migration/qemu-file: add qemu_put_counted_string()

Add function opposite to qemu_get_counted_string.
qemu_put_counted_string puts one-byte length of the string (string
should not be longer than 255 characters), and then it puts the string,
without last zero byte.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: NJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NJuan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NFam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180313180320.339796-9-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com

migration/qemu-file.c

@@ -733,6 +733,19 @@ size_t qemu_get_counted_string(QEMUFile *f, char buf[256])
     return res == len ? res : 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Put a string with one preceding byte containing its length. The length of
+ * the string should be less than 256.
+ */
+void qemu_put_counted_string(QEMUFile *f, const char *str)
+{
+    size_t len = strlen(str);
+
+    assert(len < 256);
+    qemu_put_byte(f, len);
+    qemu_put_buffer(f, (const uint8_t *)str, len);
+}
+
 /*
  * Set the blocking state of the QEMUFile.
  * Note: On some transports the OS only keeps a single blocking state for

migration/qemu-file.h

@@ -174,4 +174,6 @@ size_t ram_control_save_page(QEMUFile *f, ram_addr_t block_offset,
                              ram_addr_t offset, size_t size,
                              uint64_t *bytes_sent);
 
+void qemu_put_counted_string(QEMUFile *f, const char *name);
+
 #endif