On 2012-06-08 14:34, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 08.06.2012 14:05, schrieb Igor Mammedov: >> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:11:11AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Another factor that is making this slightly difficult is that there are >>> three APIC subclasses. Currently they all have an instance_size of >>> sizeof(APICCommonState) so it could be created in-place if it actually >>> is a part (child<>) of the CPU wrt hot-plug. Creating objects with >>> object_new() in QOM instance_init is forbidden. >> Any particular reason why object_new() in intifn is not acceptable? > > It allocates memory, which may fail. The initfn must not fail, the > realizefn may return an Error object.
Since when do we fail gracefully on OOM again? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux