migration: stop decompression to allocate and free memory frequently
[qemu/kevin.git] / migration / postcopy-ram.h
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1 /*
2 * Postcopy migration for RAM
4 * Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
6 * Authors:
7 * Dave Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
9 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
10 * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
13 #ifndef QEMU_POSTCOPY_RAM_H
14 #define QEMU_POSTCOPY_RAM_H
16 /* Return true if the host supports everything we need to do postcopy-ram */
17 bool postcopy_ram_supported_by_host(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
20 * Make all of RAM sensitive to accesses to areas that haven't yet been written
21 * and wire up anything necessary to deal with it.
23 int postcopy_ram_enable_notify(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
26 * Initialise postcopy-ram, setting the RAM to a state where we can go into
27 * postcopy later; must be called prior to any precopy.
28 * called from ram.c's similarly named ram_postcopy_incoming_init
30 int postcopy_ram_incoming_init(MigrationIncomingState *mis, size_t ram_pages);
33 * At the end of a migration where postcopy_ram_incoming_init was called.
35 int postcopy_ram_incoming_cleanup(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
38 * Userfault requires us to mark RAM as NOHUGEPAGE prior to discard
39 * however leaving it until after precopy means that most of the precopy
40 * data is still THPd
42 int postcopy_ram_prepare_discard(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
45 * Called at the start of each RAMBlock by the bitmap code.
46 * Returns a new PDS
48 PostcopyDiscardState *postcopy_discard_send_init(MigrationState *ms,
49 const char *name);
52 * Called by the bitmap code for each chunk to discard.
53 * May send a discard message, may just leave it queued to
54 * be sent later.
55 * @start,@length: a range of pages in the migration bitmap in the
56 * RAM block passed to postcopy_discard_send_init() (length=1 is one page)
58 void postcopy_discard_send_range(MigrationState *ms, PostcopyDiscardState *pds,
59 unsigned long start, unsigned long length);
62 * Called at the end of each RAMBlock by the bitmap code.
63 * Sends any outstanding discard messages, frees the PDS.
65 void postcopy_discard_send_finish(MigrationState *ms,
66 PostcopyDiscardState *pds);
69 * Place a page (from) at (host) efficiently
70 * There are restrictions on how 'from' must be mapped, in general best
71 * to use other postcopy_ routines to allocate.
72 * returns 0 on success
74 int postcopy_place_page(MigrationIncomingState *mis, void *host, void *from,
75 RAMBlock *rb);
78 * Place a zero page at (host) atomically
79 * returns 0 on success
81 int postcopy_place_page_zero(MigrationIncomingState *mis, void *host,
82 RAMBlock *rb);
84 /* The current postcopy state is read/set by postcopy_state_get/set
85 * which update it atomically.
86 * The state is updated as postcopy messages are received, and
87 * in general only one thread should be writing to the state at any one
88 * time, initially the main thread and then the listen thread;
89 * Corner cases are where either thread finishes early and/or errors.
90 * The state is checked as messages are received to ensure that
91 * the source is sending us messages in the correct order.
92 * The state is also used by the RAM reception code to know if it
93 * has to place pages atomically, and the cleanup code at the end of
94 * the main thread to know if it has to delay cleanup until the end
95 * of postcopy.
97 typedef enum {
98 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_NONE = 0, /* Initial state - no postcopy */
99 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_ADVISE,
100 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_DISCARD,
101 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_LISTENING,
102 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_RUNNING,
103 POSTCOPY_INCOMING_END
104 } PostcopyState;
107 * Allocate a page of memory that can be mapped at a later point in time
108 * using postcopy_place_page
109 * Returns: Pointer to allocated page
111 void *postcopy_get_tmp_page(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
113 PostcopyState postcopy_state_get(void);
114 /* Set the state and return the old state */
115 PostcopyState postcopy_state_set(PostcopyState new_state);
117 void postcopy_fault_thread_notify(MigrationIncomingState *mis);
120 * To be called once at the start before any device initialisation
122 void postcopy_infrastructure_init(void);
124 /* Add a notifier to a list to be called when checking whether the devices
125 * can support postcopy.
126 * It's data is a *PostcopyNotifyData
127 * It should return 0 if OK, or a negative value on failure.
128 * On failure it must set the data->errp to an error.
131 enum PostcopyNotifyReason {
132 POSTCOPY_NOTIFY_PROBE = 0,
133 POSTCOPY_NOTIFY_INBOUND_ADVISE,
134 POSTCOPY_NOTIFY_INBOUND_LISTEN,
135 POSTCOPY_NOTIFY_INBOUND_END,
138 struct PostcopyNotifyData {
139 enum PostcopyNotifyReason reason;
140 Error **errp;
143 void postcopy_add_notifier(NotifierWithReturn *nn);
144 void postcopy_remove_notifier(NotifierWithReturn *n);
145 /* Call the notifier list set by postcopy_add_start_notifier */
146 int postcopy_notify(enum PostcopyNotifyReason reason, Error **errp);
148 struct PostCopyFD;
150 /* ufd is a pointer to the struct uffd_msg *TODO: more Portable! */
151 typedef int (*pcfdhandler)(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd, void *ufd);
152 /* Notification to wake, either on place or on reception of
153 * a fault on something that's already arrived (race)
155 typedef int (*pcfdwake)(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd, RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t offset);
157 struct PostCopyFD {
158 int fd;
159 /* Data to pass to handler */
160 void *data;
161 /* Handler to be called whenever we get a poll event */
162 pcfdhandler handler;
163 /* Notification to wake shared client */
164 pcfdwake waker;
165 /* A string to use in error messages */
166 const char *idstr;
169 /* Register a userfaultfd owned by an external process for
170 * shared memory.
172 void postcopy_register_shared_ufd(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd);
173 void postcopy_unregister_shared_ufd(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd);
174 /* Call each of the shared 'waker's registerd telling them of
175 * availability of a block.
177 int postcopy_notify_shared_wake(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t offset);
178 /* postcopy_wake_shared: Notify a client ufd that a page is available
180 * Returns 0 on success
182 * @pcfd: Structure with fd, handler and name as above
183 * @client_addr: Address in the client program, not QEMU
184 * @rb: The RAMBlock the page is in
186 int postcopy_wake_shared(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd, uint64_t client_addr,
187 RAMBlock *rb);
188 /* Callback from shared fault handlers to ask for a page */
189 int postcopy_request_shared_page(struct PostCopyFD *pcfd, RAMBlock *rb,
190 uint64_t client_addr, uint64_t offset);
192 #endif