Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request' into staging

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* remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request:
  aio: fix assert when remove poll during destroy
  iothread: delay the context release to finalize
  iothread: export iothread_stop()
  iothread: provide helpers for internal use
  qom: provide root container for internal objs

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

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index f3e5cff37a..e0d9824415 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -1214,6 +1214,17 @@ Object *object_get_root(void);
 Object *object_get_objects_root(void);
 
 /**
+ * object_get_internal_root:
+ *
+ * Get the container object that holds internally used object
+ * instances.  Any object which is put into this container must not be
+ * user visible, and it will not be exposed in the QOM tree.
+ *
+ * Returns: the internal object container
+ */
+Object *object_get_internal_root(void);
+
+/**
  * object_get_canonical_path_component:
  *
  * Returns: The final component in the object's canonical path.  The canonical