Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-monitor-2018-10-30-v2' into staging

Monitor patches for 2018-10-30

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-monitor-2018-10-30-v2:
  vl: Avoid crash when -mon is underspecified
  monitor: delay monitor iothread creation
  monitor: guard iothread access by mon->use_io_thread

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