Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/7] add fixed-width visitors and serialization tests/fixes

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:22:15AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 27.04.2012 22:21, schrieb Michael Roth:
> > These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained from:
> > git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git visitor-fixed-width-v5
> > 
> > Some of these were being carried as part of Paolo's realize series due to some
> > conflicts, but that looks to be targetted for 1.2 now, and there's a QMP
> > visitor bug and a small issue with String visitor that were caught by the test
> > infrastructure introduced here and fixed as part of this series, so I'd like to
> > get this in for 1.1
> 
> Thanks, I've applied v6 to qom-next (as usual massaging the commit
> messages a bit, in particular extending the last one):
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/afaerber.git/shortlog/refs/heads/qom-next
> 
> Reasoning:
> This series has been around since end of February. v3 fixed a breakage
> reported by Anthony (use of signed rather than unsigned visitors); since
> then changes were mostly rebasing, and v5/v6 pass make check and my
> smoke tests.
> While this is not strictly a QOM series, I am picking it as a
> prerequisite since Paolo had picked up patches 1, 6, 7 for his Object
> properties movement and because patch 1 is handy for newly added
> properties such as of the x86 CPU.
> Further, Paolo agreed to rebase onto this series.
> 
> However, it is my understanding that patches 2 and 4 are independent
> bugfixes and as such should go into 1.1.

Agreed, my intention as well.

Thanks for taking these in!

> 
> Luiz, should I send Anthony a PULL for 1.1-rc2 including those two? Can
> you ack then? Or do you want to cherry-pick them from qom-next yourself?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> > CHANGES SINCE v4:
> >  - Rebased on master (a8b69b8e2431edfcb6c4cfb069787e9071d6235b) and re-tested
> >  - Re-ordered patches so visitor bugs are applied before the test cases that
> >    that trigger them.
> > 
> > CHANGES SINCE V3:
> >  - Rebased on master and re-tested
> > 
> > CHANGES SINCE V2:
> >  - Fix qemu-test errors due to now-strict bounds-checking we doing assignment
> >    between signed/unsigned types.
> >  - uint* property getters/setters no longer use int* getters/setters.
> >  - valid devfn range is now explicitly enforced.
> > 
> > CHANGES SINCE V1:
> >  - unit tests: covert QmpOutputVisitor qobject to json before passing it to
> >    QmpInputVisitor*. I.e., actually do the serialization :)
> >  - QmpInputVisitor, add handling for when a serialized QFloat gets read back
> >    as a QInt
> >  - unit tests: add coverage for String visitor
> >  - StringOutputVisitor: use %f for float representation
> > 
> > These patches add fixed-width visitor interfaces and switches all qdev users
> > over to using them.
> > 
> > We also add a test suite which covers these interfaces, and also does some
> > sanity checking on Visitors (Qmp/String currently, with a pluggable interface
> > for future implementations) to ensure Visitor input/output handling remain
> > self-consistent, which is not covered by the current visitor tests which mostly
> > test input/output seperately. Maintaining this invariant is necessary to ensure
> > that visitors can be used for serialization/deserialization in the future.
> > 
> >  hw/mc146818rtc.c                   |    7 -
> >  hw/pci.c                           |    2 +-
> >  hw/pci.h                           |    2 +-
> >  hw/qdev-addr.c                     |    4 +-
> >  hw/qdev-properties.c               |  161 +++++---
> >  hw/qdev.h                          |    2 +-
> >  qapi/qapi-visit-core.c             |  139 +++++++
> >  qapi/qapi-visit-core.h             |   16 +
> >  qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c           |    9 +-
> >  qapi/string-output-visitor.c       |    2 +-
> >  tests/Makefile                     |    4 +-
> >  tests/test-string-output-visitor.c |    2 +-
> >  tests/test-visitor-serialization.c |  784 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  13 files changed, 1049 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
> 
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