[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Save state error handling (kill off no_migrate)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/05/2010 03:35 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I was thinking of making KVM VMs with assigned PCI devices
> unsavable/unmigratable, but I wasn't thrilled with the
> no_migrate solutions.  The more generic solutions seems to be
> simply letting save handlers return an error if the device can't
> be migrated.  This is also much more generic than a one-way
> bit flip of the no_migrate flag.  For a vmsd based registration,
> the pre_save() routine seems to be the right place to allow
> devices to abort.  The series also carries the error back through
> all the vmstate callers.  If this looks good, I'll give it some
> more testing and submit as non-RFC.  Thanks,
>    

Doesn't this mean that we don't fail the migration until after 
transferring all of the memory contents?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
>
> ---
>
> Alex Williamson (5):
>        virtio: Allow virtio_save() errors
>        pci: Allow pci_device_save() to return error
>        savevm: Allow vmsd->pre_save to return error
>        savevm: Remove register_device_unmigratable()
>        savevm: Allow SaveStateHandler() to return error
>
>
>   hw/adb.c                    |    8 ++++-
>   hw/ads7846.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/arm_gic.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/arm_timer.c              |    6 +++-
>   hw/armv7m_nvic.c            |    4 ++-
>   hw/cuda.c                   |    4 ++-
>   hw/fdc.c                    |    3 +-
>   hw/g364fb.c                 |    4 ++-
>   hw/grackle_pci.c            |    4 +--
>   hw/gt64xxx.c                |    4 +--
>   hw/heathrow_pic.c           |    4 ++-
>   hw/hpet.c                   |    3 +-
>   hw/hw.h                     |   10 +++---
>   hw/i2c.c                    |    3 +-
>   hw/ide/core.c               |    4 ++-
>   hw/ivshmem.c                |   17 +++++++----
>   hw/lsi53c895a.c             |    4 ++-
>   hw/m48t59.c                 |    4 ++-
>   hw/mac_dbdma.c              |    4 ++-
>   hw/mac_nvram.c              |    4 ++-
>   hw/max111x.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/mipsnet.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/mst_fpga.c               |    3 +-
>   hw/nand.c                   |    3 +-
>   hw/openpic.c                |    4 +--
>   hw/pci.c                    |    8 ++++-
>   hw/pci.h                    |    2 +
>   hw/piix4.c                  |    4 +--
>   hw/pl011.c                  |    4 ++-
>   hw/pl022.c                  |    4 ++-
>   hw/pl061.c                  |    4 ++-
>   hw/ppc4xx_pci.c             |   10 ++++--
>   hw/ppce500_pci.c            |   10 ++++--
>   hw/pxa2xx.c                 |   28 +++++++++++++-----
>   hw/pxa2xx_dma.c             |    4 ++-
>   hw/pxa2xx_gpio.c            |    4 ++-
>   hw/pxa2xx_keypad.c          |    3 +-
>   hw/pxa2xx_lcd.c             |    4 ++-
>   hw/pxa2xx_mmci.c            |    4 ++-
>   hw/pxa2xx_pic.c             |    4 ++-
>   hw/pxa2xx_timer.c           |    4 ++-
>   hw/rc4030.c                 |    4 ++-
>   hw/rtl8139.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/serial.c                 |    3 +-
>   hw/spitz.c                  |   14 ++++++---
>   hw/ssd0323.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/ssi-sd.c                 |    4 ++-
>   hw/stellaris.c              |   20 ++++++++++---
>   hw/stellaris_enet.c         |    4 ++-
>   hw/stellaris_input.c        |    4 ++-
>   hw/syborg_fb.c              |    4 ++-
>   hw/syborg_interrupt.c       |    3 +-
>   hw/syborg_keyboard.c        |    3 +-
>   hw/syborg_pointer.c         |    3 +-
>   hw/syborg_rtc.c             |    4 ++-
>   hw/syborg_serial.c          |    4 ++-
>   hw/syborg_timer.c           |    4 ++-
>   hw/tsc2005.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/tsc210x.c                |    4 ++-
>   hw/twl92230.c               |    3 +-
>   hw/unin_pci.c               |    4 +--
>   hw/usb-uhci.c               |    3 +-
>   hw/virtio-balloon.c         |    8 ++++-
>   hw/virtio-blk.c             |    9 ++++--
>   hw/virtio-net.c             |    9 ++++--
>   hw/virtio-pci.c             |    9 ++++--
>   hw/virtio-serial-bus.c      |    9 ++++--
>   hw/virtio.c                 |   13 ++++++--
>   hw/virtio.h                 |    4 +--
>   hw/wm8750.c                 |    3 +-
>   hw/zaurus.c                 |    4 ++-
>   qemu-common.h               |    2 +
>   savevm.c                    |   67 +++++++++++++------------------------------
>   slirp/slirp.c               |    6 +++-
>   target-arm/machine.c        |    3 +-
>   target-cris/machine.c       |    3 +-
>   target-i386/machine.c       |    7 +++-
>   target-microblaze/machine.c |    3 +-
>   target-mips/machine.c       |    3 +-
>   target-ppc/machine.c        |    3 +-
>   target-s390x/machine.c      |    3 +-
>   target-sparc/machine.c      |    3 +-
>   82 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
>