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authorAndrey Gruzdev <andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com>2021-04-01 12:22:25 +0300
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2021-04-07 18:37:28 +0100
commiteeccb99c9d28484303f721e94c5084e9c29a3d03 (patch)
treebdd58066e9701094a592aa2343a8528f7a08a5b2 /migration/migration.c
parent1a8e44a89f1976e06300393337f78d561f95b339 (diff)
migration: Pre-fault memory before starting background snasphot
This commit solves the issue with userfault_fd WP feature that background snapshot is based on. For any never poluated or discarded memory page, the UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT ioctl() would skip updating PTE for that page, thereby loosing WP setting for it. So we need to pre-fault pages for each RAM block to be protected before making a userfault_fd wr-protect ioctl(). Fixes: 278e2f551a095b234de74dca9c214d5502a1f72c (migration: support UFFD write fault processing in ram_save_iterate()) Signed-off-by: Andrey Gruzdev <andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210401092226.102804-4-andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> dgilbert: Bodged ifdef __linux__ on ram_write_tracking_prepare, should really go in a stub
Diffstat (limited to 'migration/migration.c')
-rw-r--r--migration/migration.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index be4729e7c8..8ca034136b 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -3827,6 +3827,14 @@ static void *bg_migration_thread(void *opaque)
update_iteration_initial_status(s);
+ /*
+ * Prepare for tracking memory writes with UFFD-WP - populate
+ * RAM pages before protecting.
+ */
+#ifdef __linux__
+ ram_write_tracking_prepare();
+#endif
+
qemu_savevm_state_header(s->to_dst_file);
qemu_savevm_state_setup(s->to_dst_file);