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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, nick@bytemark.co.uk, lersek@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] wdt_i6300esb: fix vmstate versioning
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:54:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130523112429.GB10951@amit.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369240371-21253-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On (Wed) 22 May 2013 [11:32:51], Michael Roth wrote:
> When this VMSD was introduced it's version fields were set to
> sizeof(I6300State), making them essentially random from build to build,
> version to version.
> 
> To fix this, we lock in a high version id and low minimum version id to
> support old->new migration from all prior versions of this device's
> state. This should work since the device state has not changed since
> its introduction.
> 
> The potentially breaks migration from 1.5+ to 1.5, but since the
> versioning was essentially random prior to this patch, new->old
> migration was not consistently functional to begin with.
> 
> Reported-by: Nicholas Thomas <nick@bytemark.co.uk>
> Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> v2:
>  * Fixed s/except/accept/ typo (Laszlo)

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

		Amit

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 16:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] wdt_i6300esb: fix vmstate versioning Michael Roth
2013-05-22 16:46 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-05-22 19:40 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-05-23 11:24 ` Amit Shah [this message]
2013-06-11 21:53 ` mdroth
2013-06-18 18:07   ` mdroth
2013-06-18 18:43     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-18 18:47     ` Juan Quintela
2013-06-21 15:34 ` Anthony Liguori

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