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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-08-24 16:31:53 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-08-24 16:31:53 +0100
commit54906fe0ce5dd8eb616094e7f11d4ce31b7ad9da (patch)
tree763d2592281fe0d9f3e83e0218bee128349f8530 /docs
parent1dfb85a8755096beecf182a617493d539259cbea (diff)
parentae526e32bd36cfb84045c8d2fd34e0b9e39a52f8 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20180822-1' into staging
migration/next for 20180822 # gpg: Signature made Wed 22 Aug 2018 12:07:59 BST # gpg: using RSA key F487EF185872D723 # gpg: Good signature from "Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Juan Quintela <quintela@trasno.org>" # Primary key fingerprint: 1899 FF8E DEBF 58CC EE03 4B82 F487 EF18 5872 D723 * remotes/juanquintela/tags/migration/20180822-1: migration: hold the lock only if it is really needed migration: move handle of zero page to the thread migration: drop the return value of do_compress_ram_page migration: introduce save_zero_page_to_file migration: fix counting normal page for compression migration: do not wait for free thread migration: poll the cm event for destination qemu tests/migration-test: Silence the kvm_hv message by default migration: implement the shutdown for RDMA QIOChannel migration: poll the cm event while wait RDMA work request completion migration: invoke qio_channel_yield only when qemu_in_coroutine() migration: implement io_set_aio_fd_handler function for RDMA QIOChannel migration: Stop rdma yielding during incoming postcopy migration: implement bi-directional RDMA QIOChannel migration: create a dedicated connection for rdma return path migration: disable RDMA WRITE after postcopy started migrate/cpu-throttle: Add max-cpu-throttle migration parameter docs/migration: Clarify pre_load in subsections migration: Correctly handle subsections with no 'needed' function qapi/migration.json: fix the description for "query-migrate" output Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/devel/migration.rst b/docs/devel/migration.rst
index 6ed3fce061..687570754d 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration.rst
@@ -240,10 +240,13 @@ should succeed even with the data missing. To support this the
subsection can be connected to a device property and from there
to a versioned machine type.
-One important note is that the post_load() function is called "after"
-loading all subsections, because a newer subsection could change same
-value that it uses. A flag, and the combination of pre_load and post_load
-can be used to detect whether a subsection was loaded, and to
+The 'pre_load' and 'post_load' functions on subsections are only
+called if the subsection is loaded.
+
+One important note is that the outer post_load() function is called "after"
+loading all subsections, because a newer subsection could change the same
+value that it uses. A flag, and the combination of outer pre_load and
+post_load can be used to detect whether a subsection was loaded, and to
fall back on default behaviour when the subsection isn't present.
Example:
@@ -315,8 +318,8 @@ For example:
the property to false.
c) Add a static bool support_foo function that tests the property.
d) Add a subsection with a .needed set to the support_foo function
- e) (potentially) Add a pre_load that sets up a default value for 'foo'
- to be used if the subsection isn't loaded.
+ e) (potentially) Add an outer pre_load that sets up a default value
+ for 'foo' to be used if the subsection isn't loaded.
Now that subsection will not be generated when using an older
machine type and the migration stream will be accepted by older