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-rw-r--r--migration/migration.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index db6bde7..bfc4d09 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -1629,6 +1629,25 @@ static bool migrate_prepare(MigrationState *s, bool blk, bool blk_inc,
"paused migration");
return false;
}
+
+ /*
+ * Postcopy recovery won't work well with release-ram
+ * capability since release-ram will drop the page buffer as
+ * long as the page is put into the send buffer. So if there
+ * is a network failure happened, any page buffers that have
+ * not yet reached the destination VM but have already been
+ * sent from the source VM will be lost forever. Let's refuse
+ * the client from resuming such a postcopy migration.
+ * Luckily release-ram was designed to only be used when src
+ * and destination VMs are on the same host, so it should be
+ * fine.
+ */
+ if (migrate_release_ram()) {
+ error_setg(errp, "Postcopy recovery cannot work "
+ "when release-ram capability is set");
+ return false;
+ }
+
/* This is a resume, skip init status */
return true;
}