Some users of QOM need to be able to iterate over properties
defined against an object instance. Currently they are just
directly using the QTAIL macros against the object properties
data structure.
This is bad because it exposes them to changes in the data
structure used to store properties, as well as changes in
functionality such as ability to register properties against
the class.
This provides an ObjectPropertyIterator struct which will
insulate the callers from the particular data structure
used to store properties. It can be used thus
ObjectProperty *prop;
ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;
iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
... do something with prop ...
}
object_property_iter_free(iter);
Backports commit a00c94824126901168bca5b89147f9e334a49e87 from qemu
This commit fixes the following issues:
- Any unmapped/free'd memory regions (MemoryRegion instances) are not
removed from the object property linked list of its owner (which is
always qdev_get_machine(uc)). This issue makes adding new memory
mapping by calling mem_map() or mem_map_ptr() slower as more and more
memory pages are mapped and unmapped - yes, even if those memory pages
are unmapped, they still impact the speed of future memory page
mappings due to this issue.
- FlatView is not reconstructed after a memory region is freed during
unmapping, which leads to a use-after-free the next time a new memory
region is mapped in address_space_update_topology().
