There are now two major categories of global properties:

One category consists of true global properties collected in
global_props(), sourced from CLI options like `-global` and CPU features
like `-cpu`.

The other category comprises compat properties derived from
object_compat_props[]. Within this, object_compat_props[0] and
object_compat_props[1] represent compat properties for accelerators and
machines, respectively. Meanwhile, object_compat_props[2] collects sugar
properties from the CLI.

Although sugar properties are also applied for legacy machine options
(MachineClass::default_machine_opts), considerring those hardcoded
defaults simulate CLI arguments, so treating them as USER_SET is
acceptable as they emulate user behavior.

Therefore, among all global properties, only those in global_props() and
object_compat_props[2] originate from external users. Consequently, when
applying global properties via object_apply_global_props(), these two
categories of user-provided properties are marked as USER_SET by passing
"from_user=true" to object_property_parse().

Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
---
 hw/core/qdev-properties.c | 2 +-
 include/qom/object.h      | 2 +-
 qom/object.c              | 6 ++++--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index c96ccfb26353..696dc5f201d6 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ int qdev_prop_check_globals(void)
 
 void qdev_prop_set_globals(DeviceState *dev)
 {
-    object_apply_global_props(OBJECT(dev), global_props(),
+    object_apply_global_props(OBJECT(dev), global_props(), true,
                               dev->hotplugged ? NULL : &error_fatal);
 }
 
diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index c78e1c03a106..b621803f61bb 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Object *object_new_with_propv(const char *typename,
                               va_list vargs);
 
 bool object_apply_global_props(Object *obj, const GPtrArray *props,
-                               Error **errp);
+                               bool from_user, Error **errp);
 void object_set_machine_compat_props(GPtrArray *compat_props);
 void object_set_accelerator_compat_props(GPtrArray *compat_props);
 void object_register_sugar_prop(const char *driver, const char *prop,
diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 7140e3f629aa..4ead0befb351 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static void object_post_init_with_type(Object *obj, TypeImpl *ti)
 }
 
 bool object_apply_global_props(Object *obj, const GPtrArray *props,
-                               Error **errp)
+                               bool from_user, Error **errp)
 {
     int i;
 
@@ -460,7 +460,8 @@ bool object_apply_global_props(Object *obj, const GPtrArray *props,
             continue;
         }
         p->used = true;
-        if (!object_property_parse(obj, p->property, p->value, false, &err)) {
+        if (!object_property_parse(obj, p->property, p->value,
+                                   from_user, &err)) {
             error_prepend(&err, "can't apply global %s.%s=%s: ",
                           p->driver, p->property, p->value);
             /*
@@ -536,6 +537,7 @@ void object_apply_compat_props(Object *obj)
 
     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(object_compat_props); i++) {
         object_apply_global_props(obj, object_compat_props[i],
+                                  i == 2 ? true : false,
                                   i == 2 ? &error_fatal : &error_abort);
     }
 }
-- 
2.34.1