docs/migration: Split "Debugging" and "Firmware"

Move the two sections into a separate file called "best-practices.rst".
Add the entry into index.

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109064628.595453-6-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/best-practices.rst b/docs/devel/migration/best-practices.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d7c34a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/best-practices.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+==============
+Best practices
+==============
+
+Debugging
+=========
+
+The migration stream can be analyzed thanks to ``scripts/analyze-migration.py``.
+
+Example usage:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -monitor stdio
+  (qemu) migrate "exec:cat > mig"
+  (qemu) q
+  $ ./scripts/analyze-migration.py -f mig
+  {
+    "ram (3)": {
+        "section sizes": {
+            "pc.ram": "0x0000000008000000",
+  ...
+
+See also ``analyze-migration.py -h`` help for more options.
+
+Firmware
+========
+
+Migration migrates the copies of RAM and ROM, and thus when running
+on the destination it includes the firmware from the source. Even after
+resetting a VM, the old firmware is used.  Only once QEMU has been restarted
+is the new firmware in use.
+
+- Changes in firmware size can cause changes in the required RAMBlock size
+  to hold the firmware and thus migration can fail.  In practice it's best
+  to pad firmware images to convenient powers of 2 with plenty of space
+  for growth.
+
+- Care should be taken with device emulation code so that newer
+  emulation code can work with older firmware to allow forward migration.
+
+- Care should be taken with newer firmware so that backward migration
+  to older systems with older device emulation code will work.
+
+In some cases it may be best to tie specific firmware versions to specific
+versioned machine types to cut down on the combinations that will need
+support.  This is also useful when newer versions of firmware outgrow
+the padding.

diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/index.rst b/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
index 7fc02b952061b12f6640c4af1d441073842df875..9a8fd1ead752bfd255b00caff8a0766e982e4bcd 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ QEMU live migration works.
    compatibility
    vfio
    virtio
+   best-practices

diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
index b3e31bb52f29e56319e887456de55bee443df683..97811ce371098f9b39eab2defd820dd46009073a 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
@@ -52,27 +52,6 @@ All these migration protocols use the same infrastructure to
 save/restore state devices.  This infrastructure is shared with the
 savevm/loadvm functionality.
 
-Debugging
-=========
-
-The migration stream can be analyzed thanks to ``scripts/analyze-migration.py``.
-
-Example usage:
-
-.. code-block:: shell
-
-  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -monitor stdio
-  (qemu) migrate "exec:cat > mig"
-  (qemu) q
-  $ ./scripts/analyze-migration.py -f mig
-  {
-    "ram (3)": {
-        "section sizes": {
-            "pc.ram": "0x0000000008000000",
-  ...
-
-See also ``analyze-migration.py -h`` help for more options.
-
 Common infrastructure
 =====================
 
@@ -970,26 +949,3 @@ the background migration channel.  Anyone who cares about latencies of page
 faults during a postcopy migration should enable this feature.  By default,
 it's not enabled.
 
-Firmware
-========
-
-Migration migrates the copies of RAM and ROM, and thus when running
-on the destination it includes the firmware from the source. Even after
-resetting a VM, the old firmware is used.  Only once QEMU has been restarted
-is the new firmware in use.
-
-- Changes in firmware size can cause changes in the required RAMBlock size
-  to hold the firmware and thus migration can fail.  In practice it's best
-  to pad firmware images to convenient powers of 2 with plenty of space
-  for growth.
-
-- Care should be taken with device emulation code so that newer
-  emulation code can work with older firmware to allow forward migration.
-
-- Care should be taken with newer firmware so that backward migration
-  to older systems with older device emulation code will work.
-
-In some cases it may be best to tie specific firmware versions to specific
-versioned machine types to cut down on the combinations that will need
-support.  This is also useful when newer versions of firmware outgrow
-the padding.