xemu/include/qapi/visitor.h
Eric Blake e65d89bf1a qapi: Adjust layout of FooList types
By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types.  On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where alignment still
dictates a 16-byte struct); but fewer anonymous unions is still
a win in my book.

It requires visit_next_list() to gain a size parameter, to know
what size element to allocate; comparable to the size parameter
of visit_start_struct().

I debated about going one step further, to allow for fewer casts,
by doing:
    typedef GenericList GenericList;
    struct GenericList {
        GenericList *next;
    };
    struct FooList {
        GenericList base;
        Foo *value;
    };
so that you convert to 'GenericList *' by '&foolist->base', and
back by 'container_of(generic, GenericList, base)' (as opposed to
the existing '(GenericList *)foolist' and '(FooList *)generic').
But doing that would require hoisting the declaration of
GenericList prior to inclusion of qapi-types.h, rather than its
current spot in visitor.h; it also makes iteration a bit more
verbose through 'foolist->base.next' instead of 'foolist->next'.

Note that for lists of objects, the 'value' payload is still
hidden behind a boxed pointer.  Someday, it would be nice to do:

struct FooList {
    FooList *next;
    Foo value;
};

for one less level of malloc for each list element.  This patch
is a step in that direction (now that 'next' is no longer at a
fixed non-zero offset within the struct, we can store more than
just a pointer's-worth of data as the value payload), but the
actual conversion would be a task for another series, as it will
touch a lot of code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-19 11:08:57 +01:00

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/*
* Core Definitions for QAPI Visitor Classes
*
* Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Red Hat, Inc.
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later.
* See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
*
*/
#ifndef QAPI_VISITOR_CORE_H
#define QAPI_VISITOR_CORE_H
#include "qemu/typedefs.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qobject.h"
#include "qapi/error.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
/* This struct is layout-compatible with all other *List structs
* created by the qapi generator. It is used as a typical
* singly-linked list. */
typedef struct GenericList {
struct GenericList *next;
char padding[];
} GenericList;
void visit_start_struct(Visitor *v, const char *name, void **obj,
size_t size, Error **errp);
void visit_end_struct(Visitor *v, Error **errp);
void visit_start_implicit_struct(Visitor *v, void **obj, size_t size,
Error **errp);
void visit_end_implicit_struct(Visitor *v);
void visit_start_list(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp);
GenericList *visit_next_list(Visitor *v, GenericList **list, size_t size);
void visit_end_list(Visitor *v);
/**
* Check if an optional member @name of an object needs visiting.
* For input visitors, set *@present according to whether the
* corresponding visit_type_*() needs calling; for other visitors,
* leave *@present unchanged. Return *@present for convenience.
*/
bool visit_optional(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *present);
/**
* Determine the qtype of the item @name in the current object visit.
* For input visitors, set *@type to the correct qtype of a qapi
* alternate type; for other visitors, leave *@type unchanged.
* If @promote_int, treat integers as QTYPE_FLOAT.
*/
void visit_get_next_type(Visitor *v, const char *name, QType *type,
bool promote_int, Error **errp);
void visit_type_enum(Visitor *v, const char *name, int *obj,
const char *const strings[], Error **errp);
void visit_type_int(Visitor *v, const char *name, int64_t *obj, Error **errp);
void visit_type_uint8(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint8_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_uint16(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint16_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_uint32(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint32_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_uint64(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_int8(Visitor *v, const char *name, int8_t *obj, Error **errp);
void visit_type_int16(Visitor *v, const char *name, int16_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_int32(Visitor *v, const char *name, int32_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_int64(Visitor *v, const char *name, int64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_size(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_bool(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *obj, Error **errp);
void visit_type_str(Visitor *v, const char *name, char **obj, Error **errp);
void visit_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
Error **errp);
void visit_type_any(Visitor *v, const char *name, QObject **obj, Error **errp);
bool visit_start_union(Visitor *v, bool data_present, Error **errp);
#endif