[RFC PATCH v6 08/11] trace-cmd: Try to autodetect number of guest CPUs in setup-guest if not specified

[Slavomir Kaslev <kaslevs@vmware.com>]

When no number of guest CPUs is provided with the -c flag to `trace-cmd
setup-guest`, try to autodetect it using virsh for libvirt managed guests.

Signed-off-by: Slavomir Kaslev <kaslevs@vmware.com>
---
 tracecmd/trace-setup-guest.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tracecmd/trace-usage.c       |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-setup-guest.c b/tracecmd/trace-setup-guest.c
index 875ac0e..7ee6f06 100644
--- a/tracecmd/trace-setup-guest.c
+++ b/tracecmd/trace-setup-guest.c
@@ -101,6 +101,24 @@ static int make_guest_fifos(const char *guest, int nr_cpus, mode_t mode)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int get_guest_cpu_count(const char *guest)
+{
+	const char *cmd_fmt = "virsh vcpucount --maximum '%s' 2>/dev/null";
+	int nr_cpus = -1;
+	char cmd[1024];
+	FILE *f;
+
+	snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd), cmd_fmt, guest);
+	f = popen(cmd, "r");
+	if (!f)
+		return -errno;
+
+	fscanf(f, "%d", &nr_cpus);
+	pclose(f);
+
+	return nr_cpus;
+}
+
 static void do_setup_guest(const char *guest, int nr_cpus, mode_t mode, gid_t gid)
 {
 	gid_t save_egid;
@@ -179,6 +197,9 @@ void trace_setup_guest(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	guest = argv[optind+1];
 
+	if (nr_cpus <= 0)
+		nr_cpus = get_guest_cpu_count(guest);
+
 	if (nr_cpus <= 0)
 		pdie("invalid number of cpus for guest %s", guest);
 
diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-usage.c b/tracecmd/trace-usage.c
index 7a8002f..9a13d93 100644
--- a/tracecmd/trace-usage.c
+++ b/tracecmd/trace-usage.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static struct usage_help usage_help[] = {
 	{
 		"setup-guest",
 		"create FIFOs for tracing guest VMs",
-		" %s setup-guest -c cpus[-p perm][-g group] guest\n"
+		" %s setup-guest [-c cpus][-p perm][-g group] guest\n"
 		"          -c number of guest virtual CPUs\n"
 		"          -p FIFOs permissions (default: 0660)\n"
 		"          -g FIFOs group owner\n"
-- 
2.19.1