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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-05-07 14:51:21 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-05-07 14:51:21 +0100
commitc9541f67df48b2c01c4a3d0d7b719b51c6ac9f38 (patch)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20140505' into staging
migration/next for 20140505

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* remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20140505: (36 commits)
  migration: expose xbzrle cache miss rate
  migration: expose the bitmap_sync_count to the end
  migration: Add counts of updating the dirty bitmap
  XBZRLE: Fix one XBZRLE corruption issues
  migration: remove duplicate code
  Coverity: Fix failure path for qemu_accept in migration
  Init the XBZRLE.lock in ram_mig_init
  Provide init function for ram migration
  Count used RAMBlock pages for migration_dirty_pages
  Make qemu_peek_buffer loop until it gets it's data
  Disallow outward migration while awaiting incoming migration
  virtio: validate config_len on load
  virtio-net: out-of-bounds buffer write on load
  openpic: avoid buffer overrun on incoming migration
  ssi-sd: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load
  savevm: Ignore minimum_version_id_old if there is no load_state_old
  usb: sanity check setup_index+setup_len in post_load
  vmstate: s/VMSTATE_INT32_LE/VMSTATE_INT32_POSITIVE_LE/
  virtio-scsi: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load
  zaurus: fix buffer overrun on invalid state load
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/migration.txt12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
index 0e0a1d44da..fe1f2bb738 100644
--- a/docs/migration.txt
+++ b/docs/migration.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_kbd = {
     .name = "pckbd",
     .version_id = 3,
     .minimum_version_id = 3,
-    .minimum_version_id_old = 3,
     .fields      = (VMStateField []) {
         VMSTATE_UINT8(write_cmd, KBDState),
         VMSTATE_UINT8(status, KBDState),
@@ -168,12 +167,13 @@ You can see that there are several version fields:
 - minimum_version_id: the minimum version_id that VMState is able to understand
   for that device.
 - minimum_version_id_old: For devices that were not able to port to vmstate, we can
-  assign a function that knows how to read this old state.
+  assign a function that knows how to read this old state. This field is
+  ignored if there is no load_state_old handler.
 
 So, VMState is able to read versions from minimum_version_id to
-version_id.  And the function load_state_old() is able to load state
-from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id.  This function is
-deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left.
+version_id.  And the function load_state_old() (if present) is able to
+load state from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id.  This
+function is deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left.
 
 ===  Massaging functions ===
 
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive_pio_state = {
     .name = "ide_drive/pio_state",
     .version_id = 1,
     .minimum_version_id = 1,
-    .minimum_version_id_old = 1,
     .pre_save = ide_drive_pio_pre_save,
     .post_load = ide_drive_pio_post_load,
     .fields      = (VMStateField []) {
@@ -275,7 +274,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive = {
     .name = "ide_drive",
     .version_id = 3,
     .minimum_version_id = 0,
-    .minimum_version_id_old = 0,
     .post_load = ide_drive_post_load,
     .fields      = (VMStateField []) {
         .... several fields ....