From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] exec,
	memory: Call to xen_modified_memory.
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:37:37 +0300
Message-ID: <50056AA1.9010004__38944.3710133948$1342532377$gmane$org@redhat.com>
References: <1342531805-29894-1-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com>
	<1342531805-29894-4-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org>
In-Reply-To: <1342531805-29894-4-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>, QEMU-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

On 07/17/2012 04:30 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> This patch add some calls to xen_modified_memory to notify Xen about dirtybits
> during migration.
> 
> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index c9fa17d..9f7a4f7 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -3438,6 +3438,7 @@ void cpu_physical_memory_rw(target_phys_addr_t addr, uint8_t *buf,
>                      cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_flags(
>                          addr1, (0xff & ~CODE_DIRTY_FLAG));
>                  }
> +                xen_modified_memory(addr1, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
>                  qemu_put_ram_ptr(ptr);
>              }
>          } else {

This is pretty ugly.  An alternative is to set up a periodic bitmap scan
that looks at the qemu dirty bitmap and calls xen_modified_memory() for
dirty page ranges, and clears the bitmap for the next pass.  Is it workable?

(is xen_modified_memory a hypercall, or does it maintain an in-memory
structure?)


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function