On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:48:06PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:51:41PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > > diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c > > index 1ad1c04637..1ec995a6ae 100644 > > --- a/vl.c > > +++ b/vl.c > > @@ -3144,7 +3144,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) > > qemu_init_exec_dir(argv[0]); > > > > module_call_init(MODULE_INIT_QOM); > > - monitor_init_qmp_commands(); > > > > qemu_add_opts(&qemu_drive_opts); > > qemu_add_drive_opts(&qemu_legacy_drive_opts); > > @@ -4690,6 +4689,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) > > default_drive(default_floppy, snapshot, IF_FLOPPY, 0, FD_OPTS); > > default_drive(default_sdcard, snapshot, IF_SD, 0, SD_OPTS); > > > > + monitor_init_globals(); > > Why did you move monitor_init_qmp_commands() down here? > > There are many function calls between the old position and the new > position. Did you check all of them to make sure they don't touch the > monitor which is now totally uninitialized?
Yeh, this patch is a bit hairy, but I really think we should do it. Because there are too many places (as you have seen) that we inited monitor stuff in different places. IMHO monitor_init_qmp_commands() should be safe to be called here since it only do registration of commands, and AFAICT those commands won't be touched until we init any of the monitors below monitor_init_globals(): if (qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("mon"), mon_init_func, NULL, NULL)) { exit(1); } Similar things to other stuff in monitor_init_globals(). They just won't be touched up (correct me if not) until this mon_init_func(). Thanks, -- Peter Xu