From: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>,
Juraj Marcin <jmarcin@redhat.com>,
peterx@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 06/10] vmstate: Introduce vmstate_save_field_with_vmdesc()
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:36:33 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fr5v36b2.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260317232332.15209-7-peterx@redhat.com>
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:
> Introduce a helper to do both the JSON blob dump and vmstate dump. This
> further shrinks the function a bit. More importantly, we'll need to dump
> two fields in one loop very soon in the future with the JSON blob.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
> migration/vmstate.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c
> index caa7b50bce..5a6b352764 100644
> --- a/migration/vmstate.c
> +++ b/migration/vmstate.c
> @@ -514,6 +514,30 @@ static bool vmstate_save_field(QEMUFile *f, void *pv, size_t size,
> return true;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Dump a whole VMSD field, including its JSON blob separately when @vmdesc
Could do without the "dump" terminology all over the series. There's
already use for that term due to -dump-vmstate.
> + * is specified.
> + */
> +static inline bool
> +vmstate_save_field_with_vmdesc(QEMUFile *f, void *pv, size_t size,
> + const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
> + const VMStateField *field, JSONWriter *vmdesc,
> + int i, int max, Error **errp)
> +{
> + uint64_t old_offset, written_bytes;
> + bool ok;
> +
> + vmsd_desc_field_start(vmsd, vmdesc, field, i, max);
> +
> + old_offset = qemu_file_transferred(f);
> + ok = vmstate_save_field(f, pv, size, field, vmdesc, errp);
> + written_bytes = qemu_file_transferred(f) - old_offset;
> +
> + vmsd_desc_field_end(vmsd, vmdesc, field, written_bytes);
> +
> + return ok;
> +}
> +
> static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
> void *opaque, JSONWriter *vmdesc,
> int version_id, Error **errp)
> @@ -542,7 +566,6 @@ static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
> void *first_elem = opaque + field->offset;
> int i, n_elems = vmstate_n_elems(opaque, field);
> int size = vmstate_size(opaque, field);
> - uint64_t old_offset, written_bytes;
> JSONWriter *vmdesc_loop = vmdesc;
> bool is_prev_null = false;
>
> @@ -558,7 +581,6 @@ static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
> bool is_null;
> int max_elems = n_elems - i;
>
> - old_offset = qemu_file_transferred(f);
> if (field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER) {
> assert(curr_elem);
> curr_elem = *(void **)curr_elem;
> @@ -606,15 +628,9 @@ static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
> }
> }
>
> - vmsd_desc_field_start(vmsd, vmdesc_loop, inner_field,
> - i, max_elems);
> -
> - ok = vmstate_save_field(f, curr_elem, size, inner_field,
> - vmdesc_loop, errp);
> -
> - written_bytes = qemu_file_transferred(f) - old_offset;
> - vmsd_desc_field_end(vmsd, vmdesc_loop, inner_field,
> - written_bytes);
> + ok = vmstate_save_field_with_vmdesc(f, curr_elem, size, vmsd,
> + inner_field, vmdesc_loop,
> + i, max_elems, errp);
>
> /* If we used a fake temp field.. free it now */
> if (is_null) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 23:23 [PATCH RFC 00/10] vmstate: Implement VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_AUTO_ALLOC Peter Xu
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 01/10] vmstate: Pass in struct itself for VMSTATE_ARRAY_OF_POINTER Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:36 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 02/10] vmstate: Pass in struct itself for VMSTATE_VARRAY_OF_POINTER_UINT32 Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:37 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 03/10] vmstate: Do not set size for VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:37 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 04/10] vmstate: Limit the vmdesc_loop dedup trick to compressable field Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:43 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-26 19:27 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 05/10] vmstate: Rename VMS_NULLPTR_MARKER to VMS_MARKER_PTR_NULL Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:38 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 06/10] vmstate: Introduce vmstate_save_field_with_vmdesc() Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:39 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-19 20:36 ` Fabiano Rosas [this message]
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 07/10] vmstate: Allow vmstate_info_nullptr to emit non-NULL markers Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:40 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-19 20:46 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-26 19:25 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-26 21:19 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 08/10] vmstate: Implement load of ptr marker in vmstate core Peter Xu
2026-03-18 9:48 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-19 20:56 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-19 21:57 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-19 22:07 ` Alexander Graf
2026-03-20 13:03 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-20 14:51 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 09/10] vmstate: Implement VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_AUTO_ALLOC Peter Xu
2026-03-18 10:00 ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2026-03-19 14:10 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-19 22:06 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-20 14:42 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-03-20 15:37 ` Peter Xu
2026-03-17 23:23 ` [PATCH RFC 10/10] tests/unit/test-vmstate: add tests for VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_ALLOW_NULL Peter Xu
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