[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/25] VMState cleanups and conversion of network drivers

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Hi

This series cleans VMState internals and port all the pc network devices to
VMState (except virtio-net).
- Cleanups:
 * we can send partial buffers, and clean how we do it
 * refactor all the buffer code.
 * refactor all the offset code
 * add VARRAY_UINT16_UNSAFE: unsafe here means that type checking is off
   (a.k.a. as a cast in C).  In this case the problem is that the last
   element of one struct is int foo[0], and we allocate the right size
   for the array we want.  Problem?  I haven't been able to abuse^Wuse
   gcc + cpp + magic to typecheck that for vmstate:

   We have
   struct FOO {
   	  int32_t foo[0];
   }
   We want to "compare the type of foo (t1) with int32_t (t2)

        ((t1(*)[n])0 - (t2*)0)
   This one don't work, because we don't have 'n'
        ((t1(**))0 - (t2*)0)
   This don't work either because t1 is one array.
        ((t1(*)[])0 - (t2*)0)
   Too clever, imposible cast to on array type.
   I tried some other variants, but have not able to get one that compiles.
 * UNUSED support.  This allows to mark some space in the VMStateDescription
   as "useless", that is there for backwards compatibility.  We don't need
   a field in the State to load/save that values anymore.
 * SUB_ARRAY(..,start, num, ...)
   This allows us to send only slices of one array, i.e. 'num' elemns starting
   at position 'start'.
- Network Devices
 * rtl8139; Drop support for version < 3, it don't work as non-pci anymore.
 * eeprom93xx (only used by eepro100), this one was quite "interesting"
   - savevm state had pading by design
   - size field changed from 8 bits to 16 bits using the pading space
   - VMARRAY with size uint16_t and UNSAFE was needed for this driver
   - Wint the price of the more complicated conversion of the series.
 * eepro100:
   - really, really needed the UNUSED support
   - it is the only driver so far that uses a different "name"
 * pcnet: nothing special, just port
 * ne2000: nothing special, just port
 * e1000: after I understood the mac_reg*save arrays just
   - unfold them
   - save them as SUB_ARRAY
   result is clear that previous code.

Reason why cleanup + devices came together is because the cleanups/additons
are needed to implement this devices.

Comments?

Later, Juan.


Juan Quintela (25):
  vmstate: Add support for partial buffers transmission
  serial: use post_load version_id field and remove pre_load function
  vnmstate: fix name for uint8_equal
  vmstate: add VMSTATE_UINT16_EQUAL[_V]
  vmstate: Rename VMS_VARRAY to VMS_VARRAY_INT32
  vmstate: fix indentation
  vmstate: factor vmstate_offset_value
  vmstate: factor vmstate_offset_pointer
  vmstate: factor vmstate_offset_array
  vmstate: factor vmstate_offset_buffer
  vmstate: factor VMSTATE_*BUFFER* definitions
  vmstate: Unfold VMSTATE_INT32_VARRAY() only use and remove it
  vmstate: add VMS_VARRAY_UINT16_UNSAFE (varrays with uint16 indexes)
  vmstate: Add version arg to VMSTATE_SINGLE_TEST()
  vmstate: Add VMSTATE_BUFFER_UNUSED
  vmstate: Introduce the concept of sub-arrays
  rtl8139: port TallyCounters to vmstate
  rtl8139: port to vmstate
  eeprom93xx: port to vmstate
  eepro100: port to vmstate
  pcnet: port to vmstate
  ne2000: port to vmstate
  e1000: unfold mac_reg_tosave array
  e1000: unfold mac_regarraystosave array
  e1000: port to vmstate

 hw/e1000.c            |  185 ++++++++++++---------------
 hw/eepro100.c         |  195 +++++++++-------------------
 hw/eeprom93xx.c       |  102 +++++++--------
 hw/fdc.c              |    2 +-
 hw/hw.h               |  171 +++++++++++++++---------
 hw/ne2000-isa.c       |    4 +-
 hw/ne2000.c           |  133 +++++++------------
 hw/ne2000.h           |    3 +-
 hw/pci.c              |    2 +-
 hw/pcnet.c            |  110 ++++++----------
 hw/rtl8139.c          |  347 +++++++++++++++----------------------------------
 hw/serial.c           |   11 +-
 savevm.c              |   54 +++++++-
 target-i386/machine.c |    2 +-
 14 files changed, 548 insertions(+), 773 deletions(-)