On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:47:26 +0200 Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_...@crudebyte.com> wrote:
> Patches 1 and 2 introduce include/qemu/qarray.h which implements a deep auto > free mechanism for arrays. See commit log of patch 1 for a detailed > explanation and motivation for introducing QArray. > > Patches 3..5 are provided (e.g. as example) for 9p being the first user of > this new QArray API. These particular patches 3..5 are rebased on my > current 9p queue: https://github.com/cschoenebeck/qemu/commits/9p.next > which are basically just the following two queued patches: > This looks nice indeed but I have the impression the same could be achieved using glib's g_autoptr framework with less code being added to QEMU (at the cost of being less generic maybe). Anyway, we should likely sort out the SEGV issue you're hitting before going forward with supplementary changes in v9fs_walk(). > https://github.com/cschoenebeck/qemu/commit/7772715d43908235940f5b7dec68d0458b1ccdf4 > https://github.com/cschoenebeck/qemu/commit/838b55e392ea7d52e714fdba1db777f658aee2cc > > v2 -> v3: > > * Refactor QArrayRef() -> QARRAY_REF() [patch 1], [patch 5]. > > * Commit log: Add more thorough explanation for the motivation of QArray, > along with example for advantage over GArray [patch 1]. > > * Commit log: Add reason for using MIT license for qarray.h instead of > the standard QEMU license GPLv2+ [patch 1]. > > * API doc comments: use 'size_t' type consistently in API doc example > code [patch 1]. > > v1 -> v2: > > * Minor API comment changes [patch 1]. > > * Perform strong type check by using __builtin_types_compatible_p() > instead of a weak check using sizeof() [patch 2]. > > Christian Schoenebeck (5): > qemu/qarray.h: introduce QArray > qemu/qarray.h: check scalar type in QARRAY_CREATE() > 9pfs: make V9fsString usable via QArray API > 9pfs: make V9fsPath usable via QArray API > 9pfs: use QArray in v9fs_walk() > > fsdev/9p-marshal.c | 2 + > fsdev/9p-marshal.h | 3 + > fsdev/file-op-9p.h | 2 + > hw/9pfs/9p.c | 19 ++--- > include/qemu/qarray.h | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/qemu/qarray.h >
