Re: [PATCH] migration: Add canary to VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST

[Peter Xu]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:56:07AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We could have vmstate_register_with_alias_id() iterate through
> and assert presence of the right terminator (probably only if
> qtest enabled, or some other suitable condition). Then the
> existing tests that do the basic "check we can instantiate every
> device and initialize every board model" would run that code
> and catch most missing terminator cases, I think.

Agreed.  How about assert it even without qtest?  We do tons of assertion for
programming errors anyway in QEMU.

Thanks,

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Peter Xu