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From: peterx@redhat.com
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	peterx@redhat.com, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Bandan Das" <bdas@redhat.com>,
	"Prasad Pandit" <ppandit@redhat.com>,
	"Fabiano Rosas" <farosas@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 03/10] docs/migration: Convert virtio.txt into rST
Date: Tue,  9 Jan 2024 14:46:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240109064628.595453-4-peterx@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240109064628.595453-1-peterx@redhat.com>

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

Convert the plain old .txt into .rst, add it into migration/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/migration/index.rst  |   1 +
 docs/devel/migration/virtio.rst | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/devel/migration/virtio.txt | 108 ------------------------------
 3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/devel/migration/virtio.rst
 delete mode 100644 docs/devel/migration/virtio.txt

diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/index.rst b/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
index 02cfdcc969..2cb701c77c 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/index.rst
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ QEMU live migration works.
 
    main
    vfio
+   virtio
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/virtio.rst b/docs/devel/migration/virtio.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..611a18b821
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/virtio.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+=======================
+Virtio device 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 VMState wrapper on
+                                                      device class
+  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 VMState wrapper on
+                                                      device class
+  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.
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/virtio.txt b/docs/devel/migration/virtio.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 98a6b0ffb5..0000000000
--- a/docs/devel/migration/virtio.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-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 VMState wrapper on
-                                                    device class
-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 VMState wrapper on
-                                                    device class
-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.
-- 
2.41.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-09  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-09  6:46 [PATCH 00/10] docs/migration: Reorganize migration documentations peterx
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 01/10] docs/migration: Create migration/ directory peterx
2024-01-09  6:52   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 02/10] docs/migration: Create index page peterx
2024-01-09  6:53   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` peterx [this message]
2024-01-09  7:02   ` [PATCH 03/10] docs/migration: Convert virtio.txt into rST Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 04/10] docs/migration: Split "Backwards compatibility" separately peterx
2024-01-09  7:03   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 05/10] docs/migration: Split "Debugging" and "Firmware" peterx
2024-01-09  7:04   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09 17:03   ` Fabiano Rosas
2024-01-10  2:10     ` Peter Xu
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 06/10] docs/migration: Split "Postcopy" peterx
2024-01-09  7:05   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 07/10] docs/migration: Split "dirty limit" peterx
2024-01-09  7:06   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 08/10] docs/migration: Organize "Postcopy" page peterx
2024-01-09  7:20   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 09/10] docs/migration: Further move vfio to be feature of migration peterx
2024-01-09  7:20   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09  6:46 ` [PATCH 10/10] docs/migration: Further move virtio " peterx
2024-01-09  7:20   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-09 10:49 ` [PATCH 00/10] docs/migration: Reorganize migration documentations Peter Xu
2024-01-09 13:21   ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-10  2:37     ` Peter Xu
2024-01-10 15:21       ` Cédric Le Goater
2024-01-11  2:42         ` Peter Xu
2024-01-11  6:20 ` Peter Xu

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