From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wkpa1-0004Lc-Mc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 02:55:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkpZs-0002ex-Vj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 02:55:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:7520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkpZs-0002eg-Ii for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 02:55:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:25:27 +0530 From: Amit Shah Message-ID: <20140515065527.GC31192@grmbl.mre> References: <20140514154130.10746.1412.stgit@bahia.local> <20140514154137.10746.94708.stgit@bahia.local> <20140515060425.GA31192@grmbl.mre> <20140515084948.47870ce2@bahia.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140515084948.47870ce2@bahia.local> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Greg Kurz Cc: Kevin Wolf , Fam Zheng , Anthony Liguori , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Juan Quintela , Alexander Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , Paolo Bonzini , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= On (Thu) 15 May 2014 [08:49:48], Greg Kurz wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:34:25 +0530 > Amit Shah wrote: > > > On (Wed) 14 May 2014 [17:41:38], Greg Kurz wrote: > > > There is a need to add some more fields to VirtIODevice that should be > > > migrated (broken status, endianness). The problem is that we do not > > > want to break compatibility while adding a new feature... This issue has > > > been addressed in the generic VMState code with the use of optional > > > subsections. As a *temporary* alternative to port the whole virtio > > > migration code to VMState, this patch mimics a similar subsectionning > > > ability for virtio. > > > > > > Since each virtio device is streamed in its own section, the idea is to > > > stream subsections between the end of the device section and the start > > > of the next sections. This allows an older QEMU to complain and exit > > > when fed with subsections: > > > > > > Unknown savevm section type 5 > > > Error -22 while loading VM state > > > > Please make this configurable -- either via configure or device > > properties. That avoids having to break existing configurations that > > work without this patch. > > > > Hmmm... you mean we support migration from a newer QEMU to an older one ? Well, not really "support", since many things don't work anyway, but let's make that easier on downstreams that may want to. > > > All users of virtio_load()/virtio_save() need to be patched because the > > > subsections are streamed AFTER the device itself. > > > > Since all have the same fixup, I'm wondering if a new section can be > > added to the virtio-bus itself, which gets propagated to all devices > > upon load in the dest. > > > > That would be nice if possible. I will have a closer look. Thanks! Amit