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Commit 7bb86085 authored by Anton Nefedov's avatar Anton Nefedov Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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char: chardevice hotswap



This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend
removal.

Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e.
frontend would continue its regular operation.
However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends
via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and it's not (generally) possible to replay
that setup entirely in a backend code, as different chardevs respond
to the setup calls differently, so do frontends work differently basing
on those setup responses.
Moreover, some frontend can generally get and save the backend pointer
(qemu_chr_fe_get_driver()), and it will become invalid after backend change.

So, a frontend which would like to support chardev hotswap has to register
a "backend change" handler, and redo its backend setup there.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <1499342940-56739-4-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 81517ba3
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