qapi: Emit implicit structs in generated C

We already have several places that want to visit all the members
of an implicit object within a larger context (simple union variant,
event with anonymous

qapi: Emit implicit structs in generated C

We already have several places that want to visit all the members
of an implicit object within a larger context (simple union variant,
event with anonymous data, command with anonymous arguments struct);
and will be adding another one soon (the ability to declare an
anonymous base for a flat union). Having a C struct declared for
these implicit types, along with a visit_type_FOO_members() helper
function, will make for fewer special cases in our generator.

We do not, however, need qapi_free_FOO() or visit_type_FOO()
functions for implicit types, because they should not be used
directly outside of the generated code. This is done by adding a
conditional in visit_object_type() for both qapi-types.py and
qapi-visit.py based on the object name. The comparison of
"name.startswith('q_')" is a bit hacky (it's basically duplicating
what .is_implicit() already uses), but beats changing the signature
of the visit_object_type() callback to pass a new 'implicit' flag.
The hack should be temporary: we are considering adding a future
patch that consolidates the narrow visit_object_type(..., base,
local_members, variants) and visit_object_type_flat(...,
all_members, variants) [where different sets of information are
already broken out, and the QAPISchemaObjectType is no longer
available] into a broader visit_object_type(obj_type) [where the
visitor can query the needed fields from obj_type directly].

Also, now that we WANT to output C code for implicits, we no longer
need the visit_needed() filter, leaving 'q_empty' as the only object
still needing a special case. Remember, 'q_empty' is the only
built-in generated object, which means that without a special case
it would be emitted in multiple files (the main qapi-types.h and in
qga-qapi-types.h) causing compilation failure due to redefinition.
But since it has no members, it's easier to just avoid an attempt to
visit that particular type; since gen_object() is called recursively,
we also prime the objects_seen set to cover any recursion into the
empty type.

The patch relies on the changed naming of implicit types in the
previous patch. It is a bit unfortunate that the generated struct
names and visit_type_FOO_members() don't match normal naming
conventions, but it's not too bad, since they will only be used in
generated code.

The generated code grows substantially in size: the implicit
'-wrapper' types must be emitted in qapi-types.h before any union
can include an unboxed member of that type. Arguably, the '-args'
types could be emitted in a private header for just qapi-visit.c
and qmp-marshal.c, rather than polluting qapi-types.h; but adding
complexity to the generator to split the output location according
to role doesn't seem worth the maintenance costs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458254921-17042-6-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Expose visit_type_FOO_members()

Dan Berrange reported a case where he needs to work with a
QCryptoBlockOptions union type using the OptsVisitor, but only
visit one of the branches of tha

qapi-visit: Expose visit_type_FOO_members()

Dan Berrange reported a case where he needs to work with a
QCryptoBlockOptions union type using the OptsVisitor, but only
visit one of the branches of that type (the discriminator is not
visited directly, but learned externally). When things were
boxed, it was easy: just visit the variant directly, which took
care of both allocating the variant and visiting its members, then
store that pointer in the union type. But now that things are
unboxed, we need a way to visit the members without allocation,
done by exposing visit_type_FOO_members() to the user.

Before the patch, we had quite a bit of code associated with
object_members_seen to make sure that a declaration of the helper
was in scope before any use of the function. But now that the
helper is public and declared in the header, the .c file no
longer needs to worry about topological sorting (the helper is
always in scope), which leads to some nice cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1457021813-10704-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Rename 'fields' to 'members' in generated C code

C types and JSON objects don't have fields, but members. We
shouldn't gratuitously invent terminology. This patch is a
strict renaming of sta

qapi: Rename 'fields' to 'members' in generated C code

C types and JSON objects don't have fields, but members. We
shouldn't gratuitously invent terminology. This patch is a
strict renaming of static genarated functions, plus the naming
of the dummy filler member for empty structs, before the next
patch exposes some of that naming to the rest of the code base.

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1457021813-10704-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Rename 'fields' to 'members' in generator

C types and JSON objects don't have fields, but members. We
shouldn't gratuitously invent terminology. This patch is a
strict renaming of generator

qapi: Rename 'fields' to 'members' in generator

C types and JSON objects don't have fields, but members. We
shouldn't gratuitously invent terminology. This patch is a
strict renaming of generator code internals (including testsuite
comments), before later patches rename C interfaces.

No change to generated code with this patch.

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1457021813-10704-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Change visit_start_implicit_struct to visit_start_alternate

After recent changes, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for allocating the space needed
when visiting an al

qapi: Change visit_start_implicit_struct to visit_start_alternate

After recent changes, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for allocating the space needed
when visiting an alternate. Since the term 'implicit struct' is
hard to explain, rename the function to its current usage. While
at it, we can merge the functionality of visit_get_next_type()
into the same function, making it more like visit_start_struct().

Generated code is now slightly smaller:

| {
| Error *err = NULL;
|
|- visit_start_implicit_struct(v, (void**) obj, sizeof(BlockdevRef), &err);
|+ visit_start_alternate(v, name, (GenericAlternate **)obj, sizeof(**obj),
|+ true, &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
| }
|- visit_get_next_type(v, name, &(*obj)->type, true, &err);
|- if (err) {
|- goto out_obj;
|- }
| switch ((*obj)->type) {
| case QTYPE_QDICT:
| visit_start_struct(v, name, NULL, 0, &err);
...
| }
|-out_obj:
|- visit_end_implicit_struct(v);
|+ visit_end_alternate(v);
| out:
| error_propagate(errp, err);
| }

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-16-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions

There's no reason to do two malloc's for a flat union; let's just
inline the branch struct directly into the C union branch of the
flat union.

Surprisingly,

qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions

There's no reason to do two malloc's for a flat union; let's just
inline the branch struct directly into the C union branch of the
flat union.

Surprisingly, fewer clients were actually using explicit references
to the branch types in comparison to the number of flat unions
thus modified.

This lets us reduce the hack in qapi-types:gen_variants() added in
the previous patch; we no longer need to distinguish between
alternates and flat unions.

The change to unboxed structs means that u.data (added in commit
cee2dedb) is now coincident with random fields of each branch of
the flat union, whereas beforehand it was only coincident with
pointers (since all branches of a flat union have to be objects).
Note that this was already the case for simple unions - but there
we got lucky. Remember, visit_start_union() blindly returns true
for all visitors except for the dealloc visitor, where it returns
the value !!obj->u.data, and that this result then controls
whether to proceed with the visit to the variant. Pre-patch,
this meant that flat unions were testing whether the boxed pointer
was still NULL, and thereby skipping visit_end_implicit_struct()
and avoiding a NULL dereference if the pointer had not been
allocated. The same was true for simple unions where the current
branch had pointer type, except there we bypassed visit_type_FOO().
But for simple unions where the current branch had scalar type, the
contents of that scalar meant that the decision to call
visit_type_FOO() was data-dependent - the reason we got lucky there
is that visit_type_FOO() for all scalar types in the dealloc visitor
is a no-op (only the pointer variants had anything to free), so it
did not matter whether the dealloc visit was skipped. But with this
patch, we would risk leaking memory if we could skip a call to
visit_type_FOO_fields() based solely on a data-dependent decision.

But notice: in the dealloc visitor, visit_type_FOO() already handles
a NULL obj - it was only the visit_type_implicit_FOO() that was
failing to check for NULL. And now that we have refactored things to
have the branch be part of the parent struct, we no longer have a
separate pointer that can be NULL in the first place. So we can just
delete the call to visit_start_union() altogether, and blindly visit
the branch type; there is no change in behavior except to the dealloc
visitor, where we now unconditionally visit the branch, but where that
visit is now always safe (for a flat union, we can no longer
dereference NULL, and for a simple union, visit_type_FOO() was already
safely handling NULL on pointer types).

Unfortunately, simple unions are not as easy to switch to unboxed
layout; because we are special-casing the hidden implicit type with
a single 'data' member, we really DO need to keep calling another
layer of visit_start_struct(), with a second malloc; although there
are some cleanups planned for simple unions in later patches.

visit_start_union() and gen_visit_implicit_struct() are now unused.
Drop them.

Note that after this patch, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for alternate types; the next patch
will do further cleanup based on that fact.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-14-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Dead code deletion squashed in, commit message updated accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Don't box struct branch of alternate

There's no reason to do two malloc's for an alternate type visiting
a QAPI struct; let's just inline the struct directly as the C union
branch of the struc

qapi: Don't box struct branch of alternate

There's no reason to do two malloc's for an alternate type visiting
a QAPI struct; let's just inline the struct directly as the C union
branch of the struct.

Surprisingly, no clients were actually using the struct member prior
to this patch outside of the testsuite; an earlier patch in the series
added some testsuite coverage to make the effect of this patch more
obvious.

In qapi.py, c_type() gains a new is_unboxed flag to control when we
are emitting a C struct unboxed within the context of an outer
struct (different from our other two modes of usage with no flags
for normal local variable declarations, and with is_param for adding
'const' in a parameter list). I don't know if there is any more
pythonic way of collapsing the two flags into a single parameter,
as we never have a caller setting both flags at once.

Ultimately, we want to also unbox branches for QAPI unions, but as
that touches a lot more client code, it is better as separate
patches. But since unions and alternates share gen_variants(), I
had to hack in a way to test if we are visiting an alternate type
for setting the is_unboxed flag: look for a non-object branch.
This works because alternates have at least two branches, with at
most one object branch, while unions have only object branches.
The hack will go away in a later patch.

The generated code difference to qapi-types.h is relatively small:

| struct BlockdevRef {
| QType type;
| union { /* union tag is @type */
| void *data;
|- BlockdevOptions *definition;
|+ BlockdevOptions definition;
| char *reference;
| } u;
| };

The corresponding spot in qapi-visit.c calls visit_type_FOO(), which
first calls visit_start_struct() to allocate or deallocate the member
and handle a layer of {} from the JSON stream, then visits the
members. To peel off the indirection and the memory management that
comes with it, we inline this call, then suppress allocation /
deallocation by passing NULL to visit_start_struct(), and adjust the
member visit:

| switch ((*obj)->type) {
| case QTYPE_QDICT:
|- visit_type_BlockdevOptions(v, name, &(*obj)->u.definition, &err);
|+ visit_start_struct(v, name, NULL, 0, &err);
|+ if (err) {
|+ break;
|+ }
|+ visit_type_BlockdevOptions_fields(v, &(*obj)->u.definition, &err);
|+ error_propagate(errp, err);
|+ err = NULL;
|+ visit_end_struct(v, &err);
| break;
| case QTYPE_QSTRING:
| visit_type_str(v, name, &(*obj)->u.reference, &err);

The visit of non-object fields is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-13-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Use common idiom in gen_visit_fields_decl()

We have several instances of methods that do an early exit if
output is not needed, then log that output is being generated,
and finally produ

qapi-visit: Use common idiom in gen_visit_fields_decl()

We have several instances of methods that do an early exit if
output is not needed, then log that output is being generated,
and finally produce the output; see qapi-types.py:gen_object()
and qapi-visit.py:gen_visit_implicit_struct(). The odd man
out was gen_visit_fields_decl(); rearrange it to be more like
the others. No semantic change or difference to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-12-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Adjust layout of FooList types

By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from

qapi: Adjust layout of FooList types

By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types. On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where alignment still
dictates a 16-byte struct); but fewer anonymous unions is still
a win in my book.

It requires visit_next_list() to gain a size parameter, to know
what size element to allocate; comparable to the size parameter
of visit_start_struct().

I debated about going one step further, to allow for fewer casts,
by doing:
typedef GenericList GenericList;
struct GenericList {
GenericList *next;
};
struct FooList {
GenericList base;
Foo *value;
};
so that you convert to 'GenericList *' by '&foolist->base', and
back by 'container_of(generic, GenericList, base)' (as opposed to
the existing '(GenericList *)foolist' and '(FooList *)generic').
But doing that would require hoisting the declaration of
GenericList prior to inclusion of qapi-types.h, rather than its
current spot in visitor.h; it also makes iteration a bit more
verbose through 'foolist->base.next' instead of 'foolist->next'.

Note that for lists of objects, the 'value' payload is still
hidden behind a boxed pointer. Someday, it would be nice to do:

struct FooList {
FooList *next;
Foo value;
};

for one less level of malloc for each list element. This patch
is a step in that direction (now that 'next' is no longer at a
fixed non-zero offset within the struct, we can store more than
just a pointer's-worth of data as the value payload), but the
actual conversion would be a task for another series, as it will
touch a lot of code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Less indirection in visit_type_Foo_fields()

We were passing 'Foo **obj' to the internal helper function, but
all uses within the helper were via reads of '*obj'. Refactor
things to pass

qapi-visit: Less indirection in visit_type_Foo_fields()

We were passing 'Foo **obj' to the internal helper function, but
all uses within the helper were via reads of '*obj'. Refactor
things to pass one less level of indirection, by having the
callers dereference before calling.

For an example of the generated code change:

|-static void visit_type_BalloonInfo_fields(Visitor *v, BalloonInfo **obj, Error **errp)
|+static void visit_type_BalloonInfo_fields(Visitor *v, BalloonInfo *obj, Error **errp)
| {
| Error *err = NULL;
|
|- visit_type_int(v, "actual", &(*obj)->actual, &err);
|+ visit_type_int(v, "actual", &obj->actual, &err);
| error_propagate(errp, err);
| }
|
|@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ void visit_type_BalloonInfo(Visitor *v,
| if (!*obj) {
| goto out_obj;
| }
|- visit_type_BalloonInfo_fields(v, obj, &err);
|+ visit_type_BalloonInfo_fields(v, *obj, &err);
| out_obj:

The refactoring will also make it easier to reuse the helpers in
a future patch when implicit structs are stored directly in the
parent struct rather than boxed through a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-9-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Unify struct and union visit

gen_visit_union() is now just like gen_visit_struct(). Rename
it to gen_visit_object(), use it for structs, and drop
gen_visit_struct(). Output is unchange

qapi-visit: Unify struct and union visit

gen_visit_union() is now just like gen_visit_struct(). Rename
it to gen_visit_object(), use it for structs, and drop
gen_visit_struct(). Output is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1453902888-20457-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[split out variant handling, rebase to earlier changes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-8-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>

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qapi: Visit variants in visit_type_FOO_fields()

We initially created the static visit_type_FOO_fields() helper
function for reuse of code - we have cases where the initial
setup for a visit has diff

qapi: Visit variants in visit_type_FOO_fields()

We initially created the static visit_type_FOO_fields() helper
function for reuse of code - we have cases where the initial
setup for a visit has different allocation (depending on whether
the fields represent a stand-alone type or are embedded as part
of a larger type), but where the actual field visits are
identical once a pointer is available.

Up until the previous patch, visit_type_FOO_fields() was only
used for structs (no variants), so it was covering every field
for each type where it was emitted.

Meanwhile, the code for visiting unions looks like:

static visit_type_U_fields() {
visit base;
visit local_members;
}
visit_type_U() {
visit_start_struct();
visit_type_U_fields();
visit variants;
visit_end_struct();
}

which splits the fields of the union visit across two functions.
Move the code to visit variants to live inside visit_type_U_fields(),
while making it conditional on having variants so that all other
instances of the helper function remain unchanged. This is also
a step closer towards unifying struct and union visits, and towards
allowing one union type to be the branch of another flat union.

The resulting diff to the generated code is a bit hard to read,
but it can be verified that it touches only union types, and that
the end result is the following general structure:

static visit_type_U_fields() {
visit base;
visit local_members;
visit variants;
}
visit_type_U() {
visit_start_struct();
visit_type_U_fields();
visit_end_struct();
}

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-7-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[gen_visit_struct_fields() parameter variants made mandatory]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Simplify how we visit common union members

For a simple union SU, gen_visit_union() generates a visit of its
single tag member, like this:

visit_type_SUKind(v, "type", &(*obj)->type

qapi-visit: Simplify how we visit common union members

For a simple union SU, gen_visit_union() generates a visit of its
single tag member, like this:

visit_type_SUKind(v, "type", &(*obj)->type, &err);

For a flat union FU with base B, it generates a visit of its base
fields:

visit_type_B_fields(v, (B **)obj, &err);

Instead, we can simply visit the common members using the same fields
visit function we use for structs, generated with
gen_visit_struct_fields(). This function visits the base if any, then
the local members.

For a simple union SU, visit_type_SU_fields() contains exactly the old
tag member visit, because there is no base, and the tag member is the
only member. For instance, the code generated for qapi-schema.json's
KeyValue changes like this:

+static void visit_type_KeyValue_fields(Visitor *v, KeyValue **obj, Error **errp)
+{
+ Error *err = NULL;
+
+ visit_type_KeyValueKind(v, "type", &(*obj)->type, &err);
+ if (err) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+out:
+ error_propagate(errp, err);
+}
+
void visit_type_KeyValue(Visitor *v, const char *name, KeyValue **obj, Error **errp)
{
Error *err = NULL;
@@ -4863,7 +4911,7 @@ void visit_type_KeyValue(Visitor *v, con
if (!*obj) {
goto out_obj;
}
- visit_type_KeyValueKind(v, "type", &(*obj)->type, &err);
+ visit_type_KeyValue_fields(v, obj, &err);
if (err) {
goto out_obj;
}

For a flat union FU, visit_type_FU_fields() contains exactly the old
base fields visit, because there is a base, but no members. For
instance, the code generated for qapi-schema.json's CpuInfo changes
like this:

static void visit_type_CpuInfoBase_fields(Visitor *v, CpuInfoBase **obj, Error **errp);

+static void visit_type_CpuInfo_fields(Visitor *v, CpuInfo **obj, Error **errp)
+{
+ Error *err = NULL;
+
+ visit_type_CpuInfoBase_fields(v, (CpuInfoBase **)obj, &err);
+ if (err) {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+out:
+ error_propagate(errp, err);
+}
+
static void visit_type_CpuInfoX86_fields(Visitor *v, CpuInfoX86 **obj, Error **errp)
...
@@ -3485,7 +3509,7 @@ void visit_type_CpuInfo(Visitor *v, cons
if (!*obj) {
goto out_obj;
}
- visit_type_CpuInfoBase_fields(v, (CpuInfoBase **)obj, &err);
+ visit_type_CpuInfo_fields(v, obj, &err);
if (err) {
goto out_obj;
}

As you see, the generated code grows a bit, but in practice, it's lost
in the noise: qapi-schema.json's qapi-visit.c gains roughly 1%.

This simplification became possible with commit 441cbac "qapi-visit:
Convert to QAPISchemaVisitor, fixing bugs". It's a step towards
unifying gen_struct() and gen_union().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1453902888-20457-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[improve commit message examples]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-6-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]

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qapi-visit: Honor prefix of discriminator enum

When we added support for a user-specified prefix for an enum
type (commit 351d36e), we forgot to teach the qapi-visit code
to honor that prefix in the

qapi-visit: Honor prefix of discriminator enum

When we added support for a user-specified prefix for an enum
type (commit 351d36e), we forgot to teach the qapi-visit code
to honor that prefix in the case of using a prefixed enum as
the discriminator for a flat union. While there is still some
on-list debate on whether we want to keep prefixes, we should
at least make it work as long as it is still part of the code
base.

Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455665965-27638-1-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Clean up includes in generated files

As a followup to commit cbf2115, clean up the includes in files
generated by QAPI so that osdep.h is included first in .c files,
and headers which it impli

qapi: Clean up includes in generated files

As a followup to commit cbf2115, clean up the includes in files
generated by QAPI so that osdep.h is included first in .c files,
and headers which it implies are not included manually. This
patch is done manually, since Coccinelle (and therefore
scripts/clean-includes) doesn't see into the generator scripts.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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qapi: Drop unused error argument for list and implicit struct

No backend was setting an error when ending the visit of a list or
implicit struct, or when moving to the next list node. Make the
call

qapi: Drop unused error argument for list and implicit struct

No backend was setting an error when ending the visit of a list or
implicit struct, or when moving to the next list node. Make the
callers a bit easier to follow by making this a part of the contract,
and removing the errp argument - callers can then unconditionally end
an object as part of cleanup without having to think about whether a
second error is dominated by a first, because there is no second
error.

A later patch will then tackle the larger task of splitting
visit_end_struct(), which can indeed set an error.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-24-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Drop unused 'kind' for struct/enum visit

visit_start_struct() and visit_type_enum() had a 'kind' argument
that was usually set to either the stringized version of the
corresponding qapi type n

qapi: Drop unused 'kind' for struct/enum visit

visit_start_struct() and visit_type_enum() had a 'kind' argument
that was usually set to either the stringized version of the
corresponding qapi type name, or to NULL (although some clients
didn't even get that right). But nothing ever used the argument.
It's even hard to argue that it would be useful in a debugger,
as a stack backtrace also tells which type is being visited.

Therefore, drop the 'kind' argument as dead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-22-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Harmless rebase mistake cleaned up]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Swap visit_* arguments for consistent 'name' placement

JSON uses "name":value, but many of our visitor interfaces were
called with visit_type_FOO(v, &value, name, errp). This can be
a bit con

qapi: Swap visit_* arguments for consistent 'name' placement

JSON uses "name":value, but many of our visitor interfaces were
called with visit_type_FOO(v, &value, name, errp). This can be
a bit confusing to have to mentally swap the parameter order to
match JSON order. It's particularly bad for visit_start_struct(),
where the 'name' parameter is smack in the middle of the
otherwise-related group of 'obj, kind, size' parameters! It's
time to do a global swap of the parameter ordering, so that the
'name' parameter is always immediately after the Visitor argument.

Additional reason in favor of the swap: the existing include/qjson.h
prefers listing 'name' first in json_prop_*(), and I have plans to
unify that file with the qapi visitors; listing 'name' first in
qapi will minimize churn to the (admittedly few) qjson.h clients.

Later patches will then fix docs, object.h, visitor-impl.h, and
those clients to match.

Done by first patching scripts/qapi*.py by hand to make generated
files do what I want, then by running the following Coccinelle
script to affect the rest of the code base:
$ spatch --sp-file script `git grep -l '\bvisit_' -- '**/*.[ch]'`
I then had to apply some touchups (Coccinelle insisted on TAB
indentation in visitor.h, and botched the signature of
visit_type_enum() by rewriting 'const char *const strings[]' to
the syntactically invalid 'const char*const[] strings'). The
movement of parameters is sufficient to provoke compiler errors
if any callers were missed.

// Part 1: Swap declaration order
@@
type TV, TErr, TObj, T1, T2;
identifier OBJ, ARG1, ARG2;
@@
void visit_start_struct
-(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, const char *name, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
+(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
{ ... }

@@
type bool, TV, T1;
identifier ARG1;
@@
bool visit_optional
-(TV v, T1 ARG1, const char *name)
+(TV v, const char *name, T1 ARG1)
{ ... }

@@
type TV, TErr, TObj, T1;
identifier OBJ, ARG1;
@@
void visit_get_next_type
-(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, const char *name, TErr errp)
+(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, TErr errp)
{ ... }

@@
type TV, TErr, TObj, T1, T2;
identifier OBJ, ARG1, ARG2;
@@
void visit_type_enum
-(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, const char *name, TErr errp)
+(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
{ ... }

@@
type TV, TErr, TObj;
identifier OBJ;
identifier VISIT_TYPE =~ "^visit_type_";
@@
void VISIT_TYPE
-(TV v, TObj OBJ, const char *name, TErr errp)
+(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, TErr errp)
{ ... }

// Part 2: swap caller order
@@
expression V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR;
identifier VISIT_TYPE =~ "^visit_type_";
@@
(
-visit_start_struct(V, OBJ, ARG1, NAME, ARG2, ERR)
+visit_start_struct(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR)
|
-visit_optional(V, ARG1, NAME)
+visit_optional(V, NAME, ARG1)
|
-visit_get_next_type(V, OBJ, ARG1, NAME, ERR)
+visit_get_next_type(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ERR)
|
-visit_type_enum(V, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, NAME, ERR)
+visit_type_enum(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR)
|
-VISIT_TYPE(V, OBJ, NAME, ERR)
+VISIT_TYPE(V, NAME, OBJ, ERR)
)

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-19-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Don't cast Enum* to int*

C compilers are allowed to represent enums as a smaller type
than int, if all enum values fit in the smaller type. There
are even compiler flags that force the use of

qapi: Don't cast Enum* to int*

C compilers are allowed to represent enums as a smaller type
than int, if all enum values fit in the smaller type. There
are even compiler flags that force the use of this smaller
representation, although using them changes the ABI of a
binary. Therefore, our generated code for visit_type_ENUM()
(for all qapi enums) was wrong for casting Enum* to int* when
calling visit_type_enum().

It appears that no one has been using compiler ABI switches
for qemu, because if they had, we are potentially dereferencing
beyond bounds or even risking a SIGBUS on platforms where
unaligned pointer dereferencing is fatal. But it is still
better to avoid the practice entirely, and just use the correct
types.

This matches the fix for alternate qapi types, done earlier in
commit 0426d53 "qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types",
with generated code changing as:

| void visit_type_QType(Visitor *v, QType *obj, const char *name, Error **errp)
| {
|- visit_type_enum(v, (int *)obj, QType_lookup, "QType", name, errp);
|+ int value = *obj;
|+ visit_type_enum(v, &value, QType_lookup, "QType", name, errp);
|+ *obj = value;
| }

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-17-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi-visit: Kill unused visit_end_union()

The generated code can call visit_end_union() without having called
visit_start_union(). Example:

if (!*obj) {
goto out_obj;
}

qapi-visit: Kill unused visit_end_union()

The generated code can call visit_end_union() without having called
visit_start_union(). Example:

if (!*obj) {
goto out_obj;
}
visit_type_CpuInfoBase_fields(v, (CpuInfoBase **)obj, &err);
if (err) {
goto out_obj; // if we go from here...
}
if (!visit_start_union(v, !!(*obj)->u.data, &err) || err) {
goto out_obj;
}
switch ((*obj)->arch) {
[...]
}
out_obj:
// ... then *obj is true, and ...
error_propagate(errp, err);
err = NULL;
if (*obj) {
// we end up here
visit_end_union(v, !!(*obj)->u.data, &err);
}
error_propagate(errp, err);

Harmless only because no visitor implements end_union(). Clean it up
anyway, by deleting the function as useless.

Messed up since we have visit_end_union (commit cee2ded).

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1453902888-20457-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[expand scope of patch to delete rather than repair]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-13-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>

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qapi: Track all failures between visit_start/stop

Inside the generated code between visit_start_struct() and
visit_end_struct(), we were blindly setting the error into
the caller's errp parameter.

qapi: Track all failures between visit_start/stop

Inside the generated code between visit_start_struct() and
visit_end_struct(), we were blindly setting the error into
the caller's errp parameter. But a future patch to split
visit_end_struct() will require that we take action based
on whether an error has occurred, which requires us to track
all actions through a local err. Rewrite the visits to be
more in line with the other generated calls.

Generated code changes look like:

| visit_start_struct(v, (void **)obj, "Abort", name, sizeof(Abort), &err);
|- if (!err) {
|- if (*obj) {
|- visit_type_Abort_fields(v, obj, errp);
|- }
|- visit_end_struct(v, &err);
|+ if (err) {
|+ goto out;
| }
|+ if (!*obj) {
|+ goto out_obj;
|+ }
|+ visit_type_Abort_fields(v, obj, &err);
|+ error_propagate(errp, err);
|+ err = NULL;
|+out_obj:
|+ visit_end_struct(v, &err);
|+out:
| error_propagate(errp, err);
| }

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-12-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Fix alternates that accept 'number' but not 'int'

The QMP input visitor allows integral values to be assigned by
promotion to a QTYPE_QFLOAT. However, when parsing an alternate,
we did not ta

qapi: Fix alternates that accept 'number' but not 'int'

The QMP input visitor allows integral values to be assigned by
promotion to a QTYPE_QFLOAT. However, when parsing an alternate,
we did not take this into account, such that an alternate that
accepts 'number' and some other type, but not 'int', would reject
integral values.

With this patch, we now have the following desirable table:

alternate has case selected for
'int' 'number' QTYPE_QINT QTYPE_QFLOAT
no no error error
no yes 'number' 'number'
yes no 'int' error
yes yes 'int' 'number'

While it is unlikely that we will ever use 'number' in an
alternate other than in the testsuite, it never hurts to be
more precise in what we allow.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-8-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types

Previously, working with alternates required two lookup arrays
and some indirection: for type Foo, we created Foo_qtypes[]
which maps each qtype to a value

qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types

Previously, working with alternates required two lookup arrays
and some indirection: for type Foo, we created Foo_qtypes[]
which maps each qtype to a value of the generated FooKind enum,
then look up that value in FooKind_lookup[] like we do for other
union types.

This has a couple of subtle bugs. First, the generator was
creating a call with a parameter '(int *) &(*obj)->type' where
type is an enum type; this is unsafe if the compiler chooses
to store the enum type in a different size than int, where
assigning through the wrong size pointer can corrupt data or
cause a SIGBUS.

Related bug, not not fixed in this patch: qapi-visit.py's
gen_visit_enum() generates a cast of its enum * argument to
int *. Marked FIXME.

Second, since the values of the FooKind enum start at zero, all
entries of the Foo_qtypes[] array that were not explicitly
initialized will map to the same branch of the union as the
first member of the alternate, rather than triggering a desired
failure in visit_get_next_type(). Fortunately, the bug seldom
bites; the very next thing the input visitor does is try to
parse the incoming JSON with the wrong parser, which normally
fails; the output visitor is not used with a C struct in that
state, and the dealloc visitor has nothing to clean up (so
there is no leak).

However, the second bug IS observable in one case: parsing an
integer causes unusual behavior in an alternate that contains
at least a 'number' member but no 'int' member, because the
'number' parser accepts QTYPE_QINT in addition to the expected
QTYPE_QFLOAT (that is, since 'int' is not a member, the type
QTYPE_QINT accidentally maps to FooKind 0; if this enum value
is the 'number' branch the integer parses successfully, but if
the 'number' branch is not first, some other branch tries to
parse the integer and rejects it). A later patch will worry
about fixing alternates to always parse all inputs that a
non-alternate 'number' would accept, for now this is still
marked FIXME in the updated test-qmp-input-visitor.c, to
merely point out that new undesired behavior of 'ans' matches
the existing undesired behavior of 'asn'.

This patch fixes the default-initialization bug by deleting the
indirection, and modifying get_next_type() to directly assign a
QTypeCode parameter. This in turn fixes the type-casting bug,
as we are no longer casting a pointer to enum to a questionable
size. There is no longer a need to generate an implicit FooKind
enum associated with the alternate type (since the QMP wire
format never uses the stringized counterparts of the C union
member names). Since the updated visit_get_next_type() does not
know which qtypes are expected, the generated visitor is
modified to generate an error statement if an unexpected type is
encountered.

Callers now have to know the QTYPE_* mapping when looking at the
discriminator; but so far, only the testsuite was even using the
C struct of an alternate types. I considered the possibility of
keeping the internal enum FooKind, but initialized differently
than most generated arrays, as in:
typedef enum FooKind {
FOO_KIND_A = QTYPE_QDICT,
FOO_KIND_B = QTYPE_QINT,
} FooKind;
to create nicer aliases for knowing when to use foo->a or foo->b
when inspecting foo->type; but it turned out to add too much
complexity, especially without a client.

There is a user-visible side effect to this change, but I
consider it to be an improvement. Previously,
the invalid QMP command:
{"execute":"blockdev-add", "arguments":{"options":
{"driver":"raw", "id":"a", "file":true}}}
failed with:
{"error": {"class": "GenericError",
"desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: QDict"}}
(visit_get_next_type() succeeded, and the error comes from the
visit_type_BlockdevOptions() expecting {}; there is no mention of
the fact that a string would also work). Now it fails with:
{"error": {"class": "GenericError",
"desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: BlockdevRef"}}
(the error when the next type doesn't match any expected types for
the overall alternate).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-5-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Convert QType into QAPI built-in enum type

What's more meta than using qapi to define qapi? :)

Convert QType into a full-fledged[*] builtin qapi enum type, so
that a subsequent patch can then

qapi: Convert QType into QAPI built-in enum type

What's more meta than using qapi to define qapi? :)

Convert QType into a full-fledged[*] builtin qapi enum type, so
that a subsequent patch can then use it as the discriminator
type of qapi alternate types. Fortunately, the judicious use of
'prefix' in the qapi definition avoids churn to the spelling of
the enum constants.

To avoid circular definitions, we have to flip the order of
inclusion between "qobject.h" vs. "qapi-types.h". Back in commit
28770e0, we had the latter include the former, so that we could
use 'QObject *' for our implementation of 'any'. But that usage
also works with only a forward declaration, whereas the
definition of QObject requires QType to be a complete type.

[*] The type has to be builtin, rather than declared in
qapi/common.json, because we want to use it for alternates even
when common.json is not included. But since it is the first
builtin enum type, we have to add special cases to qapi-types
and qapi-visit to only emit definitions once, even when two
qapi files are being compiled into the same binary (the way we
already handled builtin list types like 'intList'). We may
need to revisit how multiple qapi files share common types,
but that's a project for another day.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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qapi: Track simple union tag in object.local_members

We were previously creating all unions with an empty list for
local_members. However, it will make it easier to unify struct
and union generatio

qapi: Track simple union tag in object.local_members

We were previously creating all unions with an empty list for
local_members. However, it will make it easier to unify struct
and union generation if we include the generated tag member in
local_members. That way, we can have a common code pattern:
visit the base (if any), visit the local members (if any), visit
the variants (if any). The local_members of a flat union
remains empty (because the discriminator is already visited as
part of the base). Then, by visiting tag_member.check() during
AlternateType.check(), we no longer need to call it during
Variants.check().

The various front end entities now exist as follows:
struct: optional base, optional local_members, no variants
simple union: no base, one-element local_members, variants with tag_member
from local_members
flat union: base, no local_members, variants with tag_member from base
alternate: no base, no local_members, variants

With the new local members, we require a bit of finesse to
avoid assertions in the clients.

No change to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447836791-369-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

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