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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Evgeny Iakovlev" <eiakovlev@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Gavin Shan" <gshan@redhat.com>,
	qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 9/10] hw/char/pl011: Add transmit FIFO to PL011State
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:14:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb26bbac-e573-431e-a4b4-13ca65a24455@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edhylac2.fsf@linaro.org>

On 10/13/23 10:05, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> @@ -487,7 +505,11 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_pl011 = {
>>       .subsections = (const VMStateDescription * []) {
>>           &vmstate_pl011_clock,
>>           NULL
>> -    }
>> +    },
>> +    .subsections = (const VMStateDescription * []) {
>> +        &vmstate_pl011_xmit_fifo,
>> +        NULL
>> +    },
>>   };
> 
> Doesn't this necessitate the bumping of the migration version data or
> do we not worry about new -> old migrations?

We usually don't care about new->old, however:

If the fifo is empty, migration will still work because of the subsection.
If the fifo is not empty... I think the subsection will be ignored, with the only 
consequence being that some characters will be dropped.


r~


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-13 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-13 14:11 [PATCH v3 0/10] hw/char/pl011: Implement TX (async) FIFO to avoid blocking the main loop Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/10] util/fifo8: Allow fifo8_pop_buf() to not populate popped length Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/10] util/fifo8: Introduce fifo8_peek_buf() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 16:59   ` Alex Bennée
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/10] hw/char/pl011: Split RX/TX path of pl011_reset_fifo() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/10] hw/char/pl011: Extract pl011_write_txdata() from pl011_write() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/10] hw/char/pl011: Extract pl011_read_rxdata() from pl011_read() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/10] hw/char/pl011: Warn when using disabled transmitter Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 7/10] hw/char/pl011: Check if receiver is enabled Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 8/10] hw/char/pl011: Rename RX FIFO methods Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 9/10] hw/char/pl011: Add transmit FIFO to PL011State Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-10-13 17:05   ` Alex Bennée
2023-10-13 18:14     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2023-10-13 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 0/10] hw/char/pl011: Implement TX (async) FIFO to avoid blocking the main loop Alex Bennée
2023-10-14  6:40 ` Mark Cave-Ayland

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