Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] remove unused VMSTateField.start

[Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

ping

I would like to do further work based on this, and Dave's review
for v1 was quite favorable (IMHO). Any chance of this getting
merged soon (or receiving critical comments so I can move forward)?  

Cheers,
Halil

On 10/20/2016 03:25 PM, Halil Pasic wrote:
> The member VMStateField.start was solely used to implement the partial
> data migration for VBUFFER data (basically provide migration for a
> sub-buffer). However the implementation of this feature is broken, but
> this goes unnoticed since the feature is not used at all.
> 
> Let us add an unit test for VBUFFER and then remove the useless
> VMStateFiled.start.
> 
> An additional benefit is that .start can be re introduced to be used for
> linked structures as proposed by Jianjun in "[QEMU PATCH v6 2/2]
> migration: migrate QTAILQ".
> 
> Guenther Hutzl (1):
>   tests/test-vmstate.c: add vBuffer test
> 
> Halil Pasic (1):
>   migration: drop unused VMStateField.start
> 
>  hw/char/exynos4210_uart.c   |   2 +-
>  hw/display/g364fb.c         |   2 +-
>  hw/dma/pl330.c              |   8 ++--
>  hw/intc/exynos4210_gic.c    |   2 +-
>  hw/ipmi/isa_ipmi_bt.c       |   4 +-
>  hw/ipmi/isa_ipmi_kcs.c      |   4 +-
>  hw/net/vmxnet3.c            |   2 +-
>  hw/nvram/mac_nvram.c        |   2 +-
>  hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c      |   2 +-
>  hw/sd/sdhci.c               |   2 +-
>  hw/timer/m48t59.c           |   2 +-
>  include/migration/vmstate.h |  20 +++-----
>  migration/savevm.c          |   2 +-
>  migration/vmstate.c         |   4 +-
>  target-s390x/machine.c      |   2 +-
>  tests/test-vmstate.c        | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  util/fifo8.c                |   2 +-
>  17 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>