Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block-migration: deprecate block migration for the 1.2 release

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:48:37 +0200
Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am 14.08.2012 15:32, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > To be replaced with live block copy.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> 
> Might be worth adding a deprecation note in qapi-schema.json.
> 
> > ---
> >  migration.c |    9 +++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/migration.c b/migration.c
> > index 653a3c1..babccf4 100644
> > --- a/migration.c
> > +++ b/migration.c
> > @@ -482,10 +482,19 @@ void qmp_migrate(const char *uri, bool has_blk, bool 
> > blk,
> >      MigrationParams params;
> >      const char *p;
> >      int ret;
> > +    static bool suppress_deprecation_message;
> >  
> >      params.blk = blk;
> >      params.shared = inc;
> >  
> > +    if (blk && !suppress_deprecation_message) {
> 
> Hm, it's consistent with when we start block migration, but has_blk is
> completely ignored for that and blk seems to be uninitialised if
> !has_blk. I think this needs to be fixed. (Why does qmp-marshal.c even
> compile when it can use blk uninitialised...?)

Are you referring to qmp_marshal_input_migrate()? Where does it use
blk uninitialized?

> 
> Kevin
> 
> > +        qerror_report(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
> > +                      "Block migration is deprecated.  "
> > +                      "See http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockCopy "
> > +                      "for an alternative syntax.");
> > +        suppress_deprecation_message = true;
> > +    }
> > +
> >      if (s->state == MIG_STATE_ACTIVE) {
> >          error_set(errp, QERR_MIGRATION_ACTIVE);
> >          return;
> > 
>