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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-07-03 10:53:31 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-07-03 23:15:43 +0200
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qmp: Get rid of x-oob-test command
tests/qmp-test tests an out-of-band command overtaking a slow in-band command. To do that, it needs: 1. An in-band command that *reliably* takes long enough to be overtaken. 2. An out-of-band command to do the overtaking. 3. To avoid delays, a way to make the in-band command complete quickly after it was overtaken. To satisfy these needs, commit 469638f9cb3 provides the rather peculiar oob-capable QMP command x-oob-test: * With "lock": true, it waits for a global semaphore. * With "lock": false, it signals the global semaphore. To satisfy 1., the test runs x-oob-test in-band with "lock": true. To satisfy 2. and 3., it runs x-oob-test out-of-band with "lock": false. Note that waiting for a semaphore violates the rules for oob-capable commands. Running x-oob-test with "lock": true hangs the monitor until you run x-oob-test with "lock": false on another monitor (which you might not have set up). Having an externally visible QMP command that may hang the monitor is not nice. Let's apply a little more ingenuity to the problem. Idea: have an existing command block on reading a FIFO special file, unblock it by opening the FIFO for writing. For 1., use {"execute": "blockdev-add", "id": ID1, "arguments": { "driver": "blkdebug", "node-name": ID1, "config": FIFO, "image": { "driver": "null-co"}}} where ID1 is an arbitrary string, and FIFO is the name of the FIFO. For 2., use {"execute": "migrate-pause", "id": ID2, "control": {"run-oob": true}} where ID2 is a different arbitrary string. Since there's no migration to pause, the command will fail, but that's fine; instant failure is still a test of out-of-band responses overtaking in-band commands. For 3., open FIFO for writing. Drop QMP command x-oob-test. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-6-armbru@redhat.com> [Error checking tweaked]
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