Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] hmp: allow cpu index for "info lapic"

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* wang.yi59@zte.com.cn (wang.yi59@zte.com.cn) wrote:
> Hi Eduardo,
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:49:37PM -0400, Yi Wang wrote:
> 
> >> Add [vcpu] index support for hmp command "info lapic", which is
> 
> >> useful when debugging ipi and so on. Current behavior is not
> 
> >> changed when the parameter isn't specified.
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Yun Liu <liu.yunh@zte.com.cn>
> 
> >
> 
> >We have 8 monitor commands (see below) that use the CPU set by
> >the "cpu" command (mon_get_cpu()) as input.  Why is "info lapic"
> >special?
> 
> When we debugging a problem of ipi, we wanted to verify lapic info
> on each vCPU, but we found that we could only get vCPU 0's lapic
> through "info lapic", so we supposed this patch could help those
> who have the same problem as us.

I think Eduardo's point is that you can already do:
    cpu 0
    info lapic
    cpu 1
    info lapic

Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> 
> >* info cpustats
> 
> >* info lapic
> 
> >* info mem
> 
> >* info registers
> 
> >* info tlb
> 
> >* x
> 
> >* memsave
> 
> >* inject-nmi (QMP)
> 
> Monitor command "info registers" already have "-a" parameter to
> 
> show all vCPU's info. -)
> 
> May I send some new patches for the other monitor commands, which may
> 
> be helpful for analyzing multiple cpu problems?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Yi Wang


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