From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@mailo.com>,
"Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
devel@lists.libvirt.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/34] monitor: minimal conversion of monitors to QOM
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:48:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87echkw86p.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702160337.1910921-6-berrange@redhat.com> ("Daniel P. Berrangé"'s message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2026 17:03:08 +0100")
Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> This introduces a Monitor QOM object, with MonitorHMP and
> MonitorQMP subclasses. This is the bare minimum conversion
> of just the type declarations and replacing g_new/g_free
> with object_new/object_unref. The Monitor base class is
> abstract since only the HMP/QMP variants should ever be
> created.
>
> When created through the existing QemuOpts interfaces, the
> new internal QOM object will get assigned a dynamic ID with
> the format "compat_monitorNNN" which is the historical
> QemuOpts ID naming pattern.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
> chardev/char.c | 2 +-
> gdbstub/system.c | 2 +-
> include/monitor/monitor.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
> monitor/hmp.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> monitor/monitor-internal.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> monitor/monitor.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> monitor/qmp-cmds.c | 15 ++++++++-------
> monitor/qmp.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> stubs/monitor-internal.c | 3 ++-
> system/vl.c | 7 +++----
> 10 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
> index 813c04d953..c71ffa7963 100644
> --- a/chardev/char.c
> +++ b/chardev/char.c
> @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static Chardev *qemu_chr_new_from_name(const char *label, const char *filename,
>
> if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "mux", 0)) {
> assert(permit_mux_mon);
> - monitor_new_hmp(chr, true, &err);
> + monitor_new_hmp(NULL, chr, true, &err);
Yet another way to create a monitor, not covered by the commit message.
We get here for legacy chardev syntax "mon:...", I think. Where exactly
in the external interface this is accepted I'm not sure. It's
documented for -serial. See qemu-options.hx.
There is no "mon" QemuOpts.
You pass NULL to monitor_new_hmp(), which makes it create the object as
/objects/compat_monitorNNN.
> if (err) {
> error_report_err(err);
> object_unparent(OBJECT(chr));
> diff --git a/gdbstub/system.c b/gdbstub/system.c
> index 18f6a62b2e..fda8ef9352 100644
> --- a/gdbstub/system.c
> +++ b/gdbstub/system.c
> @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ bool gdbserver_start(const char *device, Error **errp)
> /* Initialize a monitor terminal for gdb */
> mon_chr = qemu_chardev_new(NULL, TYPE_CHARDEV_GDB,
> NULL, NULL, &error_abort);
> - monitor_new_hmp(mon_chr, false, &error_abort);
> + monitor_new_hmp(NULL, mon_chr, false, &error_abort);
And yet another, also no "mon" QemuOpts, and also
/objects/compat_monitorNNN.
> } else {
> qemu_chr_fe_deinit(&gdbserver_system_state.chr, true);
> mon_chr = gdbserver_system_state.mon_chr;
> diff --git a/include/monitor/monitor.h b/include/monitor/monitor.h
> index b9642b58ba..83723f705a 100644
> --- a/include/monitor/monitor.h
> +++ b/include/monitor/monitor.h
> @@ -5,8 +5,17 @@
> #include "qapi/qapi-types-misc.h"
> #include "qemu/readline.h"
> #include "exec/hwaddr.h"
> +#include "qom/object.h"
> +
> +#define TYPE_MONITOR "monitor"
> +OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(Monitor, MonitorClass, MONITOR);
> +
> +#define TYPE_MONITOR_HMP "monitor-hmp"
> +OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(MonitorHMP, MonitorHMPClass, MONITOR_HMP);
> +
> +#define TYPE_MONITOR_QMP "monitor-qmp"
> +OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(MonitorQMP, MonitorQMPClass, MONITOR_QMP);
>
> -typedef struct MonitorHMP MonitorHMP;
> typedef struct MonitorOptions MonitorOptions;
>
> #define QMP_REQ_QUEUE_LEN_MAX 8
> @@ -19,8 +28,11 @@ bool monitor_cur_is_qmp(void);
>
> void monitor_init_globals(void);
> void monitor_init_globals_core(void);
> -void monitor_new_qmp(Chardev *chr, bool pretty, Error **errp);
> -void monitor_new_hmp(Chardev *chr, bool use_readline, Error **errp);
> +char *monitor_compat_id(void);
> +void monitor_new_qmp(const char *id, Chardev *chr,
> + bool pretty, Error **errp);
> +void monitor_new_hmp(const char *id, Chardev *chr,
> + bool use_readline, Error **errp);
> int monitor_new(MonitorOptions *opts, bool allow_hmp, Error **errp);
> int monitor_new_opts(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp);
> void monitor_cleanup(void);
> diff --git a/monitor/hmp.c b/monitor/hmp.c
> index 4e4468424a..da11e56854 100644
> --- a/monitor/hmp.c
> +++ b/monitor/hmp.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,20 @@
> #include "system/block-backend.h"
> #include "trace.h"
>
> +OBJECT_DEFINE_TYPE(MonitorHMP, monitor_hmp, MONITOR_HMP, MONITOR);
> +
> +static void monitor_hmp_finalize(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_hmp_class_init(ObjectClass *cls, const void *data)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_hmp_init(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> static void monitor_command_cb(void *opaque, const char *cmdline,
> void *readline_opaque)
> {
> @@ -1524,12 +1538,23 @@ static void monitor_readline_flush(void *opaque)
> monitor_flush(&mon->parent_obj);
> }
>
> -void monitor_new_hmp(Chardev *chr, bool use_readline, Error **errp)
> +void monitor_new_hmp(const char *id, Chardev *chr,
> + bool use_readline, Error **errp)
> {
> - MonitorHMP *mon = g_new0(MonitorHMP, 1);
> + MonitorHMP *mon;
> + g_autofree char *autoid = id ? NULL : monitor_compat_id();
> + Object *obj = object_new_with_props(TYPE_MONITOR_HMP,
> + object_get_objects_root(),
> + id ? id : autoid,
> + errp,
> + NULL);
> + if (!obj) {
> + return;
> + }
> + mon = MONITOR_HMP(obj);
>
> if (!qemu_chr_fe_init(&mon->parent_obj.chr, chr, errp)) {
> - g_free(mon);
> + object_unparent(OBJECT(mon));
> return;
> }
>
> diff --git a/monitor/monitor-internal.h b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
> index 4da2b2a677..05c1f2f5e0 100644
> --- a/monitor/monitor-internal.h
> +++ b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
> @@ -101,7 +101,13 @@ typedef struct HMPCommand {
> bool coroutine;
> } HMPCommand;
>
> +
> +struct MonitorClass {
> + ObjectClass parent_class;
> +};
> +
> struct Monitor {
> + Object parent;
> CharFrontend chr;
> int suspend_cnt; /* Needs to be accessed atomically */
> bool is_qmp;
> @@ -127,6 +133,10 @@ struct Monitor {
> int reset_seen;
> };
>
> +struct MonitorHMPClass {
> + MonitorClass parent_class;
> +};
> +
> struct MonitorHMP {
> Monitor parent_obj;
> bool use_readline;
> @@ -140,7 +150,11 @@ struct MonitorHMP {
> ReadLineState *rs;
> };
>
> -typedef struct {
> +struct MonitorQMPClass {
> + MonitorClass parent_class;
> +};
> +
> +struct MonitorQMP {
> Monitor parent_obj;
> JSONMessageParser parser;
> bool pretty;
> @@ -160,7 +174,7 @@ typedef struct {
> QemuMutex qmp_queue_lock;
> /* Input queue that holds all the parsed QMP requests */
> GQueue *qmp_requests;
> -} MonitorQMP;
> +};
>
> /**
> * Is @mon a QMP monitor?
> diff --git a/monitor/monitor.c b/monitor/monitor.c
> index a87597e606..18a1d8ddde 100644
> --- a/monitor/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor/monitor.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,22 @@ static GHashTable *coroutine_mon; /* Maps Coroutine* to Monitor* */
> MonitorList mon_list;
> static bool monitor_destroyed;
>
> +int monitor_device_index;
> +
> +OBJECT_DEFINE_ABSTRACT_TYPE(Monitor, monitor, MONITOR, OBJECT);
> +
> +static void monitor_finalize(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_class_init(ObjectClass *cls, const void *data)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_init(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> Monitor *monitor_cur(void)
> {
> Monitor *mon;
> @@ -598,7 +614,7 @@ void monitor_list_append(Monitor *mon)
>
> if (mon) {
> monitor_data_destroy(mon);
> - g_free(mon);
> + object_unparent(OBJECT(mon));
> }
> }
>
> @@ -680,7 +696,7 @@ void monitor_cleanup(void)
> monitor_flush(mon);
> monitor_data_destroy(mon);
> qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_lock);
> - g_free(mon);
> + object_unparent(OBJECT(mon));
> }
> qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_lock);
>
> @@ -715,6 +731,13 @@ void monitor_init_globals(void)
> aio_co_schedule(iohandler_get_aio_context(), qmp_dispatcher_co);
> }
>
> +char *monitor_compat_id(void)
> +{
> + static int monitor_device_index;
> +
> + return g_strdup_printf("compat_monitor%d", monitor_device_index++);
> +}
> +
> int monitor_new(MonitorOptions *opts, bool allow_hmp, Error **errp)
> {
> ERRP_GUARD();
> @@ -732,7 +755,7 @@ int monitor_new(MonitorOptions *opts, bool allow_hmp, Error **errp)
>
> switch (opts->mode) {
> case MONITOR_MODE_CONTROL:
> - monitor_new_qmp(chr, opts->pretty, errp);
> + monitor_new_qmp(opts->id, chr, opts->pretty, errp);
> break;
> case MONITOR_MODE_READLINE:
> if (!allow_hmp) {
> @@ -743,7 +766,7 @@ int monitor_new(MonitorOptions *opts, bool allow_hmp, Error **errp)
> error_setg(errp, "'pretty' is not compatible with HMP monitors");
> return -1;
> }
> - monitor_new_hmp(chr, true, errp);
> + monitor_new_hmp(opts->id, chr, true, errp);
> break;
> default:
> g_assert_not_reached();
> diff --git a/monitor/qmp-cmds.c b/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
> index aa9ee8a391..bfde769ef0 100644
> --- a/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
> +++ b/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
> @@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ char *qmp_human_monitor_command(const char *command_line, bool has_cpu_index,
> int64_t cpu_index, Error **errp)
> {
> char *output = NULL;
> - MonitorHMP hmp = {};
> + MonitorHMP *hmp = MONITOR_HMP(object_new(TYPE_MONITOR_HMP));
>
> - monitor_data_init(&hmp.parent_obj, false, true, false);
> + monitor_data_init(&hmp->parent_obj, false, true, false);
>
> if (has_cpu_index) {
> - int ret = monitor_set_cpu(&hmp.parent_obj, cpu_index);
> + int ret = monitor_set_cpu(&hmp->parent_obj, cpu_index);
> if (ret < 0) {
> error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "cpu-index",
> "a CPU number");
> @@ -179,14 +179,15 @@ char *qmp_human_monitor_command(const char *command_line, bool has_cpu_index,
> }
> }
>
> - handle_hmp_command(&hmp, command_line);
> + handle_hmp_command(hmp, command_line);
>
> - WITH_QEMU_LOCK_GUARD(&hmp.parent_obj.mon_lock) {
> - output = g_strdup(hmp.parent_obj.outbuf->str);
> + WITH_QEMU_LOCK_GUARD(&hmp->parent_obj.mon_lock) {
> + output = g_strdup(hmp->parent_obj.outbuf->str);
> }
>
> out:
> - monitor_data_destroy(&hmp.parent_obj);
> + monitor_data_destroy(&hmp->parent_obj);
> + object_unref(hmp);
> return output;
> }
>
> diff --git a/monitor/qmp.c b/monitor/qmp.c
> index cb28a95efd..1ef09352fc 100644
> --- a/monitor/qmp.c
> +++ b/monitor/qmp.c
> @@ -71,6 +71,20 @@ typedef struct QMPRequest QMPRequest;
>
> QmpCommandList qmp_commands, qmp_cap_negotiation_commands;
>
> +OBJECT_DEFINE_TYPE(MonitorQMP, monitor_qmp, MONITOR_QMP, MONITOR);
> +
> +static void monitor_qmp_finalize(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_qmp_class_init(ObjectClass *cls, const void *data)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static void monitor_qmp_init(Object *obj)
> +{
> +}
> +
> static bool qmp_oob_enabled(MonitorQMP *mon)
> {
> return mon->capab[QMP_CAPABILITY_OOB];
> @@ -513,12 +527,23 @@ static void monitor_qmp_setup_handlers_bh(void *opaque)
> monitor_list_append(&mon->parent_obj);
> }
>
> -void monitor_new_qmp(Chardev *chr, bool pretty, Error **errp)
> +void monitor_new_qmp(const char *id, Chardev *chr,
> + bool pretty, Error **errp)
> {
> - MonitorQMP *mon = g_new0(MonitorQMP, 1);
> + MonitorQMP *mon;
> + g_autofree char *autoid = id ? NULL : monitor_compat_id();
> + Object *obj = object_new_with_props(TYPE_MONITOR_QMP,
> + object_get_objects_root(),
> + id ? id : autoid,
> + errp,
> + NULL);
> + if (!obj) {
> + return;
> + }
> + mon = MONITOR_QMP(obj);
>
> if (!qemu_chr_fe_init(&mon->parent_obj.chr, chr, errp)) {
> - g_free(mon);
> + object_unparent(OBJECT(mon));
> return;
> }
> qemu_chr_fe_set_echo(&mon->parent_obj.chr, true);
> diff --git a/stubs/monitor-internal.c b/stubs/monitor-internal.c
> index 23d58da184..20367b7e9a 100644
> --- a/stubs/monitor-internal.c
> +++ b/stubs/monitor-internal.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ int monitor_get_fd(Monitor *mon, const char *name, Error **errp)
> return -1;
> }
>
> -void monitor_new_hmp(Chardev *chr, bool use_readline, Error **errp)
> +void monitor_new_hmp(const char *id, Chardev *chr,
> + bool use_readline, Error **errp)
> {
> }
> diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
> index 6643242729..4737c03872 100644
> --- a/system/vl.c
> +++ b/system/vl.c
> @@ -1252,7 +1252,6 @@ static int mon_init_func(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
>
> static void monitor_parse(const char *str, const char *mode, bool pretty)
> {
> - static int monitor_device_index = 0;
> QemuOpts *opts;
> const char *p;
> char label[32];
> @@ -1260,8 +1259,9 @@ static void monitor_parse(const char *str, const char *mode, bool pretty)
> if (strstart(str, "chardev:", &p)) {
> snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "%s", p);
> } else {
> - snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "compat_monitor%d",
> - monitor_device_index);
> + g_autofree char *id = monitor_compat_id();
> + assert(strlen(id) < sizeof(label));
> + memcpy(label, id, strlen(id) + 1);
> opts = qemu_chr_parse_compat(label, str, true);
> if (!opts) {
> error_report("parse error: %s", str);
> @@ -1277,7 +1277,6 @@ static void monitor_parse(const char *str, const char *mode, bool pretty)
> } else {
> assert(pretty == false);
> }
> - monitor_device_index++;
Before the patch, we increment the NNN in "compat_monitorNNN" exactly
here.
Afterwards, we increment it in monitor_compat_id(), which gets called
from here and several additional places.
If any of the additional places execute before an execution of the
original place, NNN change.
Feels tolerable, but needs a mention in the commit message.
> }
>
> struct device_config {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 16:03 [PATCH v6 00/34] monitor: turn QMP and HMP into QOM objects Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 01/34] qom: replace 'can_be_deleted' with 'prepare_delete' Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-03 6:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-06 13:00 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-06 13:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 02/34] monitor: replace 'common' with 'parent_obj' in MonitorHMP Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 03/34] monitor: replace 'common' with 'parent_obj' in MonitorQMP Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 04/34] monitor: rename monitor_init* to monitor_new* Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 05/34] monitor: minimal conversion of monitors to QOM Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-03 11:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-03 11:42 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-03 12:48 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2026-07-06 13:09 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 06/34] monitor: add 'chardev' property to Monitor base class Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-03 13:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-06 13:19 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 07/34] monitor: add 'readline' property to HMP Monitor class Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 08/34] monitor: add 'pretty' property to QMP " Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 09/34] monitor: remove 'skip_flush' field Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 10/34] monitor: move monitor_data_(init|destroy) into QOM init/finalize Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 11/34] monitor: use class methods for monitor_vprintf Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 12/34] monitor: use class methods for monitor_qapi_event_emit Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 13/34] monitor: use class methods for monitor_accept_input Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 14/34] monitor: use class method for I/O thread request Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 15/34] monitor: use dynamic cast in monitor_qmp_requests_pop_any_with_lock Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 16/34] util: use dynamic cast in error vreport Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 17/34] monitor: drop unused monitor_cur_is_qmp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 18/34] monitor: use dynamic cast in QMP commands Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 19/34] monitor: use dynamic cast in monitor_is_hmp_non_interactive Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 20/34] monitor: drop unused monitor_is_qmp method Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 21/34] monitor: eliminate monitor_is_hmp_non_interactive method Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 22/34] monitor: implement "user creatable" interface for adding monitors Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 23/34] monitor: convert from oneshot BH to persistent BH Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 24/34] monitor: reject attempts to delete the current monitor Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 25/34] monitor: protect qemu_chr_fe_accept_input with monitor lock Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 26/34] monitor: implement support for deleting QMP objects Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 27/34] tests/qtest: add tests for dynamic monitor add/remove Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 28/34] tests/functional: add e2e test for dynamic QMP monitor hotplug Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 29/34] tests/functional: add a stress test for monitor hot unplug Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 30/34] qom: add trace events for user creatable create/delete APIs Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 31/34] monitor: add support for auto-deleting monitors upon close Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-03 13:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-06 13:32 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 32/34] tests: switch from -mon to -object monitor-qmp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 33/34] qemu-options: document new monitor-hmp and monitor-qmp objects Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-06 10:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-06 13:38 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-02 16:03 ` [PATCH v6 34/34] docs: mark '-mon' as deprecated in favour of -object Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-06 11:00 ` Markus Armbruster
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