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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qga: add guest-set-time command


From: Lei Li
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qga: add guest-set-time command
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:00:51 +0800
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On 01/08/2013 06:26 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/06/2013 03:07 AM, Lei Li wrote:
Signed-off-by: Lei Li <address@hidden>
---
  qga/commands-posix.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  qga/qapi-schema.json |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qga/commands-posix.c b/qga/commands-posix.c
index 190199d..7fff49a 100644
--- a/qga/commands-posix.c
+++ b/qga/commands-posix.c
@@ -121,6 +121,63 @@ struct HostTimeInfo *qmp_guest_get_time(Error **errp)
      return host_time;
  }
+void qmp_guest_set_time(bool has_seconds, int64_t seconds,
+                        bool has_microseconds, int64_t microseconds,
+                        bool has_utc_offset, int64_t utc_offset, Error **errp)
+{
+    int ret;
+    int status;
+    pid_t pid, rpid;
+    struct timeval tv;
+    HostTimeInfo *host_time;
+
+    if ((!has_seconds) && (!has_microseconds) && (!has_utc_offset)) {
Is it really qemu style to parenthesize this much?

+        host_time = get_host_time();
+        if (!host_time) {
+            error_set(errp, QERR_QGA_COMMAND_FAILED, "Failed to set guest 
time");
+            return;
+        }
+        tv.tv_sec = host_time->seconds;
+        tv.tv_usec = host_time->microseconds;
+    } else if (has_seconds && has_microseconds && has_utc_offset) {
+        tv.tv_sec = (time_t) seconds + utc_offset;
You need to worry about overflow on hosts where time_t is 32-bits but
the user passed time using 64-bits (such as past the year 2038).
Likewise, it might be worth bounds-checking utc-offset to be at most 12
hours away from UTC (or is there a better bounds?).

+        tv.tv_usec = (time_t) microseconds;
Likewise, you should range-validate that microseconds does not overflow
1000000 (or, if you take my suggestion about using nanoseconds, since
struct timespec is a bit more expressive, then bound things by
1000000000, and properly round when converting to lower resolution
interfaces such as settimeofday()).

+    } else {
+        error_set(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER, "parameter missing");
That's a bit harsh.  I'm thinking it might be nicer to support:

all three missing - grab time from the host
at least seconds present - populate any missing subseconds or utc_offset
as 0
seconds missing, but other fields present - error

making this look more like:

if (!has_seconds) {
     if (has_subseconds || has_utc_offset) {
         error_set();
     } else {
         use get_host_time();
     }
} else {
     tv.tv_sec = seconds + (has_utc_offset ? utc_offset : 0);
     ...
}

Good suggestions!
Yes, I know this is harsh. I will improve it in next version,
as well as the document.

+++ b/qga/qapi-schema.json
@@ -117,6 +117,38 @@
    'returns': 'HostTimeInfo' }
##
+# @guest-set-time:
+#
+# Set guest time. If none arguments were given, will set
s/none/no/

+# host time to guest.
+#
+# Right now, when a guest is paused or migrated to a file
+# then loaded from that file, the guest OS has no idea that
+# there was a big gap in the time. Depending on how long
+# the gap was, NTP might not be able to resynchronize the
+# guest.
+#
+# This command tries to set guest time based on the information
+# from host or an absolute value given by management app, and
+# set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time. This
+# will make it easier for a guest to resynchronize without
+# waiting for NTP.
+#
+# @seconds: #optional "seconds" time.
+#
+# @microseconds: #optional "microseconds" time.
+#
+# @utc-offset: #optional utc offset.
If you like my above suggestions, this might be worth documenting that
@microseconds (or @nanoseconds) must not be provided unless @seconds is
present, and so on.


Same questions as in patch 1/3 - you need to document what @seconds is
relative to (presumably the Epoch of 1970-01-01), and what format
utc-offset takes.  Based on this patch, it looks like you are using
utc-offset as the number of seconds difference, so one hour is
represented as 3600.

Sure. About the utc-offset format, I have replied to the previous patch.
It would be one-hour offset, and it's my mistake here...:(




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Lei




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