libvirt/src
Laine Stump 85b22f528f util: add VIR_(APPEND|INSERT|DELETE)_ELEMENT
I noticed when writing the backend functions for virNetworkUpdate that
I was repeating the same sequence of memmove, VIR_REALLOC, nXXX-- (and
messed up the args to memmove at least once), and had seen the same
sequence in a lot of other places, so I decided to write a few
utility functions/macros - see the .h file for full documentation.

The intent is to reduce the number of lines of code, but more
importantly to eliminate the need to check the element size and
element count arithmetic every time we need to do this (I *always*
make at least one mistake.)

VIR_INSERT_ELEMENT: insert one element at an arbitrary index within an
  array of objects. The size of each object is determined
  automatically by the macro using sizeof(*array). The new element's
  contents are copied into the inserted space, then the original copy
  of contents are 0'ed out (if everything else was
  successful). Compile-time assignment and size compatibility between
  the array and the new element is guaranteed (see explanation below
  [*])

VIR_INSERT_ELEMENT_COPY: identical to VIR_INSERT_ELEMENT, except that
  the original contents of newelem are not cleared to 0 (i.e. a copy
  is made).

VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT: This is just a special case of VIR_INSERT_ELEMENT
  that "inserts" one past the current last element.

VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY: identical to VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT, except that
  the original contents of newelem are not cleared to 0 (i.e. a copy
  is made).

VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT: delete one element at an arbitrary index within an
  array of objects. It's assumed that the element being deleted is
  already saved elsewhere (or cleared, if that's what is appropriate).

All five of these macros have an _INPLACE variant, which skips the
memory re-allocation of the array, assuming that the caller has
already done it (when inserting) or will do it later (when deleting).

Note that VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT* can return a failure, but only if an
invalid index is given (index + amount to delete is > current array
size), so in most cases you can safely ignore the return (that's why
the helper function virDeleteElementsN isn't declared with
ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK). A warning is logged if this ever happens,
since it is surely a coding error.

[*] One initial problem with the INSERT and APPEND macros was that,
due to both the array pointer and newelem pointer being cast to void*
when passing to virInsertElementsN(), any chance of type-checking was
lost. If we were going to move in newelem with a memmove anyway, we
would be no worse off for this. However, most current open-coded
insert/append operations use direct struct assignment to move the new
element into place (or just populate the new element directly) - thus
use of the new macros would open a possibility for new usage errors
that didn't exist before (e.g. accidentally sending &newelemptr rather
than newelemptr - I actually did this quite a lot in my test
conversions of existing code).

But thanks to Eric Blake's clever thinking, I was able to modify the
INSERT and APPEND macros so that they *do* check for both assignment
and size compatibility of *ptr (an element in the array) and newelem
(the element being copied into the new position of the array). This is
done via clever use of the C89-guaranteed fact that the sizeof()
operator must have *no* side effects (so an assignment inside sizeof()
is checked for validity, but not actually evaluated), and the fact
that virInsertElementsN has a "# of new elements" argument that we
want to always be 1.
2012-12-11 05:49:44 -05:00
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conf qemu: Allow the user to specify vendor and product for disk 2012-12-07 16:53:27 +08:00
cpu cpu: Add Intel Haswell cpu model 2012-11-26 14:19:57 +01:00
esx Add iSCSI backend storage driver for ESX 2012-12-03 21:12:23 +01:00
hyperv Remove spurious whitespace between function name & open brackets 2012-11-02 13:36:49 +00:00
interface build: more fix to avoid C99 for loop 2012-11-28 09:34:51 -07:00
libxl Convert libxl driver to Xen 4.2 2012-12-06 16:15:54 -07:00
locking sanlock: Retry after EINPROGRESS 2012-11-16 08:00:11 +01:00
lxc Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
network network: prevent a few invalid configuration combinations 2012-12-05 18:03:34 -05:00
node_device Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
nwfilter Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
openvz capabilities: defaultConsoleTargetType can depend on architecture 2012-11-09 09:20:59 -07:00
parallels parallels: add support of removing disks 2012-12-11 16:26:32 +08:00
phyp Add private data pointer to virStoragePool and virStorageVol 2012-11-26 14:39:39 +01:00
qemu qemu: Restart CPUs with valid async job type when doing external snapshots 2012-12-11 11:20:53 +01:00
remote remote: Avoid the thread race condition 2012-12-06 00:43:18 +08:00
rpc rpc: fix build failure with older dbus 2012-12-04 15:50:11 -07:00
secret Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
security Fix error handling in virSecurityManagerGetMountOptions 2012-11-27 16:45:04 +00:00
storage storage: allow metadata preallocation when creating qcow2 images 2012-12-07 11:46:48 +01:00
test Add private data pointer to virStoragePool and virStorageVol 2012-11-26 14:39:39 +01:00
uml Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
util util: add VIR_(APPEND|INSERT|DELETE)_ELEMENT 2012-12-11 05:49:44 -05:00
vbox Add private data pointer to virStoragePool and virStorageVol 2012-11-26 14:39:39 +01:00
vmware capabilities: defaultConsoleTargetType can depend on architecture 2012-11-09 09:20:59 -07:00
vmx Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct 2012-09-27 10:11:44 +01:00
xen Fix memory leak introduced by commit 501bfad1 2012-12-04 10:39:07 -07:00
xenapi capabilities: defaultConsoleTargetType can depend on architecture 2012-11-09 09:20:59 -07:00
xenxs Remove spurious whitespace between function name & open brackets 2012-11-02 13:36:49 +00:00
check-symfile.pl Check for private symbols presence as well 2012-10-05 15:04:56 +02:00
datatypes.c Add private data pointer to virStoragePool and virStorageVol 2012-11-26 14:39:39 +01:00
datatypes.h Add private data pointer to virStoragePool and virStorageVol 2012-11-26 14:39:39 +01:00
driver.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
driver.h Replace polling for active VMs with signalling by drivers 2012-12-04 12:14:04 +00:00
dtrace2systemtap.pl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
internal.h Various typos and misspellings 2012-10-12 00:03:43 +02:00
libvirt_atomic.syms Rewrite virAtomic APIs using GLib's atomic ops code 2012-08-02 11:50:59 +01:00
libvirt_daemon.syms Do not export symbol virStateActive anymore 2012-12-04 23:41:10 +08:00
libvirt_driver_modules.syms
libvirt_esx.syms
libvirt_internal.h Add support for offline migration 2012-12-10 21:52:15 +01:00
libvirt_libssh2.syms libssh2_transport: add main libssh2 transport implementation 2012-08-21 14:47:09 +02:00
libvirt_linux.syms build: Don't export xenLinuxDomainBlockStats symbol 2012-07-31 11:28:32 +02:00
libvirt_openvz.syms openvz: Add openvzVEGetStringParam 2012-07-20 21:54:35 +02:00
libvirt_private.syms util: add VIR_(APPEND|INSERT|DELETE)_ELEMENT 2012-12-11 05:49:44 -05:00
libvirt_probes.d Turn virNetClient* into virObject instances 2012-08-07 11:47:55 +01:00
libvirt_public.syms Add virDomainSendProcessSignal API 2012-11-29 15:50:12 +00:00
libvirt_qemu_probes.d build: fix binary location in stap files --with-driver-modules 2012-08-10 23:11:26 -04:00
libvirt_qemu.syms qemu-agent: available in 0.10.0 2012-08-23 13:05:52 -06:00
libvirt_sasl.syms Move some SASL symbols into libvirt_sasl.syms 2012-08-15 21:41:42 +01:00
libvirt_vmx.syms
libvirt_xenxs.syms
libvirt-qemu.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt.c Add support for offline migration 2012-12-10 21:52:15 +01:00
libvirt.conf
Makefile.am implement managedsave in libvirt xen legacy driver 2012-12-04 09:59:23 -07:00
nodeinfo.c node_memory: Do not fail if there is parameter unsupported 2012-11-29 15:36:23 +08:00
nodeinfo.h cpustat: fix regression when cpus are offline 2012-10-26 15:34:52 -06:00
qemu_protocol-structs agent: add remote driver support 2012-08-23 19:05:50 +08:00
README hyperv: Add basic documentation 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
remote_protocol-structs Specify remote protocol for virDomainSendProcessSignal 2012-11-29 15:50:12 +00:00
virkeepaliveprotocol-structs
virnetprotocol-structs

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules

 * vmx/   - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * hyperv/       - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
 * xenapi/       - Xen using libxenserver


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly

 * cpu/          - CPU feature management
 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * nwfilter/     - Network traffic filtering rules
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories