From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXpn-0008J9-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:18:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXpj-0006iD-Px for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:18:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXpj-0006hQ-Jz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:18:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 20:18:20 +0200 From: Igor Mammedov Message-ID: <20170707201820.5db54aa1@Igors-MacBook-Pro.local> In-Reply-To: <20170707150956.GZ12152@localhost.localdomain> References: <1498745240-30658-1-git-send-email-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> <1498745240-30658-6-git-send-email-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> <20170703113940.0e0415a2@nial.brq.redhat.com> <0efc917e-16d3-f01b-6fd8-a3bb71580bf4@ilande.co.uk> <20170707133320.2e0d741d@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20170707131300.GG10776@localhost.localdomain> <20170707165817.1a0103c1@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20170707150956.GZ12152@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv7 5/6] fw_cfg: move qdev_init_nofail() from fw_cfg_init1() to callers List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eduardo Habkost Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland , peter.maydell@linaro.org, mst@redhat.com, somlo@cmu.edu, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, rjones@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, lersek@redhat.com On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:09:56 -0300 Eduardo Habkost wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:58:17PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 10:13:00 -0300 > > "Eduardo Habkost" wrote: > [...] > > > I don't disagree with adding the assert(), but it looks like > > > making fw_cfg_find() return NULL if there are multiple devices > > > can be useful for realize. > > > > > > In this case, it looks like Mark is relying on that in > > > fw_cfg_common_realize(): if multiple devices are created, > > > fw_cfg_find() will return NULL, and realize will fail. This > > > sounds like a more graceful way to handle multiple-device > > > creation than crashing on fw_cfg_find(). This is the solution > > > used by find_vmgenid_dev()/vmgenid_realize(), BTW. > > > > I suspect that find_vmgenid_dev() works by luck as it could be > > placed only as /machine/peripheral-anon/foo1 or /machine/peripheral/foo2 > > object_resolve_partial_path() : machine > > object_resolve_partial_path() : peripheral-anon => foo1 > > object_resolve_partial_path() : peripheral => foo2 > > if (found /* foo2 */) { > > if (obj /* foo1 */) { > > return NULL; > > I don't think this is luck: object_resolve_partial_path() is > explicitly documented to always return NULL if multiple matches > are found, and I don't see any bug in its implementation that > would break that functionality. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but consider following: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg460692.html it looks to me that using ambiguous argument is necessary for duplicate detection to work correctly. >