Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Am 15.08.2019 um 18:07 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> On 8/15/19 6:49 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> > Am 14.08.2019 um 21:27 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 8/14/19 6:07 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> >>> To get rid of implicit filters related workarounds in future let's
>> >>> deprecate them now.
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> ---
>> >>> qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 +++++++
>> >>> qapi/block-core.json | 6 ++++--
>> >>> include/block/block_int.h | 10 +++++++++-
>> >>> blockdev.c | 10 ++++++++++
>> >>> 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >>>
>> >>> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> >>> index 2753fafd0b..8222440148 100644
>> >>> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> >>> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> >>> @@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ the 'wait' field, which is only applicable to sockets in server mode
>> >>>
>> >>> Use blockdev-mirror and blockdev-backup instead.
>> >>>
>> >>> +@subsection implicit filters (since 4.2)
>> >>> +
>> >>> +Mirror and commit jobs inserts filters, which becomes implicit if user
>> >>> +omitted filter-node-name parameter. So omitting it is deprecated, set it
>> >>> +always. Note, that drive-mirror don't have this parameter, so it will
>> >>> +create implicit filter anyway, but drive-mirror is deprecated itself too.
>> >>> +
>> >>> @section Human Monitor Protocol (HMP) commands
>> >>>
>> >>> @subsection The hub_id parameter of 'hostfwd_add' / 'hostfwd_remove' (since 3.1)
>> >>> diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
>> >>> index 4e35526634..0505ac9d8b 100644
>> >>> --- a/qapi/block-core.json
>> >>> +++ b/qapi/block-core.json
>> >>> @@ -1596,7 +1596,8 @@
>> >>> # @filter-node-name: the node name that should be assigned to the
>> >>> # filter driver that the commit job inserts into the graph
>> >>> # above @top. If this option is not given, a node name is
>> >>> -# autogenerated. (Since: 2.9)
>> >>> +# autogenerated. Omitting this option is deprecated, it will
>> >>> +# be required in future. (Since: 2.9)
>> >>> #
>> >>> # @auto-finalize: When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has
>> >>> # finished its work, waiting for @block-job-finalize before
>> >>> @@ -2249,7 +2250,8 @@
>> >>> # @filter-node-name: the node name that should be assigned to the
>> >>> # filter driver that the mirror job inserts into the graph
>> >>> # above @device. If this option is not given, a node name is
>> >>> -# autogenerated. (Since: 2.9)
>> >>> +# autogenerated. Omitting this option is deprecated, it will
>> >>> +# be required in future. (Since: 2.9)
>> >>> #
>> >>> # @copy-mode: when to copy data to the destination; defaults to 'background'
>> >>> # (Since: 3.0)
>> >>> diff --git a/include/block/block_int.h b/include/block/block_int.h
>> >>> index 3aa1e832a8..624da0b4a2 100644
>> >>> --- a/include/block/block_int.h
>> >>> +++ b/include/block/block_int.h
>> >>> @@ -762,7 +762,15 @@ struct BlockDriverState {
>> >>> bool sg; /* if true, the device is a /dev/sg* */
>> >>> bool probed; /* if true, format was probed rather than specified */
>> >>> bool force_share; /* if true, always allow all shared permissions */
>> >>> - bool implicit; /* if true, this filter node was automatically inserted */
>> >>> +
>> >>> + /*
>> >>> + * @implicit field is deprecated, don't set it to true for new filters.
>> >>> + * If true, this filter node was automatically inserted and user don't
>> >>> + * know about it and unprepared for any effects of it. So, implicit
>> >>> + * filters are workarounded and skipped in many places of the block
>> >>> + * layer code.
>> >>> + */
>> >>> + bool implicit;
>> >>>
>> >>> BlockDriver *drv; /* NULL means no media */
>> >>> void *opaque;
>> >>> diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
>> >>> index 36e9368e01..b3cfaccce1 100644
>> >>> --- a/blockdev.c
>> >>> +++ b/blockdev.c
>> >>> @@ -3292,6 +3292,11 @@ void qmp_block_commit(bool has_job_id, const char *job_id, const char *device,
>> >>> BlockdevOnError on_error = BLOCKDEV_ON_ERROR_REPORT;
>> >>> int job_flags = JOB_DEFAULT;
>> >>>
>> >>> + if (!has_filter_node_name) {
>> >>> + warn_report("Omitting filter-node-name parameter is deprecated, it "
>> >>> + "will be required in future");
>> >>> + }
>> >>> +
>> >>> if (!has_speed) {
>> >>> speed = 0;
>> >>> }
>> >>> @@ -3990,6 +3995,11 @@ void qmp_blockdev_mirror(bool has_job_id, const char *job_id,
>> >>> Error *local_err = NULL;
>> >>> int ret;
>> >>>
>> >>> + if (!has_filter_node_name) {
>> >>> + warn_report("Omitting filter-node-name parameter is deprecated, it "
>> >>> + "will be required in future");
>> >>> + }
>> >>> +
>> >>> bs = qmp_get_root_bs(device, errp);
>> >>> if (!bs) {
>> >>> return;
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> This might be OK to do right away, though.
>> >>
>> >> I asked Markus this not too long ago; do we want to amend the QAPI
>> >> schema specification to allow commands to return with "Warning" strings,
>> >> or "Deprecated" stings to allow in-band deprecation notices for cases
>> >> like these?
>> >>
>> >> example:
>> >>
>> >> { "return": {},
>> >> "deprecated": True,
>> >> "warning": "Omitting filter-node-name parameter is deprecated, it will
>> >> be required in the future"
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> There's no "error" key, so this should be recognized as success by
>> >> compatible clients, but they'll definitely see the extra information.
>> >>
>> >> Part of my motivation is to facilitate a more aggressive deprecation of
>> >> legacy features by ensuring that we are able to rigorously notify users
>> >> through any means that they need to adjust their scripts.
>> >
>> > Who would read this, though? In the best case it ends up deep in a
>> > libvirt log that nobody will look at because there was no error. In the
>> > more common case, the debug level is configured so that QMP traffic
>> > isn't even logged.
>> >
>> > Kevin
>> >
>>
>> I believe you are right, but I also can't shake the feeling that this
>> attitude ensures that we'll never find a way to expose this information
>> to the end-user. Is this not too defeatist?
>
> I think the discussed approach that seemed most likely to me to succeed
> was adding a command line option that makes QEMU just crash if you use a
> deprecated feature, and enable that in libvirt test cases (or possibly
> even any non-release builds, though maybe it's a bit harsh there).
Yup. BoF minutes: "The one way to get people read log files is crashing
their application."
>> I think deprecation notices in the QMP stream has two benefits:
>>
>> 1) Any direct usages via qmp-shell or manual JSON connection are likely
>> to see this message in development or testing. I feel the usage of QEMU
>> directly is more likely to increase with time as other stacks seek to
>> work around libvirt.
>>
>> [Whether or not they should is another question, but I believe the
>> current reality to be that people are trying to.]
>
> I don't know about other people, but as a human user, I don't care about
> deprecation notices. As long as something works, I use it, and once I
> get an error message back, I'll use something else.
>
> If I manually enter drive_mirror and get a warning back, that doesn't
> tell me that libvirt still does the same thing and needs to be fixed. It
> just tells me that in the future I might need to change the commands
> that I use manually.
>
> I guess this would still prevent adding new libvirt features that build
> on deprecated QEMU features because some manual testing will be involved
> there. But was this ever a problem?
You're right in that relying on *humans* to read the machine-readable
deprecation notice probaly won't work for old client code trying to use
newly deprecated QMP. It should work for new client code trying to use
already deprecated QMP.
>> 2) Programmatic deprecation notices can't be presented to a user at all
>> if we don't send them; at least this way it becomes libvirt's problem
>> over what to do with them. Perhaps even just in testing and regression
>> suites libvirt can assert that it sees no deprecation warnings (or
>> whitelist certain ones it knows about.)
>>
>> In the case of libvirt, it's not even necessarily about making sure the
>> end user sees it, because it isn't even necessarily the user's fault --
>> it's libvirt's. This is a sure-fire programmatic way to communicate
>> compatibility changes to libvirt.
>
> If libvirt uses this to make test cases fail, it could work.
Yes.
However, ensuring tests fail whenever libvirt receives a deprecation
notice via QMP seems harder than having them pass --future to QEMU to
make it crash instead of sending such a notice.
Let's assume all libvirt ever does with deprecation notices is logging
them. Would that solve the problem of reliably alerting libvirt
developers to deprecation issues? Nope. But it could help
occasionally.
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