On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:58:10 -0500, John Ferlan wrote:
On 11/03/2016 02:12 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> The memory device alias needs to be treated as machine ABI as qemu is
> using it in the migration stream for section labels. To simplify this
> generate the alias from the slot number unless an existing broken
> configuration is detected.
>
> With this patch the aliases are predictable and even certain
> configurations which would not be migratable previously are fixed.
>
> Resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359135
> ---
> src/qemu/qemu_alias.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++----
> src/qemu/qemu_alias.h | 3 ++-
> src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 4 +++-
> .../qemuxml2argv-memory-hotplug-dimm-addr.args | 4 ++--
> 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
Revisiting after my face-palm for patch2.
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c b/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c
> index 9737158..8521a44 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c
> @@ -332,17 +332,34 @@ qemuAssignDeviceRNGAlias(virDomainDefPtr def,
> }
>
>
> +/**
> + * qemuAssignDeviceMemoryAlias:
> + * @def: domain definition. Necessary only if @oldAlias is true.
s/old/use (multiple places)
I kept using oldAlias, as I think the variable should emphasize that the
old approach is used. I can change it if you think otherwise. I will be
following up with a patch adding docs for the address anyways.
Pushed; Thanks.
Peter