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authorChangpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com>2018-01-04 09:53:31 +0800
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-01-18 21:52:37 +0200
commit4c3e257b5e6ccba6bd34f780fab8008e0d79680a (patch)
tree30483268b49b9826d8387f443b88d19e9a58a5f5 /docs
parent1bcf209154445a5837a8fc0fc9d88200fedb25b2 (diff)
vhost-user: add new vhost user messages to support virtio config space
Add VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG/VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG messages which can be used for live migration of vhost user devices, also vhost user devices can benefit from the messages to get/set virtio config space from/to the I/O target. For the purpose to support virtio config space change, VHOST_USER_SLAVE_CONFIG_CHANGE_MSG message is added as the event notifier in case virtio config space change in the slave I/O target. Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/interop/vhost-user.txt55
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
index d49444e037..0875ef4ec3 100644
--- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
+++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ Depending on the request type, payload can be:
- 3: IOTLB invalidate
- 4: IOTLB access fail
+ * Virtio device config space
+ -----------------------------------
+ | offset | size | flags | payload |
+ -----------------------------------
+
+ Offset: a 32-bit offset of virtio device's configuration space
+ Size: a 32-bit configuration space access size in bytes
+ Flags: a 32-bit value:
+ - 0: Vhost master messages used for writeable fields
+ - 1: Vhost master messages used for live migration
+ Payload: Size bytes array holding the contents of the virtio
+ device's configuration space
+
In QEMU the vhost-user message is implemented with the following struct:
typedef struct VhostUserMsg {
@@ -132,6 +145,7 @@ typedef struct VhostUserMsg {
VhostUserMemory memory;
VhostUserLog log;
struct vhost_iotlb_msg iotlb;
+ VhostUserConfig config;
};
} QEMU_PACKED VhostUserMsg;
@@ -623,6 +637,32 @@ Master message types
and expect this message once (per VQ) during device configuration
(ie. before the master starts the VQ).
+ * VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG
+
+ Id: 24
+ Equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ Master payload: virtio device config space
+ Slave payload: virtio device config space
+
+ Submitted by the vhost-user master to fetch the contents of the virtio
+ device configuration space, vhost-user slave's payload size MUST match
+ master's request, vhost-user slave uses zero length of payload to
+ indicate an error to vhost-user master. The vhost-user master may
+ cache the contents to avoid repeated VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG calls.
+
+* VHOST_USER_SET_CONFIG
+
+ Id: 25
+ Equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ Master payload: virtio device config space
+ Slave payload: N/A
+
+ Submitted by the vhost-user master when the Guest changes the virtio
+ device configuration space and also can be used for live migration
+ on the destination host. The vhost-user slave must check the flags
+ field, and slaves MUST NOT accept SET_CONFIG for read-only
+ configuration space fields unless the live migration bit is set.
+
Slave message types
-------------------
@@ -641,6 +681,21 @@ Slave message types
This request should be send only when VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM feature
has been successfully negotiated.
+* VHOST_USER_SLAVE_CONFIG_CHANGE_MSG
+
+ Id: 2
+ Equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ Slave payload: N/A
+ Master payload: N/A
+
+ Vhost-user slave sends such messages to notify that the virtio device's
+ configuration space has changed, for those host devices which can support
+ such feature, host driver can send VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG message to slave
+ to get the latest content. If VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK is
+ negotiated, and slave set the VHOST_USER_NEED_REPLY flag, master must
+ respond with zero when operation is successfully completed, or non-zero
+ otherwise.
+
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK:
-------------------------------
The original vhost-user specification only demands replies for certain