This is mostly for readability of the code. Let's make it clear which
callers can create an implicit monitor when the chardev is muxed.
This will also enforce a safer behaviour, as we don't really support
creating monitor anywhere/anytime at the moment. Add an assert() to
make sure the programmer explicitely wanted that behaviour.
There are documented cases, such as: -serial/-parallel/-virtioconsole
and to less extent -debugcon.
Less obvious and questionable ones are -gdb, SLIRP -guestfwd and Xen
console. Add a FIXME note for those, but keep the support for now.
Other qemu_chr_new() callers either have a fixed parameter/filename
string or do not need it, such as -qtest:
* qtest.c: qtest_init()
Afaik, only used by tests/libqtest.c, without mux. I don't think we
support it outside of qemu testing: drop support for implicit mux
monitor (qemu_chr_new() call: no implicit mux now).
* hw/
All with literal @filename argument that doesn't enable mux monitor.
* tests/
All with @filename argument that doesn't enable mux monitor.
On a related note, the list of monitor creation places:
- the chardev creators listed above: all from command line (except
perhaps Xen console?)
- -gdb & hmp gdbserver will create a "GDB monitor command" chardev
that is wired to an HMP monitor.
- -mon command line option
From this short study, I would like to think that a monitor may only
be created in the main thread today, though I remain skeptical :)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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