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There's no reason to do two malloc's for a flat union; let's just inline the branch struct directly into the C union branch of the flat union. Surprisingly, fewer clients were actually using explicit references to the branch types in comparison to the number of flat unions thus modified. This lets us reduce the hack in qapi-types:gen_variants() added in the previous patch; we no longer need to distinguish between alternates and flat unions. The change to unboxed structs means that u.data (added in commit cee2dedb) is now coincident with random fields of each branch of the flat union, whereas beforehand it was only coincident with pointers (since all branches of a flat union have to be objects). Note that this was already the case for simple unions - but there we got lucky. Remember, visit_start_union() blindly returns true for all visitors except for the dealloc visitor, where it returns the value !!obj->u.data, and that this result then controls whether to proceed with the visit to the variant. Pre-patch, this meant that flat unions were testing whether the boxed pointer was still NULL, and thereby skipping visit_end_implicit_struct() and avoiding a NULL dereference if the pointer had not been allocated. The same was true for simple unions where the current branch had pointer type, except there we bypassed visit_type_FOO(). But for simple unions where the current branch had scalar type, the contents of that scalar meant that the decision to call visit_type_FOO() was data-dependent - the reason we got lucky there is that visit_type_FOO() for all scalar types in the dealloc visitor is a no-op (only the pointer variants had anything to free), so it did not matter whether the dealloc visit was skipped. But with this patch, we would risk leaking memory if we could skip a call to visit_type_FOO_fields() based solely on a data-dependent decision. But notice: in the dealloc visitor, visit_type_FOO() already handles a NULL obj - it was only the visit_type_implicit_FOO() that was failing to check for NULL. And now that we have refactored things to have the branch be part of the parent struct, we no longer have a separate pointer that can be NULL in the first place. So we can just delete the call to visit_start_union() altogether, and blindly visit the branch type; there is no change in behavior except to the dealloc visitor, where we now unconditionally visit the branch, but where that visit is now always safe (for a flat union, we can no longer dereference NULL, and for a simple union, visit_type_FOO() was already safely handling NULL on pointer types). Unfortunately, simple unions are not as easy to switch to unboxed layout; because we are special-casing the hidden implicit type with a single 'data' member, we really DO need to keep calling another layer of visit_start_struct(), with a second malloc; although there are some cleanups planned for simple unions in later patches. visit_start_union() and gen_visit_implicit_struct() are now unused. Drop them. Note that after this patch, the only remaining use of visit_start_implicit_struct() is for alternate types; the next patch will do further cleanup based on that fact. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-14-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com> [Dead code deletion squashed in, commit message updated accordingly] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Complete details of the process for building and configuring QEMU for
all supported host platforms can be found in the qemu-tech.html file.
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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