Now we have the following behavior:
1) object_new() returns an object with ref = 1
2) object_initialize() does not increase the reference count (ref may be 0).
3) object_deref() will finalize the object when ref = 0. it does not free the
memory associated with the object.
4) both link and child properties correctly set the reference count.
The expected usage is the following:
1) child devices should generally be created via object_initialize() using
memory from the parent device. Adding the object as a child property will
take ownership of the object and tie the child's life cycle to the parent.
2) If a child device is created via qdev_create() or some other form of
object_new(), there must be an object_delete() call in the parent device's
finalize function.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Links had limited utility before as they only allowed a concrete type to be
specified. Now we can support abstract types and interfaces which means it's
now possible to have a link<PCIDevice>.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This is mostly code movement although not entirely. This makes properties part
of the Object base class which means that we can now start using Object in a
meaningful way outside of qdev.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This class provides the main building block for QEMU Object Model and is
extensively documented in the header file. It is largely inspired by GObject.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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v1 -> v2
- remove printf() in type registration
- fix typo in comment (Paolo)
- make Interface private
- move object into a new directory and move header into include/qemu/
- don't make object.h depend on qemu-common.h
- remove Type and replace it with TypeImpl * (Paolo)
- use hash table to store types (Paolo)
- aggressively cache parent type (Paolo)
- make a type_register and use it with interfaces (Paolo)
- fix interface cast comment (Paolo)
- add a few more functions required in later series
