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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2019-11-21 11:27:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2019-11-21 11:27:33 +0000 |
| commit | 7b5425318a27d0a41c1008a36c502719255b8f5e (patch) | |
| tree | 27b039c4cc7f3eb12167f8db6823c830665b877c /docs/devel | |
| parent | bf12043acc6458e7b71d19a9f030b31ec22fba12 (diff) | |
| parent | 22c30b2d20e828edadbd992c1d4c4bfd0f3433ba (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-rc3-testing-and-tcg-201119-1' into staging
A few test and doc fixes: - tweak DEBUG behaviour for vm-test-build - rename and update plug docs for versioning - slim down MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS # gpg: Signature made Wed 20 Nov 2019 10:56:23 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 6685AE99E75167BCAFC8DF35FBD0DB095A9E2A44 # gpg: Good signature from "Alex Bennée (Master Work Key) <alex.bennee@linaro.org>" [full] # Primary key fingerprint: 6685 AE99 E751 67BC AFC8 DF35 FBD0 DB09 5A9E 2A44 * remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-rc3-testing-and-tcg-201119-1: tests/tcg: modify multiarch tests to work with clang .travis.yml: drop 32 bit systems from MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS docs/devel: update tcg-plugins.rst with API versioning details docs/devel: rename plugins.rst to tcg-plugins.rst tests/vm: make --interactive (and therefore DEBUG=1) unconditional Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst (renamed from docs/devel/plugins.rst) | 27 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst index 2ff058bae3..c86a3cdff2 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index.rst @@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ Contents: decodetree secure-coding-practices tcg - plugins + tcg-plugins diff --git a/docs/devel/plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst index b18fb6729e..718eef00f2 100644 --- a/docs/devel/plugins.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst @@ -25,6 +25,23 @@ process. However the project reserves the right to change or break the API should it need to do so. The best way to avoid this is to submit your plugin upstream so they can be updated if/when the API changes. +API versioning +-------------- + +All plugins need to declare a symbol which exports the plugin API +version they were built against. This can be done simply by:: + + QEMU_PLUGIN_EXPORT int qemu_plugin_version = QEMU_PLUGIN_VERSION; + +The core code will refuse to load a plugin that doesn't export a +`qemu_plugin_version` symbol or if plugin version is outside of QEMU's +supported range of API versions. + +Additionally the `qemu_info_t` structure which is passed to the +`qemu_plugin_install` method of a plugin will detail the minimum and +current API versions supported by QEMU. The API version will be +incremented if new APIs are added. The minimum API version will be +incremented if existing APIs are changed or removed. Exposure of QEMU internals -------------------------- @@ -40,16 +57,14 @@ instructions and events are opaque to the plugins themselves. Usage ===== -The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support: +The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support:: -:: - configure --enable-plugins + configure --enable-plugins Once built a program can be run with multiple plugins loaded each with -their own arguments: +their own arguments:: -:: - $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \ + $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \ -plugin tests/plugin/libhowvec.so,arg=inline,arg=hint \ -plugin tests/plugin/libhotblocks.so |