vmstate: Allow dynamic allocation for VBUFFER during migration

This extends use of VMS_ALLOC flag from arrays to VBUFFER as well.

This defines VMSTATE_VBUFFER_ALLOC_UINT32 which makes use of VMS_ALLOC
and uses uint32_t type for a size.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

include/migration/vmstate.h

@@ -484,6 +484,17 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_bitmap;
     .start        = (_start),                                        \
 }
 
+#define VMSTATE_VBUFFER_ALLOC_UINT32(_field, _state, _version, _test, _start, _field_size) { \
+    .name         = (stringify(_field)),                             \
+    .version_id   = (_version),                                      \
+    .field_exists = (_test),                                         \
+    .size_offset  = vmstate_offset_value(_state, _field_size, uint32_t),\
+    .info         = &vmstate_info_buffer,                            \
+    .flags        = VMS_VBUFFER|VMS_POINTER|VMS_ALLOC,               \
+    .offset       = offsetof(_state, _field),                        \
+    .start        = (_start),                                        \
+}
+
 #define VMSTATE_BUFFER_UNSAFE_INFO(_field, _state, _version, _info, _size) { \
     .name       = (stringify(_field)),                               \
     .version_id = (_version),                                        \

vmstate.c

@@ -49,9 +49,16 @@ static void *vmstate_base_addr(void *opaque, VMStateField *field, bool alloc)
 
     if (field->flags & VMS_POINTER) {
         if (alloc && (field->flags & VMS_ALLOC)) {
-            int n_elems = vmstate_n_elems(opaque, field);
-            if (n_elems) {
-                gsize size = n_elems * field->size;
+            gsize size = 0;
+            if (field->flags & VMS_VBUFFER) {
+                size = vmstate_size(opaque, field);
+            } else {
+                int n_elems = vmstate_n_elems(opaque, field);
+                if (n_elems) {
+                    size = n_elems * field->size;
+                }
+            }
+            if (size) {
                 *((void **)base_addr + field->start) = g_malloc(size);
             }
         }