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author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2023-03-09 15:19:44 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2023-03-09 15:19:44 +0000 |
commit | 66a6aa8f9a56a6317e074b1f5e269fecdf4ad782 (patch) | |
tree | f4ebf90dbeecbbdee2bda81f2a38247b7ae153e8 /docs | |
parent | dea644928d7583d91170d013716bbbeb938cb938 (diff) | |
parent | 969dae5448eaa2914be5b974f9e0311b3f95ee2c (diff) |
Merge tag 'vfio-updates-20230307.1' of https://gitlab.com/alex.williamson/qemu into staging
VFIO updates for 8.0
* Device level dirty page tracking support for vfio migration, as well as
various cleanups and consolidations. (Avihai Horon, Joao Martins)
* Trivial cleanup of migration entry points. (Alex Williamson)
* Fix trace event typo. (Cédric Le Goater)
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* tag 'vfio-updates-20230307.1' of https://gitlab.com/alex.williamson/qemu:
vfio: Fix vfio_get_dev_region() trace event
vfio/migration: Rename entry points
docs/devel: Document VFIO device dirty page tracking
vfio/migration: Query device dirty page tracking support
vfio/migration: Block migration with vIOMMU
vfio/common: Add device dirty page bitmap sync
vfio/common: Extract code from vfio_get_dirty_bitmap() to new function
vfio/common: Add device dirty page tracking start/stop
vfio/common: Record DMA mapped IOVA ranges
vfio/common: Add helper to consolidate iova/end calculation
vfio/common: Consolidate skip/invalid section into helper
vfio/common: Use a single tracepoint for skipped sections
vfio/common: Add helper to validate iova/end against hostwin
vfio/common: Add VFIOBitmap and alloc function
vfio/common: Abort migration if dirty log start/stop/sync fails
vfio/common: Fix wrong %m usages
vfio/common: Fix error reporting in vfio_get_dirty_bitmap()
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst | 46 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst b/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst index c214c73e28..1b68ccf115 100644 --- a/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst +++ b/docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst @@ -59,22 +59,37 @@ 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. +the VFIO dirty tracking module to start and stop dirty page tracking. A +``log_sync`` memory listener callback queries the dirty page bitmap from the +dirty tracking module and marks system memory pages which were DMA-ed by the +VFIO device as dirty. The dirty page bitmap is queried per container. + +Currently there are two ways dirty page tracking can be done: +(1) Device dirty tracking: +In this method the device is responsible to log and report its DMAs. This +method can be used only if the device is capable of tracking its DMAs. +Discovering device capability, starting and stopping dirty tracking, and +syncing the dirty bitmaps from the device are done using the DMA logging uAPI. +More info about the uAPI can be found in the comments of the +``vfio_device_feature_dma_logging_control`` and +``vfio_device_feature_dma_logging_report`` structures in the header file +linux-headers/linux/vfio.h. + +(2) VFIO IOMMU module: +In this method dirty tracking is done by IOMMU. However, there is currently no +IOMMU support for dirty page tracking. For this reason, all pages are +perpetually marked dirty, unless the device driver pins pages through external +APIs in which case only those pinned pages are perpetually marked dirty. + +If the above two methods are not supported, all pages are perpetually marked +dirty by QEMU. By default, dirty pages are tracked during 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. +phase. So, a page marked as dirty 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 @@ -89,7 +104,8 @@ 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. +mapped ranges. If device dirty tracking is enabled with vIOMMU, live migration +will be blocked. Flow of state changes during Live migration =========================================== |