Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Migration: Defined VMStateDescription struct for spapr_drc

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 01:33:02PM -0700, Jianjun Duan wrote:
> To manage hotplug/unplug of dynamic resources such as PCI cards,
> memory, and CPU on sPAPR guests, a firmware abstraction known as
> a Dynamic Resource Connector (DRC) is used to assign a particular
> dynamic resource to the guest, and provide an interface for the
> guest to manage configuration/removal of the resource associated
> with it.
> 
> To migrate the hotplugged resources in migration, the
> associated DRC state need be migrated. To migrate the DRC state,
> we defined the VMStateDescription struct for spapr_drc to enable
> the transmission of spapr_drc state in migration.
> 
> Not all the elements in the DRC state are migrated. Only those
> ones modifiable by guest actions or device add/remove operation
> are migrated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianjun Duan <address@hidden>

Urgh.  It would be really nice if we could avoid this and instead
calculate these states from other information.  I hate migrating
what's essentially transitory state if we can possibly avoid it - is
there any way to defer or retry hotplug operations to make this
unnececessary?

Even if we have to migrate some state here, I'm a bit dubious about
whether directly migrating the PAPR indicator states is the best way.
It does have the advantage of having a spec, on the other hand the
PAPR indicators are really weird and hard to understand the meaning
of.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> index 3173940..5f7a25f 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> @@ -610,6 +610,20 @@ static void spapr_dr_connector_instance_init(Object *obj)
>                          NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>  }
>  
> +static const VMStateDescription vmstate_spapr_drc = {
> +    .name = "spapr_drc",
> +    .version_id = 1,
> +    .minimum_version_id = 1,
> +    .fields  = (VMStateField []) {
> +        VMSTATE_UINT32(isolation_state, sPAPRDRConnector),
> +        VMSTATE_UINT32(allocation_state, sPAPRDRConnector),
> +        VMSTATE_UINT32(indicator_state, sPAPRDRConnector),
> +        VMSTATE_BOOL(configured, sPAPRDRConnector),
> +        VMSTATE_BOOL(awaiting_release, sPAPRDRConnector),
> +        VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
> +    }
> +};
> +
>  static void spapr_dr_connector_class_init(ObjectClass *k, void *data)
>  {
>      DeviceClass *dk = DEVICE_CLASS(k);
> @@ -618,6 +632,7 @@ static void spapr_dr_connector_class_init(ObjectClass *k, 
> void *data)
>      dk->reset = reset;
>      dk->realize = realize;
>      dk->unrealize = unrealize;
> +    dk->vmsd = &vmstate_spapr_drc;
>      drck->set_isolation_state = set_isolation_state;
>      drck->set_indicator_state = set_indicator_state;
>      drck->set_allocation_state = set_allocation_state;

-- 
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