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author | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-05-18 13:18:31 +0300 |
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committer | José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com> | 2016-05-18 13:42:15 +0300 |
commit | 437fd90c0250dee670290f9b714253671a990160 (patch) | |
tree | b871786c360704244a07411c69fb58da9ead4a06 /qemu/docs/virtio-migration.txt | |
parent | 5bbd6fe9b8bab2a93e548c5a53b032d1939eec05 (diff) |
These changes are the raw update to qemu-2.6.
Collission happened in the following patches:
migration: do cleanup operation after completion(738df5b9)
Bug fix.(1750c932f86)
kvmclock: add a new function to update env->tsc.(b52baab2)
The code provided by the patches was already in the upstreamed
version.
Change-Id: I3cc11841a6a76ae20887b2e245710199e1ea7f9a
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/docs/virtio-migration.txt b/qemu/docs/virtio-migration.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf66458b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/qemu/docs/virtio-migration.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +Virtio devices and migration +============================ + +Copyright 2015 IBM Corp. + +This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. See +the COPYING file in the top-level directory. + +Saving and restoring the state of virtio devices is a bit of a twisty maze, +for several reasons: +- state is distributed between several parts: + - virtio core, for common fields like features, number of queues, ... + - virtio transport (pci, ccw, ...), for the different proxy devices and + transport specific state (msix vectors, indicators, ...) + - virtio device (net, blk, ...), for the different device types and their + state (mac address, request queue, ...) +- most fields are saved via the stream interface; subsequently, subsections + have been added to make cross-version migration possible + +This file attempts to document the current procedure and point out some +caveats. + + +Save state procedure +==================== + +virtio core virtio transport virtio device +----------- ---------------- ------------- + + save() function registered + via register_savevm() +virtio_save() <---------- + ------> save_config() + - save proxy device + - save transport-specific + device fields +- save common device + fields +- save common virtqueue + fields + ------> save_queue() + - save transport-specific + virtqueue fields + ------> save_device() + - save device-specific + fields +- save subsections + - device endianness, + if changed from + default endianness + - 64 bit features, if + any high feature bit + is set + - virtio-1 virtqueue + fields, if VERSION_1 + is set + + +Load state procedure +==================== + +virtio core virtio transport virtio device +----------- ---------------- ------------- + + load() function registered + via register_savevm() +virtio_load() <---------- + ------> load_config() + - load proxy device + - load transport-specific + device fields +- load common device + fields +- load common virtqueue + fields + ------> load_queue() + - load transport-specific + virtqueue fields +- notify guest + ------> load_device() + - load device-specific + fields +- load subsections + - device endianness + - 64 bit features + - virtio-1 virtqueue + fields +- sanitize endianness +- sanitize features +- virtqueue index sanity + check + - feature-dependent setup + + +Implications of this setup +========================== + +Devices need to be careful in their state processing during load: The +load_device() procedure is invoked by the core before subsections have +been loaded. Any code that depends on information transmitted in subsections +therefore has to be invoked in the device's load() function _after_ +virtio_load() returned (like e.g. code depending on features). + +Any extension of the state being migrated should be done in subsections +added to the core for compatibility reasons. If transport or device specific +state is added, core needs to invoke a callback from the new subsection. |