Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: change QmpInputVisitor to QSLIST

[Eric Blake]

On 07/06/2016 06:43 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This saves a lot of memory compared to a statically-sized array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c | 53 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 

> @@ -99,17 +100,10 @@ static const QListEntry *qmp_input_push(QmpInputVisitor 
> *qiv, QObject *obj,
>                                          Error **errp)
>  {
>      GHashTable *h;
> -    StackObject *tos = &qiv->stack[qiv->nb_stack];
> +    StackObject *tos = g_new0(StackObject, 1);
>  
>      assert(obj);
> -    if (qiv->nb_stack >= QIV_STACK_SIZE) {

You should also delete QIV_STACK_SIZE as it is now unused.

> @@ -127,9 +121,7 @@ static const QListEntry *qmp_input_push(QmpInputVisitor 
> *qiv, QObject *obj,
>  static void qmp_input_check_struct(Visitor *v, Error **errp)
>  {
>      QmpInputVisitor *qiv = to_qiv(v);
> -    StackObject *tos = &qiv->stack[qiv->nb_stack - 1];
> -
> -    assert(qiv->nb_stack > 0);
> +    StackObject *tos = QSLIST_FIRST(&qiv->stack);

Does QSLIST_FIRST() properly crash if the list is empty, or do we need
to add an assert(tos) to replace the assertion on nb_stack being non-zero?

Otherwise looking reasonable; looking forward to v2.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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