Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/38] char: fixes and improvements (was "[PATCH 0/9] Fix mux regression")

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 22/10/2016 11:52, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a followup of the series "[PATCH 0/9] Fix mux regression
> (commit 949055a2)". Paolo suggested a new API for qemu_chr_fe_* taking
> a new CharBackend* structure as argument, and modifying properties to
> hold such structure. I followed his advise in the series, and it turns
> out to bring some nice clean-up benefits. I continue a bit the
> cleaning, and there is 3 structures after this series: CharBackend (to
> hold backend users), CharDriverState (instance of char), CharDriver
> (the char "class"), it would be easy to come up with better naming,
> and I would rather name CharBackend->CharFrontend, but Paolo prefered
> the former. I started investigating switching to QOM object, that will
> be for a later series as this one is large enough.

Uhm, wow. :)  I definitely want to merge patches 1 to 30 in QEMU 2.8.
I'll include them in my next pull request.

Paolo

> While doing this work, I found a few issues that are at the beginning
> of this series.
> 
> Marc-André Lureau (38):
>   rng: remove unused included header
>   char: remove use-after-free on win-stdio
>   ringbuf: fix chr_write return value
>   sun4uv: fix serial initialization regression
>   malta: replace chr init by CHR_EVENT_OPENED handler
>   char: remove init callback
>   xilinx: fix buffer overflow on realize
>   mux: split mux_chr_update_read_handler()
>   char: introduce CharBackend
>   char: start converting mux driver to use CharBackend
>   char: replace PROP_CHR with CharBackend
>   char: remaining switch to CharBackend in frontend
>   char: rename some frontend functions
>   colo: claim in find_and_check_chardev
>   char: use qemu_chr_fe* functions with CharBackend argument
>   char: fold qemu_chr_set_handlers in qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers
>   vhost-user: only initialize queue 0 CharBackend
>   char: replace qemu_chr_claim/release with qemu_chr_fe_init/deinit
>   char: make some qemu_chr_fe skip if no driver
>   tests: start chardev unit tests
>   char: move front end handlers in CharBackend
>   char: rename chr_close/chr_free
>   char: remove explicit_fe_open, use a set_handlers argument
>   char: move fe_open in CharBackend
>   char: remove unused CHR_EVENT_FOCUS
>   char: use an enum for CHR_EVENT
>   char: remove unused qemu_chr_fe_event
>   char: replace avail_connections
>   char: use common error path in qmp_chardev_add
>   char: remove explicit_be_open from CharDriverState
>   char: use a const CharDriver
>   char: use a static array for backends
>   char: move callbacks in CharDriver
>   char: fold single-user functions in caller
>   char: introduce generic qemu_chr_get_kind()
>   char: use a feature bit for replay
>   char: allocate CharDriverState as a single object
>   bt: use qemu_chr_alloc()
> 
>  backends/baum.c                   |   44 +-
>  backends/msmouse.c                |   39 +-
>  backends/rng-egd.c                |   29 +-
>  backends/testdev.c                |   35 +-
>  gdbstub.c                         |   39 +-
>  hmp.c                             |    2 +-
>  hw/alpha/dp264.c                  |    2 +-
>  hw/arm/fsl-imx25.c                |    2 +-
>  hw/arm/fsl-imx31.c                |    2 +-
>  hw/arm/fsl-imx6.c                 |    2 +-
>  hw/arm/omap2.c                    |   16 +-
>  hw/arm/pxa2xx.c                   |   19 +-
>  hw/arm/strongarm.c                |   22 +-
>  hw/bt/hci-csr.c                   |   46 +-
>  hw/char/bcm2835_aux.c             |   18 +-
>  hw/char/cadence_uart.c            |   30 +-
>  hw/char/debugcon.c                |    8 +-
>  hw/char/digic-uart.c              |   13 +-
>  hw/char/escc.c                    |   22 +-
>  hw/char/etraxfs_ser.c             |   12 +-
>  hw/char/exynos4210_uart.c         |   15 +-
>  hw/char/grlib_apbuart.c           |   17 +-
>  hw/char/imx_serial.c              |   29 +-
>  hw/char/ipoctal232.c              |   23 +-
>  hw/char/lm32_juart.c              |   15 +-
>  hw/char/lm32_uart.c               |   17 +-
>  hw/char/mcf_uart.c                |   20 +-
>  hw/char/milkymist-uart.c          |   13 +-
>  hw/char/omap_uart.c               |    4 +-
>  hw/char/parallel.c                |   46 +-
>  hw/char/pl011.c                   |   19 +-
>  hw/char/sclpconsole-lm.c          |   13 +-
>  hw/char/sclpconsole.c             |   12 +-
>  hw/char/serial-isa.c              |    7 +-
>  hw/char/serial.c                  |   36 +-
>  hw/char/sh_serial.c               |   16 +-
>  hw/char/spapr_vty.c               |   12 +-
>  hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.c         |   22 +-
>  hw/char/virtio-console.c          |   29 +-
>  hw/char/xen_console.c             |   43 +-
>  hw/char/xilinx_uartlite.c         |   16 +-
>  hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c  |   80 +-
>  hw/i386/pc.c                      |    2 +-
>  hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c         |    9 +-
>  hw/isa/pc87312.c                  |    4 +-
>  hw/mips/mips_fulong2e.c           |    2 +-
>  hw/mips/mips_malta.c              |   44 +-
>  hw/mips/mips_r4k.c                |    2 +-
>  hw/misc/ivshmem.c                 |   23 +-
>  hw/sparc64/sun4u.c                |    2 +-
>  hw/ssi/xilinx_spips.c             |    2 +-
>  hw/usb/ccid-card-passthru.c       |   21 +-
>  hw/usb/dev-serial.c               |   31 +-
>  hw/usb/redirect.c                 |   22 +-
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user.c            |    4 +-
>  hw/xtensa/xtfpga.c                |    2 +-
>  monitor.c                         |   31 +-
>  net/colo-compare.c                |   59 +-
>  net/filter-mirror.c               |   64 +-
>  net/slirp.c                       |   25 +-
>  net/vhost-user.c                  |   49 +-
>  qemu-char.c                       | 1445 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  qtest.c                           |   29 +-
>  spice-qemu-char.c                 |  102 +--
>  tests/test-char.c                 |  253 +++++++
>  tests/vhost-user-test.c           |   27 +-
>  ui/console.c                      |   56 +-
>  ui/gtk.c                          |   28 +-
>  vl.c                              |   13 +-
>  tests/Makefile.include            |    4 +
>  include/hw/char/bcm2835_aux.h     |    2 +-
>  include/hw/char/cadence_uart.h    |    2 +-
>  include/hw/char/digic-uart.h      |    3 +-
>  include/hw/char/imx_serial.h      |    3 +-
>  include/hw/char/serial.h          |    6 +-
>  include/hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.h |    2 +-
>  include/hw/qdev-properties.h      |    2 +-
>  include/sysemu/char.h             |  290 ++++----
>  include/ui/gtk.h                  |    3 +
>  79 files changed, 2064 insertions(+), 1510 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-char.c
>