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@ 2021-06-10 13:35 Paolo Bonzini
  2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 01/11] qom: export more functions for use with non-UserCreatable objects Paolo Bonzini
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From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2021-06-10 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: berrange, armbru

This series converts -M to keyval parsing, so that they can use
compound properties.  The series also converts -smp to a
compound property.

This is also a preparatory work for SGX support, which would like to use
an array-type machine property.

Patches 1-3 introduce the infrastructure and the new functions that
will be used for "-M help" and to use keyval with "merge_lists = true"
semantics.

Patch 4 does the actual switch of -M to keyval and patch 5 removes now
dead code from qemu-option

Patches 6-11 finally validate the concept by implementing -smp as a
compound property; that is "-smp X=Y" is converted to "-machine smp.X=Y"
automatically.  Really the only interesting patches are 9 and 11,
while the others are just cleanups.

The series does not support JSON syntax for -M because we need
to consider what happens if string-based dictionaries (produced by -M
key=val) have to be merged with strongly-typed dictionaries (produced
by -M {'key': 123}).

The plan is to only allow exactly one -M option when JSON syntax is in
use; the problem is that this is a forwards-compatibility landmine.
As soon as -smp is converted, for example, -smp becomes a shortcut for -M
and it is now forbidden to use -M '{....}' together with -smp.  It would
be impossible to know which options in the future will become incompatible
with -M JSON syntax.  Therefore, support for JSON syntax is delayed
until after the main options are converted to QOM compound properties.
These could be -boot, -acpitable, -smbios, -m, -semihosting-config,
-rtc and -fw_cfg.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (11):
  qom: export more functions for use with non-UserCreatable objects
  keyval: introduce keyval_merge
  keyval: introduce keyval_parse_into
  vl: switch -M parsing to keyval
  qemu-option: remove now-dead code
  machine: move dies from X86MachineState to CpuTopology
  machine: move common smp_parse code to caller
  machine: add error propagation to mc->smp_parse
  machine: pass QAPI struct to mc->smp_parse
  machine: reject -smp dies!=1 for non-PC machines
  machine: add smp compound property

 hw/core/machine.c           | 184 +++++++++++---------
 hw/i386/pc.c                | 108 ++++++------
 hw/i386/x86.c               |  15 +-
 include/hw/boards.h         |   4 +-
 include/hw/i386/pc.h        |   3 -
 include/hw/i386/x86.h       |   1 -
 include/qemu/option.h       |   6 +-
 include/qom/object.h        |  23 +++
 qapi/machine.json           |  27 +++
 qom/object_interfaces.c     |  58 +++++--
 softmmu/vl.c                | 336 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 tests/qtest/numa-test.c     |  22 +--
 tests/unit/test-keyval.c    |  56 ++++++
 tests/unit/test-qemu-opts.c |  35 ----
 util/keyval.c               |  90 +++++++++-
 util/qemu-option.c          |  51 ++----
 16 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 435 deletions(-)

-- 
2.31.1



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2021-06-10 13:35 [PATCH 00/11] vl: compound properties for machines Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 01/11] qom: export more functions for use with non-UserCreatable objects Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:49   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 02/11] keyval: introduce keyval_merge Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-16  8:38   ` Markus Armbruster
2021-06-16 10:49     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 03/11] keyval: introduce keyval_parse_into Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:53   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-16 14:09   ` Markus Armbruster
2021-06-16 18:05     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 04/11] vl: switch -M parsing to keyval Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 05/11] qemu-option: remove now-dead code Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:54   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 06/11] machine: move dies from X86MachineState to CpuTopology Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 13:55   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 07/11] machine: move common smp_parse code to caller Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 14:34   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 08/11] machine: add error propagation to mc->smp_parse Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 14:35   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 09/11] machine: pass QAPI struct " Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 14:37   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 10/11] machine: reject -smp dies!=1 for non-PC machines Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 14:37   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 13:35 ` [PATCH 11/11] machine: add smp compound property Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-10 14:41   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-14 22:57 ` [PATCH 00/11] vl: compound properties for machines no-reply

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