Re: [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH v4 26/30] Implement qmp and hmp commands for notification lists

[Eric Blake]

On 12/18/2012 05:41 AM, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
> Guest can respond to ACPI hotplug events e.g. with _EJ or _OST method.
> This patch implements a tail queue to store guest notifications for memory
> hot-add and hot-remove requests.
>
> Guest responses for memory hotplug command on a per-dimm basis can be detected
> with the new hmp command "info memory-hotplug" or the new qmp command
> "query-memory-hotplug"
>
> Examples:
>
> (qemu) device_add dimm,id=ram0
> (qemu) info memory-hotplug
> dimm: ram0 hot-add success
> or
> dimm: ram0 hot-add failure
> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -2940,6 +2940,32 @@
>  { 'command': 'query-dimm-info', 'returns': ['DimmInfo'] }
>
> ##
> +# @MemHpInfo:
> +#
> +# Information about status of a memory hotplug command
> +#
> +# @dimm: the Dimm associated with the result

Didn't document @request.
> +#
> +# @result: the result of the hotplug command
> +#
> +# Since: 1.4
> +#
> +##
> +{ 'type': 'MemHpInfo',
> 'data': {'dimm': 'str', 'request': 'str', 'result': 'str'} }

Instead of open-coding 'request' and 'result' as an arbitrary string, it
would be nicer to have them be an enum type with a finite subset of
expected values.
> +##
> +# @query-memory-hotplug:
> +#
> +# Returns a list of information about pending hotplug commands
> +#
> +# Returns: a list of @MemhpInfo

s/MemhpInfo/MemHpInfo/
> +#
> +# Since: 1.4
> +##
> +{ 'command': 'query-memory-hotplug', 'returns': ['MemHpInfo'] }
>
> +##
>  # @QKeyCode:
>  #