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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-04-03 19:52:28 +0300
committerMichael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-06-26 14:26:28 -0500
commit7abee6c9883f242b680736b4d9c730b1556498e5 (patch)
tree172b5d60a14b344bd23f6b2a3a8c305e4e00c361 /docs
parentc4bd2e4cb0550fd83321029b9ae7582073fcac67 (diff)
downloadqemu-7abee6c9883f242b680736b4d9c730b1556498e5.tar.gz
savevm: Ignore minimum_version_id_old if there is no load_state_old
At the moment we require vmstate definitions to set minimum_version_id_old to the same value as minimum_version_id if they do not provide a load_state_old handler. Since the load_state_old functionality is required only for a handful of devices that need to retain migration compatibility with a pre-vmstate implementation, this means the bulk of devices have pointless boilerplate. Relax the definition so that minimum_version_id_old is ignored if there is no load_state_old handler. Note that under the old scheme we would segfault if the vmstate specified a minimum_version_id_old that was less than minimum_version_id but did not provide a load_state_old function, and the incoming state specified a version number between minimum_version_id_old and minimum_version_id. Under the new scheme this will just result in our failing the migration. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 767adce2d9cd397de3418caa16be35ea18d56f22) Conflicts: vmstate.c *removed dependency on b6fcfa59 (Move VMState code to vmstate.c) Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/migration.txt12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
index 0e0a1d44da..fe1f2bb738 100644
--- a/docs/migration.txt
+++ b/docs/migration.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_kbd = {
.name = "pckbd",
.version_id = 3,
.minimum_version_id = 3,
- .minimum_version_id_old = 3,
.fields = (VMStateField []) {
VMSTATE_UINT8(write_cmd, KBDState),
VMSTATE_UINT8(status, KBDState),
@@ -168,12 +167,13 @@ You can see that there are several version fields:
- minimum_version_id: the minimum version_id that VMState is able to understand
for that device.
- minimum_version_id_old: For devices that were not able to port to vmstate, we can
- assign a function that knows how to read this old state.
+ assign a function that knows how to read this old state. This field is
+ ignored if there is no load_state_old handler.
So, VMState is able to read versions from minimum_version_id to
-version_id. And the function load_state_old() is able to load state
-from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id. This function is
-deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left.
+version_id. And the function load_state_old() (if present) is able to
+load state from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id. This
+function is deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left.
=== Massaging functions ===
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive_pio_state = {
.name = "ide_drive/pio_state",
.version_id = 1,
.minimum_version_id = 1,
- .minimum_version_id_old = 1,
.pre_save = ide_drive_pio_pre_save,
.post_load = ide_drive_pio_post_load,
.fields = (VMStateField []) {
@@ -275,7 +274,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive = {
.name = "ide_drive",
.version_id = 3,
.minimum_version_id = 0,
- .minimum_version_id_old = 0,
.post_load = ide_drive_post_load,
.fields = (VMStateField []) {
.... several fields ....