From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sainath grandhi Subject: Re: Help with reading from hvc console device on a PV guest Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:05:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20150724075417.GC6750@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150724075417.GC6750@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Wei, Thanks for your reply. Sorry I did not change the comment properly. These are the two methods I tried separately. First method: I see /dev/hvc1 and /dev/hvc2 being created when I give two channels in the guest xl config file. So I wrote a program to open hvc1 and read like below. fd=open("/dev/hvc1", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) Second method: I also notice the devices are created under /sys/bus/xen/devices/console-1 and console-2. And the corresponding devices are in /dev/hvc1 and /dev/hvc2. So I manually created devices similar to following udev rules like below for console 1. HVC_MAJOR=229 NAME_PATH=device/console/1/name NAME=$(xenstore-read $NAME_PATH) mknod /dev/xenconsole/$NAME c $HVC_MAJOR 1 ln -s /dev/xenconsole/$NAME /dev/xenconsole/console-1 NAME in my case is xen.channel.1 Hence I tried to open and read using fd=open("/dev/xenconsole/xen.channel.1", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) But both the attempts failed. And they do not read the contents I sent from dom0. What I notice from the code review of hvc driver is that any data that the hvc driver gets from the backend is used ONLY for terminal consumption and not for file operations? When I tried to create a console login on the hvc2, and do a socat on the socket path from dom0, I am able to send commands like ls, pwd etc. and receive responses fine. Thanks -Sainath On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:14:57AM -0700, sainath grandhi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please let me know if you have some information about issue below. >> >> I created a channel device for PV guest using >> >> channel= ["connection=pty, name=xen.channel.0, >> path=/var/lib/xen/ctl-socket","connection=socket, name=xen.channel.1, >> path=/var/lib/xen/ctl-socket-data"] >> >> Xen toolstack uses qemu backend for additional consoles other than console 0. >> >> /usr/local/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 -xen-domid 505 -chardev >> socket,id=libxl-cmd,path=/var/run/xen/qmp-libxl-505,server,nowait >> -no-shutdown -mon chardev=libxl-cmd,mode=control -chardev >> socket,id=libxenstat-cmd,path=/var/run/xen/qmp-libxenstat-505,server,nowait >> -mon chardev=libxenstat-cmd,mode=control -chardev >> pty,id=libxl-channel0 -chardev >> socket,id=libxl-channel1,path=/var/lib/xen/ctl-socket-data,server,nowait >> -nodefaults -xen-attach -name ubuntupvhchannel -vnc none -display none >> -nographic -machine xenpv -m 2048 >> >> I see additional console devices in the guest under /dev/hvc1 and /dev/hvc2. >> >> I write to the other end of the channel i.e. from dom0, but when I >> read the console device /dev/hvc1 or /dev/hvc2, using cat or an >> application using read(), I do not get the data out. But I could print >> out the data using printk (the string I passed from dom0) inside the >> hvc driver code where it reads from backend. >> >> Looks like I am missing something in the userspace creation of >> device node or some flag for opening device file in the read system >> call of my application. Any suggestions? >> >> Application I wrote to read from console device: >> >> memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); >> >> fd=open("/dev/xenconsole/xen.channel.1", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK); >> > > Have you checked if there is such device under the said directory? > > You need to have udev rules in guest to create those devices for you. > > See the discussion thread at > > > >> if(fd < 0) >> >> printf("could not open dev hvc2\n"); >> > > I'm confused because the code says hvc2 here but open() has another path > in it. > > Wei. > >> size = read(fd, (void *)buf, sizeof(buf)); >> >> printf("size read %d\n",size); >> >> Thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org >> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel