Re: [PATCH 0/4] Improve default object property_add uint helpers

[Felipe Franciosi]

Oops, I completely forgot to add a "v5" on the subject line.

(The changelog is there.)

Let me know if I should resend.

F.

> On Feb 3, 2020, at 3:54 PM, Felipe Franciosi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> This improves the family of object_property_add_uintXX_ptr helpers by enabling
> a default getter/setter only when desired. To prevent an API behavioural 
> change
> (from clients that already used these helpers and did not want a setter), we
> add a OBJ_PROP_FLAG_READ flag that allow clients to only have a getter. Patch 
> 1
> enhances the API and modify current users.
> 
> While modifying the clients of the API, a couple of improvement opportunities
> were observed in ich9. These were added in separate patches (2 and 3).
> 
> Patch 4 cleans up a lot of existing code by moving various objects to the
> enhanced API. Previously, those objects had their own getters/setters that 
> only
> updated the values without further checks. Some of them actually lacked a 
> check
> for setting overflows, which could have resulted in undesired values being 
> set.
> The new default setters include a check for that, not updating the values in
> case of errors (and propagating them). If they did not provide an error
> pointer, then that behaviour was maintained.
> 
> Felipe Franciosi (4):
>  qom/object: enable setter for uint types
>  ich9: fix getter type for sci_int property
>  ich9: Simplify ich9_lpc_initfn
>  qom/object: Use common get/set uint helpers
> 
> hw/acpi/ich9.c       |  99 ++------------------
> hw/acpi/pcihp.c      |   7 +-
> hw/acpi/piix4.c      |  12 +--
> hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c    |  27 ++----
> hw/misc/edu.c        |  13 +--
> hw/pci-host/q35.c    |  14 +--
> hw/ppc/spapr.c       |  18 +---
> hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c   |   3 +-
> include/qom/object.h |  48 ++++++++--
> memory.c             |  15 +--
> qom/object.c         | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> target/arm/cpu.c     |  22 +----
> target/i386/sev.c    | 106 ++-------------------
> ui/console.c         |   4 +-
> 14 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
> Changelog:
> v1->v2:
> - Update sci_int directly instead of using stack variable
> - Defining an enhanced ObjectPropertyFlags instead of just 'readonly'
> - Erroring out directly (instead of using gotos) on default setters
> - Retaining lack of errp passing when it wasn't there
> v2->v3:
> - Rename flags _RD to _READ and _WR to _WRITE
> - Add a convenience _READWRITE flag
> - Drop the usage of UL in the bit flag definitions
> v3->v4:
> - Drop changes to hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c
> v4->v5:
> - Rebase on latest master
> - Available here: https://github.com/franciozzy/qemu/tree/autosetters