On 21.09.2017 19:56, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:22:42AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: >> qdev_unplug() bails out with an assertion if the user tries to device_del >> a hot-plugged device that does not have a hotplug controller. Unfortunately, >> our devices are all marked with hotpluggable = true by default (see the >> device_class_init() function in qdev.c), so it currently can happen that >> the user runs into this situation and QEMU gets terminated unexpectedly: >> >> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -nographic -nodefaults -monitor stdio -S >> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information >> (qemu) device_add aux-to-i2c-bridge,id=x >> (qemu) device_del x >> ** >> ERROR:qdev-monitor.c:872:qdev_unplug: assertion failed: (hotplug_ctrl) >> Aborted (core dumped) >> >> Hotplugging devices without a hotplug controller does not make much sense, >> so we should disallow this during the device_add process already! >> >> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > > I'm queueing this on machine-next. We still want it even if we > apply the patch that changes TYPE_DEVICE to hotpluggable=false by > default, right?
As far as I can see, yes. There might be machine types where e.g. the PCI bus comes without a hotplug controller, so in that case we'd need this. Thomas
