Hello Everyone,
In many cases, if qemu has a network connection (qmp, migration, chardev, etc.)
to some other server and that server dies or hangs, qemu hangs too.
These patches introduce the new 'yank' out-of-band qmp command to recover from
these kinds of hangs. The different subsystems register callbacks which get
executed with the yank command. For example the callback can shutdown() a
socket. This is intended for the colo use-case, but it can be used for other
things too of course.

Regards,
Lukas Straub

v5:
 -move yank.c to util/
 -move yank.h to include/qemu/
 -add license to yank.h
 -use const char*
 -nbd: use atomic_store_release and atomic_load_aqcuire
 -io-channel: ensure thread-safety and document it
 -add myself as maintainer for yank

v4:
 -fix build errors...

v3:
 -don't touch softmmu/vl.c, use __contructor__ attribute instead (Paolo Bonzini)
 -fix build errors
 -rewrite migration patch so it actually passes all tests

v2:
 -don't touch io/ code anymore
 -always register yank functions
 -'yank' now takes a list of instances to yank
 -'query-yank' returns a list of yankable instances

Lukas Straub (7):
  Introduce yank feature
  block/nbd.c: Add yank feature
  chardev/char-socket.c: Add yank feature
  migration: Add yank feature
  io/channel-tls.c: make qio_channel_tls_shutdown thread-safe
  io: Document thread-safety of qio_channel_shutdown
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for yank feature

 MAINTAINERS                   |  13 +++
 block/nbd.c                   | 101 ++++++++++++-------
 chardev/char-socket.c         |  24 +++++
 include/io/channel.h          |   2 +
 include/qemu/yank.h           |  79 +++++++++++++++
 io/channel-tls.c              |   6 +-
 migration/channel.c           |  12 +++
 migration/migration.c         |  18 +++-
 migration/multifd.c           |  10 ++
 migration/qemu-file-channel.c |   6 ++
 migration/savevm.c            |   2 +
 qapi/misc.json                |  45 +++++++++
 tests/Makefile.include        |   2 +-
 util/Makefile.objs            |   1 +
 util/yank.c                   | 179 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 15 files changed, 459 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/qemu/yank.h
 create mode 100644 util/yank.c

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