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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, yamahata@private.email.ne.jp,
	lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com, quintela@redhat.com,
	cristian.klein@cs.umu.se, amit.shah@redhat.com,
	yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 40/47] Postcopy: Use helpers to map pages during migration
Date: Fri,  3 Oct 2014 18:47:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412358473-31398-41-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412358473-31398-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>

From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>

In postcopy, the destination guest is running at the same time
as it's receiving pages; as we receive new pages we must put
them into the guests address space atomically to avoid a running
CPU accessing a partially written page.

Use the helpers in postcopy-ram.c to map these pages.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
---
 arch_init.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 87 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
index 2f4345a..0ba627b 100644
--- a/arch_init.c
+++ b/arch_init.c
@@ -1458,9 +1458,20 @@ static int load_xbzrle(QEMUFile *f, ram_addr_t addr, void *host)
     return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Read a RAMBlock ID from the stream f, find the host address of the
+ * start of that block and add on 'offset'
+ *
+ * f: Stream to read from
+ * mis: MigrationIncomingState
+ * offset: Offset within the block
+ * flags: Page flags (mostly to see if it's a continuation of previous block)
+ * rb: Pointer to RAMBlock* that gets filled in with the RB we find
+ */
 static inline void *host_from_stream_offset(QEMUFile *f,
+                                            MigrationIncomingState *mis,
                                             ram_addr_t offset,
-                                            int flags)
+                                            int flags, RAMBlock **rb)
 {
     static RAMBlock *block = NULL;
     char id[256];
@@ -1471,8 +1482,11 @@ static inline void *host_from_stream_offset(QEMUFile *f,
             error_report("Ack, bad migration stream!");
             return NULL;
         }
+        if (rb) {
+            *rb = block;
+        }
 
-        return memory_region_get_ram_ptr(block->mr) + offset;
+        goto gotit;
     }
 
     len = qemu_get_byte(f);
@@ -1480,12 +1494,22 @@ static inline void *host_from_stream_offset(QEMUFile *f,
     id[len] = 0;
 
     QTAILQ_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
-        if (!strncmp(id, block->idstr, sizeof(id)))
-            return memory_region_get_ram_ptr(block->mr) + offset;
+        if (!strncmp(id, block->idstr, sizeof(id))) {
+            if (rb) {
+                *rb = block;
+            }
+            goto gotit;
+        }
     }
 
     error_report("Can't find block %s!", id);
     return NULL;
+
+gotit:
+    postcopy_hook_early_receive(mis,
+        (offset + (*rb)->offset) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+    return memory_region_get_ram_ptr(block->mr) + offset;
+
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1515,6 +1539,13 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
     ram_addr_t addr;
     int flags, ret = 0;
     static uint64_t seq_iter;
+    /*
+     * System is running in postcopy mode, page inserts to host memory must be
+     * atomic
+     */
+    MigrationIncomingState *mis = migration_incoming_get_current();
+    bool postcopy_running = mis->postcopy_ram_state >=
+                            POSTCOPY_RAM_INCOMING_LISTENING;
 
     seq_iter++;
 
@@ -1523,6 +1554,7 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
     }
 
     while (!ret) {
+        RAMBlock *rb = 0; /* =0 needed to silence compiler */
         addr = qemu_get_be64(f);
 
         flags = addr & ~TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
@@ -1570,7 +1602,7 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
             void *host;
             uint8_t ch;
 
-            host = host_from_stream_offset(f, addr, flags);
+            host = host_from_stream_offset(f, mis, addr, flags, &rb);
             if (!host) {
                 error_report("Illegal RAM offset " RAM_ADDR_FMT, addr);
                 ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -1578,20 +1610,66 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
             }
 
             ch = qemu_get_byte(f);
-            ram_handle_compressed(host, ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+            if (!postcopy_running) {
+                ram_handle_compressed(host, ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+            } else {
+                if (!ch) {
+                    ret = postcopy_place_zero_page(mis, host,
+                              (addr + rb->offset) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+                } else {
+                    void *tmp;
+                    tmp = postcopy_get_tmp_page(mis, (addr + rb->offset) >>
+                                                      TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+
+                    if (!tmp) {
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+                    }
+                    memset(tmp, ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+                    ret = postcopy_place_page(mis, host, tmp,
+                              (addr + rb->offset) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+                }
+                if (ret) {
+                    error_report("ram_load: Failure in postcopy compress @"
+                                 "%zx/%p;%s+%zx",
+                                 addr, host, rb->idstr, rb->offset);
+                    return ret;
+                }
+            }
         } else if (flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_PAGE) {
             void *host;
 
-            host = host_from_stream_offset(f, addr, flags);
+            host = host_from_stream_offset(f, mis, addr, flags, &rb);
             if (!host) {
                 error_report("Illegal RAM offset " RAM_ADDR_FMT, addr);
                 ret = -EINVAL;
                 break;
             }
 
-            qemu_get_buffer(f, host, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+            if (!postcopy_running) {
+                qemu_get_buffer(f, host, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+            } else {
+                void *tmp = postcopy_get_tmp_page(mis, (addr + rb->offset) >>
+                                                        TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+
+                if (!tmp) {
+                    return -ENOMEM;
+                }
+                qemu_get_buffer(f, tmp, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+                ret = postcopy_place_page(mis, host, tmp,
+                          (addr + rb->offset) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
+                if (ret) {
+                    error_report("ram_load: Failure in postcopy simple"
+                                 "@%zx/%p;%s+%zx",
+                                 addr, host, rb->idstr, rb->offset);
+                    return ret;
+                }
+            }
         } else if (flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_XBZRLE) {
-            void *host = host_from_stream_offset(f, addr, flags);
+            if (postcopy_running) {
+                error_report("XBZRLE RAM block in postcopy mode @%zx\n", addr);
+                return -EINVAL;
+            }
+            void *host = host_from_stream_offset(f, mis, addr, flags, &rb);
             if (!host) {
                 error_report("Illegal RAM offset " RAM_ADDR_FMT, addr);
                 ret = -EINVAL;
-- 
1.9.3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 204+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03 17:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/47] Postcopy implementation Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/47] QEMUSizedBuffer based QEMUFile Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-08  2:10   ` zhanghailiang
2014-11-03  0:53   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/47] Tests: QEMUSizedBuffer/QEMUBuffer Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  1:02   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/47] Start documenting how postcopy works Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  1:31   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 04/47] qemu_ram_foreach_block: pass up error value, and down the ramblock name Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  2:34   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/47] improve DPRINTF macros, add to savevm Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  2:35   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/47] Add qemu_get_counted_string to read a string prefixed by a count byte Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  2:39   ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 16:13     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 07/47] Create MigrationIncomingState Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  2:45   ` David Gibson
2014-11-04 19:06     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/47] socket shutdown Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 18:09   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 10:00     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 11:10       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/47] Provide runtime Target page information Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 10/47] Return path: Open a return path on QEMUFile for sockets Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:05   ` David Gibson
2014-11-03 19:04     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-18  4:34       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/47] Return path: socket_writev_buffer: Block even on non-blocking fd's Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:10   ` David Gibson
2014-11-03 18:59     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-18  3:54       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/47] Handle bi-directional communication for fd migration Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:12   ` David Gibson
2014-11-03 13:53     ` Cristian Klein
2014-11-18  3:53       ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 17:27         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 13/47] Migration commands Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:14   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 14/47] Return path: Control commands Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 18:08   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-23 16:23     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-23 20:15       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-03  3:20         ` David Gibson
2014-11-04 18:58         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 15/47] Return path: Send responses from destination to source Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:22   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 16/47] Return path: Source handling of return path Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 18:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-23 18:00     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-24 10:04       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-16  8:26   ` zhanghailiang
2014-10-16  8:35     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-16  9:09       ` zhanghailiang
2014-11-03  3:47     ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 15:44       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-03  3:46   ` David Gibson
2014-11-03 13:22     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-18  3:52       ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 17:06         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 21:12           ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 17/47] qemu_loadvm errors and debug Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:49   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 18/47] ram_debug_dump_bitmap: Dump a migration bitmap as text Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  3:58   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 17:35     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 19/47] Rework loadvm path for subloops Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 16:46   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07  8:58     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 10:12       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 10:21         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-03  5:08   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 17:50     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-21  6:53       ` David Gibson
2014-12-11 14:47         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 20/47] Add migration-capability boolean for postcopy-ram Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-06 18:59   ` Eric Blake
2014-10-06 19:07     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 21/47] Add wrappers and handlers for sending/receiving the postcopy-ram migration messages Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-03  5:51   ` David Gibson
2014-12-17 14:50     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 22/47] QEMU_VM_CMD_PACKAGED: Send a packaged chunk of migration stream Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  1:28   ` David Gibson
2014-11-04 10:19     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-18  4:36       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 23/47] migrate_init: Call from savevm Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-08  2:28   ` zhanghailiang
2014-11-04  1:29   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 24/47] Allow savevm handlers to state whether they could go into postcopy Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  1:33   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 17:53     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-21  6:58       ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 19:58         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 25/47] postcopy: OS support test Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  1:40   ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 17:34     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 26/47] migrate_start_postcopy: Command to trigger transition to postcopy Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  1:47   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 27/47] MIG_STATE_POSTCOPY_ACTIVE: Add new migration state Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  1:49   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 28/47] qemu_savevm_state_complete: Postcopy changes Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  2:18   ` David Gibson
2014-12-17 16:14     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 29/47] Postcopy page-map-incoming (PMI) structure Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-04  3:09   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 18:46     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 30/47] Postcopy: Maintain sentmap and calculate discard Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-05  6:38   ` David Gibson
2014-12-17 16:48     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 31/47] postcopy: Incoming initialisation Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-05  6:47   ` David Gibson
2014-12-17 17:21     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 32/47] postcopy: ram_enable_notify to switch on userfault Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 16:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-06 19:00     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-05  6:49   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 18:59     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 21:17       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 33/47] Postcopy: Postcopy startup in migration thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 16:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-20 11:45     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-21 12:01       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-21 12:07         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-20 17:12     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-20 17:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-24 18:26     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-10  6:05   ` David Gibson
2015-01-05 16:06     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 34/47] Postcopy: Create a fault handler thread before marking the ram as userfault Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-10  6:10   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 18:56     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 35/47] Page request: Add MIG_RPCOMM_REQPAGES reverse command Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-10  6:19   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 20:01     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 21:48       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 36/47] Page request: Process incoming page request Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-08  2:31   ` zhanghailiang
2014-10-08  7:49     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-08  8:07       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-08  8:10       ` zhanghailiang
2014-10-08  8:18         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-10  6:31   ` David Gibson
2014-11-17 19:07     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-18  4:38       ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 19:37         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 37/47] Page request: Consume pages off the post-copy queue Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 18:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 11:35     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-11  1:13   ` David Gibson
2015-01-14 20:13     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-01-27  4:38       ` David Gibson
2015-01-27  9:40         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-01-28  5:33           ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 38/47] Add assertion to check migration_dirty_pages Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 18:32   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-06 18:51     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-06 20:30       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-11  1:14   ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 39/47] postcopy_ram.c: place_page and helpers Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-11  1:39   ` David Gibson
2015-01-15 18:14     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) [this message]
2014-11-13  2:53   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 40/47] Postcopy: Use helpers to map pages during migration David Gibson
2014-11-25 18:14     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 41/47] qemu_ram_block_from_host Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-13  2:59   ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 18:55     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 42/47] Don't sync dirty bitmaps in postcopy Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-13  3:01   ` David Gibson
2014-11-25 16:25     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 43/47] Host page!=target page: Cleanup bitmaps Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-13  3:10   ` David Gibson
2014-12-17 18:21     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-01-27  4:50       ` David Gibson
2015-01-27 10:04         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-01-28  5:36           ` David Gibson
2015-01-27 10:20   ` Peter Maydell
2015-01-27 11:50     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 44/47] Postcopy; Handle userfault requests Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-13  3:23   ` David Gibson
2015-01-05 17:13     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-01-27  4:33       ` David Gibson
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 45/47] Start up a postcopy/listener thread ready for incoming page data Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-11-13  3:29   ` David Gibson
2014-11-19 19:40     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-21  8:36       ` David Gibson
2014-11-21 10:17         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 46/47] postcopy: Wire up loadvm_postcopy_ram_handle_{run, end} commands Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 17:51   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-23 12:18     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-03 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 47/47] End of migration for postcopy Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-10-04 17:49   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-23 14:24     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-04 18:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 10:29     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 11:12       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-03 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/47] Postcopy implementation Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07  2:27   ` Cristian Klein
2014-10-07  8:12     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-08  8:36       ` Cristian Klein
2014-11-21  3:48 ` zhanghailiang
2014-11-21 10:14   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-24  8:10     ` zhanghailiang
2014-11-21 18:56   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-11-24  8:25     ` zhanghailiang

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