Re: [PATCH v3] docs/tcg-plugins: document QEMU_PLUGIN behaviour

[Alex Bennée]

Christoph Muellner <cmuellner@linux.com> writes:

> QEMU plugins can be loaded via command line arguments or via
> the QEMU_PLUGIN environment variable. Currently, only the first method
> is documented. Let's document QEMU_PLUGIN.
>
> As drive-by cleanup, this patch fixes the path to the plugins
> in the same section of the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Muellner <cmuellner@linux.com>


Queued to for-7.0/misc-bits, thanks.

There where some minor typos but I've fixed them.

> ---
>  docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> index f93ef4fe52..bf66c12885 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> @@ -27,13 +27,18 @@ Once built a program can be run with multiple plugins 
> loaded each with
>  their own arguments::
>  
>    $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \
> -      -plugin tests/plugin/libhowvec.so,inline=on,count=hint \
> -      -plugin tests/plugin/libhotblocks.so
> +      -plugin contrib/plugin/libhowvec.so,inline=on,count=hint \
> +      -plugin contrib/plugin/libhotblocks.so
>  
>  Arguments are plugin specific and can be used to modify their
>  behaviour. In this case the howvec plugin is being asked to use inline
>  ops to count and break down the hint instructions by type.
>  
> +Linux user-mode emulation also evaluates the environment variable
> +``QEMU_PLUGIN``::
> +
> +  QEMU_PLUGIN="file=contrib/plugin/libhowec.so,inline=on,count=hint" $QEMU
> +
>  Writing plugins
>  ---------------


-- 
Alex Bennée