From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5N1-0005W2-Gi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:24:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5Mx-0000tN-Dv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:24:23 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::243]:40449) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5Mx-0000rf-8f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:24:19 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-x243.google.com with SMTP id t135-v6so15844938iof.7 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:24:15 -0400 From: ryang Message-ID: <20180702202415.GA12440@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] module: Use QEMU_MODULE_PATH as a search path List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Fam Zheng The current paths for modules are CONFIG_QEMU_MODDIR and paths relative to the executable. Qemu and its modules can be installed and executed in paths that are different from these search paths. This change allows a search path to be specified by environment variable. An example usage for this is postmarketOS[1]. This is a build environment for Alpine Linux. It sets up Alpine Linux in a chroot environment. Alpine's Qemu packages are installed in the chroot. The Alpine Linux Qemu package is used to test compiled Alpine Linux system images. This way there isn't a reliance on the which ever version of Qemu the host system / distro provides. postmarketOS executes Qemu on host system outside of the chroot The Qemu module search path needs to point to the location of the chroot relative to the host system. e.g. The root of the Alpine Linux chroot is: ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/chroot_native/ Alpine's Qemu is installed at ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/chroot_native/usr/bin/ The Qemu module search path needs to be: QEMU_MODULE_PATH=~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/chroot_native/usr/lib/qemu/ [1] https://postmarketos.org/ Signed-off-by: ryang --- Apologies if this is not sent to the correct maintainers. I couldn't find anyone listed for this specific file in MAINTAINERS or by using get_maintainer.pl. I'm sending this to the orignal author and maintainers involved with the patch that added module loading. util/module.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/util/module.c b/util/module.c index c909737..f9088a5 100644 --- a/util/module.c +++ b/util/module.c @@ -162,9 +162,10 @@ void module_load_one(const char *prefix, const char *lib_name) #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES char *fname = NULL; char *exec_dir; - char *dirs[3]; + char *search_path; + char *dirs[4]; char *module_name; - int i = 0; + int i = 0, n_dirs; int ret; static GHashTable *loaded_modules; @@ -186,14 +187,18 @@ void module_load_one(const char *prefix, const char *lib_name) g_hash_table_insert(loaded_modules, module_name, module_name); exec_dir = qemu_get_exec_dir(); - dirs[i++] = g_strdup_printf("%s", CONFIG_QEMU_MODDIR); - dirs[i++] = g_strdup_printf("%s/..", exec_dir ? : ""); - dirs[i++] = g_strdup_printf("%s", exec_dir ? : ""); - assert(i == ARRAY_SIZE(dirs)); + search_path = getenv("QEMU_MODULE_PATH"); + if (search_path != NULL) + dirs[n_dirs++] = g_strdup_printf("%s", search_path); + dirs[n_dirs++] = g_strdup_printf("%s", CONFIG_QEMU_MODDIR); + dirs[n_dirs++] = g_strdup_printf("%s/..", exec_dir ? : ""); + dirs[n_dirs++] = g_strdup_printf("%s", exec_dir ? : ""); + assert(n_dirs <= ARRAY_SIZE(dirs)); + g_free(exec_dir); exec_dir = NULL; - for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dirs); i++) { + for (i = 0; i < n_dirs; i++) { fname = g_strdup_printf("%s/%s%s", dirs[i], module_name, HOST_DSOSUF); ret = module_load_file(fname); @@ -205,7 +210,7 @@ void module_load_one(const char *prefix, const char *lib_name) } } - for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dirs); i++) { + for (i = 0; i < n_dirs; i++) { g_free(dirs[i]); } -- 2.7.4