diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index 20f88757d8..a56013662d 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static void *source_return_path_thread(void *opaque)
         /* OK, we have the message and the data */
         switch (header_type) {
         case MIG_RP_MSG_SHUT:
-            sibling_error = be32_to_cpup((uint32_t *)buf);
+            sibling_error = ldl_be_p(buf);
             trace_source_return_path_thread_shut(sibling_error);
             if (sibling_error) {
                 error_report("RP: Sibling indicated error %d", sibling_error);
@@ -1398,13 +1398,13 @@ static void *source_return_path_thread(void *opaque)
             goto out;
 
         case MIG_RP_MSG_PONG:
-            tmp32 = be32_to_cpup((uint32_t *)buf);
+            tmp32 = ldl_be_p(buf);
             trace_source_return_path_thread_pong(tmp32);
             break;
 
         case MIG_RP_MSG_REQ_PAGES:
-            start = be64_to_cpup((uint64_t *)buf);
-            len = be32_to_cpup((uint32_t *)(buf + 8));
+            start = ldq_be_p(buf);
+            len = ldl_be_p(buf + 8);
             migrate_handle_rp_req_pages(ms, NULL, start, len);
             break;
 
@@ -1412,8 +1412,8 @@ static void *source_return_path_thread(void *opaque)
             expected_len = 12 + 1; /* header + termination */
 
             if (header_len >= expected_len) {
-                start = be64_to_cpup((uint64_t *)buf);
-                len = be32_to_cpup((uint32_t *)(buf + 8));
+                start = ldq_be_p(buf);
+                len = ldl_be_p(buf + 8);
                 /* Now we expect an idstr */
                 tmp32 = buf[12]; /* Length of the following idstr */
                 buf[13 + tmp32] = '\0';
diff --git a/migration/qemu-file.c b/migration/qemu-file.c
index 8aea1c7094..bbc565eb53 100644
--- a/migration/qemu-file.c
+++ b/migration/qemu-file.c
@@ -615,8 +615,14 @@ uint64_t qemu_get_be64(QEMUFile *f)
     return v;
 }
 
-/* compress size bytes of data start at p with specific compression
+/* Compress size bytes of data start at p with specific compression
  * level and store the compressed data to the buffer of f.
+ *
+ * When f is not writable, return -1 if f has no space to save the
+ * compressed data.
+ * When f is wirtable and it has no space to save the compressed data,
+ * do fflush first, if f still has no space to save the compressed
+ * data, return -1.
  */
 
 ssize_t qemu_put_compression_data(QEMUFile *f, const uint8_t *p, size_t size,
@@ -625,7 +631,14 @@ ssize_t qemu_put_compression_data(QEMUFile *f, const uint8_t *p, size_t size,
     ssize_t blen = IO_BUF_SIZE - f->buf_index - sizeof(int32_t);
 
     if (blen < compressBound(size)) {
-        return 0;
+        if (!qemu_file_is_writable(f)) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+        qemu_fflush(f);
+        blen = IO_BUF_SIZE - sizeof(int32_t);
+        if (blen < compressBound(size)) {
+            return -1;
+        }
     }
     if (compress2(f->buf + f->buf_index + sizeof(int32_t), (uLongf *)&blen,
                   (Bytef *)p, size, level) != Z_OK) {
@@ -633,7 +646,13 @@ ssize_t qemu_put_compression_data(QEMUFile *f, const uint8_t *p, size_t size,
         return 0;
     }
     qemu_put_be32(f, blen);
+    if (f->ops->writev_buffer) {
+        add_to_iovec(f, f->buf + f->buf_index, blen);
+    }
     f->buf_index += blen;
+    if (f->buf_index == IO_BUF_SIZE) {
+        qemu_fflush(f);
+    }
     return blen + sizeof(int32_t);
 }
 
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 42fb8ac6d6..815bc0e11a 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ static struct BitmapRcu {
 } *migration_bitmap_rcu;
 
 struct CompressParam {
-    bool start;
     bool done;
+    bool quit;
     QEMUFile *file;
     QemuMutex mutex;
     QemuCond cond;
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ struct CompressParam {
 typedef struct CompressParam CompressParam;
 
 struct DecompressParam {
-    bool start;
+    bool done;
+    bool quit;
     QemuMutex mutex;
     QemuCond cond;
     void *des;
@@ -279,45 +280,47 @@ static QemuThread *compress_threads;
  * one of the compression threads has finished the compression.
  * comp_done_lock is used to co-work with comp_done_cond.
  */
-static QemuMutex *comp_done_lock;
-static QemuCond *comp_done_cond;
+static QemuMutex comp_done_lock;
+static QemuCond comp_done_cond;
 /* The empty QEMUFileOps will be used by file in CompressParam */
 static const QEMUFileOps empty_ops = { };
 
 static bool compression_switch;
-static bool quit_comp_thread;
-static bool quit_decomp_thread;
 static DecompressParam *decomp_param;
 static QemuThread *decompress_threads;
+static QemuMutex decomp_done_lock;
+static QemuCond decomp_done_cond;
 
-static int do_compress_ram_page(CompressParam *param);
+static int do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, RAMBlock *block,
+                                ram_addr_t offset);
 
 static void *do_data_compress(void *opaque)
 {
     CompressParam *param = opaque;
+    RAMBlock *block;
+    ram_addr_t offset;
 
-    while (!quit_comp_thread) {
-        qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
-        /* Re-check the quit_comp_thread in case of
-         * terminate_compression_threads is called just before
-         * qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex) and after
-         * while(!quit_comp_thread), re-check it here can make
-         * sure the compression thread terminate as expected.
-         */
-        while (!param->start && !quit_comp_thread) {
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
+    while (!param->quit) {
+        if (param->block) {
+            block = param->block;
+            offset = param->offset;
+            param->block = NULL;
+            qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
+
+            do_compress_ram_page(param->file, block, offset);
+
+            qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_done_lock);
+            param->done = true;
+            qemu_cond_signal(&comp_done_cond);
+            qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_done_lock);
+
+            qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
+        } else {
             qemu_cond_wait(&param->cond, &param->mutex);
         }
-        if (!quit_comp_thread) {
-            do_compress_ram_page(param);
-        }
-        param->start = false;
-        qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
-
-        qemu_mutex_lock(comp_done_lock);
-        param->done = true;
-        qemu_cond_signal(comp_done_cond);
-        qemu_mutex_unlock(comp_done_lock);
     }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
 
     return NULL;
 }
@@ -327,9 +330,9 @@ static inline void terminate_compression_threads(void)
     int idx, thread_count;
 
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
-    quit_comp_thread = true;
     for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
         qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
+        comp_param[idx].quit = true;
         qemu_cond_signal(&comp_param[idx].cond);
         qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
     }
@@ -350,16 +353,12 @@ void migrate_compress_threads_join(void)
         qemu_mutex_destroy(&comp_param[i].mutex);
         qemu_cond_destroy(&comp_param[i].cond);
     }
-    qemu_mutex_destroy(comp_done_lock);
-    qemu_cond_destroy(comp_done_cond);
+    qemu_mutex_destroy(&comp_done_lock);
+    qemu_cond_destroy(&comp_done_cond);
     g_free(compress_threads);
     g_free(comp_param);
-    g_free(comp_done_cond);
-    g_free(comp_done_lock);
     compress_threads = NULL;
     comp_param = NULL;
-    comp_done_cond = NULL;
-    comp_done_lock = NULL;
 }
 
 void migrate_compress_threads_create(void)
@@ -369,21 +368,19 @@ void migrate_compress_threads_create(void)
     if (!migrate_use_compression()) {
         return;
     }
-    quit_comp_thread = false;
     compression_switch = true;
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
     compress_threads = g_new0(QemuThread, thread_count);
     comp_param = g_new0(CompressParam, thread_count);
-    comp_done_cond = g_new0(QemuCond, 1);
-    comp_done_lock = g_new0(QemuMutex, 1);
-    qemu_cond_init(comp_done_cond);
-    qemu_mutex_init(comp_done_lock);
+    qemu_cond_init(&comp_done_cond);
+    qemu_mutex_init(&comp_done_lock);
     for (i = 0; i < thread_count; i++) {
         /* com_param[i].file is just used as a dummy buffer to save data, set
          * it's ops to empty.
          */
         comp_param[i].file = qemu_fopen_ops(NULL, &empty_ops);
         comp_param[i].done = true;
+        comp_param[i].quit = false;
         qemu_mutex_init(&comp_param[i].mutex);
         qemu_cond_init(&comp_param[i].cond);
         qemu_thread_create(compress_threads + i, "compress",
@@ -805,41 +802,27 @@ static int ram_save_page(QEMUFile *f, PageSearchStatus *pss,
     return pages;
 }
 
-static int do_compress_ram_page(CompressParam *param)
+static int do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, RAMBlock *block,
+                                ram_addr_t offset)
 {
     int bytes_sent, blen;
-    uint8_t *p;
-    RAMBlock *block = param->block;
-    ram_addr_t offset = param->offset;
+    uint8_t *p = block->host + (offset & TARGET_PAGE_MASK);
 
-    p = block->host + (offset & TARGET_PAGE_MASK);
-
-    bytes_sent = save_page_header(param->file, block, offset |
+    bytes_sent = save_page_header(f, block, offset |
                                   RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS_PAGE);
-    blen = qemu_put_compression_data(param->file, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
+    blen = qemu_put_compression_data(f, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
                                      migrate_compress_level());
-    bytes_sent += blen;
+    if (blen < 0) {
+        bytes_sent = 0;
+        qemu_file_set_error(migrate_get_current()->to_dst_file, blen);
+        error_report("compressed data failed!");
+    } else {
+        bytes_sent += blen;
+    }
 
     return bytes_sent;
 }
 
-static inline void start_compression(CompressParam *param)
-{
-    param->done = false;
-    qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
-    param->start = true;
-    qemu_cond_signal(&param->cond);
-    qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
-}
-
-static inline void start_decompression(DecompressParam *param)
-{
-    qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
-    param->start = true;
-    qemu_cond_signal(&param->cond);
-    qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
-}
-
 static uint64_t bytes_transferred;
 
 static void flush_compressed_data(QEMUFile *f)
@@ -850,18 +833,22 @@ static void flush_compressed_data(QEMUFile *f)
         return;
     }
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
+
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_done_lock);
     for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
-        if (!comp_param[idx].done) {
-            qemu_mutex_lock(comp_done_lock);
-            while (!comp_param[idx].done && !quit_comp_thread) {
-                qemu_cond_wait(comp_done_cond, comp_done_lock);
-            }
-            qemu_mutex_unlock(comp_done_lock);
+        while (!comp_param[idx].done) {
+            qemu_cond_wait(&comp_done_cond, &comp_done_lock);
         }
-        if (!quit_comp_thread) {
+    }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_done_lock);
+
+    for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
+        qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
+        if (!comp_param[idx].quit) {
             len = qemu_put_qemu_file(f, comp_param[idx].file);
             bytes_transferred += len;
         }
+        qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
     }
 }
 
@@ -879,13 +866,16 @@ static int compress_page_with_multi_thread(QEMUFile *f, RAMBlock *block,
     int idx, thread_count, bytes_xmit = -1, pages = -1;
 
     thread_count = migrate_compress_threads();
-    qemu_mutex_lock(comp_done_lock);
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_done_lock);
     while (true) {
         for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
             if (comp_param[idx].done) {
+                comp_param[idx].done = false;
                 bytes_xmit = qemu_put_qemu_file(f, comp_param[idx].file);
+                qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
                 set_compress_params(&comp_param[idx], block, offset);
-                start_compression(&comp_param[idx]);
+                qemu_cond_signal(&comp_param[idx].cond);
+                qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
                 pages = 1;
                 acct_info.norm_pages++;
                 *bytes_transferred += bytes_xmit;
@@ -895,10 +885,10 @@ static int compress_page_with_multi_thread(QEMUFile *f, RAMBlock *block,
         if (pages > 0) {
             break;
         } else {
-            qemu_cond_wait(comp_done_cond, comp_done_lock);
+            qemu_cond_wait(&comp_done_cond, &comp_done_lock);
         }
     }
-    qemu_mutex_unlock(comp_done_lock);
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_done_lock);
 
     return pages;
 }
@@ -919,24 +909,20 @@ static int ram_save_compressed_page(QEMUFile *f, PageSearchStatus *pss,
                                     uint64_t *bytes_transferred)
 {
     int pages = -1;
-    uint64_t bytes_xmit;
+    uint64_t bytes_xmit = 0;
     uint8_t *p;
-    int ret;
+    int ret, blen;
     RAMBlock *block = pss->block;
     ram_addr_t offset = pss->offset;
 
     p = block->host + offset;
 
-    bytes_xmit = 0;
     ret = ram_control_save_page(f, block->offset,
                                 offset, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, &bytes_xmit);
     if (bytes_xmit) {
         *bytes_transferred += bytes_xmit;
         pages = 1;
     }
-    if (block == last_sent_block) {
-        offset |= RAM_SAVE_FLAG_CONTINUE;
-    }
     if (ret != RAM_SAVE_CONTROL_NOT_SUPP) {
         if (ret != RAM_SAVE_CONTROL_DELAYED) {
             if (bytes_xmit > 0) {
@@ -956,17 +942,22 @@ static int ram_save_compressed_page(QEMUFile *f, PageSearchStatus *pss,
             flush_compressed_data(f);
             pages = save_zero_page(f, block, offset, p, bytes_transferred);
             if (pages == -1) {
-                set_compress_params(&comp_param[0], block, offset);
-                /* Use the qemu thread to compress the data to make sure the
-                 * first page is sent out before other pages
-                 */
-                bytes_xmit = do_compress_ram_page(&comp_param[0]);
-                acct_info.norm_pages++;
-                qemu_put_qemu_file(f, comp_param[0].file);
-                *bytes_transferred += bytes_xmit;
-                pages = 1;
+                /* Make sure the first page is sent out before other pages */
+                bytes_xmit = save_page_header(f, block, offset |
+                                              RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS_PAGE);
+                blen = qemu_put_compression_data(f, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
+                                                 migrate_compress_level());
+                if (blen > 0) {
+                    *bytes_transferred += bytes_xmit + blen;
+                    acct_info.norm_pages++;
+                    pages = 1;
+                } else {
+                    qemu_file_set_error(f, blen);
+                    error_report("compressed data failed!");
+                }
             }
         } else {
+            offset |= RAM_SAVE_FLAG_CONTINUE;
             pages = save_zero_page(f, block, offset, p, bytes_transferred);
             if (pages == -1) {
                 pages = compress_page_with_multi_thread(f, block, offset,
@@ -2191,29 +2182,59 @@ static void *do_data_decompress(void *opaque)
 {
     DecompressParam *param = opaque;
     unsigned long pagesize;
+    uint8_t *des;
+    int len;
+
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
+    while (!param->quit) {
+        if (param->des) {
+            des = param->des;
+            len = param->len;
+            param->des = 0;
+            qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
 
-    while (!quit_decomp_thread) {
-        qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
-        while (!param->start && !quit_decomp_thread) {
-            qemu_cond_wait(&param->cond, &param->mutex);
             pagesize = TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
-            if (!quit_decomp_thread) {
-                /* uncompress() will return failed in some case, especially
-                 * when the page is dirted when doing the compression, it's
-                 * not a problem because the dirty page will be retransferred
-                 * and uncompress() won't break the data in other pages.
-                 */
-                uncompress((Bytef *)param->des, &pagesize,
-                           (const Bytef *)param->compbuf, param->len);
-            }
-            param->start = false;
+            /* uncompress() will return failed in some case, especially
+             * when the page is dirted when doing the compression, it's
+             * not a problem because the dirty page will be retransferred
+             * and uncompress() won't break the data in other pages.
+             */
+            uncompress((Bytef *)des, &pagesize,
+                       (const Bytef *)param->compbuf, len);
+
+            qemu_mutex_lock(&decomp_done_lock);
+            param->done = true;
+            qemu_cond_signal(&decomp_done_cond);
+            qemu_mutex_unlock(&decomp_done_lock);
+
+            qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
+        } else {
+            qemu_cond_wait(&param->cond, &param->mutex);
         }
-        qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
     }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
 
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static void wait_for_decompress_done(void)
+{
+    int idx, thread_count;
+
+    if (!migrate_use_compression()) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    thread_count = migrate_decompress_threads();
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&decomp_done_lock);
+    for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
+        while (!decomp_param[idx].done) {
+            qemu_cond_wait(&decomp_done_cond, &decomp_done_lock);
+        }
+    }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&decomp_done_lock);
+}
+
 void migrate_decompress_threads_create(void)
 {
     int i, thread_count;
@@ -2221,11 +2242,14 @@ void migrate_decompress_threads_create(void)
     thread_count = migrate_decompress_threads();
     decompress_threads = g_new0(QemuThread, thread_count);
     decomp_param = g_new0(DecompressParam, thread_count);
-    quit_decomp_thread = false;
+    qemu_mutex_init(&decomp_done_lock);
+    qemu_cond_init(&decomp_done_cond);
     for (i = 0; i < thread_count; i++) {
         qemu_mutex_init(&decomp_param[i].mutex);
         qemu_cond_init(&decomp_param[i].cond);
         decomp_param[i].compbuf = g_malloc0(compressBound(TARGET_PAGE_SIZE));
+        decomp_param[i].done = true;
+        decomp_param[i].quit = false;
         qemu_thread_create(decompress_threads + i, "decompress",
                            do_data_decompress, decomp_param + i,
                            QEMU_THREAD_JOINABLE);
@@ -2236,10 +2260,10 @@ void migrate_decompress_threads_join(void)
 {
     int i, thread_count;
 
-    quit_decomp_thread = true;
     thread_count = migrate_decompress_threads();
     for (i = 0; i < thread_count; i++) {
         qemu_mutex_lock(&decomp_param[i].mutex);
+        decomp_param[i].quit = true;
         qemu_cond_signal(&decomp_param[i].cond);
         qemu_mutex_unlock(&decomp_param[i].mutex);
     }
@@ -2261,20 +2285,27 @@ static void decompress_data_with_multi_threads(QEMUFile *f,
     int idx, thread_count;
 
     thread_count = migrate_decompress_threads();
+    qemu_mutex_lock(&decomp_done_lock);
     while (true) {
         for (idx = 0; idx < thread_count; idx++) {
-            if (!decomp_param[idx].start) {
+            if (decomp_param[idx].done) {
+                decomp_param[idx].done = false;
+                qemu_mutex_lock(&decomp_param[idx].mutex);
                 qemu_get_buffer(f, decomp_param[idx].compbuf, len);
                 decomp_param[idx].des = host;
                 decomp_param[idx].len = len;
-                start_decompression(&decomp_param[idx]);
+                qemu_cond_signal(&decomp_param[idx].cond);
+                qemu_mutex_unlock(&decomp_param[idx].mutex);
                 break;
             }
         }
         if (idx < thread_count) {
             break;
+        } else {
+            qemu_cond_wait(&decomp_done_cond, &decomp_done_lock);
         }
     }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock(&decomp_done_lock);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2325,7 +2356,6 @@ static int ram_load_postcopy(QEMUFile *f)
                 ret = -EINVAL;
                 break;
             }
-            page_buffer = host;
             /*
              * Postcopy requires that we place whole host pages atomically.
              * To make it atomic, the data is read into a temporary page
@@ -2541,6 +2571,7 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
         }
     }
 
+    wait_for_decompress_done();
     rcu_read_unlock();
     DPRINTF("Completed load of VM with exit code %d seq iteration "
             "%" PRIu64 "\n", ret, seq_iter);
diff --git a/migration/savevm.c b/migration/savevm.c
index ae2ef8b5d4..38b85ee77b 100644
--- a/migration/savevm.c
+++ b/migration/savevm.c
@@ -823,9 +823,9 @@ void qemu_savevm_send_postcopy_ram_discard(QEMUFile *f, const char *name,
     buf[tmplen++] = '\0';
 
     for (t = 0; t < len; t++) {
-        cpu_to_be64w((uint64_t *)(buf + tmplen), start_list[t]);
+        stq_be_p(buf + tmplen, start_list[t]);
         tmplen += 8;
-        cpu_to_be64w((uint64_t *)(buf + tmplen), length_list[t]);
+        stq_be_p(buf + tmplen, length_list[t]);
         tmplen += 8;
     }
     qemu_savevm_command_send(f, MIG_CMD_POSTCOPY_RAM_DISCARD, tmplen, buf);
@@ -1150,10 +1150,12 @@ static int qemu_savevm_state(QEMUFile *f, Error **errp)
         .shared = 0
     };
     MigrationState *ms = migrate_init(&params);
+    MigrationStatus status;
     ms->to_dst_file = f;
 
     if (migration_is_blocked(errp)) {
-        return -EINVAL;
+        ret = -EINVAL;
+        goto done;
     }
 
     qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
@@ -1176,6 +1178,14 @@ static int qemu_savevm_state(QEMUFile *f, Error **errp)
     if (ret != 0) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Error while writing VM state");
     }
+
+done:
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        status = MIGRATION_STATUS_FAILED;
+    } else {
+        status = MIGRATION_STATUS_COMPLETED;
+    }
+    migrate_set_state(&ms->state, MIGRATION_STATUS_SETUP, status);
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c
index 46dc55ea40..fc29acf74d 100644
--- a/migration/vmstate.c
+++ b/migration/vmstate.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static int vmstate_n_elems(void *opaque, VMStateField *field)
         n_elems *= field->num;
     }
 
+    trace_vmstate_n_elems(field->name, n_elems);
     return n_elems;
 }
 
@@ -381,25 +382,25 @@ static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
         len = qemu_peek_byte(f, 1);
         if (len < strlen(vmsd->name) + 1) {
             /* subsection name has be be "section_name/a" */
-            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(short)");
+            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(short)", "");
             return 0;
         }
         size = qemu_peek_buffer(f, (uint8_t **)&idstr_ret, len, 2);
         if (size != len) {
-            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(peek fail)");
+            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(peek fail)", "");
             return 0;
         }
         memcpy(idstr, idstr_ret, size);
         idstr[size] = 0;
 
         if (strncmp(vmsd->name, idstr, strlen(vmsd->name)) != 0) {
-            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr);
-            /* it don't have a valid subsection name */
+            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr, "(prefix)");
+            /* it doesn't have a valid subsection name */
             return 0;
         }
         sub_vmsd = vmstate_get_subsection(vmsd->subsections, idstr);
         if (sub_vmsd == NULL) {
-            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(lookup)");
+            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr, "(lookup)");
             return -ENOENT;
         }
         qemu_file_skip(f, 1); /* subsection */
@@ -409,7 +410,7 @@ static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
 
         ret = vmstate_load_state(f, sub_vmsd, opaque, version_id);
         if (ret) {
-            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, "(child)");
+            trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr, "(child)");
             return ret;
         }
     }
diff --git a/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py b/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
index b5ecaf644d..14a27e7f6a 100755
--- a/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
+++ b/scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def check_fields(src_fields, dest_fields, desc, sec):
             if unused_count == 0:
                 advance_dest = True
 
-        if unused_count > 0:
+        if unused_count != 0:
             if advance_dest == False:
                 unused_count = unused_count - s_item["size"]
                 if unused_count == 0:
diff --git a/trace-events b/trace-events
index 104b64fae1..17e901bdc3 100644
--- a/trace-events
+++ b/trace-events
@@ -1271,8 +1271,9 @@ vmstate_load_field_error(const char *field, int ret) "field \"%s\" load failed,
 vmstate_load_state(const char *name, int version_id) "%s v%d"
 vmstate_load_state_end(const char *name, const char *reason, int val) "%s %s/%d"
 vmstate_load_state_field(const char *name, const char *field) "%s:%s"
+vmstate_n_elems(const char *name, int n_elems) "%s: %d"
 vmstate_subsection_load(const char *parent) "%s"
-vmstate_subsection_load_bad(const char *parent,  const char *sub) "%s: %s"
+vmstate_subsection_load_bad(const char *parent,  const char *sub, const char *sub2) "%s: %s/%s"
 vmstate_subsection_load_good(const char *parent) "%s"
 
 # qemu-file.c