The semantics of the list visit are somewhat baroque, with the
following pseudocode when FooList is used:
start()
for (prev = head; cur = next(prev); prev = &cur) {
visit(&cur->value)
}
Note that these semantics (advance before visit) requires that
the first call to next() return the list head, while all other
calls return the next element of the list; that is, every visitor
implementation is required to track extra state to decide whether
to return the input as-is, or to advance. It also requires an
argument of 'GenericList **' to next(), solely because the first
iteration might need to modify the caller's GenericList head, so
that all other calls have to do a layer of dereferencing.
Thankfully, we only have two uses of list visits in the entire
code base: one in spapr_drc (which completely avoids
visit_next_list(), feeding in integers from a different source
than uint8List), and one in qapi-visit.py. That is, all other
list visitors are generated in qapi-visit.c, and share the same
paradigm based on a qapi FooList type, so we can refactor how
lists are laid out with minimal churn among clients.
We can greatly simplify things by hoisting the special case
into the start() routine, and flipping the order in the loop
to visit before advance:
start(head)
for (tail = *head; tail; tail = next(tail)) {
visit(&tail->value)
}
With the simpler semantics, visitors have less state to track,
the argument to next() is reduced to 'GenericList *', and it
also becomes obvious whether an input visitor is allocating a
FooList during visit_start_list() (rather than the old way of
not knowing if an allocation happened until the first
visit_next_list()). As a minor drawback, we now allocate in
two functions instead of one, and have to pass the size to
both functions (unless we were to tweak the input visitors to
cache the size to start_list for reuse during next_list, but
that defeats the goal of less visitor state).
The signature of visit_start_list() is chosen to match
visit_start_struct(), with the new parameters after 'name'.
The spapr_drc case is a virtual visit, done by passing NULL for
list, similarly to how NULL is passed to visit_start_struct()
when a qapi type is not used in those visits. It was easy to
provide these semantics for qmp-output and dealloc visitors,
and a bit harder for qmp-input (several prerequisite patches
refactored things to make this patch straightforward). But it
turned out that the string and opts visitors munge enough other
state during visit_next_list() to make it easier to just
document and require a GenericList visit for now; an assertion
will remind us to adjust things if we need the semantics in the
future.
Several pre-requisite cleanup patches made the reshuffling of
the various visitors easier; particularly the qmp input visitor.
Backports commit d9f62dde1303286b24ac8ce88be27e2b9b9c5f46 from qemu
As mentioned in previous patches, we want to call visit_end_struct()
functions unconditionally, so that visitors can release resources
tied up since the matching visit_start_struct() without also having
to worry about error priority if more than one error occurs.
Even though error_propagate() can be safely used to ignore a second
error during cleanup caused by a first error, it is simpler if the
cleanup cannot set an error. So, split out the error checking
portion (basically, input visitors checking for unvisited keys) into
a new function visit_check_struct(), which can be safely skipped if
any earlier errors are encountered, and leave the cleanup portion
(which never fails, but must be called unconditionally if
visit_start_struct() succeeded) in visit_end_struct().
Generated code in qapi-visit.c has diffs resembling:
|@@ -59,10 +59,12 @@ void visit_type_ACPIOSTInfo(Visitor *v,
| goto out_obj;
| }
| visit_type_ACPIOSTInfo_members(v, obj, &err);
|- error_propagate(errp, err);
|- err = NULL;
|+ if (err) {
|+ goto out_obj;
|+ }
|+ visit_check_struct(v, &err);
| out_obj:
|- visit_end_struct(v, &err);
|+ visit_end_struct(v);
| out:
and in qapi-event.c:
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ void qapi_event_send_acpi_device_ost(ACP
| goto out;
| }
| visit_type_q_obj_ACPI_DEVICE_OST_arg_members(v, ¶m, &err);
|- visit_end_struct(v, err ? NULL : &err);
|+ if (!err) {
|+ visit_check_struct(v, &err);
|+ }
|+ visit_end_struct(v);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
Backports commit 15c2f669e3fb2bc97f7b42d1871f595c0ac24af8 from qemu
Right now, qmp-output-visitor happens to produce a QNull result
if nothing is actually visited between the creation of the visitor
and the request for the resulting QObject. A stronger protocol
would require that a QMP output visit MUST visit something. But
to still be able to produce a JSON 'null' output, we need a new
visitor function that states our intentions. Yes, we could say
that such a visit must go through visit_type_any(), but that
feels clunky.
So this patch introduces the new visit_type_null() interface and
its no-op interface in the dealloc visitor, and stubs in the
qmp visitors (the next patch will finish the implementation).
For the visitors that will not implement the callback, document
the situation. The code in qapi-visit-core unconditionally
dereferences the callback pointer, so that a segfault will inform
a developer if they need to implement the callback for their
choice of visitor.
Note that JSON has a primitive null type, with the single value
null; likewise with the QNull type for QObject; but for QAPI,
we just have the 'null' value without a null type. We may
eventually want to add more support in QAPI for null (most likely,
we'd use it via an alternate type that permits 'null' or an
object); but we'll create that usage when we need it.
Backports commit 3bc97fd5924561d92f32758c67eaffd2e4e25038 from qemu
The visitor interface for mapping between QObject/QemuOpts/string
and QAPI is scandalously under-documented, making changes to visitor
core, individual visitors, and users of visitors difficult to
coordinate. Among other questions: when is it safe to pass NULL,
vs. when a string must be provided; which visitors implement which
callbacks; the difference between concrete and virtual visits.
Correct this by retrofitting proper contracts, and document where some
of the interface warts remain (for example, we may want to modify
visit_end_* to require the same 'obj' as the visit_start counterpart,
so the dealloc visitor can be simplified). Later patches in this
series will tackle some, but not all, of these warts.
Add assertions to (partially) enforce the contract. Some of these
were only made possible by recent cleanup commits.
Backports commit adfb264c9ed04bfc694921b72173be8e29e90024 from qemu
After recent changes, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for allocating the space needed
when visiting an alternate. Since the term 'implicit struct' is
hard to explain, rename the function to its current usage. While
at it, we can merge the functionality of visit_get_next_type()
into the same function, making it more like visit_start_struct().
Generated code is now slightly smaller:
| {
| Error *err = NULL;
|
|- visit_start_implicit_struct(v, (void**) obj, sizeof(BlockdevRef), &err);
|+ visit_start_alternate(v, name, (GenericAlternate **)obj, sizeof(**obj),
|+ true, &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
| }
|- visit_get_next_type(v, name, &(*obj)->type, true, &err);
|- if (err) {
|- goto out_obj;
|- }
| switch ((*obj)->type) {
| case QTYPE_QDICT:
| visit_start_struct(v, name, NULL, 0, &err);
...
| }
|-out_obj:
|- visit_end_implicit_struct(v);
|+ visit_end_alternate(v);
| out:
| error_propagate(errp, err);
| }
Backports commit dbf11922622685934bfb41e7cf2be9bd4a0405c0 from qemu
Rather than having two separate ways to create a QMP input
visitor, where the safer approach has the more verbose name,
it is better to consolidate things into a single function
where the caller must explicitly choose whether to be strict
or to ignore excess input. This patch is the strictly
mechanical conversion; the next patch will then audit which
uses can be made stricter.
Backports commit fc471c18d5d2ec713d5a019f9530398675494bc8 from qemu
By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where alignment still
dictates a 16-byte struct); but fewer anonymous unions is still
a win in my book.
It requires visit_next_list() to gain a size parameter, to know
what size element to allocate; comparable to the size parameter
of visit_start_struct().
I debated about going one step further, to allow for fewer casts,
by doing:
typedef GenericList GenericList;
struct GenericList {
GenericList *next;
};
struct FooList {
GenericList base;
Foo *value;
};
so that you convert to 'GenericList *' by '&foolist->base', and
back by 'container_of(generic, GenericList, base)' (as opposed to
the existing '(GenericList *)foolist' and '(FooList *)generic').
But doing that would require hoisting the declaration of
GenericList prior to inclusion of qapi-types.h, rather than its
current spot in visitor.h; it also makes iteration a bit more
verbose through 'foolist->base.next' instead of 'foolist->next'.
Note that for lists of objects, the 'value' payload is still
hidden behind a boxed pointer. Someday, it would be nice to do:
struct FooList {
FooList *next;
Foo value;
};
for one less level of malloc for each list element. This patch
is a step in that direction (now that 'next' is no longer at a
fixed non-zero offset within the struct, we can store more than
just a pointer's-worth of data as the value payload), but the
actual conversion would be a task for another series, as it will
touch a lot of code.
Backports commit e65d89bf1a4484e0db0f3dc820a8b209f2fb1e8b from qemu
We have three classes of QAPI visitors: input, output, and dealloc.
Currently, all implementations of these visitors have one thing in
common based on their visitor type: the implementation used for the
visit_type_enum() callback. But since we plan to add more such
common behavior, in relation to documenting and further refining
the semantics, it makes more sense to have the visitor
implementations advertise which class they belong to, so the common
qapi-visit-core code can use that information in multiple places.
A later patch will better document the types of visitors directly
in visitor.h.
For this patch, knowing the class of a visitor implementation lets
us make input_type_enum() and output_type_enum() become static
functions, by replacing the callback function Visitor.type_enum()
with the simpler enum member Visitor.type. Share a common
assertion in qapi-visit-core as part of the refactoring.
Move comments in opts-visitor.c to match the refactored layout.
Backports commit 983f52d4b3f86fb9dc9f8b142132feb5a8723016 from qemu
Move the architecture agnostic function prototypes for exec.c out of
cputlb.h to exec-all.h. This allows hiding of the arch specific
cputlb.h from exec.c which should be getting close to having no
architecture specifics. Prepares support for multi-arch, which will have
a minimal cpu.h that services exec.c but not cputlb.h.
Backports commit dfccc7602374c9fd3b083208b552d62daa244811 from qemu
To prepare for multi-arch, cputlb.c should only have awareness of one
single architecture. This means it should not have access to the full
CPU lists which may be heterogeneous. Instead, push the CPU_LOOP() up
to the one and only caller in exec.c.
Backports commit 9a13565d52bfd321934fb44ee004bbaf5f5913a8 from qemu
The last two arguments to these functions are the last and first bit to
check relative to the base. The code was using incorrectly the first
bit and the number of bits. Fix this in cpu_physical_memory_get_dirty
and cpu_physical_memory_all_dirty. This requires a few changes in the
iteration; change the code in cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range to
match.
Backports commit 88c73d16ad1b6c22a2ab082064d0d521f756296a from qemu
The __atomic primitives have been available since GCC 4.7 and provide
a richer interface for describing memory ordering requirements. As a
bonus by using the primitives instead of hand-rolled functions we can
use tools such as the ThreadSanitizer which need the use of well
defined APIs for its analysis.
If we have __ATOMIC defines we exclusively use the __atomic primitives
for all our atomic access. Otherwise we fall back to the mixture of
__sync and hand-rolled barrier cases.
Backports commit a0aa44b488b3601415d55041e4619aef5f3a4ba8 from qemu
__atomic_thread_fence does not include a compiler barrier; in the
C++11 memory model, fences take effect in combination with other
atomic operations. GCC implements this by making __atomic_load and
__atomic_store access memory as if the pointer was volatile, and
leaves no trace whatsoever of acquire and release fences in the
compiler's intermediate representation.
In QEMU, we want memory barriers to act on all memory, but at the same
time we would like to use __atomic_thread_fence for portability reasons.
Add compiler barriers manually around the __atomic_thread_fence.
Backports commit 3bbf572345c65813f86a8fc434ea1b23beb08e16 from qemu
Although accesses to ram_list.dirty_memory[] use atomics so multiple
threads can safely dirty the bitmap, the data structure is not fully
thread-safe yet.
This patch handles the RAM hotplug case where ram_list.dirty_memory[] is
grown. ram_list.dirty_memory[] is change from a regular bitmap to an
RCU array of pointers to fixed-size bitmap blocks. Threads can continue
accessing bitmap blocks while the array is being extended. See the
comments in the code for an in-depth explanation of struct
DirtyMemoryBlocks.
I have tested that live migration with virtio-blk dataplane works.
Backports commit 5b82b703b69acc67b78b98a5efc897a3912719eb from qemu
There is no particular reason to keep these functions in the header.
Suggested by Paolo.
Backports commit 99affd1d5bd4e396ecda50e53dfbc5147fa1313d from qemu
qemu-log: dfilter-ise exec, out_asm, op and opt_op
This ensures the code generation debug code will honour -dfilter if set.
For the "exec" tracing I've added a new inline macro for efficiency's
sake.
Backports commit d977e1c2dbc9e63454b2000f91954d02543bf43b from qemu
When debugging big programs or system emulation sometimes you want both
the verbosity of cpu,exec et all but don't want to generate lots of logs
for unneeded stuff. This patch adds a new option -dfilter which allows
you to specify interesting address ranges in the form:
-dfilter 0x8000..0x8fff,0xffffffc000080000+0x200,...
Then logging code can use the new qemu_log_in_addr_range() function to
decide if it will output logging information for the given range.
Backports commit 3514552e04388d8e7686bcf89efd022e892acb5b from qemu
Improve the TB execution logging so that it is easier to identify
what is happening from trace logs:
* move the "Trace" logging of executed TBs into cpu_tb_exec()
so that it is emitted if and only if we actually execute a TB,
and for consistency for the CPU state logging
* log when we link two TBs together via tb_add_jump()
* log when cpu_tb_exec() returns early from a chain of TBs
The new style logging looks like this:
Trace 0x7fb7cc822ca0 [ffffffc0000dce00]
Linking TBs 0x7fb7cc822ca0 [ffffffc0000dce00] index 0 -> 0x7fb7cc823110 [ffffffc0000dce10]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823110 [ffffffc0000dce10]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823420 [ffffffc000302688]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8234a0 [ffffffc000302698]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823520 [ffffffc0003026a4]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823560 [ffffffc0000dce44]
Linking TBs 0x7fb7cc823560 [ffffffc0000dce44] index 1 -> 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Stopped execution of TB chain before 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc822fd0 [ffffffc0000dd52c]
Backports commit 1a830635229e14c403600167823ea6b3b79d3097 from qemu
Make qemu_log_mask() a macro which only calls the function to
do the actual work if the logging is enabled. This avoids making
a function call in possible fast paths where logging is disabled.
Backports commit 7ee606230e6b7645d92365d9b39179368e83ac54 from qemu
Move declarations out of qemu-common.h for functions declared in
utils/ files: e.g. include/qemu/path.h for utils/path.c.
Move inline functions out of qemu-common.h and into new files (e.g.
include/qemu/bcd.h)
Backports commit f348b6d1a53e5271cf1c9f9acc4646b4b98c1771 from qemu
Not only it makes sense, but it gets rid of checkpatch warning:
WARNING: consider using qemu_strtosz in preference to strtosz
Also remove get rid of tabs to please checkpatch.
Backports commit 4677bb40f809394bef5fa07329dea855c0371697 from qemu
This patch replaces get_ticks_per_sec() calls with the macro
NANOSECONDS_PER_SECOND. Also, as there are no callers, get_ticks_per_sec()
is then removed. This replacement improves the readability and
understandability of code.
For example,
timer_mod(fdctrl->result_timer,
qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) + (get_ticks_per_sec() / 50));
NANOSECONDS_PER_SECOND makes it obvious that qemu_clock_get_ns
matches the unit of the expression on the right side of the plus.
Backports commit 73bcb24d932912f8e75e1d88da0fc0ac6d4bce78 from qemu
qemu-common.h should only be included by .c files. Its file comment
explains why: "No header file should depend on qemu-common.h, as this
would easily lead to circular header dependencies."
One of the reasons for headers to include it is QEMU_ALIGN_UP() and
QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(). Move them next to ROUND_UP() in qemu/osdep.h, to
facilitate removing these ill-advised includes later on.
Backports commit e07e540aaa08718c9ff8213067a3dcef31b3e313 from qemu
qemu-common.h should only be included by .c files. Its file comment
explains why: "No header file should depend on qemu-common.h, as this
would easily lead to circular header dependencies."
One of the reasons for headers to include it is HOST_LONG_BITS. Move
that to its more natural home qemu/osdep.h, to facilitate removing
these ill-advised includes later on.
This also lets us use HOST_LONG_BITS in bswap.h instead of duplicating
its definition there to avoid cyclic inclusion.
Backports commit a8139632161d7546218b696cada0a4f64cc78fb7 from qemu
Commit 57cb38b included qapi/error.h into qemu/osdep.h to get the
Error typedef. Since then, we've moved to include qemu/osdep.h
everywhere. Its file comment explains: "To avoid getting into
possible circular include dependencies, this file should not include
any other QEMU headers, with the exceptions of config-host.h,
compiler.h, os-posix.h and os-win32.h, all of which are doing a
similar job to this file and are under similar constraints."
qapi/error.h doesn't do a similar job, and it doesn't adhere to
similar constraints: it includes qapi-types.h. That's in excess of
100KiB of crap most .c files don't actually need.
Add the typedef to qemu/typedefs.h, and include that instead of
qapi/error.h. Include qapi/error.h in .c files that need it and don't
get it now. Include qapi-types.h in qom/object.h for uint16List.
Update scripts/clean-includes accordingly. Update it further to match
reality: replace config.h by config-target.h, add sysemu/os-posix.h,
sysemu/os-win32.h. Update the list of includes in the qemu/osdep.h
comment quoted above similarly.
This reduces the number of objects depending on qapi/error.h from "all
of them" to less than a third. Unfortunately, the number depending on
qapi-types.h shrinks only a little. More work is needed for that one.
Backports commit da34e65cb4025728566d6504a99916f6e7e1dd6a from qemu
As soon as setjmp.h is included from qemu/osdep.h, those old include
statements are no longer needed.
Add also setjmp.h to the list in scripts/clean-includes.
Backports commit 8ff98f1ed2f50cd05c3c5027c7efdf69859ec664 from qemu
setjmp must be declared before sysemu/os-win32.h
because it is redefined there for 64 bit Windows.
Backports commit e89fdafb58038038e3ccb860c5e1068ba063bac8 from qemu
Just specifying a custom string is simpler in basically all places that
used it, and in addition, specifying the BB or node name is something we
generally do not do in other error messages when opening a BDS, so we
should not do it here.
This changes the output for iotest 036 (to the better, in my opinion),
so the reference output needs to be changed accordingly.
Backports commit a55448b3681a880b77eaefe8b2c42912000cb481 from qemu
Currently the ObjectProperty iterator API works as follows:
ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;
iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
...
}
object_property_iter_free(iter);
This has the benefit that the ObjectPropertyIterator struct
can be opaque, but has the downside that callers need to
explicitly call a free function. It is also not in keeping
with iterator style used elsewhere in QEMU/GLib2.
This patch changes the API to use stack allocation instead:
ObjectPropertyIterator iter;
object_property_iter_init(&iter, obj);
while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(&iter))) {
...
}
Backports commit 7746abd8e9ee9db20c0b0fdb19504f163ba3cbea from qemu
When there are many instances of a given class, registering
properties against the instance is wasteful of resources. The
majority of objects have a statically defined list of possible
properties, so most of the properties are easily registerable
against the class. Only those properties which are conditionally
registered at runtime need be recorded against the klass.
Registering properties against classes also makes it possible
to provide static introspection of QOM - currently introspection
is only possible after creating an instance of a class, which
severely limits its usefulness.
This impl only supports simple scalar properties. It does not
attempt to allow child object / link object properties against
the class. There are ways to support those too, but it would
make this patch more complicated, so it is left as an exercise
for the future.
There is no equivalent to object_property_del() provided, since
classes must be immutable once they are defined.
Backports commit 16bf7f522a2ff68993f80631ed86254c71eaf5d4 from qemu
ARM GICv3 systems with large number of CPUs create lots of IRQ pins. Since
every pin is represented as a property, number of these properties becomes
very large. Every property add first makes sure there's no duplicates.
Traversing the list becomes very slow, therefore QEMU initialization takes
significant time (several seconds for e. g. 16 CPUs).
This patch replaces list with GHashTable, making lookup very fast. The only
drawback is that object_child_foreach() and object_child_foreach_recursive()
cannot add or remove properties during traversal, since GHashTableIter does
not have modify-safe version. However, the code seems not to modify objects
via these functions.
Backports commit b604a854e843505007c59d68112c654556102a20 from qemu
Just specifying ops = NULL in some cases can be more convenient than having
two functions.
Backports commit 6d6d2abf2c2e52c0f404d0a31a963e945b0cc7ad from qemu
All references to mr->ram_addr are replaced by
memory_region_get_ram_addr(mr) (except for a few assertions that are
replaced with mr->ram_block).
Backports commit 8e41fb63c5bf29ecabe0cee1239bf6230f19978a from qemu
Previously we return RAMBlock.offset; now return the pointer to the
whole structure.
ram_block_add returns void now, error is completely passed with errp.
Backports commit 528f46af6ecd1e300db18684969104d4067b867b from qemu
these two functions consume too much cpu overhead to
find the RAMBlock by ram address.
After this patch, we can pass the RAMBlock pointer
to them so that they don't need to find the RAMBlock
anymore most of the time. We can get better performance
in address translation processing.
Backports commit 3655cb9c7375a595a8051ec677c515b24d5c1fe6 from qemu
Each RAM memory region has a unique corresponding RAMBlock.
In the current realization, the memory region only stored
the ram_addr which means the offset of RAM address space,
We need to qurey the global ram.list to find the ram block
by ram_addr if we want to get the ram block, which is very
expensive.
Now, we store the RAMBlock pointer into memory region
structure. So, if we know the mr, we can easily get the
RAMBlock.
Backports commit 58eaa2174e99d9a05172d03fd2799ab8fd9e6f60 from qemu
NEED_CPU_H is the define we use to distinguish per-target object
compilation from common object compilation. For the former, we must
also include config-target.h so that the .c files see the necessary
CONFIG_ constants.
Backports commit b1e34d1c3a9059e87719634bfc4db53174d63e14 from qemu
For C++ before C++11, <stdint.h> requires definition of the macros
__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS, __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS and __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
in order to enable definition of various macros by the header file.
Define these in osdep.h, so that we get the right header file
definitions whether osdep.h is being used by plain C, C++11 or
older C++.
In particular libvixl's header files depend on this and won't
compile if osdep.h is included before them otherwise.
Backports commit 79f56d82f805b170fa2be8c04b682117be56483f from qemu
We now do not use the int_fast*_t types anywhere in QEMU, so we can
remove the compatibility definitions we were providing for the
benefit of ancient Solaris versions.
Backports commit 50fe4df8ee6aba63ae51457bad40ba26e3c9746f from qemu
Make the functions which convert floating point to 16 bit integer
return int16_t rather than int_fast16_t, and correspondingly use
int_fast16_t in their internal implementations where appropriate.
(These functions are used only by the ARM target.)
Backports commit 0bb721d7217ed4a1abb44f521c5c7ec185062d58 from qemu
There's no reason to do two malloc's for a flat union; let's just
inline the branch struct directly into the C union branch of the
flat union.
Surprisingly, fewer clients were actually using explicit references
to the branch types in comparison to the number of flat unions
thus modified.
This lets us reduce the hack in qapi-types:gen_variants() added in
the previous patch; we no longer need to distinguish between
alternates and flat unions.
The change to unboxed structs means that u.data (added in commit
cee2dedb) is now coincident with random fields of each branch of
the flat union, whereas beforehand it was only coincident with
pointers (since all branches of a flat union have to be objects).
Note that this was already the case for simple unions - but there
we got lucky. Remember, visit_start_union() blindly returns true
for all visitors except for the dealloc visitor, where it returns
the value !!obj->u.data, and that this result then controls
whether to proceed with the visit to the variant. Pre-patch,
this meant that flat unions were testing whether the boxed pointer
was still NULL, and thereby skipping visit_end_implicit_struct()
and avoiding a NULL dereference if the pointer had not been
allocated. The same was true for simple unions where the current
branch had pointer type, except there we bypassed visit_type_FOO().
But for simple unions where the current branch had scalar type, the
contents of that scalar meant that the decision to call
visit_type_FOO() was data-dependent - the reason we got lucky there
is that visit_type_FOO() for all scalar types in the dealloc visitor
is a no-op (only the pointer variants had anything to free), so it
did not matter whether the dealloc visit was skipped. But with this
patch, we would risk leaking memory if we could skip a call to
visit_type_FOO_fields() based solely on a data-dependent decision.
But notice: in the dealloc visitor, visit_type_FOO() already handles
a NULL obj - it was only the visit_type_implicit_FOO() that was
failing to check for NULL. And now that we have refactored things to
have the branch be part of the parent struct, we no longer have a
separate pointer that can be NULL in the first place. So we can just
delete the call to visit_start_union() altogether, and blindly visit
the branch type; there is no change in behavior except to the dealloc
visitor, where we now unconditionally visit the branch, but where that
visit is now always safe (for a flat union, we can no longer
dereference NULL, and for a simple union, visit_type_FOO() was already
safely handling NULL on pointer types).
Unfortunately, simple unions are not as easy to switch to unboxed
layout; because we are special-casing the hidden implicit type with
a single 'data' member, we really DO need to keep calling another
layer of visit_start_struct(), with a second malloc; although there
are some cleanups planned for simple unions in later patches.
visit_start_union() and gen_visit_implicit_struct() are now unused.
Drop them.
Note that after this patch, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for alternate types; the next patch
will do further cleanup based on that fact.
Backports commit 544a3731591f5d53e15f22de00ce5ac758d490b3 from qemu
The description of object_property_get_int() stated that on an error
it returns NULL. This is not the case and the function will return -1
if an error occurs. Update the commented documentation accordingly.
Backports commit b29b47e9b35017428904e0e934700877dfaabe73 from qemu
When QEMU watchpoint matches, that is not definitely an architectural
watchpoint match yet. If it is a stop-before-access watchpoint then that
is hardly possible to ignore it after throwing a TCG exception.
A special callback is introduced to check for architectural watchpoint
match before raising a TCG exception.
Backports commit 568496c0c0f1863a4bc18539962cd8d81baa4e30 from qemu
