Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2015-10-12' into staging

QAPI patches

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2015-10-12:
  qapi: Simplify gen_visit_fields() error handling
  qapi: Share gen_visit_fields()
  qapi: Share gen_err_check()
  qapi: Consistent generated code: minimize push_indent() usage
  qapi: Consistent generated code: prefer common indentation
  qapi: Consistent generated code: prefer common labels
  qapi: Consistent generated code: prefer visitor 'v'
  qapi: Consistent generated code: prefer error 'err'
  qapi: Reuse code for flat union base validation
  qapi: Test use of 'number' within alternates
  qapi: Add tests for empty unions
  qapi: Avoid assertion failure on union 'type' collision
  qapi: Test for various name collisions
  qapi: Clean up qapi.py per pep8
  qapi: Invoke exception superclass initializer
  qapi: Improve 'include' error message
  qapi: Sort qapi-schema tests
  MAINTAINERS: Specify QAPI include and test files
  MAINTAINERS: Specify QObject include and test files
  docs: Move files from docs/qmp/ to docs/

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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+                          QEMU Machine Protocol
+                          =====================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+The QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) allows applications to operate a
+QEMU instance.
+
+QMP is JSON[1] based and features the following:
+
+- Lightweight, text-based, easy to parse data format
+- Asynchronous messages support (ie. events)
+- Capabilities Negotiation
+
+For detailed information on QMP's usage, please, refer to the following files:
+
+o qmp-spec.txt      QEMU Machine Protocol current specification
+o qmp-commands.txt  QMP supported commands (auto-generated at build-time)
+o qmp-events.txt    List of available asynchronous events
+
+[1] http://www.json.org
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+You can use the -qmp option to enable QMP. For example, the following
+makes QMP available on localhost port 4444:
+
+$ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server,nowait
+
+However, for more flexibility and to make use of more options, the -mon
+command-line option should be used. For instance, the following example
+creates one HMP instance (human monitor) on stdio and one QMP instance
+on localhost port 4444:
+
+$ qemu [...] -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \
+             -chardev socket,id=mon1,host=localhost,port=4444,server,nowait \
+             -mon chardev=mon1,mode=control,pretty=on
+
+Please, refer to QEMU's manpage for more information.
+
+Simple Testing
+--------------
+
+To manually test QMP one can connect with telnet and issue commands by hand:
+
+$ telnet localhost 4444
+Trying 127.0.0.1...
+Connected to localhost.
+Escape character is '^]'.
+{
+    "QMP": {
+        "version": {
+            "qemu": {
+                "micro": 50, 
+                "minor": 6, 
+                "major": 1
+            }, 
+            "package": ""
+        }, 
+        "capabilities": [
+        ]
+    }
+}
+
+{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
+{
+    "return": {
+    }
+}
+
+{ "execute": "query-status" }
+{
+    "return": {
+        "status": "prelaunch", 
+        "singlestep": false, 
+        "running": false
+    }
+}
+
+Please, refer to the qapi-schema.json file for a complete command reference.
+
+QMP wiki page
+-------------
+
+http://wiki.qemu-project.org/QMP