Il 30/09/2014 08:10, arei.gong...@huawei.com ha scritto:
> From: Gonglei <arei.gong...@huawei.com>
>
> virtio-$device-{pci, s390, ccw} all duplicate the
> qdev properties of their virtio child. This approach does
> not work well with string or pointer properties since we
> must be careful about leaking or double-freeing them.
>
> Use the QOM alias property to forward property accesses to the
> VirtIORNG child. This way no duplication is necessary.
>
> For their child, object_initialize() leaves the object with a refcount of 1.
> object_property_add_child() adds its own reference which is dropped
> again when the property is deleted.
>
> The upshot of this is that we always have a refcount >= 1. Upon hot
> unplug the virtio-$device child is not finalized!
>
> Drop our reference after the child property has been added to the
> parent.
>
> Changs since v1:
> - add the same handling for virtio-9p-pci device in PATCH 10 and PATCH 11.
> - add a wrapper function for better code sharing
> in PATCH 12 (Cornelia/Michael/Paolo)
I would like to take these patches through the SCSI tree, because of a
small conflict with virtio-scsi dataplane. Any objections?
Paolo
