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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-09-10 09:46:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-09-25 17:26:18 +0200 |
| commit | 6038f98904942a84d4a9cb03a2d84a5c1948343b (patch) | |
| tree | a3ec9f63e1be61d44ae24c862f7cf338d9b59e29 /include | |
| parent | 6871a0d01f16871c67ea46d4264472cce345bb63 (diff) | |
hw/qdev-core: Fix description of instance_init
The part of the documentation of DeviceClass that talks about instance_init
is partly wrong: instance_init() functions must not abort or exit, since
the function is also called during introspection of the device already.
So if a device calls exit() during its instance_init() function, QEMU
terminates unexpectedly if somebody tries to just have a look at the
interfaces from the device with "device_add xyz,help" or with the
"device-list-properties" QOM command. This should never happen.
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/hw/qdev-core.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h index f1fd0f8736..a24d0dd566 100644 --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ struct VMStateDescription; * Devices are constructed in two stages, * 1) object instantiation via object_initialize() and * 2) device realization via #DeviceState:realized property. - * The former may not fail (it might assert or exit), the latter may return - * error information to the caller and must be re-entrant. + * The former may not fail (and must not abort or exit, since it is called + * during device introspection already), and the latter may return error + * information to the caller and must be re-entrant. * Trivial field initializations should go into #TypeInfo.instance_init. * Operations depending on @props static properties should go into @realize. * After successful realization, setting static properties will fail. |