On Mon, 09/16 12:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 16/09/2013 12:21, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:18:54PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 16/09/2013 12:14, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:09:47PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 16/09/2013 11:51, Fam Zheng ha scritto:
On Mon, 09/16 11:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 16/09/2013 10:59, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
The init function of dynamic module is no longer with
__attribute__((constructor)) as static linked version, and need to be
explicitly called once loaded. The function name is mangled with per
configure fingerprint as:
init_$(date +%s$$$RANDOM)
Does this work for a module that calls module_init multiple times?
Why should a module calls module_init, instead of the main function?
I think you mean "why should a module calls register_module_init", and I
agree that with this patch a module will not call register_module_init.
But a module is still using the module_init macro.
With this patch, a module will not be able to use the module_init macro
twice. I am not sure this is an acceptable limitation, especially if we
do not have a dependency system within modules and/or load them with
G_MODULE_LOCAL/RTLD_LOCAL.
Why would a module ever want to use the module_init macro twice ?
Because our coding standard is to have each source file do its own
one-time initialization, using static functions and an invocation of
module_init per source file.
Is there ever a case where two source files, each using module_init
will be compiled into the same .so loadable module. Looking at the
uses of block_init(), I don't see any obvious candidates for trouble,
all uses look like they'd be going into separate .so files.
Without inter-module exports, all of SPICE probably would have to be in
a single .so file. This includes spice-qemu-char.c and
hw/display/qxl.c, both of which use type_init.
If we use G_MODULE_GLOBAL as a primitive system for intermodule exports,
then indeed this is a much smaller problem, but then we need a
dependency system. But I'm almost sure that Windows and maybe Darwin
lack support for the equivalent of G_MODULE_GLOBAL.
An idea for single .so file:
- before loads a .so, an empty initializer list is created.
- module_init adds a __attribute__((constructor)) function, which appends
its real initializer to the initializer list. So this function is
automatically called after dlopen().
- make init_$(date +%s$$$RANDOM) a dummy symbol.
- module_load first checks the presense of the symbol, if yes, call the
functions in the initializer list. Else clean up and unload .so.
Does this enable multiple calls of module_init()?