Byte sizes, offsets and the like should use QAPI type 'size' (uint64_t). This rule is more honored in the breach than in the observance. Fix the obvious offenders.
The series is RFC for at least two reasons: 1. It's only lightly tested. Commit message claims like "FOO now works" haven't been verified, yet. 2. The block layer represents file offsets and sizes as int64_t in many places. Must not be negative, except for function return values, where it means failure. If you pass negative values via QMP, things explode. Rejecting them cleanly would be better, but we do that only haphazardly, as far as I can tell. Changing the QAPI schema from 'int' (C: int64_t) to 'size' (C: uint64_t) arguably makes things slightly worse: you can't reasonably expect negative offsets and sizes to work, but expecting offsets and sizes between 2^63 and 2^64-1 to work is less unreasonable. The explosions stay the same. Perhaps we should have a dedicated QAPI type for file offsets, just like libc has off_t. Which is also signed, by the way. Based on "[PATCH v2 0/3] Proactive pow2floor() fix, and dead code removal" and "[PATCH 0/3] Don't QAPI without need". Markus Armbruster (56): qobject: Touch up comments to say @param instead of 'param' qdict: New helpers to put and get unsigned integers monitor: Rewrite comment describing HMP .args_type char: Make ringbuf-read size unsigned in QAPI/QMP char: Make ringbuf size unsigned in QAPI char: Don't truncate -chardev and HMP chardev-add ringbuf size cpus: Make memsave, pmemsave sizes, addresses unsigned in QAPI/QMP dump: Make sizes and addresses unsigned in QAPI/QMP balloon: Make balloon size unsigned in QAPI/QMP hmp: Make balloon's argument unsigned monitor: Drop unused HMP .args_type 'M' pc-dimm: Make size and address unsigned in QAPI/QMP pci: Make PCI addresses and sizes unsigned in QAPI/QMP migration: Fix migrate-set-cache-size error reporting migration: Make XBZRLE cache size unsigned in QAPI/QMP migration: Make XBZRLE transferred size unsigned in QAPI/QMP migration: Make MigrationStats sizes unsigned in QAPI/QMP migration: Make parameter max-bandwidth unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make snapshot VM state size unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make ImageInfo sizes unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Clean up get_human_readable_size() block: Mix up signed and unsigned less in bdrv_img_create() option: Fix type of qemu_opt_set_number() parameter @val block/qcow2: Change align_offset() to operate on uint64_t block/qcow2: Change qcow2_calc_prealloc_size() to uint64_t block: Make BlockMeasureInfo sizes unsigned in QAPI block/dirty-bitmap: Clean up signed vs. unsigned dirty counts block: Widen dirty bitmap granularity to uint64_t for safety block: Make BlockDirtyInfo byte count unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make write thresholds unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make throttle byte rates and sizes unsigned in QAPI/QMP hmp: Make block_set_io_throttle's arguments unsigned block: Make block_resize size unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make BlockDeviceStats sizes, offsets unsigned in QAPI/QMP blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion into block_job_set_speed() blockjob: Drop unused parameter @errp of method set_speed() blockjob: Make BlockJobInfo and event speed unsigned in QAPI/QMP blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of block_job_set_speed() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of block_job_create() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of backup_job_create() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of mirror_start_job() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of stream_start() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of mirror_start() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of blockdev_mirror_common() blockjob: Lift speed sign conversion out of commit_start() etc. blockjob: Make job commands' speed parameter unsigned in QAPI/QMP blockjob: Make BlockJobInfo and event offsets unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make mirror buffer size unsigned in QAPI/QMP block: Make ImageCheck file offset unsigned in QAPI block: Make BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED offset, size unsigned in QAPI/QMP block/nfs: Fix for readahead-size, page-cache-size > INT64_MAX block/nfs: Reject negative readahead-size, page-cache-size block: Make blockdev-add byte counts unsigned in QAPI/QMP qemu-img: blk_getlength() can fail, fix img_map() to check block: Make MapEntry offsets and size unsigned in QAPI crypto: Make QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS offsets unsigned in QAPI/QMP balloon.c | 2 +- block.c | 19 ++++--- block/backup.c | 10 +--- block/commit.c | 9 +-- block/dirty-bitmap.c | 23 +++----- block/mirror.c | 27 +++------ block/nfs.c | 15 ++--- block/null.c | 2 +- block/qapi.c | 20 ++++--- block/qcow2-bitmap.c | 18 +++--- block/qcow2.c | 12 ++-- block/qcow2.h | 7 +-- block/raw-format.c | 10 ++-- block/stream.c | 8 +-- block/trace-events | 8 +-- block/write-threshold.c | 2 +- blockdev.c | 32 ++++++----- blockjob.c | 12 +--- chardev/char-ringbuf.c | 19 ++----- cpus.c | 6 +- dump.c | 26 ++++----- hmp-commands.hx | 4 +- hmp.c | 40 +++++++------- include/block/block.h | 2 +- include/block/block_int.h | 13 +++-- include/block/blockjob.h | 4 +- include/block/blockjob_int.h | 4 +- include/block/dirty-bitmap.h | 11 ++-- include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h | 5 ++ include/qemu/option.h | 2 +- include/sysemu/dump.h | 8 +-- include/sysemu/memory_mapping.h | 4 +- memory_mapping.c | 4 +- migration/block.c | 4 +- migration/migration.c | 23 ++++---- migration/migration.h | 4 +- migration/page_cache.c | 20 +++---- migration/page_cache.h | 2 +- migration/ram.c | 15 +++-- migration/ram.h | 2 +- monitor.c | 80 +++++++++++++++------------ qapi-schema.json | 43 +++++++------- qapi/block-core.json | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- qapi/crypto.json | 4 +- qapi/event.json | 2 +- qemu-img.c | 10 +++- qobject/qdict.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++------------ qobject/qlist.c | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/030 | 16 ------ tests/qemu-iotests/030.out | 4 +- tests/qemu-iotests/041 | 18 ------ tests/qemu-iotests/041.out | 4 +- tests/qemu-iotests/055 | 26 --------- tests/qemu-iotests/055.out | 4 +- tests/test-hbitmap.c | 16 +++--- util/qemu-option.c | 2 +- 56 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 471 deletions(-) -- 2.7.5