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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>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH RFC v2 10/11] vmstate: Stop checking size for nullptr\n compression",
        "Date": "Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:05:31 -0400",
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    "content": "From: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>\n\nThe NULL pointer marker code applies only to VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER,\nwhere the size is never NULL. Move the setting of is_null under\nVMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER, so we can stop checking the size.\n\nSigned-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>\nSigned-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>\n---\n migration/vmstate.c | 6 +++---\n 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)",
    "diff": "diff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c\nindex 9cd0a88ce9..1923602f3b 100644\n--- a/migration/vmstate.c\n+++ b/migration/vmstate.c\n@@ -673,14 +673,14 @@ static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,\n                 const VMStateField *inner_field;\n                 /* maximum number of elements to compress in the JSON blob */\n                 int max_elems = vmsd_can_compress(field) ? (n_elems - i) : 1;\n-                bool use_marker_field, is_null;\n+                bool use_marker_field, is_null = false;\n \n                 if (field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER) {\n                     assert(curr_elem);\n                     curr_elem = *(void **)curr_elem;\n+                    is_null = !curr_elem;\n                 }\n \n-                is_null = !curr_elem && size;\n                 use_marker_field = use_dynamic_array || is_null;\n \n                 if (use_marker_field) {\n@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static bool vmstate_save_vmsd_v(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,\n \n                     for (int j = i + 1; j < n_elems; j++) {\n                         void *elem = *(void **)(first_elem + size * j);\n-                        bool elem_is_null = !elem && size;\n+                        bool elem_is_null = !elem;\n \n                         if (is_null != elem_is_null) {\n                             max_elems = j - i;\n",
    "prefixes": [
        "RFC",
        "v2",
        "10/11"
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