Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Fix memory leak

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 August 2012 22:01, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> valgrind reports a lot more memory leaks which are related to
> function qemu_allocate_irqs. In many cases, its return value
> should be free'd. g_malloc / g_free can be avoided by adding
> a new function
>
> void qemu_init_irqs(qemu_irq_handler handler, void *opaque,
>                     qemu_irq *irqs, int n);
>
> If this is ok, I'll send patches which add and use the new
> function instead of qemu_allocate_irqs, too.

So I think the long term plan is that these will basically go
away in favour of some kind of Pin based infrastructure.
Given that, it might not be worth doing unless these leaks
are more than "memory lasts for lifetime of qemu and we
don't free it explicitly" (maybe you could actual leaks in a
hotplug scenario?)

-- PMM