Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qmp: add architecture specific cpu data for query-cpus-fast

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:14:32 +0100
Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> -{ 'struct': 'CpuInfoFast',
> -  'data': {'cpu-index': 'int', 'qom-path': 'str',
> -           'thread-id': 'int', '*props': 'CpuInstanceProperties' } }
> +{ 'union': 'CpuInfoFast',
> +  'base': {'cpu-index': 'int', 'qom-path': 'str',
> +           'thread-id': 'int', '*props': 'CpuInstanceProperties',
> +           'arch': 'CpuInfoArch' },
> +  'discriminator': 'arch',
> +  'data': { 'x86': 'CpuInfoOther',
> +            'sparc': 'CpuInfoOther',
> +            'ppc': 'CpuInfoOther',
> +            'mips': 'CpuInfoOther',
> +            'tricore': 'CpuInfoOther',
> +            's390': 'CpuInfoS390Fast',
> +            'other': 'CpuInfoOther' } }

Consider this a minor comment (and QMP maintainers can give a much
better advice than me), but I think this arch list has problems. For
one thing, it's incomplete. And the second problem is the 'other'
field. What happens when QEMU starts supporting a new arch? 'other'
becomes the new arch. Is this compatible? I don't know.

I don't know if this would work with the QAPI, but you could have
a '*arch-data' field in the CpuInfoFast definition, like:

'data': { ..., '*arch-data': 'CpuInfoFastArchData' }

where 'CpuInfoFastArchData' is defined by each arch that supports
the field. An arch supporting the field could also export a
query_cpus_fast_arch() function, which is called by qmp_query_cpus_fast().