Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] serial: Open non-block

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 26/02/2018 14:04, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > 
> > On a real serial device, the open can block if the handshake
> > lines are in a particular state.  If a QEMU is passing the serial
> > device to the guest, the QEMU startup is blocked opening the device
> > (with a symptom seen as a timeout from libvirt).
> > 
> > Open the serial port with O_NONBLOCK.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> Socket chardevs have "nowait" for that.  Should serial have something
> similar?

Hmm, maybe, although I think for real serial the nonblocking open should
be the default.
I've not got any more complex tests though for it.
stty -F uses the same trick of opening non-blocking.

Dave

> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
> 
> > ---
> >  chardev/char-serial.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/chardev/char-serial.c b/chardev/char-serial.c
> > index feb52e559d..97be5d4a63 100644
> > --- a/chardev/char-serial.c
> > +++ b/chardev/char-serial.c
> > @@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ static void qmp_chardev_open_serial(Chardev *chr,
> >      ChardevHostdev *serial = backend->u.serial.data;
> >      int fd;
> >  
> > -    fd = qmp_chardev_open_file_source(serial->device, O_RDWR, errp);
> > +    fd = qmp_chardev_open_file_source(serial->device, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK,
> > +                                      errp);
> >      if (fd < 0) {
> >          return;
> >      }
> > 
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK