What's more meta than using qapi to define qapi? :)
Convert QType into a full-fledged[*] builtin qapi enum type, so
that a subsequent patch can then use it as the discriminator
type of qapi alternate types. Fortunately, the judicious use of
'prefix' in the qapi definition avoids churn to the spelling of
the enum constants.
To avoid circular definitions, we have to flip the order of
inclusion between "qobject.h" vs. "qapi-types.h". Back in commit
28770e0, we had the latter include the former, so that we could
use 'QObject *' for our implementation of 'any'. But that usage
also works with only a forward declaration, whereas the
definition of QObject requires QType to be a complete type.
[*] The type has to be builtin, rather than declared in
qapi/common.json, because we want to use it for alternates even
when common.json is not included. But since it is the first
builtin enum type, we have to add special cases to qapi-types
and qapi-visit to only emit definitions once, even when two
qapi files are being compiled into the same binary (the way we
already handled builtin list types like 'intList'). We may
need to revisit how multiple qapi files share common types,
but that's a project for another day.
Backports commit 7264f5c50cc1be0f1406e3ebb45aedcca02f603a from qemu
The name QType matches our CODING_STYLE conventions for type names
in CamelCase. It also matches the fact that we are already naming
all the enum members with a prefix of QTYPE, not QTYPE_CODE. And
doing the rename will also make it easier for the next patch to use
QAPI for providing the enum, which also wants CamelCase type names.
Backports commit 1310a3d3bd9301ff5a825287638cfab24c2c6689 from qemu
The QObject hierarchy is small enough, and unlikely to grow further
(since we only use it to map to JSON and already cover all JSON
types), that we can simplify things by not tracking a separate
vtable, but just inline the code element of the vtable QType
directly into QObject (renamed to type), and track a separate array
of destroy functions. We can drop qnull_destroy_obj() in the
process.
The remaining QObject subclasses must export their destructor.
This also has the nice benefit of moving the typename 'QType'
out of the way, so that the next patch can repurpose it for a
nicer name for 'qtype_code'.
The various objects are still the same size (so no change in cache
line pressure), but now have less indirection (although I didn't
bother benchmarking to see if there is a noticeable speedup, as
we don't have hard evidence that this was in a performance hotspot
in the first place).
A future patch could drop the refcnt size to 32 bits for a smaller
struct on 64-bit architectures, if desired (we have limits on the
largest JSON that we are willing to parse, and will probably never
need to take full advantage of a 64-bit refcnt).
Backports commit 55e1819c509b3d9c10a54678b9c585bbda13889e from qemu
I'm going to fix the JSON parser to recognize null. The obvious
representation of JSON null as (QObject *)NULL doesn't work, because
the parser already uses it as an error value. Perhaps we should
change it to free NULL for null, but that's more than I can do right
now. Create a special null QObject instead.
The existing QDict, QList, and QString all represent something that
is a pointer in C and could therefore be associated with NULL. But
right now, all three of these sub-types are always non-null once
created, so the new null sentinel object is intentionally unrelated
to them.
Backports commit 481b002cc81ed7fc7b06e32e9d4d495d81739d14 from qemu
Adding an assertion to qobject_decref() will ensure that a
programming error causing use-after-free will result in
immediate failure (provided no other thread has started
using the memory) instead of silently attempting to wrap
refcnt around and leaving the problem to potentially bite
later at a harder point to diagnose.
Backports commit cc9f60d4a2a4bf2578a9309a18f1c4602c9f5ce7 from qemu
