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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com>,
	Hailiang Zhang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "amit.shah@redhat.com" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	"peter.huangpeng@huawei.com" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
	"dgilbert@redhat.com" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: not send zero page header in ram bulk stage
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:55:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569F5993.3030204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2CBF3009FA73547804AE4C663CAB28E03732C78@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>



On 19/01/2016 04:17, Li, Liang Z wrote:
> > Paolo is right, for VM in destination, QEMU may write VM's memory before
> > VM starts.
> > So your assumption that "VM's RAM pages are initialized to zero" is incorrect.
> > This patch will break LM.
> 
> Which portion of the VM's RAM pages will be written by QEMU? Do you know some exact information?
> I can't wait for Paolo's response.

It is basically anything that uses rom_add_file_fixed or
rom_add_blob_fixed with an address that points into RAM.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15  9:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: not send zero page header in ram bulk stage Liang Li
2016-01-15 10:17 ` Hailiang Zhang
2016-01-15 10:24   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-18  9:01     ` Hailiang Zhang
2016-01-19  1:26       ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-19  3:11         ` Hailiang Zhang
2016-01-19  3:17           ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-20  9:55             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-01-20  9:59               ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-19  3:25           ` Hailiang Zhang
2016-01-19  3:36             ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-15 11:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-16 14:12   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-15 18:57 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-01-16 14:25   ` Li, Liang Z
2016-01-18  9:33     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-01-18  9:17   ` Hailiang Zhang

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