Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] reduce qemu's heap Rss size from 12252kB to 2752KB

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 14/03/2017 06:14, Xu, Anthony wrote:
> Below functions are registered in RCU thread
> address_space_dispatch_free,
> do_address_space_destroy
> flatview_unref
> reclaim_ramblock,
> qht_map_destroy,
> migration_bitmap_free
> 
> first three are address space related, should work without global lock per 
> above analysis.
> The rest are very simple, seems doesn't need global lock.

flatview_unref can call object_unref and thus reach:

- all QOM instance_finalize callbacks

- all QOM property release callbacks

In turn, of QOM property release callbacks the more important ones are
release_drive (which calls blockdev_auto_del and blk_detach_dev) and
release_chr (which calls qemu_chr_fe_deinit).

Your patch is incorrect, sorry.  If it were that simple, it would have
been done already...

Paolo