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| author | Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> | 2019-04-18 12:39:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> | 2019-04-30 19:35:16 +1000 |
| commit | e6714bd1671da9d8dfb5332075df251b746fd0fd (patch) | |
| tree | 812be7ffb016dfdfb100ecefb6582f8f249b66c9 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 7b46b6169ab80f8f415a0ca2ea4aa7f1afdcc4f3 (diff) | |
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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Add a control to dirty the XIVE EQ pages
When migration of a VM is initiated, a first copy of the RAM is
transferred to the destination before the VM is stopped, but there is
no guarantee that the EQ pages in which the event notifications are
queued have not been modified.
To make sure migration will capture a consistent memory state, the
XIVE device should perform a XIVE quiesce sequence to stop the flow of
event notifications and stabilize the EQs. This is the purpose of the
KVM_DEV_XIVE_EQ_SYNC control which will also marks the EQ pages dirty
to force their transfer.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt index 1e7f19d7594b..7ffd4c7be7b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). queues. To be used by kexec and kdump. Errors: none + 1.2 KVM_DEV_XIVE_EQ_SYNC (write only) + Sync all the sources and queues and mark the EQ pages dirty. This + to make sure that a consistent memory state is captured when + migrating the VM. + Errors: none + 2. KVM_DEV_XIVE_GRP_SOURCE (write only) Initializes a new source in the XIVE device and mask it. Attributes: @@ -100,3 +106,26 @@ the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). Errors: -ENOENT: Unknown source number -EINVAL: Not initialized source number + +* Migration: + + Saving the state of a VM using the XIVE native exploitation mode + should follow a specific sequence. When the VM is stopped : + + 1. Mask all sources (PQ=01) to stop the flow of events. + + 2. Sync the XIVE device with the KVM control KVM_DEV_XIVE_EQ_SYNC to + flush any in-flight event notification and to stabilize the EQs. At + this stage, the EQ pages are marked dirty to make sure they are + transferred in the migration sequence. + + 3. Capture the state of the source targeting, the EQs configuration + and the state of thread interrupt context registers. + + Restore is similar : + + 1. Restore the EQ configuration. As targeting depends on it. + 2. Restore targeting + 3. Restore the thread interrupt contexts + 4. Restore the source states + 5. Let the vCPU run |