From patchwork Sun Feb 11 09:36:03 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Markus Armbruster X-Patchwork-Id: 10211171 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4B460594 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F5228A7D for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 57ABE28AE9; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:38:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [208.118.235.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1E2328ADA for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:40735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eko5H-0008T2-6D for patchwork-qemu-devel@patchwork.kernel.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:38:07 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eko3a-00070c-J5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:36:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eko3W-0006KI-Ov for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:36:22 -0500 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:54008 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eko3W-0006JL-J2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:36:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 742684040852; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blackfin.pond.sub.org (ovpn-116-43.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.43]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CBB710A9DD7; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blackfin.pond.sub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CDA711386B2; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:36:08 +0100 (CET) From: Markus Armbruster To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:36:03 +0100 Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-26-armbru@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180211093607.27351-1-armbru@redhat.com> References: <20180211093607.27351-1-armbru@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.5]); Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:36:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.5]); Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:36:16 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.3' DOMAIN:'int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'armbru@redhat.com' RCPT:'' X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.187.233.73 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 25/29] docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands: Update for modular QAPI X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+patchwork-qemu-devel=patchwork.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP With modular code generation, putting stuff right into qapi-schema.json is a bad idea. Update writing-qmp-commands.txt accordingly. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau Reviewed-by: Michael Roth --- docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt b/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt index 4f5b24c0c4..776b3b41ca 100644 --- a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt +++ b/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ start with docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt. Generally speaking, the following steps should be taken in order to write a new QMP command. -1. Write the command's and type(s) specification in the QAPI schema file - (qapi-schema.json in the root source directory) +1. Define the command and any types it needs in the appropriate QAPI + schema module. 2. Write the QMP command itself, which is a regular C function. Preferably, the command should be exported by some QEMU subsystem. But it can also be @@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ command carries some meaningful action in QEMU but here it will just print Our command will be called "hello-world". It takes no arguments, nor does it return any data. -The first step is to add the following line to the bottom of the -qapi-schema.json file: +The first step is defining the command in the appropriate QAPI schema +module. We pick module qapi/misc.json, and add the following line at +the bottom: { 'command': 'hello-world' } @@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ This is very important. No QMP command will be accepted in QEMU without proper documentation. There are many examples of such documentation in the schema file already, but -here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for the qapi-schema.json file: +here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for qapi/misc.json: ## # @hello-world @@ -425,8 +426,7 @@ There are a number of things to be noticed: allocated by the implementation. This is so because the QAPI also generates a function to free its types and it cannot distinguish between dynamically or statically allocated strings -6. You have to include the "qmp-commands.h" header file in qemu-timer.c, - otherwise qemu won't build +6. You have to include "qapi/qmp-commands-misc.h" in qemu-timer.c Time to test the new command. Build qemu, run it as described in the "Testing" section and try this: