[RFC PATCH v2 00/37] cleanup qemu_init and make sense of command line processing

[Paolo Bonzini]

The main improvements with respect to v1 are:

- further extraction of various phases of command line processing and VM
  creation to separate function;

- removing the preconfig main_loop: the VM is effectively always starting
  as if -preconfig was specified, it just executes automatically if not
  requested.  This enables "-incoming defer" to be specified together
  with "-preconfig".

I have other patches with which I could configure the VM like

  $ qemu -vnc :0 -monitor stdio -preconfig
    ... in theory blockdev-add and other backend creation would go here...
  (qemu) x-create-onboard-devices
  (qemu) device_add virtio-mouse-pci
  (qemu) cont

Here, x-create-onboard-devices creates enough of the machine to make
it possible to issue device_add monitor commands equivalent to
the -device command line.

However, I'm not posting that part because the above is not the
final state of the QMP interface.  The final QMP interface would have
three commands (machine-set, accel-set, machine-set-memory) that
bring the VM through successive phases of initialization corresponding
roughly to qemu_apply_machine_options (-smp, -boot, -M, -cpu?),
configure_accelerators (-accel) and qemu_finish_machine_init (-m, -M memdev);
after these three steps, one of migrate-incoming, cont, loadvm or
finish-machine-init (the latter of which is equivalent to -S on the
command line) leaves preconfig mode.  For more information see
https://wiki.qemu.org/User:Paolo_Bonzini/Machine_init_sequence#Basic_phases.

Based-on: <20201026143028.3034018-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo Bonzini (29):
  trace: remove argument from trace_init_file
  semihosting: fix order of initialization functions
  vl: extract validation of -smp to machine.c
  vl: remove bogus check
  vl: split various early command line options to a separate function
  vl: move various initialization routines out of qemu_init
  vl: extract qemu_init_subsystems
  vl: move prelaunch part of qemu_init to new functions
  vl: extract various command line validation snippets to a new function
  vl: preconfig and loadvm are mutually exclusive
  vl: extract various command line desugaring snippets to a new function
  vl: create "-net nic -net user" default earlier
  vl: load plugins as late as possible
  vl: move semihosting command line fallback to qemu_finish_machine_init
  vl: extract default devices to separate functions
  vl: move CHECKPOINT_INIT after preconfig
  vl: separate qemu_create_early_backends
  vl: separate qemu_create_late_backends
  vl: separate qemu_create_machine
  vl: separate qemu_apply_machine_options
  vl: separate qemu_resolve_machine_memdev
  vl: initialize displays before preconfig loop
  vl: move -global check earlier
  migration, vl: start migration via qmp_migrate_incoming
  vl: start VM via qmp_cont
  hmp: introduce cmd_available
  remove preconfig state
  vl: remove separate preconfig main_loop
  vl: allow -incoming defer with -preconfig

 bsd-user/main.c                      |    6 +-
 hw/core/machine-qmp-cmds.c           |    5 +-
 hw/core/machine.c                    |   27 +
 include/hw/boards.h                  |    1 +
 include/hw/qdev-core.h               |    8 -
 include/migration/misc.h             |    1 -
 include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h          |    1 +
 include/sysemu/runstate.h            |    1 -
 linux-user/main.c                    |    6 +-
 migration/migration.c                |   37 +-
 monitor/hmp.c                        |   23 +-
 monitor/qmp-cmds.c                   |   10 -
 qapi/qmp-dispatch.c                  |    5 +-
 qapi/run-state.json                  |    5 +-
 qemu-img.c                           |    6 +-
 qemu-io.c                            |    6 +-
 qemu-nbd.c                           |    6 +-
 scsi/qemu-pr-helper.c                |    6 +-
 softmmu/qdev-monitor.c               |   18 +-
 softmmu/vl.c                         | 1796 +++++++++++++-------------
 storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c |    9 +-
 stubs/meson.build                    |    1 +
 stubs/qmp-command-available.c        |    7 +
 trace/control.c                      |   10 +-
 trace/control.h                      |   12 +-
 25 files changed, 1021 insertions(+), 992 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 stubs/qmp-command-available.c

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