Add chardev-send-break monitor command

Sending a break on a serial console can be useful for debugging the
guest. But not all chardev backends support sending breaks (only telnet
and mux do). The chardev-send-break command allows to send a break even
if using other backends.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170611074817.13621-1-sf@sfritsch.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
  Use 'send a break' in all 3 pieces of text as suggested by eblake

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index bcfc065d16..2b679a2295 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -951,6 +951,18 @@ void qmp_chardev_remove(const char *id, Error **errp)
     object_unparent(OBJECT(chr));
 }
 
+void qmp_chardev_send_break(const char *id, Error **errp)
+{
+    Chardev *chr;
+
+    chr = qemu_chr_find(id);
+    if (chr == NULL) {
+        error_setg(errp, "Chardev '%s' not found", id);
+        return;
+    }
+    qemu_chr_be_event(chr, CHR_EVENT_BREAK);
+}
+
 void qemu_chr_cleanup(void)
 {
     object_unparent(get_chardevs_root());