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    "date": "2026-03-26T21:05:24",
    "name": "[RFC,v2,03/11] vmstate: Do not set size for VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER",
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        "name": "Peter Xu",
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            "date": "2026-03-26T21:05:22",
            "name": "vmstate: Implement VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER_AUTO_ALLOC",
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        ],
        "From": "Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>",
        "To": "qemu-devel@nongnu.org",
        "Cc": "Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>, peterx@redhat.com,\n Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>, Juraj Marcin <jmarcin@redhat.com>,\n Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@futurfusion.io>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH RFC v2 03/11] vmstate: Do not set size for\n VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER",
        "Date": "Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:05:24 -0400",
        "Message-ID": "<20260326210532.379027-4-peterx@redhat.com>",
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    "content": "When VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER is specified, it means the vmstate field is an\narray of pointers.\n\nThe size of the element is not relevant to whatever it is stored inside: it\nis always the host pointer size.\n\nLet's reserve the \"size\" field in this case for future use, update\nvmstate_size() so as to make it still work for array of pointers properly.\n\nWhen at this, provide rich documentation on how size / size_offset works in\nvmstate.\n\nSigned-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>\nReviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@futurfusion.io>\n---\n include/migration/vmstate.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++----\n migration/savevm.c          |  3 +++\n migration/vmstate.c         | 10 +++++++++-\n 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)",
    "diff": "diff --git a/include/migration/vmstate.h b/include/migration/vmstate.h\nindex 68fd954411..b4bc69486d 100644\n--- a/include/migration/vmstate.h\n+++ b/include/migration/vmstate.h\n@@ -183,11 +183,26 @@ typedef enum {\n struct VMStateField {\n     const char *name;\n     size_t offset;\n+\n+    /*\n+     * @size or @size_offset specifies the size of the element embeded in\n+     * the field.  Only one of them should be present never both.  When\n+     * @size_offset is used together with VMS_VBUFFER, it means the size is\n+     * dynamic calculated instead of a constant.\n+     *\n+     * When the field is an array of any type, this stores the size of one\n+     * element of the array.\n+     *\n+     * NOTE: even if VMS_POINTER or VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER may be specified,\n+     * this parameter always reflects the real size of the objects that a\n+     * pointer point to.\n+     */\n     size_t size;\n+    size_t size_offset;\n+\n     size_t start;\n     int num;\n     size_t num_offset;\n-    size_t size_offset;\n     const VMStateInfo *info;\n     enum VMStateFlags flags;\n     const VMStateDescription *vmsd;\n@@ -547,7 +562,6 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_qlist;\n     .version_id = (_version),                                        \\\n     .num        = (_num),                                            \\\n     .info       = &(_info),                                          \\\n-    .size       = sizeof(_type *),                                   \\\n     .flags      = VMS_ARRAY|VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER,                    \\\n     .offset     = vmstate_offset_array(_state, _field, _type*, _num), \\\n }\n@@ -557,7 +571,6 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_qlist;\n     .version_id = (_v),                                              \\\n     .num        = (_n),                                              \\\n     .vmsd       = &(_vmsd),                                          \\\n-    .size       = sizeof(_type *),                                    \\\n     .flags      = VMS_ARRAY|VMS_STRUCT|VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER,         \\\n     .offset     = vmstate_offset_array(_s, _f, _type*, _n),          \\\n }\n@@ -567,7 +580,6 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_qlist;\n     .version_id = (_version),                                             \\\n     .num_offset = vmstate_offset_value(_state, _field_num, uint32_t),     \\\n     .info       = &(_info),                                               \\\n-    .size       = sizeof(_type *),                                          \\\n     .flags      = VMS_VARRAY_UINT32 | VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER | VMS_POINTER, \\\n     .offset     = vmstate_offset_pointer(_state, _field, _type *),          \\\n }\ndiff --git a/migration/savevm.c b/migration/savevm.c\nindex 8115203b51..f5a6fd0c66 100644\n--- a/migration/savevm.c\n+++ b/migration/savevm.c\n@@ -868,6 +868,9 @@ static void vmstate_check(const VMStateDescription *vmsd)\n \n     if (field) {\n         while (field->name) {\n+            if (field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER) {\n+                assert(field->size == 0);\n+            }\n             if (field->flags & (VMS_STRUCT | VMS_VSTRUCT)) {\n                 /* Recurse to sub structures */\n                 vmstate_check(field->vmsd);\ndiff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c\nindex e98b5f5346..e29a8c3f49 100644\n--- a/migration/vmstate.c\n+++ b/migration/vmstate.c\n@@ -110,13 +110,21 @@ static int vmstate_n_elems(void *opaque, const VMStateField *field)\n \n static int vmstate_size(void *opaque, const VMStateField *field)\n {\n-    int size = field->size;\n+    int size;\n \n     if (field->flags & VMS_VBUFFER) {\n         size = *(int32_t *)(opaque + field->size_offset);\n         if (field->flags & VMS_MULTIPLY) {\n             size *= field->size;\n         }\n+    } else if (field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER) {\n+        /*\n+         * For an array of pointer, the each element is always size of a\n+         * host pointer.\n+         */\n+        size = sizeof(void *);\n+    } else {\n+        size = field->size;\n     }\n \n     return size;\n",
    "prefixes": [
        "RFC",
        "v2",
        "03/11"
    ]
}