On 08/01/2016 18:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > In short, this patch gets rid of blockdev_mark_auto_del and > blockdev_auto_del. > > With these patches, it is possible to create a new -drive with the same > id as soon as the DEVICE_DELETED event is delivered (which equals to > unrealize). > > I'm sorry I'm not able to explain the history (and probably do not > understand the full ramifications) of this. That's why this is just > an RFC. > > The idea here is that reference counting the BlockBackend is enough to > defer the deletion of the block device as much as necessary; anticipating > the demise of the DriveInfo is not a problem, and has the desired effect > of freeing the QemuOpts. > > Paolo > > Paolo Bonzini (2): > block: detach devices from DriveInfo at unrealize time > block: remove legacy_dinfo at blk_detach_dev time > > block/block-backend.c | 14 ++++++++---- > blockdev.c | 26 ++++++++------------------ > hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 4 +++- > hw/block/xen_disk.c | 1 + > hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c | 2 +- > hw/ide/piix.c | 3 +++ > hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c | 4 +++- > hw/usb/dev-storage.c | 3 ++- > include/sysemu/blockdev.h | 5 ++--- > 9 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) >
Ping? Any comments or other kinds of review? :) Paolo