Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] python/machine: use socketpair() for console socket

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:49:37AM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> Like we did for the QMP socket, use socketpair() for the console socket
> so that hopefully there isn't a race condition during early boot where
> data might get dropped on the floor.
> 
> May or may not help with various race conditions where early console
> output is not showing up in the logs and/or potentially being missed by
> wait_for_console_pattern.
> 
> V3:
>   - Rebased.

V3 has R-B on every single patch already. Should this
just have been a PULL instead ?

> 
> V2:
>   - Fixed some Socket ownership/garbage collection problems
>   - Fixed callers of now-dropped VM arguments/properties
>   - added a dedicated sock_fd arg to ConsoleSocket()
>   - now using socketpair() for qtest console, too.
>   - dropped sock_dir arg from *all* machine.py classes
>   - Tested quite a bit more thoroughly ...
> 
> CI: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/pipelines/1019123030
> 
> John Snow (6):
>   python/machine: move socket setup out of _base_args property
>   python/machine: close sock_pair in cleanup path
>   python/console_socket: accept existing FD in initializer
>   python/machine: use socketpair() for console connections
>   python/machine: use socketpair() for qtest connection
>   python/machine: remove unused sock_dir argument
> 
>  python/qemu/machine/console_socket.py      | 29 ++++++++---
>  python/qemu/machine/machine.py             | 58 +++++++++++++---------
>  python/qemu/machine/qtest.py               | 54 +++++++++++++++-----
>  tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py                 |  5 +-
>  tests/avocado/avocado_qemu/__init__.py     |  2 +-
>  tests/avocado/machine_aspeed.py            |  5 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py              |  2 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/tests/copy-before-write |  3 +-
>  8 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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