unicorn/qemu
Eric Blake e096e62127
qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions
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
2018-02-20 16:44:55 -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 all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
hw x86: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:00:09 -05:00
include qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions 2018-02-20 16:44:55 -05:00
qapi qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions 2018-02-20 16:44:55 -05:00
qobject qapi: Convert QType into QAPI built-in enum type 2018-02-19 21:47:05 -05:00
qom cpu: Add callback to check architectural watchpoint match 2018-02-20 11:43:56 -05:00
scripts qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions 2018-02-20 16:44:55 -05:00
target-arm target-arm: Add PMUSERENR_EL0 register 2018-02-20 15:36:31 -05:00
target-i386 target-i386: Implement FSGSBASE 2018-02-20 14:45:58 -05:00
target-m68k m68k: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:06:05 -05:00
target-mips mips: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:45:08 -05:00
target-sparc sparc: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:52:41 -05:00
tcg target-i386: Implement BNDMK 2018-02-20 14:02:31 -05:00
util error: New error_fatal 2018-02-20 08:22:27 -05:00
aarch64.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
aarch64eb.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
accel.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
arm.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
armeb.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
CODING_STYLE import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
configure tcg: Drop ia64 host support 2018-02-04 18:33:02 -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 exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
cpu-exec.c exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
cpus.c exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
cputlb.c exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
exec.c exec: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 00:49:55 -05:00
gen_all_header.sh arm64eb: add support for ARM64 big endian. 2017-04-24 23:30:01 +08:00
glib_compat.c crypto: introduce new module for computing hash digests 2018-02-17 15:23:17 -05:00
HACKING import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
header_gen.py target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
ioport.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
LICENSE import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
m68k.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
Makefile qapi: Turn generators' mandatory option -i into an argument 2018-02-19 15:22:27 -05:00
Makefile.objs crypto: move crypto objects out of libqemuutil.la 2018-02-17 15:23:50 -05:00
Makefile.target tcg: split tcg_op_defs to -common 2018-02-17 15:23:51 -05:00
memory.c qom: Swap 'name' next to visitor in ObjectPropertyAccessor 2018-02-19 23:14:37 -05:00
memory_mapping.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
mips.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
mips64.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
mips64el.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
mipsel.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
powerpc.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
qapi-schema.json qapi: Lazy creation of array types 2018-02-19 18:55:35 -05:00
qemu-log.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
qemu-timer.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
rules.mak import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
softmmu_template.h exec.c: Pass MemTxAttrs to iotlb_to_region so it uses the right AS 2018-02-17 23:19:00 -05:00
sparc.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
sparc64.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00
tcg-runtime.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
translate-all.c all: Clean up includes 2018-02-19 01:34:28 -05:00
translate-all.h translate-all: remove unnecessary argument to tb_invalidate_phys_range 2018-02-13 09:04:51 -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 vl.c: Remove periods and exclamation points from error messages 2018-02-17 15:24:14 -05:00
vl.h import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
x86_64.h target-arm: Implement checking of fired watchpoint 2018-02-20 11:50:29 -05:00