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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/core/qdev: Do not allow hot-plugging without
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Igor Mammedov |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/core/qdev: Do not allow hot-plugging without hotplug controller |
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Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:12:00 +0200 |
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:05:56 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 05:06:00PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:31:39 +0200
> > Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11.09.2017 14:53, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:22:42 +0200
> > > > Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> qdev_unplug() bails out with an assertion if the user tries to
> > > >> device_del
> > > >> a hot-plugged device that does not have a hotplug controller.
> > > >> Unfortunately,
> > > >> our devices are all marked with hotpluggable = true by default (see the
> > > >> device_class_init() function in qdev.c), so it currently can happen
> > > >> that
> > > >> the user runs into this situation and QEMU gets terminated
> > > >> unexpectedly:
> > > >>
> > > >> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -nographic -nodefaults -monitor stdio -S
> > > >> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> > > >> (qemu) device_add aux-to-i2c-bridge,id=x
> > > >> (qemu) device_del x
> > > >> **
> > > >> ERROR:qdev-monitor.c:872:qdev_unplug: assertion failed: (hotplug_ctrl)
> > > >> Aborted (core dumped)
> > > >> Hotplugging devices without a hotplug controller does not make much
> > > >> sense,
> > > >> so we should disallow this during the device_add process already!
> > > >>
> > > >> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> > > >> ---
> > > >> hw/core/qdev.c | 5 +++++
> > > >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > >>
> > > >> diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
> > > >> index 606ab53..d9ccce6 100644
> > > >> --- a/hw/core/qdev.c
> > > >> +++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
> > > >> @@ -908,6 +908,11 @@ static void device_set_realized(Object *obj, bool
> > > >> value, Error **errp)
> > > >> if (local_err != NULL) {
> > > >> goto fail;
> > > >> }
> > > >> + } else if (dev->hotplugged) {
> > > >> + /* Hot-plugged device without hotplug controller? No way!
> > > >> */
> > > >> + error_setg(&local_err, QERR_DEVICE_NO_HOTPLUG,
> > > >> + object_get_typename(obj));
> > > >> + goto fail;
> > > >> }
> > > >>
> > > >> if (dc->realize) {
> > > >
> > > > maybe it should be other way around, i.e, fix device so that following
> > > > would work
> > > >
> > > > device_set_realized()
> > > > if (dev->hotplugged && !dc->hotpluggable) {
> > > >
> > > > error_setg(errp, QERR_DEVICE_NO_HOTPLUG,
> > > > object_get_typename(obj));
> > > > return;
> > > >
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > instead of leaving device broken, like in yours
> > > > 84ebd3e watchdog/wdt_diag288: Mark diag288 watchdog as
> > > > non-hotpluggable
> > >
> > > No, that apparently does not work right for new devices since people
> > > keep forgetting to set hotpluggable = false there. Both, Paolo and Peter
> > > suggested that we should not allow hot-plugging if there's no hot plug
> > > controller - it indeed does not make sense, so we should not allow it.
> > historically all devices were hotpluggble and conversion to hotplug
> > controller didn't fix it which os fine as far as user did not attempt
> > unreasonable things. However it should be fixedfor code to work correctly.
> >
> > I'd suggest to flip default
> > dc->hotpluggable = false;
> > and set it to true explicitly for devices that support hotplug,
> > it obviously harder to do than this patch as it requires audit
> > of all devices, but it looks more correct than fixing symptoms of
> > incorrectly set dc->hotpluggable property.
>
> I agree we should do this. If we have any device-type that is
> not hotpluggable on any machine because no machine will return a
> hotplug controller for it, we shouldn't report it as hotpluggable
> through QMP and HMP.
>
> But this patch also seems to be required, for cases where not all
> machine-types accept hotplug of a given device type.
Agreed,
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/core/qdev: Do not allow hot-plugging without hotplug controller, Peter Maydell, 2017/09/13
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/core/qdev: Do not allow hot-plugging without hotplug controller, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/09/21