On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:38:41PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 05/03/2017 11:35 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > 
> > >> +
> > >> +        memset(&cpu, 0, sizeof(cpu));
> > >> +        cpu.has_node_id = object->u.cpu.has_node_id;
> > >> +        cpu.node_id = object->u.cpu.node_id;
> > >> +        cpu.has_socket_id = object->u.cpu.has_socket_id;
> > >> +        cpu.socket_id = object->u.cpu.socket_id;
> > >> +        cpu.has_core_id = object->u.cpu.has_core_id;
> > >> +        cpu.core_id = object->u.cpu.core_id;
> > >> +        cpu.has_thread_id = object->u.cpu.has_thread_id;
> > >> +        cpu.thread_id = object->u.cpu.thread_id;
> > > 
> > > We don't have a way to avoid copying each field individually?
> > > Some visitor trick, maybe?
> > > 
> > > Eric, Markus, Michael, do you have any suggestions?
> > 
> > Markus just added QAPI_CLONE_MEMBERS(), which sounds like what you want:
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04867.html
> 
> Not sure if it would work in this case. Note that cpu and
> object->u.cpu have different types. 'cpu' is CpuInstanceProps,
> but object->u.cpu is NodeCpuOptions.
> 
> NodeCpuOptions has { 'base': 'CpuInstanceProps' }, and
> CpuInstanceProps field declarations are duplicated in struct
> NodeCpuOptions. Do you know why struct inheritance is implemented
> by duplicating the fields of the base struct instead of embedding
> the base struct?

Nevermind, I just found out that QAPI generates a
qapi_NumaCpuOptions_base() upcast helper. So this can be solved
with no data copying at all:

 machine_set_cpu_numa_nodes(ms, qapi_NumaCpuOptions_base(&object->u.cpu), &err);

-- 
Eduardo

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