Virtio-Console can only process one character at a time. Using it on S390
gave me strange "lags" where I got the character I pressed before when
pressing one. So I typed in "abc" and only received "a", then pressed "d"
but the guest received "b" and so on.
While the stdio driver calls a poll function that just processes on its
queue in case virtio-console can't take multiple characters at once, the
muxer does not have such callbacks, so it can't empty its queue.
To work around that limitation, I introduced a new timer that only gets
active when the guest can not receive any more characters. In that case
it polls again after a while to check if the guest is now receiving input.
This patch fixes input when using -nographic on s390 for me.
[AF: Rebased for v2.7.0-rc2]
[BR: minor edits to pass qemu's checkpatch script]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
The has_FOO for pointer-valued FOO are redundant, except for arrays.
They are also a nuisance to work with. Recent commit "qapi: Start to
elide redundant has_FOO in generated C" provided the means to elide
them step by step. This is the step for qapi/char.json.
Said commit explains the transformation in more detail. The invariant
violations mentioned there do not occur here.
Cc: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221104160712.3005652-12-armbru@redhat.com>
QAPI doesn't know the aliases 'tty' and 'parport' and there is no
reason to prefer them to the real names of the backends 'serial' and
'parallel'.
Since warnings are not allowed in 'make check' output, we can't test
the deprecated alias any more. Remove it from test-char.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210311164253.338723-3-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The main tests directory still looks very crowded, and it's not
clear which files are part of a unit tests and which belong to
a different test subsystem. Let's clean up the mess and move the
unit tests to a separate directory.
Message-Id: <20210310063314.1049838-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
