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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/12] qom: document reference counting of link properties
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:30:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1358771422-14282-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358771422-14282-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 include/qom/object.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index 8e16ea8..5e8e528 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -1033,6 +1033,11 @@ void object_property_add_child(Object *obj, const char *name,
  * between objects.
  *
  * Links form the graph in the object model.
+ *
+ * Ownership of the pointer that @child points to is transferred to the
+ * link property.  The reference count for <code>*@child</code> is
+ * managed by the property from after the function returns till the
+ * property is deleted with object_property_del().
  */
 void object_property_add_link(Object *obj, const char *name,
                               const char *type, Object **child,
-- 
1.8.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21 12:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] qdev: correct reference counting Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/12] qdev: export and use qbus_init Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 13:01   ` Andreas Färber
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/12] qdev: use object_new, not g_malloc to create buses Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/12] qom: preserve object while unparenting it Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 13:03   ` Andreas Färber
2013-01-21 12:30 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] qdev: add reference count to a device for the BusChild Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/12] qdev: move deletion of children from finalize to unparent Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/12] qdev: move unrealization of devices " Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/12] qdev: add reference for the bus while it is referred to by the DeviceState Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/12] qdev: inline object_delete into qbus_free/qdev_free Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-21 12:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/12] cpu: do not use object_delete Paolo Bonzini

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