The 'singlestep' HMP command is confusing, because it doesn't
actually have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it
does do is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each
TB, which can be useful in some situations.
Create a new HMP command 'one-insn-per-tb', so we can document that
'singlestep' is just a deprecated synonym for it, and eventually
perhaps drop it.
We aren't obliged to do deprecate-and-drop for HMP commands,
but it's easy enough to do so, so we do.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-9-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Currently we report whether the TCG accelerator is in
'one-insn-per-tb' mode in the 'info status' output. This is a pretty
minor piece of TCG specific information, and we want to deprecate the
'singlestep' field of the associated QMP command. Move the
'one-insn-per-tb' reporting to 'info jit'.
We don't need a deprecate-and-drop period for this because the
HMP interface has no stability guarantees.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-8-peter.maydell@linaro.org
The HMP 'singlestep' command, the QMP 'query-status' command and the
HMP 'info status' command (which is just wrapping the QMP command
implementation) look at the 'singlestep' global variable. Make them
access the new TCG accelerator 'one-insn-per-tb' property instead.
This leaves the HMP and QMP command/field names and output strings
unchanged; we will clean that up later.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org
This moves these commands from MAINTAINERS section "Human
Monitor (HMP)" and "QMP" to "Main loop".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230124121946.1139465-22-armbru@redhat.com>
Peter Maydell
Markus Armbruster