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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl: exit if a bad property value is passed to -


From: Igor Mammedov
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl: exit if a bad property value is passed to -global
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:29:57 +0200

On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:42:40 +1000
David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > When passing '-global driver=host-powerpc64-cpu,property=compat,value=foo'
> > on the command line, without this patch, we get the following warning per
> > device (which means many lines if the guests has many cpus):
> > 
> > qemu-system-ppc64: Warning: can't apply global 
> > host-powerpc64-cpu.compat=foo:
> >     Invalid compatibility mode "foo"
> > 
> > ... and QEMU continues execution, ignoring the property.
> > 
> > With this patch, we get a single line:
> > 
> > qemu-system-ppc64: can't apply global host-powerpc64-cpu.compat=foo:
> >     Invalid compatibility mode "foo"
> > 
> > ... and QEMU exits.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> 
> Not really up to me to decide if this is the right approach for global
> option handling, but it seems like the way to go to me.
CCing Eduardo
 as he basically rewrote that path several times and might know why it's this 
way now.

> 
> > ---
> >  vl.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> > index 356713ea075c..a7cc92781687 100644
> > --- a/vl.c
> > +++ b/vl.c
> > @@ -2922,6 +2922,7 @@ static int global_init_func(void *opaque, QemuOpts 
> > *opts, Error **errp)
> >      g->property = qemu_opt_get(opts, "property");
> >      g->value    = qemu_opt_get(opts, "value");
> >      g->user_provided = true;
> > +    g->errp = errp;
> >      qdev_prop_register_global(g);
> >      return 0;
> >  }
> > @@ -4451,7 +4452,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> >      machine_register_compat_props(current_machine);
> >  
> >      qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("global"),
> > -                      global_init_func, NULL, NULL);
> > +                      global_init_func, NULL, &error_fatal);
> >  
> >      /* This checkpoint is required by replay to separate prior clock
> >         reading from the other reads, because timer polling functions query
> >   
> 




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