Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] backdoor: lightweight guest-to-QEMU backdoor channel

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 12/05/2011 04:22 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> Provides the ability for the guest to communicate with user-provided code inside
> QEMU itself, using a lightweight mechanism.
>
> See first commit for a full description.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova<vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

This whole series:

Nacked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

If you want to extend QEMU, then send proper patches.  Adding random C files to 
the build is unacceptable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> * Rebase on 1c8a881daaca6fe0646a425b0970fb3ad25f6732 from master.
> * Multiple documentation fixes and clarifications.
> * Fixed a couple of bugs when freeing memory.
> * Actually call 'backdoor_fini' in user mode when exiting.
> * Try to auto-detect the backdoor device in the example guest library when
>    running a full-system linux.
> * Rewrite code to read and write into the control channel in softmmu mode,
>    making it much clearer and leaving endianness handling up to the user-provided
>    backdoor callbacks.
>
>
> Lluís Vilanova (5):
>        backdoor: Add documentation
>        backdoor: Add build infrastructure
>        backdoor: [*-user] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a"
>        backdoor: [softmmu] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a"
>        backdoor: Add guest-side library
>
>
>   Makefile                       |    4 +
>   Makefile.objs                  |   21 ++++
>   Makefile.target                |    4 +
>   backdoor/guest/Makefile        |   18 ++++
>   backdoor/guest/common.c        |  205 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   backdoor/guest/qemu-backdoor.h |   59 ++++++++++++
>   backdoor/qemu/qemu-backdoor.h  |   31 ++++++
>   backdoor/qemu/softmmu.c        |  186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   backdoor/qemu/user.c           |  202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   backdoor/qemu/user.h           |   30 ++++++
>   bsd-user/main.c                |   26 +++++
>   bsd-user/mmap.c                |    7 +
>   bsd-user/syscall.c             |   13 +++
>   configure                      |   35 +++++++
>   darwin-user/main.c             |   26 +++++
>   darwin-user/mmap.c             |    7 +
>   docs/backdoor.txt              |  167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hw/pci.h                       |    1
>   linux-user/main.c              |   32 ++++++
>   linux-user/mmap.c              |    7 +
>   linux-user/syscall.c           |   10 ++
>   21 files changed, 1089 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/guest/Makefile
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/guest/common.c
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/guest/qemu-backdoor.h
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/qemu/qemu-backdoor.h
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/qemu/softmmu.c
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/qemu/user.c
>   create mode 100644 backdoor/qemu/user.h
>   create mode 100644 docs/backdoor.txt
>
>