unicorn/qemu
Markus Armbruster 84e5261cdf
qapi: Improve qobject input visitor error reporting
Error messages refer to nodes of the QObject being visited by name.
Trouble is the names are sometimes less than helpful:

* The name of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "null". We commonly pass
NULL. Not good.

Avoiding errors "at the root" mitigates. For instance,
visit_start_struct() can only fail when the visited object is not a
dictionary, and we commonly ensure it is beforehand.

* The name of a QDict's member is the member key. Good enough only
when this happens to be unique.

* The name of a QList's member is "null". Not good.

Improve error messages by referring to nodes by path instead, as
follows:

* The path of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "<anonymous>".

* The path of a root QDict's member is the member key.

* The path of a root QList's member is "[%u]", where %u is the list
index, starting at zero.

* The path of a non-root QDict's member is the path of the QDict
concatenated with "." and the member key.

* The path of a non-root QList's member is the path of the QList
concatenated with "[%u]", where %u is the list index.

For example, the incorrect QMP command

{ "execute": "blockdev-add", "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "raw", "file": {"driver": "file" } } }

now fails with

{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'file.filename' is missing"}}

instead of

{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'filename' is missing"}}

and

{ "execute": "input-send-event", "arguments": { "device": "bar", "events": [ [] ] } }

now fails with

{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'events[0]', expected: object"}}

instead of

{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'null', expected: QDict"}}

Aside: calling the thing "parameter" is suboptimal for QMP, because
the root object is "arguments" there.

The qobject output visitor doesn't have this problem because it should
not fail. Same for dealloc and clone visitors.

The string visitors don't have this problem because they visit just
one value, whose name needs to be passed to the visitor as @name. The
string output visitor shouldn't fail anyway.

The options visitor uses QemuOpts names. Their name space is flat, so
the use of QDict member keys as names is fine. NULL names used with
roots and lists could conceivably result in bad error messages. Left
for another day.

Backports commit a9fc37f6bc3f2ab90585cb16493da9f6dcfbfbcf from qemu
2018-03-02 12:05:53 -05:00
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crypto crypto: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:47:40 -05:00
default-configs arm64eb: add support for ARM64 big endian. 2017-04-24 23:30:01 +08:00
docs docs: clarify memory region lifecycle 2018-02-12 15:11:21 -05:00
fpu softfloat: Use correct type in float64_to_uint64_round_to_zero() 2018-03-02 10:44:10 -05:00
hw i386: Remove AMD feature flag aliases from Opteron models 2018-03-01 23:49:04 -05:00
include qapi: Improve qobject input visitor error reporting 2018-03-02 12:05:53 -05:00
qapi qapi: Improve qobject input visitor error reporting 2018-03-02 12:05:53 -05:00
qobject util/cutils: Rename qemu_strtoll(), qemu_strtoull() 2018-03-02 08:39:45 -05:00
qom arm: Correctly handle watchpoints for BE32 CPUs 2018-03-02 00:24:33 -05:00
scripts qapi: rename QmpOutputVisitor to QObjectOutputVisitor 2018-02-27 08:05:33 -05:00
target i386: Reorganize and document CPUID initialization steps 2018-03-02 10:55:00 -05:00
tcg aarch64: Change ext type to TCGType to fix warnings 2018-03-02 10:48:56 -05:00
util util/cutils: Change qemu_strtosz*() from int64_t to uint64_t 2018-03-02 08:58:55 -05:00
aarch64.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
aarch64eb.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
accel.c clean-up: removed duplicate #includes 2018-02-28 08:51:56 -05:00
arm.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
armeb.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
atomic_template.h tcg: Add atomic128 helpers 2018-02-27 21:43:48 -05:00
CODING_STYLE import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
configure tcg: enable MTTCG by default for ARM on x86 hosts 2018-03-02 10:32:47 -05:00
COPYING import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
COPYING.LIB import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
cpu-exec-common.c tcg: Add EXCP_ATOMIC 2018-02-27 11:57:58 -05:00
cpu-exec.c cpu-exec: remove unnecessary check of cpu->exit_request 2018-03-02 11:21:35 -05:00
cpus.c tcg: handle EXCP_ATOMIC exception for system emulation 2018-03-02 09:56:43 -05:00
cputlb.c cputlb: Don't assume do_unassigned_access() never returns 2018-03-02 10:42:35 -05:00
exec.c exec: make address_space_cache_destroy idempotent 2018-03-02 08:16:17 -05:00
gen_all_header.sh arm64eb: add support for ARM64 big endian. 2017-04-24 23:30:01 +08:00
glib_compat.c qapi: Improve qobject input visitor error reporting 2018-03-02 12:05:53 -05:00
HACKING import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
header_gen.py Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
ioport.c hw: remove pio_addr_t 2018-02-24 02:43:16 -05:00
LICENSE import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
m68k.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
Makefile Makefile: Add a FORCE target 2018-02-24 17:03:51 -05:00
Makefile.objs tcg: Add atomic helpers 2018-02-27 15:57:47 -05:00
Makefile.target Move target-* CPU file into a target/ folder 2018-03-01 22:50:58 -05:00
memory.c memory: Introduce DEVICE_HOST_ENDIAN for ram device 2018-03-02 11:24:32 -05:00
memory_ldst.inc.c exec: introduce memory_ldst.inc.c 2018-03-01 09:59:34 -05:00
memory_mapping.c include/qemu/osdep.h: Don't include qapi/error.h 2018-02-21 23:08:18 -05:00
mips.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
mips64.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
mips64el.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
mipsel.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
powerpc.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
qapi-schema.json qapi: add missing colon-ending for section name 2018-03-01 09:07:10 -05:00
qemu-timer.c timer/cpus: fix some typos and update some comments 2018-02-25 23:21:57 -05:00
rules.mak rules.mak: Don't extract libs from .mo-libs in link command 2018-02-26 02:08:03 -05:00
softmmu_template.h cputlb: Remove includes from softmmu_template.h 2018-02-27 12:40:43 -05:00
sparc.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
sparc64.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00
tcg-runtime.c tcg: Add opcode for ctpop 2018-03-01 18:26:41 -05:00
translate-all.c tcg: enable thread-per-vCPU 2018-03-02 09:43:14 -05:00
translate-all.h translate-all.c: Compute L1 page table properties at runtime 2018-02-26 11:46:58 -05:00
translate-common.c exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
unicorn_common.h qom/cpu: Add MemoryRegion property 2018-02-18 21:54:50 -05:00
VERSION import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
vl.c tcg: add options for enabling MTTCG 2018-03-02 09:25:01 -05:00
vl.h import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
x86_64.h Resolve symbol errors with softfloat 2018-03-02 09:25:05 -05:00