Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/7] qdev: Protect device-list-properties against broken devices

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 28/09/2015 10:15, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 28.09.2015 um 10:11 schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>> Hmm, does creating and destroying a macio object leave the memory region
>> behind?
>>
>> Paolo, is calling memory_region_init() in an instance_init() method
>> okay?
>>
>> If yes, where should they be destroyed, and how?
> 
> The counterpart to .instance_init is .instance_finalize aka uninit.

memory_region_init adds the region as a child of the object, so it need
not be destroyed anywhere.

Lo and behold, it's even documented in docs/memory.txt: "Destruction of
a memory region happens automatically when the owner object dies".

Paolo