On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM TANG Tiancheng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch set fixes several timer-related migration issues in QEMU's
> RISC-V implementation that cause timer events to be lost or behave
> incorrectly after snapshot save/restore or live migration.
>
> The problems addressed are:
>
> 1. ACLINT mtimer time_delta not migrated: The time_delta field in
>    RISCVAclintMTimerState was missing from vmstate, causing incorrect
>    mtime values after snapshot restore. This resulted in guest time
>    appearing "frozen" until enough virtual time elapsed to compensate
>    for the offset error.
>
> 2. ACLINT mtimer timers array not migrated: Active timer events
>    scheduled via riscv_aclint_mtimer_write_timecmp() were not being
>    migrated, causing pending timer interrupts to be lost after restore.
>
> 3. CPU stimer/vstimer not migrated: The S-mode and VS-mode timer
>    pointers in CPURISCVState were missing from vmstate_riscv_cpu,
>    causing supervisor-level timer events to be lost.
>
> The patch set introduces a new VMSTATE_TIMER_PTR_VARRAY macro to handle
> migration of variable-length timer pointer arrays, and adds the missing
> timer fields to the appropriate vmstate structures.
>
> Signed-off-by: TANG Tiancheng <[email protected]>

Thanks!

Applied to riscv-to-apply.next

Alistair

> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove 'include/' of the subject at patch v2 2/4.
> - Added Reviewed-by from Peter Xu.
> - Link to v2: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Split VMSTATE_VARRAY_OF_POINTER_UINT32() into a separate patch,
>   and define VMSTATE_TIMER_PTR_VARRAY() in riscv_aclint.h.
> - Added Reviewed-by from Daniel Henrique Barboza.
> - Link to v1: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]
>
> ---
> TANG Tiancheng (4):
>       hw/intc: Save time_delta in RISC-V mtimer VMState
>       migration: Add support for a variable-length array of UINT32 pointers
>       hw/intc: Save timers array in RISC-V mtimer VMState
>       target/riscv: Save stimer and vstimer in CPU vmstate
>
>  hw/intc/riscv_aclint.c         |  7 +++++--
>  include/hw/intc/riscv_aclint.h |  4 ++++
>  include/migration/vmstate.h    | 10 ++++++++++
>  target/riscv/machine.c         | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 6a9fa5ef3230a7d51e0d953a59ee9ef10af705b8
> change-id: 20250909-timers-18c2c67b1a2a
>
> Best regards,
> --
> TANG Tiancheng <[email protected]>
>
>

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