The ownership rules of those functions aren't trivial: the caller owns the new object if parent is NULL, otherwise ownership is transferred to the parent. Clarify that on comments.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <[email protected]> --- include/hw/qdev-core.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/core/bus.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h index f1fd0f8736..27d1ac3781 100644 --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h @@ -343,8 +343,32 @@ DeviceState *qdev_find_recursive(BusState *bus, const char *id); typedef int (qbus_walkerfn)(BusState *bus, void *opaque); typedef int (qdev_walkerfn)(DeviceState *dev, void *opaque); +/** + * qbus_create_inplace: + * @bus: A pointer to the memory to be used for the bus object. + * @size: The maximum size available at @bus for the bus object. + * @typename: The name of the type of bus to instantiate. + * @parent: parent device + * @name: name for the new bus + * + * Creates bus in place. + * + * If @parent is not NULL the bus will be owned by @parent, otherwise + * the bus will be owned by the caller. + */ void qbus_create_inplace(void *bus, size_t size, const char *typename, DeviceState *parent, const char *name); +/** + * qbus_create: + * @typename: The name of the type of bus to instantiate. + * @parent: parent device + * @name: name for the new bus + * + * Creates bus object. + * + * If @parent is not NULL the returned object will be owned by @parent, + * otherwise it will be owned by the caller. + */ BusState *qbus_create(const char *typename, DeviceState *parent, const char *name); /* Returns > 0 if either devfn or busfn skip walk somewhere in cursion, * < 0 if either devfn or busfn terminate walk somewhere in cursion, diff --git a/hw/core/bus.c b/hw/core/bus.c index 4651f24486..68a0d5b085 100644 --- a/hw/core/bus.c +++ b/hw/core/bus.c @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ int qbus_walk_children(BusState *bus, return 0; } +/* If @parent is not NULL, ownership of @bus is transferred to @parent */ static void qbus_realize(BusState *bus, DeviceState *parent, const char *name) { const char *typename = object_get_typename(OBJECT(bus)); @@ -102,6 +103,10 @@ static void qbus_realize(BusState *bus, DeviceState *parent, const char *name) QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&bus->parent->child_bus, bus, sibling); bus->parent->num_child_bus++; object_property_add_child(OBJECT(bus->parent), bus->name, OBJECT(bus), NULL); + /* + * object_property_add_child() takes a new reference, drop the + * reference that was transferred to us. + */ object_unref(OBJECT(bus)); } else if (bus != sysbus_get_default()) { /* TODO: once all bus devices are qdevified, -- 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140
