Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-for-6.2-020921-1' into staging

Testing and plugin updates:

  - fix typo in execlog plugin
  - clean-up and document gitlab FOO_RUNNER_AVAILABLE vars
  - fix plugin build issue on OSX and modules
  - add multi-core support to cache modelling plugin
  - clean-ups for plugin arg=FOO handling

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* remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-for-6.2-020921-1: (22 commits)
  docs/devel: be consistent about example plugin names
  docs/deprecated: deprecate passing plugin args through `arg=`
  tests/plugins/syscalls: adhere to new arg-passing scheme
  tests/plugins/mem: introduce "track" arg and make args not positional
  tests/plugins/insn: made arg inline not positional and parse it as bool
  tests/plugins/bb: adapt to the new arg passing scheme
  docs/tcg-plugins: new passing parameters scheme for cache docs
  plugins/howvec: adapting to the new argument passing scheme
  plugins/hwprofile: adapt to the new plugin arguments scheme
  plugins/lockstep: make socket path not positional & parse bool arg
  plugins/hotblocks: Added correct boolean argument parsing
  plugins/hotpages: introduce sortby arg and parsed bool args correctly
  plugins/api: added a boolean parsing plugin api
  plugins: allow plugin arguments to be passed directly
  docs/devel/tcg-plugins: added cores arg to cache plugin
  plugins: sort exported symbol list
  plugins/cache: supported multicore cache modelling
  plugins: do not limit exported symbols if modules are active
  gitlab-ci: Fix ..._RUNNER_AVAILABLE variables and document them
  gitlab-ci: Remove superfluous "dnf install" statement
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
index e6e815a..5f10172 100644
--- a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
+++ b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
@@ -577,4 +577,17 @@ int qemu_plugin_n_max_vcpus(void);
  */
 void qemu_plugin_outs(const char *string);
 
+/**
+ * qemu_plugin_bool_parse() - parses a boolean argument in the form of
+ * "<argname>=[on|yes|true|off|no|false]"
+ *
+ * @name: argument name, the part before the equals sign
+ * @val: argument value, what's after the equals sign
+ * @ret: output return value
+ *
+ * returns true if the combination @name=@val parses correctly to a boolean
+ * argument, and false otherwise
+ */
+bool qemu_plugin_bool_parse(const char *name, const char *val, bool *ret);
+
 #endif /* QEMU_PLUGIN_API_H */