Re: [PATCH -v2] Monitor command: pfa2hva, translate guest physical address to host virtual address

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:22:21 -0500
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 11/01/2010 02:20 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> > Yes. As general interface, it may not work so well, but as test
> > interface, it works quite well and useful.
> >
> > Do we have any mechanism to add a test only interface?

No.

We're likely going to introduce a new namespace for that in the near future,
but only for QMP.

Is this command supposed to be useful for applications or is it primary
designed for (human) debugging?

> I'd like to see what Luiz/Markus think but definitely only a human 
> monitor interface and probably prefix the command with a 'x-' prefix to 
> indicate that it's not a supported interface.

Yes, I agree on having only the human interface but I'm not sure about
prexing it with 'x-'. I think new HMP commands should be declared unstable
by default starting with 0.14.

> The documentation should be very clear about the limitations of the 
> interface and the intended use-case.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
> > Best Regards,
> > Huang Ying
> >
> >
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