The input visitor has some problems right now, especially
- unsigned type "Range" is used to process signed ranges, resulting in
inconsistent behavior and ugly/magical code
- uint64_t are parsed like int64_t, so big uint64_t values are not
supported and error messages are misleading
- lists/ranges of int64_t are accepted although no list is parsed and
we should rather report an error
- lists/ranges are preparsed using int64_t, making it hard to
implement uint64_t values or uint64_t lists
- types that don't support lists don't bail out
- visiting beyond the end of a list is not handled properly
- we don't actually parse lists, we parse *sets*: members are sorted,
and duplicates eliminated
So let's rewrite it by getting rid of usage of the type "Range" and
properly supporting lists of int64_t and uint64_t (including ranges of
both types), fixing the above mentioned issues.
Lists of other types are not supported and will properly report an
error. Virtual walks are now supported.
Tests have to be fixed up:
- Two BUGs were hardcoded that are fixed now
- The string-input-visitor now actually returns a parsed list and not
an ordered set.
Please note that no users/callers have to be fixed up. Candidates using
visit_type_uint16List() and friends are:
- backends/hostmem.c:host_memory_backend_set_host_nodes()
-- Code can deal with duplicates/unsorted lists
- numa.c::query_memdev()
-- via object_property_get_uint16List(), the list will still be sorted
and without duplicates (via host_memory_backend_get_host_nodes())
- qapi-visit.c::visit_type_Memdev_members()
- qapi-visit.c::visit_type_NumaNodeOptions_members()
- qapi-visit.c::visit_type_RockerOfDpaGroup_members
- qapi-visit.c::visit_type_RxFilterInfo_members()
-- Not used with string-input-visitor.
Backports commit c9fba9de89db51a07689e2cba4865a1e564b8f0f from qemu
Now that we have a polymorphic visit_free(), we no longer need
string_input_visitor_cleanup(); which in turn means we no longer
need to return a subtype from string_input_visitor_new() nor a
public upcast function.
Backports commit 7a0525c7be6b38d32d586e3fd12e7377ded21faa from qemu
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
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
