[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/9] qmp: Add "alias-of" field to query-cpu-definitions

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

Management software will be expected to resolve CPU model name
aliases using the new field.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Changes v1 -> v2:
* (none)

Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 qapi/target.json | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qapi/target.json b/qapi/target.json
index 1d4d54b600..0197c7962c 100644
--- a/qapi/target.json
+++ b/qapi/target.json
@@ -475,6 +475,12 @@
 #            to introspect properties configurable using -cpu or -global.
 #            (since 2.9)
 #
+# @alias-of: Name of CPU model this model is an alias for.  The target of the
+#            CPU model alias may change depending on the machine type.
+#            Management software is supposed to translate CPU model aliases
+#            in the VM configuration, because aliases may stop being
+#            migration-safe in the future (since 4.1)
+#
 # @unavailable-features is a list of QOM property names that
 # represent CPU model attributes that prevent the CPU from running.
 # If the QOM property is read-only, that means there's no known
@@ -498,7 +504,8 @@
             '*migration-safe': 'bool',
             'static': 'bool',
             '*unavailable-features': [ 'str' ],
-            'typename': 'str' },
+            'typename': 'str',
+            '*alias-of' : 'str' },
   'if': 'defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_ARM) || defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_MIPS)' }
 
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