[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] virtio-serial-bus: Add a port 'name' property for port discovery in guests

[Amit Shah]

The port 'id' or number is internal state between the guest kernel and
our bus implementation. This is invocation-dependent and isn't part of
the guest-host ABI.

To correcly enumerate and map ports between the host and the guest, the
'name' property is used.

Example:

    -device virtserialport,name=org.qemu.port.0

This invocation will get us a char device in the guest at:

    /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.port.0

which can be a symlink to

    /dev/vport0p3

This 'name' property is exposed by the guest kernel in a sysfs
attribute:

    /sys/kernel/virtio-ports/vport0p3/name

A simple udev script can pick up this name and create the symlink
mentioned above.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
---
 hw/virtio-serial-bus.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 hw/virtio-serial.c     |    1 +
 hw/virtio-serial.h     |    8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
index e6b5eb7..20d9580 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
@@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ static void handle_control_message(VirtIOSerial *vser, void 
*buf)
 {
     struct VirtIOSerialPort *port;
     struct virtio_console_control cpkt, *gcpkt;
+    uint8_t *buffer;
+    size_t buffer_len;
 
     gcpkt = buf;
     port = find_port_by_id(vser, ldl_p(&gcpkt->id));
@@ -248,6 +250,21 @@ static void handle_control_message(VirtIOSerial *vser, 
void *buf)
             send_control_event(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_CONSOLE_PORT, 1);
         }
 
+        if (port->name) {
+            stw_p(&cpkt.event, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_NAME);
+            stw_p(&cpkt.value, 1);
+
+            buffer_len = sizeof(cpkt) + strlen(port->name) + 1;
+            buffer = qemu_malloc(buffer_len);
+
+            memcpy(buffer, &cpkt, sizeof(cpkt));
+            memcpy(buffer + sizeof(cpkt), port->name, strlen(port->name));
+            buffer[buffer_len - 1] = 0;
+
+            send_control_msg(port, buffer, buffer_len);
+            qemu_free(buffer);
+        }
+
         if (port->host_connected) {
             send_control_event(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_OPEN, 1);
         }
diff --git a/hw/virtio-serial.c b/hw/virtio-serial.c
index d9a6f32..470446b 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-serial.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-serial.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ static VirtIOSerialPortInfo virtconsole_info = {
     .qdev.props = (Property[]) {
         DEFINE_PROP_UINT8("is_console", VirtConsole, port.is_console, 1),
         DEFINE_PROP_CHR("chardev", VirtConsole, chr),
+        DEFINE_PROP_STRING("name", VirtConsole, port.name),
         DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
     },
 };
diff --git a/hw/virtio-serial.h b/hw/virtio-serial.h
index b855375..5505841 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-serial.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-serial.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct virtio_console_header {
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_CONSOLE_PORT    1
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_RESIZE          2
 #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_OPEN       3
+#define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_NAME       4
 
 /* == In-qemu interface == */
 
@@ -88,6 +89,13 @@ struct VirtIOSerialPort {
     VirtQueue *ivq, *ovq;
 
     /*
+     * This name is sent to the guest and exported via sysfs.
+     * The guest could create symlinks based on this information.
+     * The name is in the reverse fqdn format, like org.qemu.console.0
+     */
+    char *name;
+
+    /*
      * This id helps identify ports between the guest and the host.
      * The guest sends a "header" with this id with each data packet
      * that it sends and the host can then find out which associated
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