Re: [PATCH 0/7] qemu: use domCaps for validation

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On 4/4/19 7:37 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> I'm trying to remove some hurdles and pitfalls WRT extending
> domaincapabilities data. One issue is that it's too easy to add
> invalid data to it, or let the data become out of date.
> 
> For example the first two patches of this series add <rng model=X>
> domcaps reporting. The logic to fill in the domcaps data from qemuCaps
> is nearly identical to the logic we use to validate rng->model in
> qemuDomainRNGDefValidate. If just those patches are added, and later
> a new qemu rng model was introduced, a future patch could easily
> miss updated domaincapabilities output.
> 
> This series aims to set up a pattern to prevent these types of issues
> from sneaking in. A function virDomainCapsDeviceDefValidate is added
> which will use domcaps data to perform validation against a devicedef.
> The existing qemu <rng> model validation is moved there. This ensures
> that any future <rng> model additions, if they want to work in the
> qemu driver, effectively need to extend domaincapabilities as well.
> It's also theoretically useful for other drivers too.
> 
> One issue is that at DomainDefValidate time we don't have domCaps
> handy, or any cache layer for domCaps assembling. Patch #4 adds
> a domCapsCache hashtable to the virQEMUCaps class for caching domCaps
> builds based on the full tuple of emulator+machine+arch+virttype.
> If qemuCaps need to be regenerated, the domCaps cache is wiped out
> for us so we don't need to worry about the data being stale, it's
> tied to the lifetime of a qemuCaps instance.
> 
> Cole Robinson (7):
>   conf: domcaps: Report device <rng>
>   qemu: capabilities: fill in domcaps <rng>
>   qemu: conf: add virQEMUDriverGetDomainCapabilities
>   qemu: conf: Cache domCaps in qemuCaps
>   conf: domcaps: Add virDomainCapsDeviceDefValidate
>   qemu: domain: Call virDomainCapsDeviceDefValidate
>   qemu: Move rng model validation to domcaps
> 
>  docs/formatdomaincaps.html.in                 | 35 ++++++++
>  docs/schemas/domaincaps.rng                   | 10 +++
>  src/conf/domain_capabilities.c                | 83 ++++++++++++++++++
>  src/conf/domain_capabilities.h                | 14 ++++
>  src/libvirt_private.syms                      |  1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                  | 41 +++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                  |  1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.c                          | 84 +++++++++++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.h                          |  7 ++
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c                        | 38 +++------
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c                        | 18 +---
>  .../qemu_1.7.0.x86_64.xml                     |  9 ++
>  .../qemu_2.12.0-virt.aarch64.xml              | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.12.0.ppc64.xml                     | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.12.0.s390x.xml                     | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.12.0.x86_64.xml                    | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.6.0-virt.aarch64.xml               | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.6.0.aarch64.xml                    | 11 +++
>  .../domaincapsschemadata/qemu_2.6.0.ppc64.xml | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.6.0.x86_64.xml                     | 11 +++
>  .../domaincapsschemadata/qemu_2.7.0.s390x.xml | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.8.0-tcg.x86_64.xml                 | 11 +++
>  .../domaincapsschemadata/qemu_2.8.0.s390x.xml | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.8.0.x86_64.xml                     | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.9.0-q35.x86_64.xml                 | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.9.0-tcg.x86_64.xml                 | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_2.9.0.x86_64.xml                     | 11 +++
>  .../domaincapsschemadata/qemu_3.0.0.s390x.xml | 11 +++
>  .../qemu_4.0.0.x86_64.xml                     | 11 +++
>  29 files changed, 488 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 


- Cole

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