From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
berrange@redhat.com, eduardo@habkost.net, peterx@redhat.com,
farosas@suse.de, eblake@redhat.com, thuth@redhat.com,
philmd@linaro.org, zhao1.liu@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
leiyang@redhat.com, davydov-max@yandex-team.ru,
yc-core@yandex-team.ru, raphael.s.norwitz@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] qapi: introduce query-backend-transfer-support
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:30:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jz03fab2.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251030203116.870742-3-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru> (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:31:09 +0300")
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru> writes:
> We are going to implement backend-transfer feature: some devices
> will be able to transfer their backend through migration stream
> for local migration through UNIX domain socket. For example,
> virtio-net will migrate its attached TAP netdev, with all its
> connected file descriptors.
>
> Let's add a command to list supporting devices (no one for now),
> together with necessary infrastructure in qdev code.
Use case?
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
> ---
> include/hw/qdev-core.h | 7 +++++++
> qapi/qdev.json | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> system/qdev-monitor.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h
> index 2caa0cbd26..0551fbaa6c 100644
> --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h
> +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h
> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ typedef void (*DeviceReset)(DeviceState *dev);
> typedef void (*BusRealize)(BusState *bus, Error **errp);
> typedef void (*BusUnrealize)(BusState *bus);
> typedef int (*DeviceSyncConfig)(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp);
> +typedef bool (*DeviceSupportBackendTransfer)(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp);
>
> /**
> * struct DeviceClass - The base class for all devices.
> @@ -174,6 +175,12 @@ struct DeviceClass {
> DeviceUnrealize unrealize;
> DeviceSyncConfig sync_config;
>
> + /**
> + * @backend_transfer_support: reports support for backend-transfer
> + * migration of the device.
> + */
> + DeviceSupportBackendTransfer backend_transfer_support;
> +
> /**
> * @vmsd: device state serialisation description for
> * migration/save/restore
> diff --git a/qapi/qdev.json b/qapi/qdev.json
> index e14a0c9259..d7e878d58d 100644
> --- a/qapi/qdev.json
> +++ b/qapi/qdev.json
> @@ -188,3 +188,29 @@
> { 'command': 'device-sync-config',
> 'features': [ 'unstable' ],
> 'data': {'id': 'str'} }
> +
> +##
> +# @DevPath:
> +#
> +# @path: the device's QOM path
> +#
> +# Since: 10.2
> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'DevPath',
> + 'data': { 'path': 'str' } }
> +
> +##
> +# @query-backend-transfer-support:
> +#
> +# Returns list of devices, supporting backend-transfer
> +# migration.
Suggest
# Return the devices that support backend-transfer migration.
> +#
> +# Features:
> +#
> +# @unstable: The command is experimental.
The conventional text ist "This command is experimental."
> +#
> +# Since: 10.2
> +##
> +{ 'command': 'query-backend-transfer-support',
> + 'features': [ 'unstable' ],
> + 'returns': [ 'DevPath' ] }
> diff --git a/system/qdev-monitor.c b/system/qdev-monitor.c
> index ec4a2394ce..9d3d961c15 100644
> --- a/system/qdev-monitor.c
> +++ b/system/qdev-monitor.c
> @@ -939,6 +939,49 @@ void qmp_device_del(const char *id, Error **errp)
> }
> }
>
> +static bool qdev_backend_transfer_support(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> +{
> + DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_GET_CLASS(dev);
> +
> + if (!dc->backend_transfer_support) {
> + error_setg(errp, "backend-transfer is not supported for '%s'",
> + object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)));
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return dc->backend_transfer_support(dev, errp);
> +}
@errp is useless in this patch: the only caller passes NULL. Took me a
minute to check it doesn't remain useless. The next patch puts it to
use.
> +
> +static int qdev_add_if_backend_transfer_supported(Object *obj, void *opaque)
> +{
> + DevPathList **list = opaque;
> + DeviceState *dev = (DeviceState *)object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_DEVICE);
> +
> + if (dev != NULL && qdev_backend_transfer_support(dev, NULL)) {
> + DevPath *el = g_new(DevPath, 1);
> + *el = (DevPath) {
> + .path = g_strdup(dev->canonical_path),
> + };
> + QAPI_LIST_PREPEND(*list, el);
> + }
> +
> + /* Recursively check all children */
> + object_child_foreach(obj, qdev_add_if_backend_transfer_supported, opaque);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +DevPathList *qmp_query_backend_transfer_support(Error **errp)
> +{
> + DevPathList *result = NULL;
> + Object *peripheral = machine_get_container("peripheral");
> +
> + object_child_foreach(peripheral, qdev_add_if_backend_transfer_supported,
> + &result);
> +
> + return result;
> +}
> +
> int qdev_sync_config(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> {
> DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_GET_CLASS(dev);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-30 20:31 [PATCH v9 0/8] virtio-net: live-TAP local migration Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] migration: introduce .pre_incoming() vmsd handler Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] qapi: introduce query-backend-transfer-support Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-06 15:30 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2025-11-06 19:27 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-07 5:28 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-07 6:09 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] qapi: add backend-transfer migration parameter Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-06 15:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] net: introduce vmstate_net_peer_backend Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] virtio-net: support backend-transfer migration Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] net/tap: " Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] tests/functional: add skipWithoutSudo() decorator Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-10-30 20:31 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] tests/functional: add test_tap_migration Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
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