Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest application reading from pl011 without device driver

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 22/03/2017 09:48, Jiahuan Zhang wrote:
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> On 22 March 2017 at 09:40, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com
> <mailto:pbonzini@redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     > > I am using a windows named pipe to get the data from a window
>     > > host program, which uses ReadFile () in char_win.c
>     >
>     > OK, bugs in the windows-specific char backend would be
>     > unsurprising.
>     >
>     > I'm not entirely sure how the chardev layer works, but
>     > at the pl011 end if we return 0 from our can_receive
>     > function then the chardev layer should decide it has
>     > nothing to do until the pl011 later calls
>     > qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(), I think.
>     >
>     > I've cc'd Paolo and Marc-André Lureau as the chardev
>     > maintainers.
> 
>     Windows named pipes do not support the equivalent of "select",
>     so it's possible that they cause a busy wait.  Try using a
>     TCP socket instead and see if the bug goes away.
> 
> 
> Hi, I am trying to use a Windows socket for serial redirection instead
> of Windows named pipe.
> What do you mean "the equivalent of 'select'"?

A function that lets a process sleep until data is available on the
socket.  The solution is to rewrite Windows chardev handling in QEMU to
use threads or overlapped I/O.

Paolo