docs: Document vCPU hotplug procedure

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181030123526.26415-4-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

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+===================
+Virtual CPU hotplug
+===================
+
+A complete example of vCPU hotplug (and hot-unplug) using QMP
+``device_add`` and ``device_del``.
+
+vCPU hotplug
+------------
+
+(1) Launch QEMU as follows (note that the "maxcpus" is mandatory to
+    allow vCPU hotplug)::
+
+      $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -no-user-config -m 2048 \
+          -nodefaults -monitor stdio -machine pc,accel=kvm,usb=off \
+          -smp 1,maxcpus=2 -cpu IvyBridge-IBRS \
+          -qmp unix:/tmp/qmp-sock,server,nowait
+
+(2) Run 'qmp-shell' (located in the source tree, under: "scripts/qmp/)
+    to connect to the just-launched QEMU::
+
+      $> ./qmp-shell -p -v /tmp/qmp-sock
+      [...]
+      (QEMU)
+
+(3) Find out which CPU types could be plugged, and into which sockets::
+
+      (QEMU) query-hotpluggable-cpus
+      {
+          "execute": "query-hotpluggable-cpus",
+          "arguments": {}
+      }
+      {
+          "return": [
+              {
+                  "type": "IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu",
+                  "vcpus-count": 1,
+                  "props": {
+                      "socket-id": 1,
+                      "core-id": 0,
+                      "thread-id": 0
+                  }
+              },
+              {
+                  "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
+                  "type": "IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu",
+                  "vcpus-count": 1,
+                  "props": {
+                      "socket-id": 0,
+                      "core-id": 0,
+                      "thread-id": 0
+                  }
+              }
+          ]
+      }
+      (QEMU)
+
+(4) The ``query-hotpluggable-cpus`` command returns an object for CPUs
+    that are present (containing a "qom-path" member) or which may be
+    hot-plugged (no "qom-path" member).  From its output in step (3), we
+    can see that ``IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu`` is present in socket 0,
+    while hot-plugging a CPU into socket 1 requires passing the listed
+    properties to QMP ``device_add``:
+
+      (QEMU) device_add id=cpu-2 driver=IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu socket-id=1 core-id=0 thread-id=0
+      {
+          "execute": "device_add",
+          "arguments": {
+              "socket-id": 1,
+              "driver": "IvyBridge-IBRS-x86_64-cpu",
+              "id": "cpu-2",
+              "core-id": 0,
+              "thread-id": 0
+          }
+      }
+      {
+          "return": {}
+      }
+      (QEMU)
+
+(5) Optionally, run QMP `query-cpus-fast` for some details about the
+    vCPUs::
+
+      (QEMU) query-cpus-fast
+      {
+          "execute": "query-cpus-fast",
+          "arguments": {}
+      }
+      {
+          "return": [
+              {
+                  "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
+                  "target": "x86_64",
+                  "thread-id": 11534,
+                  "cpu-index": 0,
+                  "props": {
+                      "socket-id": 0,
+                      "core-id": 0,
+                      "thread-id": 0
+                  },
+                  "arch": "x86"
+              },
+              {
+                  "qom-path": "/machine/peripheral/cpu-2",
+                  "target": "x86_64",
+                  "thread-id": 12106,
+                  "cpu-index": 1,
+                  "props": {
+                      "socket-id": 1,
+                      "core-id": 0,
+                      "thread-id": 0
+                  },
+                  "arch": "x86"
+              }
+          ]
+      }
+      (QEMU)
+
+vCPU hot-unplug
+---------------
+
+From the 'qmp-shell', invoke the QMP ``device_del`` command::
+
+      (QEMU) device_del id=cpu-2
+      {
+          "execute": "device_del",
+          "arguments": {
+              "id": "cpu-2"
+          }
+      }
+      {
+          "return": {}
+      }
+      (QEMU)
+
+.. note::
+    vCPU hot-unplug requires guest cooperation; so the ``device_del``
+    command above does not guarantee vCPU removal -- it's a "request to
+    unplug".  At this point, the guest will get a System Control
+    Interupt (SCI) and calls the ACPI handler for the affected vCPU
+    device.  Then the guest kernel will bring the vCPU offline and tell
+    QEMU to unplug it.