From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] New VMstate save/load infrastructure
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fxbproo2.fsf@neno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580908181013xd5b7050x8085c3e60c050cdb@mail.gmail.com> (Blue Swirl's message of "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:13:47 +0300")
Reply-to: quintela@redhat.com
Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Juan Quintela<quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>> This patch introduces VMState infrastructure, to convert the save/load
>> functions of devices to a table approach. This new approach has the
>> advantages:
>> - it is type-safe
>> - you can't have load/save functions out of sync
>> - will allows us to have new interesting commands, like dump <device>, that
>> shows all its internal state.
>> - Just now, the only added type is arrays, but we can add structures.
>
> I think all the structures should be 'const'.
This is doable, and will do.
> Also VMStateField and
> VMStateDescription should be private to savevm.c.
They can, as we are trying to create them statically, not
programatically.
Later, Juan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 13:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] New VMState table based load/save infrastructure Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 13:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] loadvm already call vm_start() Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 13:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Don't call vm_start() if there was an error loading Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 13:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Don't ignore load_state() error return values Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 13:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] New VMstate save/load infrastructure Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 17:13 ` Blue Swirl
2009-08-18 17:56 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2009-08-19 7:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-19 9:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-08-19 12:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-18 13:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Port apic to new VMState design Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 14:24 ` Reimar Döffinger
[not found] ` <20090818142405.GA16563@1und1.de>
[not found] ` <m37hx1tc9l.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-08-18 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-18 15:38 ` Juan Quintela
2009-08-18 16:06 ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-18 16:37 ` Juan Quintela
2009-08-19 8:00 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-19 9:10 ` Reimar Döffinger
[not found] ` <20090819085334.GA31062@1und1.de>
[not found] ` <4A8BC0C7.4010806@redhat.com>
2009-08-19 9:16 ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-19 7:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] New VMState table based load/save infrastructure Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-19 10:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-08-19 12:55 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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