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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] memory: introduce life_ops to MemoryRegion
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:18:12 +0300
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On 08/08/2012 09:25 AM, Liu Ping Fan wrote:
> From: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> The types of referred object by MemoryRegion are variable, ex,
> another mr, DeviceState, or other struct defined by drivers.
> So the refer/unrefer may be different by drivers.
> 
> Using this ops, we can mange the backend object.
> 

Seems to be a needless abstration - we already have lifetime manangement
for objects.

I suggested previously to replace the opaque parameter with an Object,
and use Object's refcounting.  That's a lot of work, but IMO is worth it
as the opaques are dangerous to live lying around.


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