migration: allow to prioritize save state entries
commitf37bc03623cd22f3934264f50af926b9b63f6598
authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Jan 2017 04:06:12 +0000 (6 12:06 +0800)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:56:57 +0000 (10 05:56 +0200)
tree1a913ab0e03e807a211e25fb42cbd4014945d1d2
parent77424a452abe5f941d8cd81f1e85f42bca31c9ef
migration: allow to prioritize save state entries

During migration, save state entries are saved/loaded without a specific
order - we just traverse the savevm_state.handlers list and do it one by
one. This might not be enough.

There are requirements that we need to load specific device's vmstate
first before others. For example, VT-d IOMMU contains DMA address
remapping information, which is required by all the PCI devices to do
address translations. We need to make sure IOMMU's device state is
loaded before the rest of the PCI devices, so that DMA address
translation can work properly.

This patch provide a VMStateDescription.priority value to allow specify
the priority of the saved states. The loadvm operation will be done with
those devices with higher vmsd priority.

Before this patch, we are possibly achieving the ordering requirement by
an assumption that the ordering will be the same with the ordering that
objects are created. A better way is to mark it out explicitly in the
VMStateDescription table, like what this patch does.

Current ordering logic is still naive and slow, but after all that's not
a critical path so IMO it's a workable solution for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
include/migration/vmstate.h
migration/savevm.c