[PATCH v6 00/36] Initial support for multi-process qemu

[elena . ufimtseva]

From: Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>

Hello

Started with the presentation in October 2017 made by Marc-Andre (Red Hat)
and Konrad Wilk (Oracle) [1], and continued by Jag's BoF at KVM Forum 2018,
the multi-process project is now available and presented in this patchset.
This first series enables the emulation of lsi53c895a in a separate process.

We posted the Proof Of Concept patches [2] before the BoF session in 2018.
Subsequently, we posted RFC v1 [3], RFC v2 [4], RFC v3 [5], RFC v4 [6]
and v5 [7] of the patch series.

This is v6 of the patch series and it addresses the previous feedback from
the community.
To make easier to review of the series, we have separated out some of the
patches and will send them in the separate series. As per converstaion we
had during the last community call, the live migration support is taken out
from this series as well as asynchronous communication.
The changes include the elimination of fork/exec of the remote process
and instead using the launcher which is implemented in this series as
a python script.

Following people contributed to this patchset:

John G Johnson <address@hidden>
Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden>
Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
Kanth Ghatraju <address@hidden>
Konrad Wilk <address@hidden>

For full concept writeup about QEMU disaggregation, refer to
docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.rst. Please refer to
docs/qemu-multiprocess.txt for usage information.

We will post separate patchsets for the following improvements for
the experimental Qemu multi-process:
 - Live migration;
 - Asynchronous communication channel;
 - Libvirt support;

We welcome all your ideas, concerns, and questions for this patchset.

Thank you!

[1]: 
http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/KVM%20FORUM%20multi-process.pdf
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1-coHh7lg
[2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg566538.html
[3]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg602285.html
[4]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg624877.html
[5]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg642000.html
[6]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg655118.html
[7]: https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg682429.html

Elena Ufimtseva (18):
  multi-process: Refactor machine_init and exit notifiers
  command-line: refractor parser code
  multi-process: Refactor chardev functions out of vl.c
  multi-process: Refactor monitor functions out of vl.c
  multi-process: add a command line option for debug file
  multi-process: introduce proxy object
  multi-process: Forward PCI config space acceses to the remote process
  multi-process: Introduce build flags to separate remote process code
  multi-process: add parse_cmdline in remote process
  multi-process: add support to parse device option
  multi-process: send heartbeat messages to remote
  multi-process: handle heartbeat messages in remote process
  multi-process: perform device reset in the remote process
  multi-process/mon: choose HMP commands based on target
  multi-process/mon: stub functions to enable QMP module for remote
    process
  multi-process/mon: enable QMP module support in the remote process
  multi-process/mon: Initialize QMP module for remote processes
  multi-process: add configure and usage information

Jagannathan Raman (17):
  memory: alloc RAM from file at offset
  monitor: destaticize HMP commands
  multi-process: Add stub functions to facilate build of multi-process
  multi-process: Add config option for multi-process QEMU
  multi-process: build system for remote device process
  multi-process: define mpqemu-link object
  multi-process: add functions to synchronize proxy and remote endpoints
  multi-process: setup PCI host bridge for remote device
  multi-process: setup a machine object for remote device process
  multi-process: setup memory manager for remote device
  multi-process: remote process initialization
  multi-process: Initialize Proxy Object's communication channel
  multi-process: Connect Proxy Object with device in the remote process
  multi-process: PCI BAR read/write handling for proxy & remote
    endpoints
  multi-process: Synchronize remote memory
  multi-process: create IOHUB object to handle irq
  multi-process: Retrieve PCI info from remote process

John G Johnson (1):
  multi-process: add the concept description to
    docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess

 MAINTAINERS                          |   35 +
 Makefile                             |    2 +
 Makefile.objs                        |   41 +
 Makefile.target                      |  104 ++-
 accel/Makefile.objs                  |    2 +
 accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c               |    5 +
 accel/stubs/tcg-stub.c               |  108 +++
 backends/Makefile.objs               |    2 +
 block/Makefile.objs                  |    5 +
 block/monitor/Makefile.objs          |    2 +
 chardev/char.c                       |   14 +
 configure                            |   15 +
 docs/devel/index.rst                 |    1 +
 docs/devel/multi-process.rst         | 1102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/multi-process.rst               |   85 ++
 exec.c                               |   31 +-
 hmp-commands-info.hx                 |   10 +
 hmp-commands.hx                      |   25 +-
 hw/Makefile.objs                     |    7 +
 hw/block/Makefile.objs               |    2 +
 hw/core/Makefile.objs                |   19 +
 hw/nvram/Makefile.objs               |    2 +
 hw/pci/Makefile.objs                 |    4 +
 hw/proxy/memory-sync.c               |  212 +++++
 hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c                |  488 ++++++++++++
 hw/scsi/Makefile.objs                |    2 +
 include/chardev/char.h               |    2 +
 include/exec/address-spaces.h        |    2 +
 include/exec/ram_addr.h              |    4 +-
 include/hw/pci/pci_ids.h             |    3 +
 include/hw/proxy/memory-sync.h       |   37 +
 include/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.h        |   79 ++
 include/io/mpqemu-link.h             |  192 +++++
 include/monitor/monitor.h            |    3 +
 include/qemu-common.h                |    8 +
 include/qemu-parse.h                 |   42 +
 include/qemu/log.h                   |    1 +
 include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h            |    3 +-
 include/remote/iohub.h               |   50 ++
 include/remote/machine.h             |   32 +
 include/remote/memory.h              |   20 +
 include/remote/pcihost.h             |   45 ++
 include/sysemu/sysemu.h              |    2 +
 io/Makefile.objs                     |    2 +
 io/mpqemu-link.c                     |  387 +++++++++
 memory.c                             |    2 +-
 migration/Makefile.objs              |    2 +
 monitor/Makefile.objs                |    4 +
 monitor/misc.c                       |   84 +-
 monitor/monitor-internal.h           |   38 +
 monitor/monitor.c                    |   37 +
 qapi/Makefile.objs                   |    2 +
 qemu-parse.c                         |   93 +++
 qom/Makefile.objs                    |    4 +
 remote/Makefile.objs                 |    5 +
 remote/iohub.c                       |  148 ++++
 remote/machine.c                     |   99 +++
 remote/memory.c                      |   63 ++
 remote/pcihost.c                     |   64 ++
 remote/remote-main.c                 |  350 ++++++++
 remote/remote-opts.c                 |   96 +++
 remote/remote-opts.h                 |   15 +
 rules.mak                            |    2 +-
 scripts/hxtool                       |   35 +-
 scripts/mpqemu-launcher-perf-mode.py |   93 +++
 scripts/mpqemu-launcher.py           |   54 ++
 softmmu/vl.c                         |  173 +---
 stubs/audio.c                        |   12 +
 stubs/gdbstub.c                      |   23 +
 stubs/machine-init-done.c            |   12 +
 stubs/migration.c                    |  162 ++++
 stubs/monitor.c                      |   85 ++
 stubs/net-stub.c                     |  100 +++
 stubs/qapi-misc.c                    |   41 +
 stubs/qapi-target.c                  |   56 ++
 stubs/replay.c                       |   18 +
 stubs/ui-stub.c                      |  130 +++
 stubs/vl-stub.c                      |  171 ++++
 stubs/vmstate.c                      |   19 +
 stubs/xen-mapcache.c                 |   22 +
 ui/Makefile.objs                     |    2 +
 util/Makefile.objs                   |    2 +
 util/log.c                           |    2 +
 util/machine-notify.c                |   67 ++
 util/mmap-alloc.c                    |    7 +-
 util/oslib-posix.c                   |    2 +-
 86 files changed, 5406 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/devel/multi-process.rst
 create mode 100644 docs/multi-process.rst
 create mode 100644 hw/proxy/memory-sync.c
 create mode 100644 hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c
 create mode 100644 include/hw/proxy/memory-sync.h
 create mode 100644 include/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.h
 create mode 100644 include/io/mpqemu-link.h
 create mode 100644 include/qemu-parse.h
 create mode 100644 include/remote/iohub.h
 create mode 100644 include/remote/machine.h
 create mode 100644 include/remote/memory.h
 create mode 100644 include/remote/pcihost.h
 create mode 100644 io/mpqemu-link.c
 create mode 100644 qemu-parse.c
 create mode 100644 remote/Makefile.objs
 create mode 100644 remote/iohub.c
 create mode 100644 remote/machine.c
 create mode 100644 remote/memory.c
 create mode 100644 remote/pcihost.c
 create mode 100644 remote/remote-main.c
 create mode 100644 remote/remote-opts.c
 create mode 100644 remote/remote-opts.h
 mode change 100644 => 100755 scripts/hxtool
 create mode 100755 scripts/mpqemu-launcher-perf-mode.py
 create mode 100755 scripts/mpqemu-launcher.py
 create mode 100644 stubs/audio.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/migration.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/net-stub.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/qapi-misc.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/qapi-target.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/ui-stub.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/vl-stub.c
 create mode 100644 stubs/xen-mapcache.c
 create mode 100644 util/machine-notify.c

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