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Fam Zheng 9103f1ceb4 file-posix: Consider max_segments for BlockLimits.max_transfer
BlockLimits.max_transfer can be too high without this fix, guest will
encounter I/O error or even get paused with werror=stop or rerror=stop. The
cause is explained below.

Linux has a separate limit, /sys/block/.../queue/max_segments, which in
the worst case can be more restrictive than the BLKSECTGET which we
already consider (note that they are two different things). So, the
failure scenario before this patch is:

1) host device has max_sectors_kb = 4096 and max_segments = 64;
2) guest learns max_sectors_kb limit from QEMU, but doesn't know
   max_segments;
3) guest issues e.g. a 512KB request thinking it's okay, but actually
   it's not, because it will be passed through to host device as an
   SG_IO req that has niov > 64;
4) host kernel doesn't like the segmenting of the request, and returns
   -EINVAL;

This patch checks the max_segments sysfs entry for the host device and
calculates a "conservative" bytes limit using the page size, which is
then merged into the existing max_transfer limit. Guest will discover
this from the usual virtual block device interfaces. (In the case of
scsi-generic, it will be done in the INQUIRY reply interception in
device model.)

The other possibility is to actually propagate it as a separate limit,
but it's not better. On the one hand, there is a big complication: the
limit is per-LUN in QEMU PoV (because we can attach LUNs from different
host HBAs to the same virtio-scsi bus), but the channel to communicate
it in a per-LUN manner is missing down the stack; on the other hand,
two limits versus one doesn't change much about the valid size of I/O
(because guest has no control over host segmenting).

Also, the idea to fall back to bounce buffering in QEMU, upon -EINVAL,
was explored. Unfortunately there is no neat way to ensure the bounce
buffer is less segmented (in terms of DMA addr) than the guest buffer.

Practically, this bug is not very common. It is only reported on a
Emulex (lpfc), so it's okay to get it fixed in the easier way.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-03-13 12:49:33 +01:00
audio audio/sdlaudio: Allow audio playback with SDL2 2017-03-01 15:12:03 +01:00
backends Add wctablet device 2017-02-20 11:26:28 +01:00
block file-posix: Consider max_segments for BlockLimits.max_transfer 2017-03-13 12:49:33 +01:00
bsd-user translate-all: add DEBUG_LOCKING asserts 2016-10-31 10:24:45 +01:00
chardev char: remove the right fd been watched in qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers() 2017-03-06 11:46:02 +08:00
contrib contrib: add libvhost-user 2016-12-16 01:14:38 +02:00
crypto crypto: assert cipher algorithm is always valid 2017-02-27 13:37:14 +00:00
default-configs ACPI: Add Virtual Machine Generation ID support 2017-03-02 07:14:27 +02:00
disas disas/arm: Avoid unintended sign extension 2017-03-07 14:33:51 +00:00
docs docs/qapi-code-gen.txt: Clarify naming rules 2017-03-07 16:07:48 +01:00
dtc@fa8bc7f928 dtc: Revert unintentional submodule downgrade from commit 077dd74239 2017-03-03 12:48:42 +00:00
fpu softfloat: Use correct type in float64_to_uint64_round_to_zero() 2017-02-28 09:03:38 +03:00
fsdev throttle: factor out duplicate code 2017-02-28 10:31:46 +01:00
gdb-xml target-ppc: gdbstub: Add VSX support 2016-01-30 23:37:38 +11:00
hw qxl: clear guest_cursor on QXL_CURSOR_HIDE 2017-03-09 09:47:26 +01:00
include Block layer fixes for 2.9.0-rc0 2017-03-08 09:47:52 +00:00
io io: fully parse & validate HTTP headers for websocket protocol handshake 2017-02-28 11:51:16 +00:00
libdecnumber libdecnumber: Clean up includes 2016-02-16 14:29:27 +00:00
linux-headers update Linux headers to 4.11 2017-02-28 16:18:49 +00:00
linux-user target-arm queue: 2017-02-28 14:50:17 +00:00
migration Migration pull 2017-03-02 17:39:12 +00:00
nbd nbd/server: Use real permissions for NBD exports 2017-02-28 20:47:50 +01:00
net net/filter-mirror: Follow CODING_STYLE 2017-03-06 11:46:02 +08:00
pc-bios pseries: Update SLOF firmware image 2017-03-03 17:25:32 +11:00
pixman@87eea99e44 pixman: update internal copy to pixman-0.32.6 2014-09-15 08:14:19 +02:00
po po: add missing translations in de, fr, it, zh 2016-12-14 18:47:19 +00:00
qapi Block layer fixes for 2.9.0-rc0 2017-03-08 09:47:52 +00:00
qga qemu-ga patch queue for 2.9 2017-03-07 07:32:28 +00:00
qobject qobject: Propagate parse errors through qobject_from_json() 2017-03-07 16:07:47 +01:00
qom qapi: Drop unused non-strict qobject input visitor 2017-03-05 09:14:19 +01:00
replay replay: add record/replay for audio passthrough 2017-03-01 15:11:44 +01:00
roms pseries: Update SLOF firmware image 2017-03-03 17:25:32 +11:00
scripts qapi: Make input visitors detect unvisited list tails 2017-03-05 09:14:20 +01:00
slirp slirp: tcp_listen(): Don't try to close() an fd we never opened 2017-02-26 15:39:29 +01:00
stubs virtio, pc: fixes, features 2017-03-03 10:09:03 +00:00
target target/xtensa updates: 2017-03-07 09:57:14 +00:00
tcg Merge branch 'icount-update' into HEAD 2017-03-03 16:39:18 +01:00
tests keyval: Support lists 2017-03-07 16:07:48 +01:00
trace trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00
ui vnc: fix double free issues 2017-02-27 16:22:01 +01:00
util keyval: Support lists 2017-03-07 16:07:48 +01:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el file to configure emacs coding style 2015-10-08 19:46:01 +03:00
.exrc qemu: add .exrc 2012-09-07 09:02:44 +03:00
.gitignore Makefile: Put VERSION info into version.texi rather than using -D 2017-02-20 14:11:07 +01:00
.gitmodules ppc: add skiboot firmware for the pnv platform 2016-10-28 09:36:58 +11:00
.mailmap Update mailmap 2013-09-05 09:40:31 -05:00
.shippable.yml .shippable: add s390x-cross target 2017-02-28 20:31:01 +08:00
.travis.yml .travis.yml: split VM based builds 2017-02-10 13:19:56 +00:00
accel.c clean-up: removed duplicate #includes 2016-10-28 18:17:24 +03:00
arch_init.c nios2: Add support for Nios-II R1 2017-01-24 13:10:36 -08:00
atomic_template.h tcg: Add atomic128 helpers 2016-10-26 08:29:01 -07:00
balloon.c trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00
block.c Block layer fixes for 2.9.0-rc0 2017-03-08 09:47:52 +00:00
blockdev-nbd.c trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00
blockdev.c block: Fix error handling in bdrv_replace_in_backing_chain() 2017-03-07 14:53:28 +01:00
blockjob.c blockjob: Factor out block_job_remove_all_bdrv() 2017-02-28 20:40:37 +01:00
bootdevice.c error: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls 2016-06-20 16:38:13 +02:00
bt-host.c all: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
bt-vhci.c all: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
Changelog Use qemu-project.org domain name 2013-10-11 09:34:56 -07:00
CODING_STYLE CODING_STYLE: Mention preferred comment form 2017-02-28 09:03:38 +03:00
configure target/alpha: Enable MTTCG by default 2017-02-28 11:41:46 +11:00
COPYING
COPYING.LIB Update FSF address in GPL/LGPL boilerplate 2009-01-04 22:05:52 +00:00
cpu-exec-common.c tcg: remove global exit_request 2017-02-24 10:32:45 +00:00
cpu-exec.c Merge branch 'icount-update' into HEAD 2017-03-03 16:39:18 +01:00
cpus-common.c *_run_on_cpu: introduce run_on_cpu_data type 2016-10-31 15:00:25 +01:00
cpus.c KVM: move SIG_IPI handling to kvm-all.c 2017-03-03 16:40:02 +01:00
cputlb.c cputlb: Don't assume do_unassigned_access() never returns 2017-02-28 12:08:15 +00:00
device_tree.c qemu-common: stop including qemu/bswap.h from qemu-common.h 2016-05-19 16:42:28 +02:00
device-hotplug.c blockdev: Split monitor reference from BB creation 2016-03-17 15:47:56 +01:00
disas.c Fix Thumb-1 BE32 execution and disassembly. 2017-02-07 18:29:59 +00:00
dma-helpers.c block: explicitly acquire aiocontext in bottom halves that need it 2017-02-21 11:39:39 +00:00
dump.c error: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls 2016-06-20 16:38:13 +02:00
exec.c exec, kvm, target-ppc: Move getrampagesize() to common code 2017-03-03 11:30:59 +11:00
gdbstub.c gdbstub: Fix vCont behaviour 2017-02-16 14:06:56 +01:00
HACKING HACKING: document #include order 2017-01-03 16:38:47 +00:00
hax-stub.c Plumb the HAXM-based hardware acceleration support 2017-01-19 22:07:46 +01:00
hmp-commands-info.hx qmp/hmp: add query-vm-generation-id and 'info vm-generation-id' commands 2017-03-02 07:14:27 +02:00
hmp-commands.hx COLO: Add 'x-colo-lost-heartbeat' command to trigger failover 2016-10-30 15:17:39 +05:30
hmp.c virtio, pc: fixes, features 2017-03-03 10:09:03 +00:00
hmp.h qmp/hmp: add query-vm-generation-id and 'info vm-generation-id' commands 2017-03-02 07:14:27 +02:00
ioport.c trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00
iothread.c monitor: add poll-* properties into query-iothreads result 2017-02-21 18:29:01 +00:00
kvm-all.c KVM: use KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT 2017-03-03 16:40:02 +01:00
kvm-stub.c KVM: move SIG_IPI handling to kvm-all.c 2017-03-03 16:40:02 +01:00
LICENSE vfio: move hw/misc/vfio.c to hw/vfio/pci.c Move vfio.h into include/hw/vfio 2014-12-19 15:24:06 -07:00
MAINTAINERS qmp-test: New, covering basic QMP protocol 2017-03-05 09:02:10 +01:00
Makefile Makefile: Put VERSION info into version.texi rather than using -D 2017-02-20 14:11:07 +01:00
Makefile.objs block: move AioContext, QEMUTimer, main-loop to libqemuutil 2017-02-21 11:14:07 +00:00
Makefile.target -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- 2017-02-02 16:08:28 +00:00
memory_ldst.inc.c exec: introduce memory_ldst.inc.c 2016-12-22 16:00:23 +01:00
memory_mapping.c memory: Replace skip_dump flag with "ram_device" 2016-10-31 09:53:03 -06:00
memory.c memory: show region offset and ROM/RAM type in "info mtree -f" 2017-03-03 16:40:03 +01:00
module-common.c all: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
monitor.c monitor: Assert qmp_schema_json[] is sane 2017-03-07 16:07:47 +01:00
numa.c numa: Flatten simple union NumaOptions 2017-02-22 19:50:46 +01:00
os-posix.c use g_path_get_dirname instead of dirname 2016-07-17 09:59:21 +02:00
os-win32.c all: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
page_cache.c coccinelle: Remove unnecessary variables for function return value 2016-06-20 16:38:13 +02:00
qapi-schema.json qapi-schema: Rename SocketAddressFlat's variant tcp to inet 2017-03-07 14:53:29 +01:00
qdev-monitor.c migrate: Introduce a 'dc->vmsd' check to avoid segfault for --only-migratable 2017-02-28 11:30:22 +00:00
qdict-test-data.txt Introduce QDict test data file 2009-09-04 09:37:34 -05:00
qemu-bridge-helper.c all: Remove unnecessary glib.h includes 2016-06-07 18:19:24 +03:00
qemu-doc.texi nios2 target support 2017-01-25 13:30:23 +00:00
qemu-ga.texi qemu-ga: Remove stray 'q' in documentation 2016-10-28 18:17:23 +03:00
qemu-img-cmds.hx qemu-img: make convert async 2017-02-28 20:40:31 +01:00
qemu-img.c commit: Add filter-node-name to block-commit 2017-02-28 20:47:50 +01:00
qemu-img.texi qemu-img: make convert async 2017-02-28 20:40:31 +01:00
qemu-io-cmds.c hmp: Request permissions in qemu-io 2017-02-28 20:47:50 +01:00
qemu-io.c qemu-io: Return non-zero exit code on failure 2017-02-12 00:47:42 +01:00
qemu-nbd.c qemu-nbd: Implement socket activation. 2017-02-16 15:30:45 +01:00
qemu-nbd.texi nbd: Add qemu-nbd -D for human-readable description 2016-11-02 09:28:55 +01:00
qemu-option-trace.texi docs: update manpage for stderr->log rename 2017-02-13 13:38:31 +00:00
qemu-options-wrapper.h hxtool: emit Texinfo headings as @subsection 2017-01-16 17:52:35 +01:00
qemu-options.h Clean up ill-advised or unusual header guards 2016-07-12 16:20:46 +02:00
qemu-options.hx block: Initial implementation of -blockdev 2017-03-07 16:07:47 +01:00
qemu-seccomp.c seccomp: adding getrusage to the whitelist 2016-09-21 11:26:02 +02:00
qemu-tech.texi qemu-doc: merge qemu-tech and qemu-doc 2016-10-07 10:05:54 +02:00
qemu.nsi qemu-doc: merge qemu-tech and qemu-doc 2016-10-07 10:05:54 +02:00
qemu.sasl sasl: Avoid 'Could not find keytab file' in syslog 2014-03-15 13:54:18 +04:00
qmp.c qapi: Drop unused non-strict qobject input visitor 2017-03-05 09:14:19 +01:00
qtest.c qtest: fix a memory leak 2017-03-01 00:09:28 +04:00
README README: Add linux to macOS build info 2017-01-24 23:26:52 +03:00
replication.c replication: Introduce new APIs to do replication operation 2016-09-13 11:00:56 +01:00
replication.h replication: Introduce new APIs to do replication operation 2016-09-13 11:00:56 +01:00
rules.mak rules: don't try to create missing include dirs 2017-02-07 11:52:34 +00:00
softmmu_template.h cputlb: Tidy some macros 2016-10-26 08:29:00 -07:00
spice-qemu-char.c spice-char: fix segfault in char_spice_finalize 2017-03-03 16:40:03 +01:00
tcg-runtime.c tcg: Add opcode for ctpop 2017-01-10 08:48:56 -08:00
tci.c tcg/tci: Add support for fence 2016-09-16 08:12:12 -07:00
thunk.c thunk: Rename args and fields in host-target bitmask conversion code 2016-06-07 18:19:24 +03:00
tpm.c qapi: Don't special-case simple union wrappers 2016-03-18 10:29:26 +01:00
trace-events qmp: Drop duplicated QMP command object checks 2017-03-05 09:14:19 +01:00
translate-all.c Merge branch 'icount-update' into HEAD 2017-03-03 16:39:18 +01:00
translate-all.h trace: Add per-vCPU tracing states for events with the 'vcpu' property 2016-07-18 18:23:12 +01:00
translate-common.c Merge branch 'icount-update' into HEAD 2017-03-03 16:39:18 +01:00
user-exec-stub.c stubs: group stubs for user-mode emulation 2017-01-16 17:52:35 +01:00
user-exec.c tcg: Merge GETPC and GETRA 2016-09-16 08:12:11 -07:00
VERSION Open 2.9 development tree 2016-12-20 16:20:16 +00:00
version.rc Use qemu-project.org domain name 2013-10-11 09:34:56 -07:00
vl.c block: Initial implementation of -blockdev 2017-03-07 16:07:47 +01:00
xen-common-stub.c char: rename CharDriverState Chardev 2017-01-27 18:07:59 +01:00
xen-common.c char: rename CharDriverState Chardev 2017-01-27 18:07:59 +01:00
xen-hvm-stub.c fix MSI injection on Xen 2016-02-06 20:44:10 +02:00
xen-hvm.c trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00
xen-mapcache.c trace: switch to modular code generation for sub-directories 2017-01-31 17:11:18 +00:00

         QEMU README
         ===========

QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.

QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).

QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.

QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.

QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.


Building
========

QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:

  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make

Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:

  http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
  http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
  http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32


Submitting patches
==================

The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.

   git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git

When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.

Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website

  http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
  http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches


Bug reporting
=============

The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.

For additional information on bug reporting consult:

  http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug


Contact
=======

The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC

 - qemu-devel@nongnu.org
   http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
 - #qemu on irc.oftc.net

Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:

  http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere

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