[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] Enable passing pre-opened chardev socket FDs

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

This fixes a long standing problem that libvirt has with starting up QEMU.

We have to busy-wait retrying connect() on the QMP monitor socket until QEMU
finally creates & listens on it, but at same time must be careful to not wait
forever if QEMU exits.

This this patch series, libvirt can simply pass in a pre-opened UNIX domain
socket file descriptor, which it can immediately connect to with no busy-wait.

Changed in v3:

  - Introduce  qemu_strtoi & qemu_stroui functions. NB, patchew and
    checkpatch.pl complain about this patch because it calls strtol,
    but that is valid in this case.

  - Split patchs up into more pieces to better separate each logical
    change

  - Introduce a new test/test-sockets.c to directly test the
    SocketAddress FD handling, separately from chardev code.

  - Add qapi docs for FD passing syntax

  - Other misc fixes in tests

  - Reduce code duplication when getting pre-opened FDs in
    socket_connect/listen.

Changed in v2:

  - Drop 'fdset' property / address kind, and use 'fd' for both CLI and HMP
  - Add unit tests

Daniel P. Berrange (8):
  cutils: add qemu_strtoi & qemu_strtoui parsers for int/unsigned int
    types
  sockets: move fd_is_socket() into common sockets code
  sockets: pull code for testing IP availability out of specific test
  sockets: strengthen test suite IP protocol availability checks
  sockets: check that the named file descriptor is a socket
  sockets: allow SocketAddress 'fd' to reference numeric file
    descriptors
  char: refactor parsing of socket address information
  char: allow passing pre-opened socket file descriptor at startup

 chardev/char-socket.c          |  31 +-
 chardev/char.c                 |   3 +
 include/qemu/cutils.h          |   4 +
 include/qemu/sockets.h         |   1 +
 io/channel-util.c              |  13 -
 qapi/sockets.json              |   7 +
 tests/.gitignore               |   1 +
 tests/Makefile.include         |   5 +-
 tests/socket-helpers.c         | 153 ++++++++++
 tests/socket-helpers.h         |  42 +++
 tests/test-char.c              |  47 ++-
 tests/test-cutils.c            | 653 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/test-io-channel-socket.c |  72 +----
 tests/test-sockets.c           | 239 +++++++++++++++
 util/cutils.c                  | 104 +++++++
 util/qemu-sockets.c            |  36 ++-
 16 files changed, 1315 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/socket-helpers.c
 create mode 100644 tests/socket-helpers.h
 create mode 100644 tests/test-sockets.c

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