qdev: Display warning about unused -global

This can help a user understand why -global was ignored.

For example: with "-vga cirrus"; "-global vga.vgamem_mb=16" is just
ignored when "-global cirrus-vga.vgamem_mb=16" is not.

This is currently clear when the wrong property is provided:

out/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -global cirrus-vga.vram_size_mb=16 -monitor pty -vga cirrus
char device redirected to /dev/pts/20 (label compat_monitor0)
qemu-system-x86_64: Property '.vram_size_mb' not found
Aborted (core dumped)

vs

out/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -global vga.vram_size_mb=16 -monitor pty -vga cirrus
char device redirected to /dev/pts/20 (label compat_monitor0)
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
^Cqemu: terminating on signal 2

Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index d8cb5408c3..3d12560f43 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -955,6 +955,23 @@ void qdev_prop_register_global_list(GlobalProperty *props)
     }
 }
 
+int qdev_prop_check_global(void)
+{
+    GlobalProperty *prop;
+    int ret = 0;
+
+    QTAILQ_FOREACH(prop, &global_props, next) {
+        if (!prop->not_used) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        ret = 1;
+        error_report("Warning: \"-global %s.%s=%s\" not used",
+                     prop->driver, prop->property, prop->value);
+
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+
 void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *typename,
                                     Error **errp)
 {
@@ -966,6 +983,7 @@ void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *typename,
         if (strcmp(typename, prop->driver) != 0) {
             continue;
         }
+        prop->not_used = false;
         object_property_parse(OBJECT(dev), prop->value, prop->property, &err);
         if (err != NULL) {
             error_propagate(errp, err);