Re: [PATCH V2 00/11] allow cpr-reboot for vfio

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:04:59 -0800
Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> wrote:

> Allow cpr-reboot for vfio if the guest is in the suspended runstate.  The
> guest drivers' suspend methods flush outstanding requests and re-initialize
> the devices, and thus there is no device state to save and restore.  The
> user is responsible for suspending the guest before initiating cpr, such as
> by issuing guest-suspend-ram to the qemu guest agent.
> 
> Most of the patches in this series enhance migration notifiers so they can
> return an error status and message.  The last two patches register a notifier
> for vfio that returns an error if the guest is not suspended.

Hi Steve,

This appears to only support legacy container mode and not cdev/iommufd
mode.  Shouldn't this support both?  Thanks,

Alex

> Steve Sistare (11):
>   notify: pass error to notifier with return
>   migration: remove error from notifier data
>   migration: convert to NotifierWithReturn
>   migration: remove migration_in_postcopy parameter
>   migration: MigrationEvent for notifiers
>   migration: MigrationNotifyFunc
>   migration: per-mode notifiers
>   migration: refactor migrate_fd_connect failures
>   migration: notifier error checking
>   vfio: register container for cpr
>   vfio: allow cpr-reboot migration if suspended
> 
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c            |  14 ++---
>  hw/vfio/common.c               |   2 +-
>  hw/vfio/container.c            |  11 +++-
>  hw/vfio/cpr.c                  |  39 ++++++++++++++
>  hw/vfio/meson.build            |   1 +
>  hw/vfio/migration.c            |  13 +++--
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user.c         |  10 ++--
>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c     |   3 +-
>  include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h  |   6 ++-
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-net.h |   2 +-
>  include/migration/misc.h       |  21 +++++---
>  include/qemu/notify.h          |   7 ++-
>  migration/migration.c          | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  migration/postcopy-ram.c       |   3 +-
>  migration/postcopy-ram.h       |   1 -
>  migration/ram.c                |  12 ++---
>  net/vhost-vdpa.c               |  15 +++---
>  ui/spice-core.c                |  19 +++----
>  util/notify.c                  |   5 +-
>  19 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/vfio/cpr.c
>