[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] VMState testing

[Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.iiith@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The following patch introduce a mechanism to test the correctness of the
vmstate's information. This is achieved by saving the device states'
information to a memory buffer and then clearing the states, followed by
loading the data from the saved memory buffer.

v2 --> v3

* Made the devices list generic by removing the qdevified format. But, it only
  supports the qdevified devices.
* Extended the SaveStateEntry for the VMstate testing purpose.
* Replaced DPRINTF with trace_##name functions.
* Squashed all of the hmp and qmp patches into one.
* Rectified some mistakes in the documentation of the hmp and qmp interface
  explanations (the ones which I have introduced).
* Now, I am relying only on the devices that have been qdevified. I am not using
  the qemu_system_reset() function for resetting the devices.

v1 --> v2:

* Added a list containing all the devices that have been qdevified and gets
  registered with the SaveStateEntry.
* Have provided a way to use either qemu_system_reset functionality or my
  own version of qdev entries untill all the devices have been qdevified.
  This gives us the privilege to test any device we want.
* Rename some of the variables. I am very bad at naming convention, thanks to
  community, specially Eric, I try to improve it with every version.
* On Eric's advice, I have separated all of the qmp and hmp interface patches.
* Changed the DPRINTF statements as required.


Dr. David Alan Gilbert (1):
  QEMUSizedBuffer/QEMUFile

Sanidhya Kashyap (5):
  VMState test: get information about the registered devices
  VMstate test: basic VMState testing mechanism
  VMState test: querying the vmstate testing process
  VMState test: update period of vmstate testing process
  VMState test: cancel mechanism for an already running vmstate testing
    process

 hmp-commands.hx               |  49 +++++
 hmp.c                         |  90 +++++++++
 hmp.h                         |   5 +
 include/migration/qemu-file.h |  27 +++
 monitor.c                     |  14 ++
 qapi-schema.json              | 106 +++++++++++
 qemu-file.c                   | 411 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qmp-commands.hx               | 145 +++++++++++++++
 savevm.c                      | 332 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 trace-events                  |   2 +
 10 files changed, 1181 insertions(+)

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