qdev: drop extra references at creation time
qdev_free and qbus_free have to do unparent+unref, because nobody else
drops the initial reference (the one included by object_initialize)
before them.
For device_init_func and do_device_add, this is trivially correct,
since the DeviceState goes out of scope.
For qdev_create, qdev_try_create and qbus_init, it is a bit more tricky.
What we are doing here is just assuming that the caller knows what it's
doing, and won't call qdev_free/qbus_free while the device is still there.
This is a pretty reasonable assumption and (behind the scenes) is also
what GObject/GTK does. GTK actually has a "floating reference" that
goes away as soon as the caller does gtk_container_add or something
like that, but in the end qbus_init and qdev_try_create are already
adding the new object to its qdev parent! So in the end the two solutions
are the same.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/hw/qdev-monitor.c b/hw/qdev-monitor.c
index 4e2a92b..4f9a6eb 100644
--- a/hw/qdev-monitor.c
+++ b/hw/qdev-monitor.c
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@
{
Error *local_err = NULL;
QemuOpts *opts;
+ DeviceState *dev;
opts = qemu_opts_from_qdict(qemu_find_opts("device"), qdict, &local_err);
if (error_is_set(&local_err)) {
@@ -602,10 +603,12 @@
qemu_opts_del(opts);
return 0;
}
- if (!qdev_device_add(opts)) {
+ dev = qdev_device_add(opts);
+ if (!dev) {
qemu_opts_del(opts);
return -1;
}
+ object_unref(OBJECT(dev));
return 0;
}
diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
index 09f5969..8258757 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/qdev.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
}
qdev_set_parent_bus(dev, bus);
-
+ object_unref(OBJECT(dev));
return dev;
}
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@
void qdev_free(DeviceState *dev)
{
object_unparent(OBJECT(dev));
- object_unref(OBJECT(dev));
}
void qdev_machine_creation_done(void)
@@ -428,6 +427,7 @@
QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&bus->parent->child_bus, bus, sibling);
bus->parent->num_child_bus++;
object_property_add_child(OBJECT(bus->parent), bus->name, OBJECT(bus), NULL);
+ object_unref(OBJECT(bus));
} else if (bus != sysbus_get_default()) {
/* TODO: once all bus devices are qdevified,
only reset handler for main_system_bus should be registered here. */
@@ -474,7 +474,6 @@
void qbus_free(BusState *bus)
{
object_unparent(OBJECT(bus));
- object_unref(OBJECT(bus));
}
static char *bus_get_fw_dev_path(BusState *bus, DeviceState *dev)
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index f094f04..3155989 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2236,6 +2236,7 @@
dev = qdev_device_add(opts);
if (!dev)
return -1;
+ object_unref(OBJECT(dev));
return 0;
}