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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-05-07 14:51:21 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-05-07 14:51:21 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20140505' into staging
migration/next for 20140505 # gpg: Signature made Mon 05 May 2014 21:27:24 BST using RSA key ID 5872D723 # gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found * remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20140505: (36 commits) migration: expose xbzrle cache miss rate migration: expose the bitmap_sync_count to the end migration: Add counts of updating the dirty bitmap XBZRLE: Fix one XBZRLE corruption issues migration: remove duplicate code Coverity: Fix failure path for qemu_accept in migration Init the XBZRLE.lock in ram_mig_init Provide init function for ram migration Count used RAMBlock pages for migration_dirty_pages Make qemu_peek_buffer loop until it gets it's data Disallow outward migration while awaiting incoming migration virtio: validate config_len on load virtio-net: out-of-bounds buffer write on load openpic: avoid buffer overrun on incoming migration ssi-sd: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load savevm: Ignore minimum_version_id_old if there is no load_state_old usb: sanity check setup_index+setup_len in post_load vmstate: s/VMSTATE_INT32_LE/VMSTATE_INT32_POSITIVE_LE/ virtio-scsi: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load zaurus: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
index 0e0a1d4..fe1f2bb 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 ....
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