On 12/04/2018 15:51, Peter Maydell wrote: > Paolo may have an opinion what the API here should be, but > at the MemoryRegion level we already have a mix of functions > memory_region_init_foo_nomigrate() and memory_region_init_foo(), > which at the moment just control whether we call > vmstate_register_ram() or not. Is it possible to hook into that, > so that we default to marking RAMBlocks as not-migrated, and > when vmstate_register_ram() is called we set the flag to > "migrated"?
Yes, that sounds pretty. Paolo > NB: this probably requires careful thought to make sure we > don't accidentally break migration compat, but it seems like > the cleaner approach. At the moment we do weird things if you > migrate a RAM block that hasn't had its ID string set, IIRC, > so just not migrating those RAM blocks seems like a better > plan than mishandling them. It would also mean that the > vmstate_register/unregister_ram() functions did what they > claim to do based on the function name, I think.
