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[PULL 10/29] docs: convert docs/devel/replay page to rst
From: |
Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
[PULL 10/29] docs: convert docs/devel/replay page to rst |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Jun 2022 16:36:25 +0200 |
From: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
This patch converts prior .txt replay devel documentation to .rst.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <165364839013.688121.11935249420738873044.stgit@pasha-ThinkPad-X280>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
docs/devel/index-tcg.rst | 1 +
docs/devel/{replay.txt => replay.rst} | 16 ++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
rename docs/devel/{replay.txt => replay.rst} (90%)
diff --git a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
index 0b0ad12c22..7b9760b26f 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ are only implementing things for HW accelerated hypervisors.
multi-thread-tcg
tcg-icount
tcg-plugins
+ replay
diff --git a/docs/devel/replay.txt b/docs/devel/replay.rst
similarity index 90%
rename from docs/devel/replay.txt
rename to docs/devel/replay.rst
index e641c35add..dd8bf3b195 100644
--- a/docs/devel/replay.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/replay.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+..
+ Copyright (c) 2022, ISP RAS
+ Written by Pavel Dovgalyuk
+
+=======================
+Execution Record/Replay
+=======================
+
Record/replay mechanism, that could be enabled through icount mode, expects
the virtual devices to satisfy the following requirements.
@@ -5,7 +13,7 @@ The main idea behind this document is that everything that
affects
the guest state during execution in icount mode should be deterministic.
Timers
-======
+------
All virtual devices should use virtual clock for timers that change the guest
state. Virtual clock is deterministic, therefore such timers are deterministic
@@ -19,7 +27,7 @@ the virtual devices (e.g., slirp routing device) that lie
outside the
replayed guest.
Bottom halves
-=============
+-------------
Bottom half callbacks, that affect the guest state, should be invoked through
replay_bh_schedule_event or replay_bh_schedule_oneshot_event functions.
@@ -27,7 +35,7 @@ Their invocations are saved in record mode and synchronized
with the existing
log in replay mode.
Saving/restoring the VM state
-=============================
+-----------------------------
All fields in the device state structure (including virtual timers)
should be restored by loadvm to the same values they had before savevm.
@@ -38,7 +46,7 @@ is not defined. It means that you should not call functions
like
the dependencies that may make restoring the VM state non-deterministic.
Stopping the VM
-===============
+---------------
Stopping the guest should not interfere with its state (with the exception
of the network connections, that could be broken by the remote timeouts).
--
2.36.1
- [PULL 00/29] Misc patches for 2022-06-06, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 02/29] build: add a "make modules" target, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 07/29] replay: notify vCPU when BH is scheduled, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 06/29] replay: fix event queue flush for qemu shutdown, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 10/29] docs: convert docs/devel/replay page to rst,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- [PULL 13/29] tests/avocado: add replay Linux tests for virtio machine, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 14/29] tests/avocado: add replay Linux test for Aarch64 machines, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 03/29] target/i386: Fix wrong count setting, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 05/29] modules: generates per-target modinfo, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 04/29] modules: introduces module_kconfig directive, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 09/29] replay: simplify async event processing, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 17/29] x86: cpu: fixup number of addressable IDs for logical processors sharing cache, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 18/29] python: update for mypy 0.950, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 01/29] target/i386/tcg: Fix masking of real-mode addresses with A20 bit, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06
- [PULL 08/29] replay: rewrite async event handling, Paolo Bonzini, 2022/06/06