From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] exec: qemu_ram_alloc_device, qemu_ram_resize
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:18:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761ebmfza.fsf@elfo.elfo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_3s5ngCkBY67f=38Sx7jzXwYM=O9kONsh3L-V=DKsmeA@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Maydell's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:10:36 +0000")
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 19 November 2014 14:07, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>> My understanding is that it is a "trick". We have internal memory for a
>> device that is needed for the emulation, but not showed to the guest.
>> And it is big enough that we want to save it during the "live" stage of
>> migration, so we mark it as RAM. if it is somekind of cash, we can just
>> enlarge it on destination, and it don't matter. If this has anything
>> different on the other part of the RAM, we are on trouble.
>
> Would it be feasible to just have the migration code provide
> an API for registering things to be migrated in the live
> migration stage, rather than creating memory regions which
> you can't actually use for most of the purposes the memory
> region API exists for?
If somebody told me what they need, we can do it.
Stefan, you needed something like that for data-plane? Or that memory
is mapped on the guest?
Later, Juan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 20:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] pc: make ROMs resizeable Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] cpu: add cpu_physical_memory_clear_dirty_range_nocode Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 9:10 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-17 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] exec: qemu_ram_alloc_device, qemu_ram_resize Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-18 6:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-18 7:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 9:19 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 9:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 10:11 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 10:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 10:45 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 13:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 13:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 13:57 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 14:13 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 14:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:26 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 14:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:59 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 15:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 15:53 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 14:22 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 14:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 16:39 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 16:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 16:27 ` Kevin O'Connor
2014-11-19 17:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-20 8:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-11-20 10:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 13:49 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 13:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:03 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 14:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:16 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-19 14:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:20 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 15:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 10:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-19 10:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 10:50 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 13:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 13:51 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 16:45 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 18:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-20 13:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-20 14:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-24 13:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 13:58 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-19 14:07 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 14:10 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-19 14:18 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2014-11-19 16:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-19 14:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 14:21 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-19 14:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 15:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 16:50 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 15:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 15:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] arch_init: support resizing on incoming migration Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] memory: interface to allocate device ram Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:21 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-18 11:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] acpi-build: make ROMs device RAM, make them resizeable Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-17 20:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] pc: make ROMs resizeable Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 7:29 ` Amit Shah
2014-11-18 14:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-18 15:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 8:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-11-19 13:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 7:31 ` Amit Shah
2014-11-19 8:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 8:22 ` Amit Shah
2014-11-19 13:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 13:52 ` Juan Quintela
2014-11-19 16:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 13:52 ` Peter Maydell
2014-11-19 14:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 15:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-19 16:40 ` Juan Quintela
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