Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] initial plugin support

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 September 2017 at 21:28, Emilio G. Cota <address@hidden> wrote:
> Related threads:
>   [PATCH 00/13] instrument: Add basic event instrumentation
>   Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:02:24 +0300
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg07419.html
> and
>   [PATCH v4 00/20] instrument: Add basic event instrumentation
>   Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 20:22:41 +0300
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg07419.html
>
> This set does something similar to the instrumentation patches by Lluis,
> but with a different implementation (and for now less events).
>
> My focus has been on working on the skeleton of a (pseudo) stable API,
> as Stefan requested. Of course more events would have to be added, but
> before spending more time on this I'd like to get some feedback on the
> core of the design. Patch 2 has all the details.
>
> Note: yes, patch 1 is not used in the series, but this is an RFC. It's there
> because it will be needed to get the tb->plugin_mask when deciding whether
> to generate a mem_cb helper when generating loads/stores from TCG.
>
> This set applies on top of:
>   https://github.com/cota/qemu/tree/tcg-generic-15%2Bmulti-tcg-v4-parallel
>
> The tree can be fetched from:
>   https://github.com/cota/qemu/tree/plugins

Hi -- do you have documentation of what the plugin-facing
API here is? What I'd like to do for the initial evaluation of
this series and Luis's is just to look at the plugin API
and the command line/etc interface for users to provide the
API, because I think that's the interesting part.

thanks
-- PMM