Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] qom: move user_creatable_add_opts logic to vl.c and QAPIfy it

[Markus Armbruster]

David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:

> On 12.03.21 18:35, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Emulators are currently using OptsVisitor (via user_creatable_add_opts)
>> to parse the -object command line option.  This has one extra feature,
>> compared to keyval, which is automatic conversion of integers to lists
>> as well as support for lists as repeated options:
>>    -object
>> memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=1048576000,host-nodes=0,policy=bind
>> So we cannot replace OptsVisitor with keyval right now.  Still, this
>> patch moves the user_creatable_add_opts logic to vl.c since it is
>> not needed anywhere else, and makes it go through user_creatable_add_qapi.
>> In order to minimize code changes, the predicate still takes a
>> string.
>> This can be changed later to use the ObjectType QAPI enum directly.
>> 
>
> Rebasing my "noreserve"[1] series on this, I get weird errors from
> QEMU when specifying the new "reserve=off" option for a
> memory-backend-ram:
>
> "Invalid parameter 'reserve'"
>
> And it looks like this is the case for any new properties. Poking
> around, I fail to find what's causing this -- or how to unlock new 
> properties. What is the magic toggle to make it work?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319101230.21531-1-david@redhat.com

Wild guess: you didn't add your new properties in the QAPI schema.

For a not-so-wild-guess, send us a git-fetch argument for your rebased
series.