Re: [PATCH 00/71] whole-tree: Constify Property structures

[Richard Henderson]

On 12/13/24 13:06, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Since d36f165d952 (qdev: make properties array "const"), we can
> define our Property structure const.  Do this across the entire tree.
>
> There are a few other minor changes:
>    - Two instances where it was obvious that an empty property list
>      could be removed entirely.  There are other empty lists that
>      probably should be removed, but I didn't look further into usage.
>    - In hw/misc/xlnx-versal-trng.c, adjust a Property to use the
>      correct PropertyInfo in the definition, rather than setting
>      it at runtime.
>    - One instance where { } was used instead of DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST.
>      Not a bug, but wrong style.

I also meant to report that for qemu-system-aarch64 (the only one I checked), this moves 
150k from .data to .data.rel.ro.  I'm somewhat surprised there's that many, or that 
Property is as large as it is at 88 bytes.


r~