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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2021-04-29 13:27:02 +0200
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2021-05-13 18:21:13 +0100
commitc7c0e72408df5e7821c0e995122fb2fe0ac001f1 (patch)
tree4328611e971fa50c3a0c8c16dade8431c5f72fcb /include/exec
parente15c7d1e8c34bbffec2aa88f8fe7cd9812b1c71f (diff)
migration/ram: Handle RAM block resizes during precopy
Resizing while migrating is dangerous and does not work as expected. The whole migration code works on the usable_length of ram blocks and does not expect this to change at random points in time. In the case of precopy, the ram block size must not change on the source, after syncing the RAM block list in ram_save_setup(), so as long as the guest is still running on the source. Resizing can be trigger *after* (but not during) a reset in ACPI code by the guest - hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c:acpi_ram_update() - hw/i386/acpi-build.c:acpi_ram_update() Use the ram block notifier to get notified about resizes. Let's simply cancel migration and indicate the reason. We'll continue running on the source. No harm done. Update the documentation. Postcopy will be handled separately. Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210429112708.12291-5-david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Manual merge
Diffstat (limited to 'include/exec')
-rw-r--r--include/exec/memory.h10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
index 5728a681b2..c8b9088924 100644
--- a/include/exec/memory.h
+++ b/include/exec/memory.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ typedef struct IOMMUTLBEvent {
#define RAM_SHARED (1 << 1)
/* Only a portion of RAM (used_length) is actually used, and migrated.
- * This used_length size can change across reboots.
+ * Resizing RAM while migrating can result in the migration being canceled.
*/
#define RAM_RESIZEABLE (1 << 2)
@@ -955,7 +955,9 @@ void memory_region_init_ram_shared_nomigrate(MemoryRegion *mr,
* RAM. Accesses into the region will
* modify memory directly. Only an initial
* portion of this RAM is actually used.
- * The used size can change across reboots.
+ * Changing the size while migrating
+ * can result in the migration being
+ * canceled.
*
* @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized.
* @owner: the object that tracks the region's reference count
@@ -1586,8 +1588,8 @@ void *memory_region_get_ram_ptr(MemoryRegion *mr);
/* memory_region_ram_resize: Resize a RAM region.
*
- * Only legal before guest might have detected the memory size: e.g. on
- * incoming migration, or right after reset.
+ * Resizing RAM while migrating can result in the migration being canceled.
+ * Care has to be taken if the guest might have already detected the memory.
*
* @mr: a memory region created with @memory_region_init_resizeable_ram.
* @newsize: the new size the region