Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] ARM: add query-gic-capabilities SMP command

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Hi Peter,

Stupid question: The subject says "SMP command".  Did you mean "QMP
command" ?

Thanks,
-Christoffer

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:32:29PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> v6 changes:
> - patch 1 (squashed into patch 2)
>   - explain more about the following in commit message: why we need
>     this command, and what does the entries mean [Markus]
>   - explain what GIC is [Eric]
>   - squash this patch into patch 2 [Eric]
> - patch 2 (new patch 1)
>   - fix "does not implement" english error [Eric]
>   - remove useless headers in target-arm/monitor.c [Markus]
>   - remove this command from whitelist [Markus, Eric]
>   - return dict rather than array, with single key points to the
>     original array results [Markus, Eric]
> - patch 5 (new patch 4)
>   - tiny change in implementation to suite the new interface.
> 
> v5 changes:
> - patch 2: moved to target-arm/monitor.c (from target-arm/machine.c)
>            [Peter]
> - patch 3: splitted into three patches: [all from Peter's comments]
>   - patch 3 (new): leverage kvm_arm_create_scratch_host_vcpu(), tiny
>     enhancement of old one to suite our need
>   - patch 4: introduce kvm_support_device() in kvm-all.c
>   - patch 5: do the implementation.
> 
> v4 changes:
> - all: rename query-gic-capability to query-gic-capabilities [Andrea]
> - patch 3: rename helper function to kvm_support_device, make it
>   inline and lighter. [Drew]
> 
> v3 changes:
> - patch 2: remove func declaration, add qmp header [Drew]
> - patch 3: being able to detect KVM GIC capabilities even without
>   kvm enabled [Andrea]: this is a little bit hacky, need some more
>   review on this.
> 
> v2 changes:
> - result layout change: use array and dict for the capability bits
>   rather than a single array of strings [Andrea/Markus]
> - spelling out what GIC is in doc [Eric]
> 
> This patch is to add ARM-specific command "query-gic-capability".
> 
> The new command can report which kind of GIC device the host/QEMU
> support. The returned result is in the form of array.
> 
> Sample command and output:
> 
> {"execute": "query-gic-capability"}
> {"return": [{"emulated": false, "version": 3, "kernel": false},
>             {"emulated": true, "version": 2, "kernel": true}]}
> 
> Testing:
> 
> Smoke tests on both x86 (emulated) and another moonshot ARM server.
> 
> Peter Xu (4):
>   arm: qmp: add query-gic-capabilities interface
>   arm: enhance kvm_arm_create_scratch_host_vcpu
>   kvm: add kvm_support_device() helper function
>   arm: implement query-gic-capabilities
> 
>  include/sysemu/kvm.h     |  9 +++++
>  kvm-all.c                | 15 +++++++++
>  monitor.c                |  8 +++++
>  qapi-schema.json         | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qmp-commands.hx          | 28 ++++++++++++++++
>  target-arm/Makefile.objs |  2 +-
>  target-arm/kvm.c         | 10 +++++-
>  target-arm/kvm_arm.h     |  6 ++--
>  target-arm/monitor.c     | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 target-arm/monitor.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.4.3
> 
> 

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