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authorLei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-05-27 18:33:01 +0800
committerMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2013-06-01 14:25:38 +0400
commit7465dfeca065882c93424b23b14b2c9f31b16aa5 (patch)
tree0aaa1ec29986efdec5e54f77c83c5b90cf7ba6e1 /docs/migration.txt
parentcfeda5f4b8710b6ba14131df8e287021b729b784 (diff)
docs: Fix typo and update file in migration
This patch fix some typo and update the file that already moved. Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt
index 0719a55002..0e0a1d44da 100644
--- a/docs/migration.txt
+++ b/docs/migration.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ All these four migration protocols use the same infrastructure to
save/restore state devices. This infrastructure is shared with the
savevm/loadvm functionality.
-=== State Live Migration ==
+=== State Live Migration ===
This is used for RAM and block devices. It is not yet ported to vmstate.
<Fill more information here>
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ pointer that is passed to all functions.
The important functions for us are put_buffer()/get_buffer() that
allow to write/read a buffer into the QEMUFile.
-=== How to save the state of one device ==
+=== How to save the state of one device ===
The state of a device is saved using intermediate buffers. There are
some helper functions to assist this saving.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ associated with a series of fields saved. The save_state always saves
the state as the newer version. But load_state sometimes is able to
load state from an older version.
- === Legacy way ===
+=== Legacy way ===
This way is going to disappear as soon as all current users are ported to VMSTATE.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ to interpret that definition to be able to load/save the state. As
the state is declared only once, it can't go out of sync in the
save/load functions.
-An example (from hw/pckbd.c)
+An example (from hw/input/pckbd.c)
static const VMStateDescription vmstate_kbd = {
.name = "pckbd",
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ We registered this with:
Note: talk about how vmstate <-> qdev interact, and what the instance ids mean.
You can search for VMSTATE_* macros for lots of types used in QEMU in
-hw/hw.h.
+include/hw/hw.h.
-=== More about versions ==
+=== More about versions ===
You can see that there are several version fields:
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ using a specific functionality, ....
It is impossible to create a way to make migration from any version to
any other version to work. But we can do better than only allowing
-migration from older versions no newer ones. For that fields that are
+migration from older versions to newer ones. For that fields that are
only needed sometimes, we add the idea of subsections. A subsection
is "like" a device vmstate, but with a particularity, it has a Boolean
function that tells if that values are needed to be sent or not. If
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ static bool ide_drive_pio_state_needed(void *opaque)
{
IDEState *s = opaque;
- return (s->status & DRQ_STAT) != 0;
+ return ((s->status & DRQ_STAT) != 0)
+ || (s->bus->error_status & BM_STATUS_PIO_RETRY);
}
const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive_pio_state = {