Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qobject: replace qobject_incref/QINCREF qobject_decref/QDECREF

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2018 08:40 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Now that we can safely call QOBJECT() on QObject * and children types,
> we can have a single macro to ref/unref the object.
>
> Change the incref/decref prefix name for the more common ref/unref.

I know you did this by sed (for the most part); but it would be worth 
including the command line you used in the commit message to make it 
easier to reproduce the same mechanical portion of the patch when rebasing.

> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> ---

> +++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h

> @@ -74,13 +74,16 @@ qobject_unknown_type(const void *unused)
>       (const QObject *, x),                       \
>       qobject_unknown_type(x))
>   
> -/* High-level interface for qobject_incref() */
> -#define QINCREF(obj)      \
> -    qobject_incref(QOBJECT(obj))
> +/**
> + * qobject_ref(): Increment QObject's reference count
> + */
> +#define qobject_ref(x) qobject_ref_impl(QOBJECT(x))

The meat of the patch; looks fine to me.

> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/qobject.cocci
> @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
>   expression Obj, Key, E;
>   @@
>   (
> -- qobject_incref(QOBJECT(E));
> -+ QINCREF(E);
> +- qobject_ref(QOBJECT(E));
> ++ qobject_ref(E);
>   |
> -- qobject_decref(QOBJECT(E));
> -+ QDECREF(E);
> +- qobject_unref(QOBJECT(E));
> ++ qobject_unref(E);

I wonder if these branches should just be removed; they made sense when 
we had two spellings, but after your mass conversion, the .cocci script 
is unlikely to ever find regressions on this front.

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