From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cq6Qh-0001dw-5s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:09:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cq6Qc-0004tO-8k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:09:34 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:34947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cq6Qb-0004sC-VL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:09:30 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098394.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.20/8.16.0.20) with SMTP id v2KN8lol025636 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:09:29 -0400 Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com (e37.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.158]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 29ae098ud1-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:09:28 -0400 Received: from localhost by e37.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:09:28 -0600 From: Michael Roth Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:07:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1490051325-3770-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1490051325-3770-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <1490051325-3770-36-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 35/81] machine: Convert abstract typename on compat_props to subclass names List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org, Eduardo Habkost From: Eduardo Habkost Original problem description by Greg Kurz: > Since commit "9a4c0e220d8a hw/virtio-pci: fix virtio > behaviour", passing -device virtio-blk-pci.disable-modern=off > has no effect on 2.6 machine types because the internal > virtio-pci.disable-modern=on compat property always prevail. The same bug also affects other abstract type names mentioned on compat_props by machine-types: apic-common, i386-cpu, pci-device, powerpc64-cpu, s390-skeys, spapr-pci-host-bridge, usb-device, virtio-pci, x86_64-cpu. The right fix for this problem is to make sure compat_props and -global options are always applied in the order they are registered, instead of reordering them based on the type hierarchy. But changing the ordering rules of -global is risky and might break existing configurations, so we shouldn't do that on a stable branch. This is a temporary hack that will work around the bug when registering compat_props properties: if we find an abstract class on compat_props, register properties for all its non-abstract subtypes instead. This will make sure -global won't be overridden by compat_props, while keeping the existing ordering rules on -global options. Note that there's one case that won't be fixed by this hack: "-global spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge.