Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/afaerber/tags/qom-devices-for-peter' into staging

QOM infrastructure fixes and device conversions

* Changes to name string ownership for alias properties
* Improvements around enum properties
* Cleanups around -object handling
* New helper functions
* Cleanups of qdev init helper functions
* Add path argument to qom-tree script
* QTest cleanup to use new qtest_add_data_func() consistently

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* remotes/afaerber/tags/qom-devices-for-peter:
  qdev: Un-deprecate qdev_init_nofail()
  qdev: Deprecated qdev_init() is finally unused, drop
  qom: Don't pass string table to object_get_enum() function
  qom: Add an object_property_add_enum() helper function
  qom: Make enum string tables const-correct
  qom: Add object_new_with_props() / object_new_withpropv() helpers
  qom: Add helper function for getting user objects root
  vl: Create (most) objects before creating chardev backends
  doc: Document user creatable object types in help text
  backends: Fix typename of 'policy' enum property in hostmem obj
  scripts: Add support for path as argument of qom-tree
  tests: Use qtest_add_data_func() consistently
  qdev: Free property names after registering gpio aliases
  qom: strdup() target property name on object_property_add_alias()

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h
index ac7c4c441e..df9dd514f1 100644
--- a/include/qemu/compiler.h
+++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 #define QEMU_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
 #endif
 
+#if QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 0)
+#define QEMU_SENTINEL __attribute__((sentinel))
+#else
+#define QEMU_SENTINEL
+#endif
+
 #if QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 3)
 #define QEMU_ARTIFICIAL __attribute__((always_inline, artificial))
 #else