On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:41:11AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 30/09/2014 08:10, arei.gong...@huawei.com ha scritto:
> > From: Gonglei <arei.gong...@huawei.com>
> >
> > virtio-$device-{pci, s390, ccw} all duplicate the
> > qdev properties of their virtio child. This approach does
> > not work well with string or pointer properties since we
> > must be careful about leaking or double-freeing them.
> >
> > Use the QOM alias property to forward property accesses to the
> > VirtIORNG child. This way no duplication is necessary.
> >
> > For their child, object_initialize() leaves the object with a refcount of 1.
> > object_property_add_child() adds its own reference which is dropped
> > again when the property is deleted.
> >
> > The upshot of this is that we always have a refcount >= 1. Upon hot
> > unplug the virtio-$device child is not finalized!
> >
> > Drop our reference after the child property has been added to the
> > parent.
> >
> > Changs since v1:
> > - add the same handling for virtio-9p-pci device in PATCH 10 and PATCH 11.
> > - add a wrapper function for better code sharing
> > in PATCH 12 (Cornelia/Michael/Paolo)
>
> I would like to take these patches through the SCSI tree, because of a
> small conflict with virtio-scsi dataplane. Any objections?
>
> Paolo
Fine with me.
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
