we must
also set the 'noclone' and 'weak' attributes.
This fixes the test suite when libvirt.so is built with CLang
with optimization enabled.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The HOST_NAME_MAX, INET_ADDRSTRLEN and VIR_LOOPBACK_IPV4_ADDR
constants are only used by a handful of files, so are better
kept in virsocketaddr.h or the source file that uses them.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
If a value of the first level object contains more objects needing
deflattening which would be wrapped in an actual object the function
would not recurse into them.
By this simple addition we can fully deflatten the objects.
As it turns out sometimes users pass in an arbitrarily nested structure
e.g. for the qemu backing chains JSON pseudo protocol. This new
implementation deflattens now a single object fully even with nested
keys.
Additionally it's not necessary now to stick with the "file." prefix for
the properties.
Currently the function would deflatten the object by dropping the 'file'
prefix from the attributes. This does not really scale well or adhere to
the documentation.
Until we refactor the worker to properly deflatten everything we at
least simulate it by adding the "file" wrapper object back.
virCommand is a version of virExec that doesn't fork, however it is
just calling execve and doesn't honors setting uid/gid and pwd.
This commit extrac those pieces from virExec() to a virExecCommon()
function that is called from both virExec() and virCommandExec().
Problem with our error reporting is that the error object is a
thread local variable. That means if there's an error reported
within the I/O thread it gets logged and everything, but later
when the event loop aborts the stream it doesn't see the original
error. So we are left with some generic error. We can do better
if we copy the error message between the threads.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
When the I/O thread quits (e.g. due to an I/O error, lseek()
error, whatever), any subsequent virFDStream API should return
error too. Moreover, when invoking stream event callback, we must
set the VIR_STREAM_EVENT_ERROR flag so that the callback knows
something bad happened.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371892
As it turns out the volume create, build, and refresh path was not peeking
at the meta data, so immediately after a create operation the value displayed
for capacity was still incorrect. However, if a pool refresh was done the
correct value was fetched as a result of a meta data peek.
The reason is it seems historically if the file type is RAW then peeking
at the file just took the physical value for the capacity. However, since
we know if it's an encrypted file, then peeking at the meta data will be
required in order to get a true capacity value.
So check for encryption in the source and if present, use the meta data
in order to fill in the capacity value and set the payload_offset.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461270
When fetching stats for a vhost-user type of interface, we run
couple of ovs-vsctl commands and parse their output. However, not
all stats exist at all times, for instance "rx_dropped" or
"tx_errors" can be missing. Thing is, we ask for a bulk of
statistics and if one of them is missing an error is reported
instead of returning the rest. Since we ignore errors, we fail to
set statistics. Fix this by asking for each piece alone.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Commit 5c54d29aae forgot to do that when moving the only function
using it and it broke the build on some platforms.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This commit fixes a locale problem with locales that use comma as a mantissa
separator. Example: 12.34 en_US = 12,34 pt_BR. Since strtod() is a non-safe
function, virStrToDouble() will have problems to parse double numbers from
kernel settings and other double numbers from static files (XMLs, JSONs, etc).
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457634
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457481
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
The function virDoubleToStr() is defined in virutil.* and virStrToDouble() is
defined in virstring.*. Joining both functions into the same file makes more
sense.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Starting from qemu 2.9, more granular options are supported. Add parser
for the relevant bits.
With this patch libvirt is able to parse the host and target IQN of from
the JSON pseudo-protocol specification.
This corresponds to BlockdevOptionsIscsi in qemu qapi.
'SocketAddress' structure was changed to contain 'inet' instead of
'tcp' since qemu commit c5f1ae3ae7b. Existing entries have a backward
compatibility layer.
Libvirt will parse 'inet' and 'tcp' as equivalents.
The same json strucutre is used for NBD and sheepdog volumes for
specifying of the host. Rename the function and fix up error messages to
be more universal.
Change the settings from qemuDomainUpdateDeviceLive() as otherwise the
call would succeed even though nothing has changed.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414627
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
With glibc >= 2.25.90 writev() is only available if you explicitly
include sys/uio.h. This matches the documented requirements, but
older glibc and other *NIX pulled in writev indirectly so the bug
wasn't noticed previously.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Use ATTRIBUTE_FALLTHROUGH, introduced by commit
5d84f5961b, instead of comments to
indicate that the fall through is an intentional behavior.
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459091
We try to get the last element of the passed path by calling
strrch(path, '/'). However, the pointer that strrchr() returns
points at the slash, We want string that starts right after that.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
There's a problem with current streams after I switched them from
iohelper to thread implementation. Previously, iohelper made sure
not to exceed specified @length resulting in the pipe EOF
appearing at the exact right moment (the pipe was used to tunnel
the data from the iohelper to the daemon). Anyway, when switching
to thread I had to write the I/O code from scratch. Whilst doing
that I took an inspiration from the iohelper code, but since the
usage of pipe switched to slightly different meaning, there was
no 1:1 relationship between the codes.
Moreover, after introducing VIR_FDSTREAM_MSG_TYPE_HOLE, the
condition that should made sure we won't exceed @length was
completely wrong.
The fix is to:
a) account for holes for @length
b) cap not just data sections but holes too (if @length would be
exceeded)
For this purpose, the condition needs to be brought closer to the
code that handles holes and data sections.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The host address or the socket path have already been checked at the
begining of the function virStorageSourceParseNBDColonString(). So,
when the parameter is not a unix socket, there is no reason to check
the address again because if it does not exists, the logic will fail
in the first IF conditional.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
VIR_STRDUP returns -1 if the string copy was not successful. So, the
current comparison/logic is throwing an error when VIR_STRDUP() returns
1. Only when source is NULL, it is considering as a success which is
not right.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Callers expect the return value to be the total number of vcpus in the
host (including offline vcpus). The refactor in c67e04e25f
broke this assumption by using virHostCPUGetOnlineBitmap which only
creates a bitmap long enough to hold the last online vcpu.
Report the full number of host vcpus by returning value from
virHostCPUGetCount().
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
We will need some convenient helper functions for managing sysfs-entries
for fibre channel-backed devices. Let's implement them and make them
available in the private API.
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The @ipv6_host allocated in virAsprintf may be lost when virAsprintf
addrstr failed.
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Many vendor id's and product id's have leading zeros. We should show
them in the logs.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
@reply is a DBusMessage object returned by virDBusCallMethod in
get machine object call path, dereference it before calling
virDBusCallMethod again to get machine name.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Some older systems (such as RHEL6) lack SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
which virFileInData relies on. Provide a stub for these systems.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Currently, we don't assign any meaning to that. Our current view
on virStream is that it's merely a pipe. And pipes don't support
seeking.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Commit e3ba4025 introduced srv->handles and VIR_RESIZE_N to allocate
@handles as necessary, but did not free the handles during when calling
virNetlinkEventServiceStop.
Commit 15a71e60 introduced the virNetlinkEventServiceStopAll function, and
the code in virNetlinkEventServiceStop is copied to this function, so just
call virNetlinkEventServiceStop instead.
Namely, this patch is about virMediatedDeviceGetIOMMUGroup{Dev,Num}
functions. There's no compelling reason why these functions should take
an object, on the contrary, having to create an object every time one
needs to query the IOMMU group number, discarding the object afterwards,
seems odd.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Commit 8e09663 "pci: recognize/report GEN4 (PCIe 4.0) card 16GT/s Link
speed" introduced another speed into enum, but mistakenly also altered
field width, so one bit of link width was included there.
Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Basically, what is needed here is to introduce new message type
for the messages passed between the event loop callbacks and the
worker thread that does all the I/O. The idea is that instead of
a queue of read buffers we will have a queue where "hole of size
X" messages appear. That way the event loop callbacks can just
check the head of the queue and see if the worker thread is in
data or a hole section and how long the section is.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This function takes a FD and determines whether the current
position is in data section or in a hole. In addition to that,
it also determines how much bytes are there remaining till the
current section ends.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
One big downside of using the pipe to transfer the data is that
we can really transfer just bare data. No metadata can be carried
through unless some formatted messages are introduced. That would
be quite painful to achieve so let's use a message queue. It's
fairly easy to exchange info between threads now that iohelper is
no longer used.
The reason why we cannot use the FD for plain files directly is
that despite us setting noblock flag on the FD, any
read()/write() blocks regardless (which is a show stopper since
those parts of the code are run from the event loop) and poll()
reports such FD as always readable/writable - even though the
subsequent operation might block.
The pipe is still not gone though. It is used to signal the event
loop that an event occurred (e.g. data is available for reading
in the queue, or vice versa).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The QEMU default is GICv2, and some of the code in libvirt
relies on the exact value. Stop pretending that's not the
case and use GICv2 explicitly where needed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The metadata libvirt cares about is identical for version 3
as for previous versions, so we merely need list the new
version number.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Simply tries to match the provided regex on a string and returns
the result. Useful if caller don't care about the matched substring
and want to just test if some pattern patches a string.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
GCC complains that inlining virStringTrimOptionalNewline is not
likely on some platforms:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
../../src/util/virfile.c: In function 'virFileReadValueBitmap':
../../src/util/virstring.h:292: error: inlining failed in call to 'virStringTrimOptionalNewline': call is unlikely and code size would grow [-Winline]
../../src/util/virfile.c:3987: error: called from here [-Winline]
Inlining this function is not going to be a measurable performance
benefit either, since the time required to execute it is going to
be dominated by running of strlen() over the string, not by the
function call overhead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
It is no longer needed thanks to the great virfilewrapper.c. And this
way we don't have to add a new set of functions for each prefixed
path.
While on that, add two functions that weren't there before, string and
scaled integer reading ones. Also increase the length of the string
being read by one to accompany for the optional newline at the
end (i.e. change INT_STRLEN_BOUND to INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND).
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
So, because mingw is somehow OK with dereferencing a pointer within a
VIR_DEBUG macro, compared to outside of it to which it complained with a
"potential NULL pointer dereference" error (still a false positive), we
can make the code a tiny bit cleaner.
Sighed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
After bdcf6e481 there is a crasher in libvirt. The commit assumes
that priv->perf is always set. That is not true. For inactive
domains, the priv->perf is not allocated as it is set in
qemuProcessLaunch(). Now, usually we differentiate between
accesses to inactive and active definition and it works just
fine. Except for 'domstats'. There priv->perf is accessed without
prior check for domain inactivity. While we could check for that,
more robust solution is to make virPerfEventIsEnabled() accept
NULL.
How to reproduce:
1) ensure you have at least one inactive domain
2) virsh domstats
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the following MinGW error (although actually being a
false positive):
../../src/util/virmdev.c: In function 'virMediatedDeviceListMarkDevices':
../../src/util/virmdev.c:453:21: error: potential null pointer
dereference [-Werror=null-dereference]
const char *mdev_path = mdev->path;
^~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The problem resides in virHostdevUpdateActiveMediatedDevices which gets
called during qemuProcessReconnect. The issue here is that
virMediatedDeviceListAdd takes a pointer to the item to be added to the
list to which VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT is used, which also clears the pointer.
However, in this case only the local copy of the pointer got cleared,
leaving the original pointing to valid memory. To sum it up, during
cleanup phase, the original pointer is freed and the daemon crashes
basically any time it would access it.
Backtrace:
0x00007ffff3ccdeba in __strcmp_sse2_unaligned
0x00007ffff72a444a in virMediatedDeviceListFindIndex
0x00007ffff7241446 in virHostdevReAttachMediatedDevices
0x00007fffc60215d9 in qemuHostdevReAttachMediatedDevices
0x00007fffc60216dc in qemuHostdevReAttachDomainDevices
0x00007fffc6046e6f in qemuProcessStop
0x00007fffc6091596 in processMonitorEOFEvent
0x00007fffc6091793 in qemuProcessEventHandler
0x00007ffff7294bf5 in virThreadPoolWorker
0x00007ffff7294184 in virThreadHelper
0x00007ffff3fdc3c4 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
0x00007ffff3d269cf in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446455
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Use a local variable to hold data, rather than accessing the pointer
after calling virMediatedDeviceListAdd (therefore VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT).
Although not causing an issue at the moment, this change is a necessary
prerequisite for tweaking virMediatedDeviceListAdd in a separate patch,
which will take a reference for the source pointer (instead of pointer
value) and will clear it along the way.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
If we are encoding a block of data that is 16 bytes in length,
we cannot leave it as 16 bytes, we must pad it out to the next
block boundary, 32 bytes. Without this padding, the decoder will
incorrectly treat the last byte of plain text as the padding
length, as it can't distinguish padded from non-padded data.
The problem exhibited itself when using a 16 byte passphrase
for a LUKS volume
$ virsh secret-set-value 55806c7d-8e93-456f-829b-607d8c198367 \
$(echo -n 1234567812345678 | base64)
Secret value set
$ virsh start demo
error: Failed to start domain demo
error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: >>>>>>>>>>Len 16
2017-05-02T10:35:40.016390Z qemu-system-x86_64: -object \
secret,id=virtio-disk1-luks-secret0,data=SEtNi5vDUeyseMKHwc1c1Q==,\
keyid=masterKey0,iv=zm7apUB1A6dPcH53VW960Q==,format=base64: \
Incorrect number of padding bytes (56) found on decrypted data
Notice how the padding '56' corresponds to the ordinal value of
the character '8'.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
... with VIR_NET_GENERATED_MACV???_PREFIX, which is defined in
util/virnetdevmacvlan.h.
Since VIR_NET_GENERATED_PREFIX is used for plain tap devices, it is
renamed to VIR_NET_GENERATED_TAP_PREFIX and moved to virnetdev.h
MACVTAP_NAME_PREFIX and MACVLAN_NAME_PREFIX could be useful to other
files if they were defined in virnetdevmacvlan.h instead of
virnetdevmacvlan.c, so do that (while slightly renaming them and also
adding yet another #define that chooses between macvlan/macvtap based
on flags).
This is a prerequisite to fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1335798
After 1eb6647979 nobody calls the iohelper with 6 arguments.
Everybody uses the other mode. Well, the only user of iohelper
after the previous commit is virFileWrapperFd really.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Currently we use iohelper for virFDStream implementation. This is
because UNIX I/O can lie sometimes: even though a FD for a
file/block device is set as unblocking, actual read()/write() can
block. To avoid this, a pipe is created and one end is kept for
read/write while the other is handed over to iohelper to
write/read the data for us. Thus it's iohelper which gets blocked
and not our event loop.
This approach has two problems:
1) we are spawning a new process.
2) any exchange of information between daemon and iohelper can be
done only through the pipe.
Therefore, iohelper is replaced with an implementation in thread
which is created just for the stream lifetime. The data are still
transferred through pipe (for now), but both problems described
above are solved.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
While this is no functional change, it makes the code look a bit
nicer. Moreover, it prepares ground for future work.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
There is really no reason why we should have to have 'struct'
everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
