[PATCH v2] hw/char/pl011: support backend hotswap

Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-arm,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]>

Currently, when Incus issues "chardev-change" QMP command to change
chardev backend from ringbuf to socket it receives an error (with aarch64 VM):
"Chardev user does not support chardev hotswap" [1], [2]

Let's fix this by properly implementing BackendChangeHandler for pl011.

Please, note that we have to "replay" CHR_IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BREAK, because
if BRK bit was set before backend change (i.e. (s->lcr & LCR_BRK) is true),
then after change we need to send break to a new backend too.

Link: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/unable-to-connect-to-vm-console-on-arm-architecture/23096/3 [1]
Link: https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/issues/892 [2]
Reported-by: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]>
---
v2:
	- fixed a typo in commit author name
	  [ I did `git format-patch` and copied this patch from my Raspberry PI
	    dev/test machine and it turns out that I have a stupid typo in my
	    `git config get user.name` on that machine. ]
	- added RWB tag from Alex Bennée
	- adjusted a commit message
---
 hw/char/pl011.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/char/pl011.c b/hw/char/pl011.c
index cb12c3e224f..3622248ec0c 100644
--- a/hw/char/pl011.c
+++ b/hw/char/pl011.c
@@ -660,12 +660,26 @@ static void pl011_init(Object *obj)
     s->id = pl011_id_arm;
 }
 
+static int pl011_be_change(void *opaque)
+{
+    PL011State *s = opaque;
+    int break_enable = s->lcr & LCR_BRK;
+
+    qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&s->chr, pl011_can_receive, pl011_receive,
+                             pl011_event, pl011_be_change, s, NULL, true);
+
+    qemu_chr_fe_ioctl(&s->chr, CHR_IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BREAK,
+                      &break_enable);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 static void pl011_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 {
     PL011State *s = PL011(dev);
 
     qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&s->chr, pl011_can_receive, pl011_receive,
-                             pl011_event, NULL, s, NULL, true);
+                             pl011_event, pl011_be_change, s, NULL, true);
 }
 
 static void pl011_reset(DeviceState *dev)
-- 
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