[PULL v2 00/28] Misc patches for 2021-05-24

[PULL v2 00/28] Misc patches for 2021-05-24

[Paolo Bonzini]

The following changes since commit 92f8c6fef13b31ba222c4d20ad8afd2b79c4c28e:

  Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20210525' into staging (2021-05-25 16:17:06 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream

for you to fetch changes up to 7cf333a37260c4aafa465453adc8e073e408967e:

  gitlab-ci: use --meson=git for CFI jobs (2021-05-26 14:50:05 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
* submodule cleanups (Philippe, myself)
* tiny step towards a usable preconfig mode (myself)
* Kconfig and LOCK_GUARD cleanups (philippe)
* new x86 CPUID feature (Yang Zhong)
* "-object qtest" support (myself)
* Dirty ring support for KVM (Peter)
* Fixes for 6.0 command line parsing breakage (myself)
* Fix for macOS 11.3 SDK (Katsuhiro)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Ali Shirvani (1):
      doc: Add notes about -mon option mode=control argument.

Katsuhiro Ueno (1):
      meson: Set implicit_include_directories to false

Kit Westneat (1):
      hw/scsi: Fix sector translation bug in scsi_unmap_complete_noio

Paolo Bonzini (10):
      configure: check for submodules if --with-git-submodules=ignore
      configure: simplify assignment to GIT_SUBMODULES
      object: add more commands to preconfig mode
      qtest: add a QOM object for qtest
      KVM: do not allow setting properties at runtime
      remove qemu-options* from root directory
      replication: move include out of root directory
      vl: allow not specifying size in -m when using -M memory-backend
      qemu-config: load modules when instantiating option groups
      gitlab-ci: use --meson=git for CFI jobs

Peter Xu (10):
      memory: Introduce log_sync_global() to memory listener
      KVM: Use a big lock to replace per-kml slots_lock
      KVM: Create the KVMSlot dirty bitmap on flag changes
      KVM: Provide helper to get kvm dirty log
      KVM: Provide helper to sync dirty bitmap from slot to ramblock
      KVM: Simplify dirty log sync in kvm_set_phys_mem
      KVM: Cache kvm slot dirty bitmap size
      KVM: Add dirty-ring-size property
      KVM: Disable manual dirty log when dirty ring enabled
      KVM: Dirty ring support

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (3):
      configure: Only clone softfloat-3 repositories if TCG is enabled
      hw/mem/nvdimm: Use Kconfig 'imply' instead of 'depends on'
      tests/qtest/fuzz: Fix build failure

Thomas Huth (1):
      configure: Avoid error messages about missing *-config-*.h files

Yang Zhong (1):
      i386/cpu: Expose AVX_VNNI instruction to guest

 .gitlab-ci.yml                                |   4 +-
 Makefile                                      |   2 +
 accel/kvm/kvm-all.c                           | 615 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 accel/kvm/trace-events                        |   7 +
 block/replication.c                           |   2 +-
 configure                                     |  79 ++--
 default-configs/devices/ppc64-softmmu.mak     |   1 -
 hmp-commands.hx                               |   2 +
 hw/arm/Kconfig                                |   1 +
 hw/i386/Kconfig                               |   1 +
 hw/mem/Kconfig                                |   2 -
 hw/ppc/Kconfig                                |   1 +
 hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c                           |  12 +-
 replication.h => include/block/replication.h  |   4 +-
 include/exec/memory.h                         |  12 +
 include/hw/core/cpu.h                         |   7 +
 include/qemu/config-file.h                    |   2 +-
 qemu-options.h => include/qemu/qemu-options.h |   9 +-
 include/sysemu/kvm_int.h                      |   7 +-
 meson.build                                   |   1 +
 migration/colo.c                              |   2 +-
 os-posix.c                                    |   2 +-
 os-win32.c                                    |   1 -
 qapi/qom.json                                 |  23 +-
 qemu-options-wrapper.h                        |  40 --
 qemu-options.hx                               |  23 +-
 replication.c                                 |   2 +-
 softmmu/memory.c                              |  33 +-
 softmmu/qtest.c                               | 185 +++++++-
 softmmu/vl.c                                  |  52 ++-
 stubs/meson.build                             |   1 +
 stubs/module-opts.c                           |   6 +
 target/i386/cpu.c                             |   4 +-
 target/i386/cpu.h                             |   2 +
 tests/qtest/fuzz/fuzz.c                       |   1 +
 tests/unit/test-replication.c                 |   2 +-
 util/qemu-config.c                            |   1 +
 37 files changed, 924 insertions(+), 227 deletions(-)
 rename replication.h => include/block/replication.h (98%)
 rename qemu-options.h => include/qemu/qemu-options.h (88%)
 delete mode 100644 qemu-options-wrapper.h
 create mode 100644 stubs/module-opts.c
-- 
2.31.1

[PULL 25/28] doc: Add notes about -mon option mode=control argument.

[Paolo Bonzini]

From: Ali Shirvani <alishir@routerhosting.com>

The mode=control argument configures a QMP monitor.

Signed-off-by: Ali Shirvani <alishir@routerhosting.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <0799f0de89ad2482672b5d61d0de61e6eba782da.1621407918.git.alishir@routerhosting.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 qemu-options.hx | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 8116f79818..14258784b3 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -3799,8 +3799,11 @@ DEF("mon", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_mon, \
     "-mon [chardev=]name[,mode=readline|control][,pretty[=on|off]]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 SRST
 ``-mon [chardev=]name[,mode=readline|control][,pretty[=on|off]]``
-    Setup monitor on chardev name. ``pretty`` is only valid when
-    ``mode=control``, turning on JSON pretty printing to ease
+    Setup monitor on chardev name. ``mode=control`` configures 
+    a QMP monitor (a JSON RPC-style protocol) and it is not the
+    same as HMP, the human monitor that has a "(qemu)" prompt.
+    ``pretty`` is only valid when ``mode=control``, 
+    turning on JSON pretty printing to ease
     human reading and debugging.
 ERST
 
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PULL v2 00/28] Misc patches for 2021-05-24

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 17:51, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 92f8c6fef13b31ba222c4d20ad8afd2b79c4c28e:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20210525' into staging (2021-05-25 16:17:06 +0100)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 7cf333a37260c4aafa465453adc8e073e408967e:
>
>   gitlab-ci: use --meson=git for CFI jobs (2021-05-26 14:50:05 +0200)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * submodule cleanups (Philippe, myself)
> * tiny step towards a usable preconfig mode (myself)
> * Kconfig and LOCK_GUARD cleanups (philippe)
> * new x86 CPUID feature (Yang Zhong)
> * "-object qtest" support (myself)
> * Dirty ring support for KVM (Peter)
> * Fixes for 6.0 command line parsing breakage (myself)
> * Fix for macOS 11.3 SDK (Katsuhiro)
>


Applied, thanks.

Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.1
for any user-visible changes.

-- PMM