From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnsjA-0007np-5d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:07:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnsj6-0005fZ-4v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:07:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnsj5-0005f4-So for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:07:24 -0400 From: Eduardo Habkost Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:06:41 -0300 Message-Id: <20170314200641.2958-2-ehabkost@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170314200641.2958-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> References: <20170314200641.2958-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/1] machine: Convert abstract typename on compat_props to subclass names List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Marcel Apfelbaum , Igor Mammedov Original problem description by Greg Kurz: > Since commit "9a4c0e220d8a hw/virtio-pci: fix virtio > behaviour", passing -device virtio-blk-pci.disable-modern=off > has no effect on 2.6 machine types because the internal > virtio-pci.disable-modern=on compat property always prevail. The same bug also affects other abstract type names mentioned on compat_props by machine-types: apic-common, i386-cpu, pci-device, powerpc64-cpu, s390-skeys, spapr-pci-host-bridge, usb-device, virtio-pci, x86_64-cpu. The right fix for this problem is to make sure compat_props and -global options are always applied in the order they are registered, instead of reordering them based on the type hierarchy. But changing the ordering rules of -global is risky and might break existing configurations, so we shouldn't do that on a stable branch. This is a temporary hack that will work around the bug when registering compat_props properties: if we find an abstract class on compat_props, register properties for all its non-abstract subtypes instead. This will make sure -global won't be overridden by compat_props, while keeping the existing ordering rules on -global options. Note that there's one case that won't be fixed by this hack: "-global spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge.