Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qom-next 04/59] pc: Add CPU as /machine/cpu[n]

[Andreas Färber]

Am 08.06.2012 14:05, schrieb Igor Mammedov:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:11:11AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Another factor that is making this slightly difficult is that there are
>> three APIC subclasses. Currently they all have an instance_size of
>> sizeof(APICCommonState) so it could be created in-place if it actually
>> is a part (child<>) of the CPU wrt hot-plug. Creating objects with
>> object_new() in QOM instance_init is forbidden.
> Any particular reason why object_new() in intifn is not acceptable?

It allocates memory, which may fail. The initfn must not fail, the
realizefn may return an Error object.

Andreas

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