Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 07/10] spapr_pci: Allow PCI host bridge DMA window to be configured

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:13:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/10/2015 02:25, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> I think this is the aim of VMSTATE_UINT64_EQUAL() ?
> > 
> > We use it only for things which cannot be set via the command line
> > and ideally there should be no VMSTATE_*_EQUAL. If something can be
> > set via the command line, then the management software (read -
> > libvirt) runs QEMU with explicit parameters to guarantee that these
> > are equal.
> 
> VMSTATE_*_EQUAL is used when a value is later used as e.g. the size of
> an array.  It basically provides bounds checking for the subsequent
> array, avoiding that an invalid migration file or an error issuing the
> QEMU command on the destination transforms into a buffer overflow.
> 
> Michael Roth did most of this work, IIRC.  Documenting it in
> docs/migration.txt would be nice.

Ah.. which means we probably should use VMSTATE_*_EQUAL here since the
window size determines the size of the array of actual TCEs to follow
shortly.

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