Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/17] migration: vmstate_save|load changes for peterx

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 04:43:15PM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>> Too much stuff to mention inline on the series, here's some patches on
>> top. Let me know what you think! Feel free to drop it all or
>> incorporate or whatever.
>> 
>> Based-on: [PATCH RFC 00/10] vmstate: Implement VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_AUTO_ALLOC
>> 20260317232332.15209-1-peterx@redhat.com
>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317232332.15209-1-peterx@redhat.com
>> 
>> which is in turn based on https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu/-/commits/migration-staging
>> 
>> I pushed it all to https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu/-/commits/migration-rfc-auto-alloc
>> 
>> CI run: https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu/-/pipelines/2406278684
>> 
>> Fabiano Rosas (17):
>>   vmstate: fixup the use of AUTO_ALLOC flag
>>   vmstate: Remove vmstate_use_marker_field
>>   vmstate: Stop checking size for nullptr compression
>>   vmstate: Set error inside of vmstate_save_field_with_vmdesc
>>   vmstate: Remove vmdesc_loop
>>   vmstate: Put array of pointers code together
>>   vmstate: Create and save ptr marker in same function
>>   vmstate: Don't recompute size and n_elems in vmstate_size
>>   vmstate: Increase scope of vmstate_handle_alloc
>>   vmstate: Remove curr_elem_p
>>   vmstate: Introduce vmstate_first
>>   vmstate: Introduce vmstate_next
>>   vmstate: Drop VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_AUTO_ALLOC
>>   vmstate: Move VMS_MUST_EXIST check
>>   vmstate: Invert exists check
>>   vmstate: Declare variables at the top
>>   vmstate: Reduce indentation levels
>
> Considering that this prior series may block the nvme series, I'll be
> slightly conservative on what to collect, but I'll collect as much as I can
> that makes me still feel confident when I repost; we'll see.
>

Sure, if there's anything you still find valuable but won't take for the
repost let me know and I can send a separate series on top if that's the
case.