Re: [PATCH v7 0/1] Optimizing the print format of the QEMU monitor 'info mtree'

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Chao Liu <chao.liu@yeah.net> writes:

> On 2025/6/16 13:55, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Chao Liu <lc00631@tecorigin.com> writes:
>> 
>>> From: Chao Liu <chao.liu@yeah.net>
>>>
>>> Hi, all:
>>>
>>> After several rounds of discussion, I think that adding a -t option to the
>>> `info mtree` command, which enables the display of tree-like node characters
>>> (e.g., +--, |--), is a better approach.
>>>
>>> As BALATON Zoltan pointed out, retaining space-based indentation for displaying
>>> memory region (mr) nodes helps ensure that the output remains easily parseable
>>> by other programs. This also provides better compatibility with existing tools
>>> and scripts.
>> 
>> If people really feed the output of HMP info mtree to parsers, we should
>> probably provide the information via QMP.
>
> Thank you for your helpful advice. I think the next step is to try implementing "info mtree" via QMP first, and then have it called by HMP.
>
> I’ve added it to my to-do list, and I’ll try to implement it using QMP in the next phase.

First question before you actually do that: use cases for feeding the
information to programs?  You might have answers already; I'm not on top
of prior conversations.

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