[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] qdev: correct reference counting

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

This series makes the ref_count field of device and bus objects actually
match the number of references that the objects have.  Once this is
done, the question "how do I delete an object?"  has a simple answer:
use object_unparent if the object is reachable from the QOM tree, else use
object_unref.  qdev_free and qbus_free become equivalent to simply
object_unparent.  object_delete instead is replaced by object_unref.

Patches 1-3 fix some warts in the last minute patches that went in 1.3.
Patches 4-9 are the bulk of the series.  Patches 11-12 touches the CPU
classes instead.

There is a new patch (#4) that documents how link properties are
reference counted, and the transfer of ownership when the property
is created/deleted.  I renamed qbus_remove_children to bus_unparent,
and rebased for the conversion of ->state to ->realized.  PPC was also
using object_delete for its CPU, too.  Otherwise, there are no changes.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (12):
  qdev: export and use qbus_init
  qdev: use object_new, not g_malloc to create buses
  qom: preserve object while unparenting it
  qom: document reference counting of link properties
  qdev: add reference count to a device for the BusChild
  qdev: move deletion of children from finalize to unparent
  qdev: move unrealization of devices from finalize to unparent
  qdev: add reference for the bus while it is referred to by the DeviceState
  qdev: inline object_delete into qbus_free/qdev_free
  qdev: drop extra references at creation time
  cpu: do not use object_delete
  qom: remove object_delete

 hw/pci/pci.c                |  11 +++--
 hw/pci/pci.h                |   5 ---
 hw/qdev-core.h              |   1 +
 hw/qdev-monitor.c           |   5 ++-
 hw/qdev.c                   | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 hw/sysbus.c                 |   6 +--
 include/qom/object.h        |  22 +++-------
 linux-user/syscall.c        |   2 +-
 qom/object.c                |   9 +---
 target-i386/helper.c        |   4 +-
 target-ppc/translate_init.c |   2 +-
 target-sparc/cpu.c          |   2 +-
 vl.c                        |   1 +
 13 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

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