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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Yulei Zhang <yulei.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
	Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
	zhi.a.wang@intel.com, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: discard RAMBlocks of type ram_device
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:11:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2a27461-c792-9204-849d-9c7c0ffbd0c6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9G_ZwrZ1HkuvUPzOHadYbq7fKu819K=kFieMccDwt1AQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/04/2018 15:51, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Paolo may have an opinion what the API here should be, but
> at the MemoryRegion level we already have a mix of functions
> memory_region_init_foo_nomigrate() and memory_region_init_foo(),
> which at the moment just control whether we call
> vmstate_register_ram() or not. Is it possible to hook into that,
> so that we default to marking RAMBlocks as not-migrated, and
> when vmstate_register_ram() is called we set the flag to
> "migrated"?

Yes, that sounds pretty.

Paolo

> NB: this probably requires careful thought to make sure we
> don't accidentally break migration compat, but it seems like
> the cleaner approach. At the moment we do weird things if you
> migrate a RAM block that hasn't had its ID string set, IIRC,
> so just not migrating those RAM blocks seems like a better
> plan than mishandling them. It would also mean that the
> vmstate_register/unregister_ram() functions did what they
> claim to do based on the function name, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-12 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12 10:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: discard RAMBlocks of type ram_device Cédric Le Goater
2018-04-12 11:47 ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-12 11:53   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-04-12 12:08     ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-12 13:41       ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-04-12 13:51         ` Peter Maydell
2018-04-12 14:11           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-04-12 15:16             ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-04-12 15:14   ` Eric Blake

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