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Paolo Bonzini
ca0defb95c qemu: URI parsing library
Add a new URI parsing library to QEMU. The code has been borrowed from
libxml2 and libvirt.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-09-28 17:51:47 +02:00
Eduardo Otubo
f794573eab Adding support for libseccomp in configure and Makefile (v8)
Adding basic options to the configure script to use libseccomp or not.
The default is set to 'no'. If the flag --enable-libseccomp is used, the
script will check for its existence using pkg-config.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
 - As I removed all the code related to seccomp from vl.c, I created
   qemu-seccomp.[ch].
 - Also making the configure script to add the specific line to
   Makefile.obj in order to compile with appropriate support to seccomp.

v2 -> v3:
 - Removing the line from Makefile.obj and adding it to Makefile.objs.
 - Marking libseccomp default option to 'yes' in the configure script.

v3 -> v8:
 - fix configure probe if libseccomp isn't available (aliguori)
2012-08-16 13:41:16 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
633decd711 Merge remote-tracking branch 'qmp/queue/qmp' into staging
* qmp/queue/qmp: (48 commits)
  target-ppc: add implementation of query-cpu-definitions (v2)
  target-i386: add implementation of query-cpu-definitions (v2)
  qapi: add query-cpu-definitions command (v2)
  compiler: add macro for GCC weak symbols
  qapi: add query-machines command
  qapi: mark QOM commands stable
  qmp: introduce device-list-properties command
  qmp: add SUSPEND_DISK event
  qmp: qmp-events.txt: add missing doc for the SUSPEND event
  qmp: qmp-events.txt: put events in alphabetical order
  qmp: emit the WAKEUP event when the guest is put to run
  qmp: don't emit the RESET event on wakeup from S3
  scripts: qapi-commands.py: qmp-commands.h: include qdict.h
  docs: writing-qmp-commands.txt: update error section
  error, qerror: drop QDict member
  qerror: drop qerror_table and qerror_format()
  error, qerror: pass desc string to error calls
  error: drop error_get_qobject()/error_set_qobject()
  qemu-ga: switch to the new error format on the wire
  qmp: switch to the new error format on the wire
  ...
2012-08-13 16:12:35 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino
93b91c59db qemu-ga: switch to the new error format on the wire
IMPORTANT: this BREAKS qemu-ga compatibility for the error response.

Instead of returning something like:

{ "error": { "class": "InvalidParameterValue",
             "data": {"name": "mode", "expected": "halt|powerdown|reboot" } } }

qemu-ga now returns:

 { "error": { "class": "GenericError",
              "desc": "Parameter 'mode' expects halt|powerdown|reboot" } }

Notice that this is also a bug fix, as qemu-ga wasn't returning the
human message.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2012-08-13 14:17:53 -03:00
Orit Wasserman
9fb26641ab Add cache handling functions
Add MRU page cache mechanism.
The page are accessed by their address.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Hudzia <benoit.hudzia@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Petter Svard <petters@cs.umu.se>
Signed-off-by: Aidan Shribman <aidan.shribman@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2012-08-08 13:51:12 +02:00
Anthony Liguori
23797df3d9 Merge remote-tracking branch 'mjt/mjt-iov2' into staging
* mjt/mjt-iov2:
  rewrite iov_send_recv() and move it to iov.c
  cleanup qemu_co_sendv(), qemu_co_recvv() and friends
  export iov_send_recv() and use it in iov_send() and iov_recv()
  rename qemu_sendv to iov_send, change proto and move declarations to iov.h
  change qemu_iovec_to_buf() to match other to,from_buf functions
  consolidate qemu_iovec_copy() and qemu_iovec_concat() and make them consistent
  allow qemu_iovec_from_buffer() to specify offset from which to start copying
  consolidate qemu_iovec_memset{,_skip}() into single function and use existing iov_memset()
  rewrite iov_* functions
  change iov_* function prototypes to be more appropriate
  virtio-serial-bus: use correct lengths in control_out() message

Conflicts:
	tests/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-07-09 12:35:06 -05:00
Blue Swirl
5726c27fa9 qemu-log: move logging to qemu-log.c
Move logging functions from exec.c to qemu-log.c,
compile it only once.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-06-21 18:45:16 +00:00
Michael Tokarev
3d9b49254f consolidate qemu_iovec_memset{,_skip}() into single function and use existing iov_memset()
This patch combines two functions into one, and replaces
the implementation with already existing iov_memset() from
iov.c.

The new prototype of qemu_iovec_memset():
  size_t qemu_iovec_memset(qiov, size_t offset, int fillc, size_t bytes)
It is different from former qemu_iovec_memset_skip(), and
I want to make other functions to be consistent with it
too: first how much to skip, second what, and 3rd how many
of it.  It also returns actual number of bytes filled in,
which may be less than the requested `bytes' if qiov is
smaller than offset+bytes, in the same way iov_memset()
does.

While at it, use utility function iov_memset() from
iov.h in posix-aio-compat.c, where qiov was used.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2012-06-11 23:07:44 +04:00
Blue Swirl
dbaf26b3b2 Revert "build: compile oslib-obj-y once"
This reverts commit 25f27a4f71
because of bsd-user breakage.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-06-10 20:29:19 +00:00
Paolo Bonzini
25f27a4f71 build: compile oslib-obj-y once
There is no difference in oslib-obj-y between user-mode and system
targets.  There used to be when user-mode could optionally be
compiled with PIE.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:19 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
00c705fb92 build: libcacard Makefile cleanups
Build vscclient from toplevel Makefile, limit usage of vpath.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:18 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
be1029ec30 build: convert libhw to nested Makefile.objs
After this patch, the libhw* directories will have a hierarchy
that mimics the source tree.  This is useful because we do have
a couple of files there that are in the top source directory.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:17 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
3d5a3f9a7f build: move target-independent hw/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
This patch starts converting the hw/ directory.  Some files in hw/
are compiled once, some twice (32-/64-bit), some once per target.
Each category is moved in a separate patch.

After this patch, the files that are compiled once will show the
same hierarchy in the build tree as they do in the source tree,
for example hw/qdev.o instead of just qdev.o.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:16 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
4eb7ba8aff build: move qga/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:16 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
dd5614d6f1 build: move qapi/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:15 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
4c69605472 build: move slirp/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:15 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
b0b68fc671 build: move audio/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:14 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
8867aef02e build: move ui/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:14 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
ee20477d24 build: move fsdev/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:13 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
d8469de6c1 build: move net/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:13 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
7456e4ce8d build: move block/ objects to nested Makefile.objs
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:13 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
7f07b9cbc5 build: adapt qom/Makefile and move it to Makefile.objs
qom/ already used a separate makefile.  Convert it to use relative
paths, and make it declare both common-obj-y and user-obj-y.  This
way, the upper makefiles do not need to know that some QOM files
are compiled twice.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:12 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
99100dc3b5 build: move rules for nesting to Makefile.objs
At this point we will start adding nesting behavior to other files
than Makefile.target.  Because Makefile.objs is included by
Makefile.target, it is simpler to move the processing of
subdirectories there.

To enable this, only add per-target files to obj-y.  Use a separate
variable for the linker dependencies, all-obj-y.  This variable includes
obj-y and also all objects that are taken from other directories.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 09:21:12 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
046e7c5f93 build: remove trace-nested-y
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-06-07 07:17:24 +02:00
Lluís Vilanova
c0424934fa Beautify makefile commands for generation of files with tracetool
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-25 14:21:35 +01:00
Lluís Vilanova
650ab98d1d tracetool: Rewrite infrastructure as python modules
The tracetool script is written in shell and has hit several portability
problems due to shell quirks or external tools across host platforms.
Additionally the amount of string processing and lack of real data
structures makes it tough to implement code generator backends for
tracers that are more complex.

This patch replaces the shell version of tracetool with a Python
version.  The new tracetool design is:

  scripts/tracetool.py - top-level script
  scripts/tracetool/backend/ - tracer backends live here (simple, ust)
  scripts/tracetool/format/  - output formats live here (.c, .h)

There is common code for trace-events definition parsing so that
backends can focus on generating code rather than parsing input.

Support for all existing backends (nop, stderr, simple, ust,
and dtrace) is added back in follow-up patches.

[Commit description written by Stefan Hajnoczi]

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-18 14:02:59 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
4e1957acc8 Merge commit 'ff71f2e8cacefae99179993204172bc65e4303df' into staging
* commit 'ff71f2e8cacefae99179993204172bc65e4303df': (21 commits)
  rtl8139: do the network/host communication only in normal operating mode
  rtl8139: correctly check the opmode
  net: move compute_mcast_idx() to net.h
  rtl8139: support byte read to TxStatus registers
  rtl8139: remove unused marco
  rtl8139: limit transmission buffer size in c+ mode
  pci_regs: Add PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCIE_BRIDGE
  virtio-net: add DATA_VALID flag
  pci_bridge: upper 32 bit are long registers
  pci: fix bridge IO/BASE
  pcie: drop functionality moved to core
  pci: set memory type for memory behind the bridge
  pci: add standard bridge device
  slotid: add slot id capability
  shpc: standard hot plug controller
  pci_bridge: user-friendly default bus name
  pci: make another unused extern function static
  pci: don't export an internal function
  pci_regs: Fix value of PCI_EXP_TYPE_RC_EC.
  pci: Do not check if a bus exist in pci_parse_devaddr.
  ...
2012-04-10 08:21:58 -05:00
Michael Walle
79368f4984 target-lm32: add simple disassembler
Because binutils disassembler is based on libopcode, this is a rewrite from
scratch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
2012-04-01 20:30:23 +02:00
Anthony Liguori
c7f0f3b1c8 qtest: add test framework
The idea behind qtest is pretty simple.  Instead of executing a CPU via TCG or
KVM, rely on an external process to send events to the device model that the CPU
would normally generate.

qtest presents itself as an accelerator.  In addition, a new option is added to
establish a qtest server (-qtest) that takes a character device.  This is what
allows the external process to send CPU events to the device model.

qtest uses a simple line based protocol to send the events.  Documentation of
that protocol is in qtest.c.

I considered reusing the monitor for this job.  Adding interrupts would be a bit
difficult.  In addition, logging would also be difficult.

qtest has extensive logging support.  All protocol commands are logged with
time stamps using a new command line option (-qtest-log).  Logging is important
since ultimately, this is a feature for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-30 08:14:11 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
4eb812f760 pci: add standard bridge device
This adds support for a standard pci to pci bridge,
enabling support for more than 32 PCI devices in the system.
Device hotplug is supported by means of SHPC controller.
For guests with an SHPC driver, this allows robust hotplug
and even hotplug of nested bridges, up to 31 devices
per bridge.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-03-16 00:41:28 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
762833b3b8 slotid: add slot id capability
This capability makes it possible for the guest to
report a unique chassis identifier to the user.

The spec also recommends making chassis indentifier
persist in eeprom.
This isn't implemented.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-03-16 00:41:28 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
1dc324d20f shpc: standard hot plug controller
This adds support for SHPC interface, as defined by PCI Standard
Hot-Plug Controller and Subsystem Specification, Rev 1.0
http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/conventional/pci_hot_plug/SHPC_10

Only SHPC intergrated with a PCI-to-PCI bridge is supported,
SHPC integrated with a host bridge would need more work.

All main SHPC features are supported:
- MRL sensor
- Attention button
- Attention indicator
- Power indicator

Wake on hotplug and serr generation are stubbed out but unused
as we don't have interfaces to generate these events ATM.

One issue that isn't completely resolved is that qemu currently
expects an "eject" interface, which SHPC does not provide: it merely
removes the power to device and it's up to the user to remove the device
from slot. This patch works around that by ejecting the device
when power is removed and power LED goes off.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-03-16 00:41:15 +02:00
Andreas Färber
dd83b06ae6 qom: Introduce CPU class
Reintroduce CPUState as QOM object: It's abstract and derived directly
from TYPE_OBJECT for compatibility with the user emulators.
The identifier CPUState avoids conflicts between CPU() and the struct.

Introduce $(qom-twice-y) to build it separately for system and for user
emulators.

Prepare a virtual reset method, (re)introduce cpu_reset() as wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-14 22:20:27 +01:00
Anthony Liguori
684e1e0479 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/usb.44' into staging
* kraxel/usb.44:
  Endian fix an assertion in usb-msd
  uhci: alloc can't fail, drop check.
  uhci: new uhci_handle_td return code for tds still in flight
  uhci: renumber uhci_handle_td return codes
  uhci: use enum for uhci_handle_td return codes
  uhci: tracing support
  uhci: cancel on schedule stop.
  uhci: fix uhci_async_cancel_all
  uhci: pass addr to uhci_async_alloc
  usb: improve packet state sanity checks
  usb-ohci: DMA writeback bug fixes
  usb-ehci: drop unused isoch_pause variable
  usb: zap hw/ush-{ohic,uhci}.h + init wrappers
  usb: the big rename
2012-03-13 13:55:02 -05:00
Andreas Färber
ce008c1f10 qom: Add QOM support to user emulators
Link the Object base class and the module infrastructure for class
registration. Introduce $(universal-obj-y) for objects that are more
common than $(common-obj-y), so that those only get built once.

Call QOM module init for type registration.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-13 13:23:18 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann
f1ae32a1ec usb: the big rename
Reorganize usb source files.  Create a new hw/usb/ directory and move
all usb source code to that place.  Also make filenames a bit more
descriptive.  Host adapters are prefixed with "hch-" now, usb device
emulations are prefixed with "dev-".  Fixup paths Makefile and include
paths to make it compile.  No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-03-13 10:15:32 +01:00
Alex Barcelo
fe91bfa8a2 coroutine: adding configure option for sigaltstack coroutine backend
It's possible to use sigaltstack backend with --with-coroutine=sigaltstack

v2: changed from enable/disable configure flags

Signed-off-by: Alex Barcelo <abarcelo@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-03-12 15:14:07 +01:00
Jan Kiszka
d11e859e4a i8254: Factor out base class for KVM reuse
Applying the concept used for the *PICs once again: establish a base
class for the i8254 that can be used both by the current user space
emulation and the upcoming KVM in-kernel version. We share most of the
public interface of the i8254, specifically to the pcspk, vmstate, reset
and certain init parts.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-07 12:27:40 +02:00
Michael Roth
bc62fa039c qemu-ga: add Windows service integration
This allows qemu-ga to function as a Windows service:

 - to install the service (will auto-start on boot):
     qemu-ga --service install
 - to start the service:
     net start qemu-ga
 - to stop the service:
     net stop qemu-ga
 - to uninstall service:
     qemu-ga --service uninstall

Original patch by Gal Hammer <ghammer@redhat.com>
2012-02-23 15:43:50 -06:00
Michael Roth
7868e26e59 qemu-ga: add initial win32 support
This adds a win32 channel implementation that makes qemu-ga functional
on Windows using virtio-serial (unix-listen/isa-serial not currently
implemented). Unlike with the posix implementation, we do not use
GIOChannel for the following reasons:

 - glib calls stat() on an fd to check whether S_IFCHR is set, which is
   the case for virtio-serial on win32. Because of that, a one-time
   check to determine whether the channel is readable is done by making
   a call to PeekConsoleInput(), which reports the underlying handle is
   not a valid console handle, and thus we can never read from the
   channel.

 - if one goes as far as to "trick" glib into thinking it is a normal
   file descripter, the buffering is done in such a way that data
   written to the output stream will subsequently result in that same
   data being read back as if it were input, causing an error loop.
   furthermore, a forced flush of the channel only moves the data into a
   secondary buffer managed by glib, so there's no way to prevent output
   from getting read back as input.

The implementation here ties into the glib main loop by implementing a
custom GSource that continually submits asynchronous/overlapped I/O to
fill an GAChannel-managed read buffer, and tells glib to poll the
corresponding event handle for a completion whenever there is no
data/RPC in the read buffer to notify the main application about.
2012-02-23 15:43:49 -06:00
Michael Roth
d8ca685acb qemu-ga: fixes for win32 build of qemu-ga
Various stubs and #ifdefs to compile for Windows using mingw
cross-build. Still has 1 linker error due to a dependency on the
forthcoming win32 versions of the GAChannel/transport class.
2012-02-23 15:40:16 -06:00
Michael Roth
c216e5add1 qemu-ga: rename guest-agent-commands.c -> commands-posix.c 2012-02-23 15:40:16 -06:00
Michael Roth
42074a9d4d qemu-ga: separate out common commands from posix-specific ones
Many of the current RPC implementations are very much POSIX-specific
and require complete re-writes for Windows. There are however a small
set of core guest agent commands that are common to both, and other
commands such as guest-file-* which *may* be portable. So we introduce
commands.c for the latter, and will rename guest-agent-commands.c to
commands-posix.c in a future commit. Windows implementations will go in
commands-win32.c, eventually.
2012-02-23 15:40:16 -06:00
Michael Roth
125b310e1d qemu-ga: move channel/transport functionality into wrapper class
This is mostly in preparation for the win32 port, which won't use
GIO channels for reasons that will be made clearer later. Here the
GAChannel class is just a loose wrapper around GIOChannel
calls/callbacks, but we also roll in the logic/configuration for
various channel types and managing unix socket connections, which makes
the abstraction much more complete and further aids in the win32 port
since isa-serial/unix-listen will not be supported initially.

There's also a bit of refactoring in the main logic to consolidate the
exit paths so we can do common cleanup for things like pid files, which
weren't always cleaned up previously.
2012-02-23 15:40:16 -06:00
Hervé Poussineau
78207d80a3 jazz-led: compile it only twice
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-02-22 09:02:19 -06:00
Paolo Bonzini
a020f9809c qapi: add string-based visitors
String based visitors provide a consistent interface for parsing
strings to C values, as well as consuming C values as strings.
They will be used to parse command-line options.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-02-21 10:21:05 +01:00
Stefan Weil
57c83dacfe make: Remove duplicate use of GLIB_CFLAGS
Makefile, Makefile.hw, Makefile.target and libcacard/Makefile
added GLIB_CFLAGS to QEMU_CFLAGS.

Makefile.objs does this, too, and is included by all other
Makefiles, so GLIB_CFLAGS were added twice (reported by malc).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2012-02-09 20:44:38 +04:00
Anthony Liguori
8b45d447ce container: make a decendent of Object
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
---
v1 -> v2
 - Add license (Paolo)
2012-02-03 10:41:08 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
ee46d8a503 qdev: split out UI portions into a new function
qdev-monitor.c deals with the -device, device_add, and info qdm/qtree
interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-02-03 10:41:08 -06:00
Anthony Liguori
2f28d2ff9d qom: add the base Object class (v2)
This class provides the main building block for QEMU Object Model and is
extensively documented in the header file.  It is largely inspired by GObject.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
---
v1 -> v2
 - remove printf() in type registration
 - fix typo in comment (Paolo)
 - make Interface private
 - move object into a new directory and move header into include/qemu/
 - don't make object.h depend on qemu-common.h
 - remove Type and replace it with TypeImpl * (Paolo)
 - use hash table to store types (Paolo)
 - aggressively cache parent type (Paolo)
 - make a type_register and use it with interfaces (Paolo)
 - fix interface cast comment (Paolo)
 - add a few more functions required in later series
2012-01-27 10:28:30 -06:00