Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] target/arm: Add dummy needed functions to M profile vmstate subsections

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> Currently the migration code incorrectly treats a subsection with
> no .needed function pointer as if it was the subsection list
> terminator -- it is ignored and so is everything after it.
> Work around this by giving various M profile vmstate structs
> a 'needed' function that always returns true.
> We reuse m_needed() for this, since it's always true here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

> ---
> Not strictly a regression as it only affects M profile CPUs
> with the security extensions, and migration of those was
> broken anyway in 2.12 due to a different bug.
> ---
>  target/arm/machine.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/arm/machine.c b/target/arm/machine.c
> index 2e28d086bdf..ff4ec22bf75 100644
> --- a/target/arm/machine.c
> +++ b/target/arm/machine.c
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_m_faultmask_primask = {
>      .name = "cpu/m/faultmask-primask",
>      .version_id = 1,
>      .minimum_version_id = 1,
> +    .needed = m_needed,
>      .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
>          VMSTATE_UINT32(env.v7m.faultmask[M_REG_NS], ARMCPU),
>          VMSTATE_UINT32(env.v7m.primask[M_REG_NS], ARMCPU),
> @@ -230,6 +231,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_m_scr = {
>      .name = "cpu/m/scr",
>      .version_id = 1,
>      .minimum_version_id = 1,
> +    .needed = m_needed,
>      .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
>          VMSTATE_UINT32(env.v7m.scr[M_REG_NS], ARMCPU),
>          VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
> @@ -240,6 +242,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_m_other_sp = {
>      .name = "cpu/m/other-sp",
>      .version_id = 1,
>      .minimum_version_id = 1,
> +    .needed = m_needed,
>      .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
>          VMSTATE_UINT32(env.v7m.other_sp, ARMCPU),
>          VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK