User-facing breaking change:
The slirp submodule for user networking got removed. It would be
necessary to add the --enable-slirp option to the build and/or install
the appropriate library to continue building it. Since PVE is not
explicitly supporting it, it would require additionally installing the
libslirp0 package on all installations and there is *very* little
mention on the community forum when searching for "slirp" or
"netdev user", the plan is to only enable it again if there is some
real demand for it.
Notable changes:
* The big change for this release is the rework of job locking, using
a job mutex and introducing _locked() variants of job API functions
moving away from call-side AioContext locking. See (in the qemu
submodule) commit 6f592e5aca ("job.c: enable job lock/unlock and
remove Aiocontext locks") and previous commits for context.
Changes required for the backup patches:
* Use WITH_JOB_LOCK_GUARD() and call the _locked() variant of job
API functions where appropriate (many are only availalbe as
a _locked() variant).
* Remove acquiring/releasing AioContext around functions taking the
job mutex lock internally.
The patch introducing sequential transaction support for jobs needs
to temporarily unlock the job mutex to call job_start() when
starting the next job in the transaction.
* The zeroinit block driver now marks its child as primary.
The documentation in include/block/block-common.h states:
> Filter node has exactly one FILTERED|PRIMARY child, and may have
> other children which must not have these bits
Without this, an assert will trigger when copying to a zeroinit target
with qemu-img convert, because bdrv_child_cb_attach() expects any
non-PRIMARY child to be not FILTERED:
> qemu-img convert -n -p -f raw -O raw input.raw zeroinit:output.raw
> qemu-img: ../block.c:1476: bdrv_child_cb_attach: Assertion
> `!(child->role & BDRV_CHILD_FILTERED)' failed.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Notable changes:
* bdrv_co_p{discard,readv,writev,write_zeroes} function signatures
changed, to using int64_t for offsets/bytes and some still had int
rather than BrdvRequestFlags for the flags.
* job_cancel_sync now has a force parameter. Commit messages in
73895f3838cd7fdaf185cf1dbc47be58844a966f
4cfb3f05627ad82af473e7f7ae113c3884cd04e3
sound like using force=true makes more sense.
* Added 3 patches coming in via qemu-stable tag, most important one is
to work around a librbd issue.
* Added another 3 patches from qemu-devel to fix issue leading to
crash when live migrating with iothread.
* cluster_size calculation helper changed (see patch pve/0026).
* QAPI's if conditionals now use 'CONFIG_FOO' rather than
'defined(CONFIG_FOO)'
Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Very clean rebase, only the +pve version handling needed manual fixing.
Drops two applied patches from extra/ and adds one new from upstream
(extra/0001*, fixes VNC over unix sockets) as well as 3 of my own for
allowing password changes on custom VNC displays again (as seen and
reviewed upstream, but not yet applied).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Mostly minor changes, bigger ones summarized:
* QEMU's internal backup code now uses a new async system, which allows
parallel requests - the default max_workers settings is 64, I chose
less, since 64 put enough stress on QEMU that the guest became
practically unusable during the backup, and 16 still shows quite a
nice measureable performance improvement. Little code changes for us
though.
* 'malformed' QAPI parameters/functions are now a build error (i.e.
using '_' vs '-'), I chose to just whitelist our calls in the name of
backwards compatibility.
* monitor OOB race fix now uses the upstream variant, cherry-picked from
origin/master since it's not in 6.0 by default
* last patch fixes a bug with snapshot rollback related to the new yank
system
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Lots of patches touched and some slight changes to the build process
since QEMU switched to meson as their build system. Functionality-wise
very little rebasing required.
New patches introduced:
* pve/0058: to fix VMA backups and clean up some code in general with
new 5.2 features now available to us (namely coroutine-enabled QMP).
* extra/0002: don't build man pages for guest agent when disabled
* extra/0003: fix live-migration with hugepages
* 0017 and 0018 are adjusted to fix snapshot abort and improve
snap performance a bit
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
No major semantic changes, mostly just deprecations and changed function
signatures. Drop the extra/ patches, as they have been applied upstream.
The added extra/ patch was accepted upstream[0] but has not been picked
up for 5.1. It is required for non-4M aligned backups to work with PBS.
[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg01671.html
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
The long overdue nice rebase+cleanup was done by Dietmar
Originally-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Fiona Ebner