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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-06-18 16:42:25 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/awilliam/tags/vfio-update-20210618.0' into staging
VFIO update 2021-06-18 * VFIO migration documentation (Tarun Gupta) * Fix SaveVMHandler de-registration (Kunkun Jiang) * Fix vmstate change transition (Kirti Wankhede) # gpg: Signature made Fri 18 Jun 2021 16:20:34 BST # gpg: using RSA key 42F6C04E540BD1A99E7B8A90239B9B6E3BB08B22 # gpg: issuer "alex.williamson@redhat.com" # gpg: Good signature from "Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>" [full] # gpg: aka "Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>" [full] # gpg: aka "Alex Williamson <alwillia@redhat.com>" [full] # gpg: aka "Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson@gmail.com>" [full] # Primary key fingerprint: 42F6 C04E 540B D1A9 9E7B 8A90 239B 9B6E 3BB0 8B22 * remotes/awilliam/tags/vfio-update-20210618.0: vfio/migration: Correct device state from vmstate change for savevm case vfio: Fix unregister SaveVMHandler in vfio_migration_finalize docs/devel: Add VFIO device migration documentation Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--MAINTAINERS1
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst150
-rw-r--r--hw/vfio/migration.c12
4 files changed, 163 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4842cc2..f7e12ea 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1817,6 +1817,7 @@ S: Supported
F: hw/vfio/*
F: include/hw/vfio/
F: docs/igd-assign.txt
+F: docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst
vfio-ccw
M: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst
index 791925d..977c389 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index.rst
@@ -44,3 +44,4 @@ Contents:
block-coroutine-wrapper
multi-process
ebpf_rss
+ vfio-migration
diff --git a/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst b/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ff6163
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+=====================
+VFIO device Migration
+=====================
+
+Migration of virtual machine involves saving the state for each device that
+the guest is running on source host and restoring this saved state on the
+destination host. This document details how saving and restoring of VFIO
+devices is done in QEMU.
+
+Migration of VFIO devices consists of two phases: the optional pre-copy phase,
+and the stop-and-copy phase. The pre-copy phase is iterative and allows to
+accommodate VFIO devices that have a large amount of data that needs to be
+transferred. The iterative pre-copy phase of migration allows for the guest to
+continue whilst the VFIO device state is transferred to the destination, this
+helps to reduce the total downtime of the VM. VFIO devices can choose to skip
+the pre-copy phase of migration by returning pending_bytes as zero during the
+pre-copy phase.
+
+A detailed description of the UAPI for VFIO device migration can be found in
+the comment for the ``vfio_device_migration_info`` structure in the header
+file linux-headers/linux/vfio.h.
+
+VFIO implements the device hooks for the iterative approach as follows:
+
+* A ``save_setup`` function that sets up the migration region and sets _SAVING
+ flag in the VFIO device state.
+
+* A ``load_setup`` function that sets up the migration region on the
+ destination and sets _RESUMING flag in the VFIO device state.
+
+* A ``save_live_pending`` function that reads pending_bytes from the vendor
+ driver, which indicates the amount of data that the vendor driver has yet to
+ save for the VFIO device.
+
+* A ``save_live_iterate`` function that reads the VFIO device's data from the
+ vendor driver through the migration region during iterative phase.
+
+* A ``save_state`` function to save the device config space if it is present.
+
+* A ``save_live_complete_precopy`` function that resets _RUNNING flag from the
+ VFIO device state and iteratively copies the remaining data for the VFIO
+ device until the vendor driver indicates that no data remains (pending bytes
+ is zero).
+
+* A ``load_state`` function that loads the config section and the data
+ sections that are generated by the save functions above
+
+* ``cleanup`` functions for both save and load that perform any migration
+ related cleanup, including unmapping the migration region
+
+
+The VFIO migration code uses a VM state change handler to change the VFIO
+device state when the VM state changes from running to not-running, and
+vice versa.
+
+Similarly, a migration state change handler is used to trigger a transition of
+the VFIO device state when certain changes of the migration state occur. For
+example, the VFIO device state is transitioned back to _RUNNING in case a
+migration failed or was canceled.
+
+System memory dirty pages tracking
+----------------------------------
+
+A ``log_global_start`` and ``log_global_stop`` memory listener callback informs
+the VFIO IOMMU module to start and stop dirty page tracking. A ``log_sync``
+memory listener callback marks those system memory pages as dirty which are
+used for DMA by the VFIO device. The dirty pages bitmap is queried per
+container. All pages pinned by the vendor driver through external APIs have to
+be marked as dirty during migration. When there are CPU writes, CPU dirty page
+tracking can identify dirtied pages, but any page pinned by the vendor driver
+can also be written by the device. There is currently no device or IOMMU
+support for dirty page tracking in hardware.
+
+By default, dirty pages are tracked when the device is in pre-copy as well as
+stop-and-copy phase. So, a page pinned by the vendor driver will be copied to
+the destination in both phases. Copying dirty pages in pre-copy phase helps
+QEMU to predict if it can achieve its downtime tolerances. If QEMU during
+pre-copy phase keeps finding dirty pages continuously, then it understands
+that even in stop-and-copy phase, it is likely to find dirty pages and can
+predict the downtime accordingly.
+
+QEMU also provides a per device opt-out option ``pre-copy-dirty-page-tracking``
+which disables querying the dirty bitmap during pre-copy phase. If it is set to
+off, all dirty pages will be copied to the destination in stop-and-copy phase
+only.
+
+System memory dirty pages tracking when vIOMMU is enabled
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+With vIOMMU, an IO virtual address range can get unmapped while in pre-copy
+phase of migration. In that case, the unmap ioctl returns any dirty pages in
+that range and QEMU reports corresponding guest physical pages dirty. During
+stop-and-copy phase, an IOMMU notifier is used to get a callback for mapped
+pages and then dirty pages bitmap is fetched from VFIO IOMMU modules for those
+mapped ranges.
+
+Flow of state changes during Live migration
+===========================================
+
+Below is the flow of state change during live migration.
+The values in the brackets represent the VM state, the migration state, and
+the VFIO device state, respectively.
+
+Live migration save path
+------------------------
+
+::
+
+ QEMU normal running state
+ (RUNNING, _NONE, _RUNNING)
+ |
+ migrate_init spawns migration_thread
+ Migration thread then calls each device's .save_setup()
+ (RUNNING, _SETUP, _RUNNING|_SAVING)
+ |
+ (RUNNING, _ACTIVE, _RUNNING|_SAVING)
+ If device is active, get pending_bytes by .save_live_pending()
+ If total pending_bytes >= threshold_size, call .save_live_iterate()
+ Data of VFIO device for pre-copy phase is copied
+ Iterate till total pending bytes converge and are less than threshold
+ |
+ On migration completion, vCPU stops and calls .save_live_complete_precopy for
+ each active device. The VFIO device is then transitioned into _SAVING state
+ (FINISH_MIGRATE, _DEVICE, _SAVING)
+ |
+ For the VFIO device, iterate in .save_live_complete_precopy until
+ pending data is 0
+ (FINISH_MIGRATE, _DEVICE, _STOPPED)
+ |
+ (FINISH_MIGRATE, _COMPLETED, _STOPPED)
+ Migraton thread schedules cleanup bottom half and exits
+
+Live migration resume path
+--------------------------
+
+::
+
+ Incoming migration calls .load_setup for each device
+ (RESTORE_VM, _ACTIVE, _STOPPED)
+ |
+ For each device, .load_state is called for that device section data
+ (RESTORE_VM, _ACTIVE, _RESUMING)
+ |
+ At the end, .load_cleanup is called for each device and vCPUs are started
+ (RUNNING, _NONE, _RUNNING)
+
+Postcopy
+========
+
+Postcopy migration is currently not supported for VFIO devices.
diff --git a/hw/vfio/migration.c b/hw/vfio/migration.c
index 201642d..82f654a 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/migration.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/migration.c
@@ -724,7 +724,16 @@ static void vfio_vmstate_change(void *opaque, bool running, RunState state)
* _RUNNING bit
*/
mask = ~VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING;
- value = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * When VM state transition to stop for savevm command, device should
+ * start saving data.
+ */
+ if (state == RUN_STATE_SAVE_VM) {
+ value = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_SAVING;
+ } else {
+ value = 0;
+ }
}
ret = vfio_migration_set_state(vbasedev, mask, value);
@@ -892,6 +901,7 @@ void vfio_migration_finalize(VFIODevice *vbasedev)
remove_migration_state_change_notifier(&migration->migration_state);
qemu_del_vm_change_state_handler(migration->vm_state);
+ unregister_savevm(VMSTATE_IF(vbasedev->dev), "vfio", vbasedev);
vfio_migration_exit(vbasedev);
}