* Alexey Kardashevskiy (a...@ozlabs.ru) wrote: > This allows dynamic allocation for migrating arrays. > > Already existing VMSTATE_VARRAY_UINT32 requires an array to be > pre-allocated, however there are cases when the size is not known in > advance and there is no real need to enforce it. > > This defines another variant of VMSTATE_VARRAY_UINT32 with WMS_ALLOC > flag which tells the receiving side to allocate memory for the array > before receiving the data. > > The first user of it is the "pseries" machine (POWER8) with > dynamic DMA windows which existence and size are totally dynamic.
You say totally dynamic, how big do they get out of interest? Dave > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> > Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > --- > > > As David suggested, I am posting it alone (separately from the DDW patchset). > > It would be nice either to get "ack" to get this pulled via the powerpc > tree or get it pulled to the upstream via some other tree. Thanks! > > > > --- > include/migration/vmstate.h | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/migration/vmstate.h b/include/migration/vmstate.h > index 84ee355..1622638 100644 > --- a/include/migration/vmstate.h > +++ b/include/migration/vmstate.h > @@ -386,6 +386,16 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_bitmap; > .offset = vmstate_offset_pointer(_state, _field, _type), \ > } > > +#define VMSTATE_VARRAY_UINT32_ALLOC(_field, _state, _field_num, _version, > _info, _type) {\ > + .name = (stringify(_field)), \ > + .version_id = (_version), \ > + .num_offset = vmstate_offset_value(_state, _field_num, uint32_t),\ > + .info = &(_info), \ > + .size = sizeof(_type), \ > + .flags = VMS_VARRAY_UINT32|VMS_POINTER|VMS_ALLOC, \ > + .offset = vmstate_offset_pointer(_state, _field, _type), \ > +} > + > #define VMSTATE_VARRAY_UINT16_UNSAFE(_field, _state, _field_num, _version, > _info, _type) {\ > .name = (stringify(_field)), \ > .version_id = (_version), \ > -- > 2.5.0.rc3 > > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK