From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: cjia@nvidia.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, Zhengxiao.zx@Alibaba-inc.com,
shuangtai.tst@alibaba-inc.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
peterx@redhat.com, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
eauger@redhat.com, yi.l.liu@intel.com, quintela@redhat.com,
ziye.yang@intel.com, armbru@redhat.com, mlevitsk@redhat.com,
pasic@linux.ibm.com, felipe@nutanix.com, zhi.a.wang@intel.com,
kevin.tian@intel.com, yan.y.zhao@intel.com, dgilbert@redhat.com,
changpeng.liu@intel.com, eskultet@redhat.com, Ken.Xue@amd.com,
jonathan.davies@nutanix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v26 05/17] vfio: Add VM state change handler to know state of VM
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:23:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201020122320.675dbcd4.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019115136.70c96820@w520.home>
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:51:36 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:13:39 +0530
> Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > >>>> +vfio_migration_set_state(char *name, uint32_t state) " (%s) state %d"
> > >>>> +vfio_vmstate_change(char *name, int running, const char *reason, uint32_t dev_state) " (%s) running %d reason %s device state %d"
> > >>>> diff --git a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
> > >>>> index 8275c4c68f45..25e3b1a3b90a 100644
> > >>>> --- a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
> > >>>> +++ b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
> > >>>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
> > >>>> #ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
> > >>>> #include <linux/vfio.h>
> > >>>> #endif
> > >>>> +#include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
> > >>>>
> > >>>> #define VFIO_MSG_PREFIX "vfio %s: "
> > >>>>
> > >>>> @@ -119,6 +120,9 @@ typedef struct VFIODevice {
> > >>>> unsigned int flags;
> > >>>> VFIOMigration *migration;
> > >>>> Error *migration_blocker;
> > >>>> + VMChangeStateEntry *vm_state;
> > >>>> + uint32_t device_state;
> > >>>> + int vm_running;
> > >>>
> > >>> Could these be placed in VFIOMigration? Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I think device_state should be part of VFIODevice since its about device
> > >> rather than only related to migration, others can be moved to VFIOMigration.
> > >
> > > But these are only valid when migration is supported and thus when
> > > VFIOMigration exists. Thanks,
> > >
> >
> > Even though it is used when migration is supported, its device's attribute.
>
> device_state is a local copy of the migration region register, so it
> serves no purpose when a migration region is not present. In fact the
> initial value would indicate the device is stopped, which is incorrect.
> vm_running is never initialized and cannot be set other than through a
> migration region update of device_state, so at least two of these
> values show incorrect state when migration is not supported by the
> device. vm_state is unused when migration isn't present, so if nothing
> else the pointer here is wasteful. It's not clear to me what
> justification is being presented here as a "device's attribute",
> supporting migration as indicated by a non-NULL migration pointer is
> also a device attribute and these are attributes further defining the
> state of that support.
Agreed. Also, it is not obvious from the naming that 'device_state' is
related to migration, and it is easy to assume that this field is
useful even in the non-migration case. Moving it would solve that
problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-22 23:24 [PATCH QEMU v25 00/17] Add migration support for VFIO devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 01/17] vfio: Add function to unmap VFIO region Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 02/17] vfio: Add vfio_get_object callback to VFIODeviceOps Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 03/17] vfio: Add save and load functions for VFIO PCI devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-23 6:38 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-09-24 22:49 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-21 9:30 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-10-21 19:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 04/17] vfio: Add migration region initialization and finalize function Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 14:08 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-17 20:14 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-28 9:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-17 20:17 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 05/17] vfio: Add VM state change handler to know state of VM Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:02 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-29 11:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-10-17 20:24 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 10:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-21 5:33 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-22 7:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-22 15:42 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-22 15:49 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-17 20:30 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-17 23:44 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 17:43 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:51 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-20 10:23 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 06/17] vfio: Add migration state change notifier Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-17 20:35 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:57 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-20 10:55 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 07/17] vfio: Register SaveVMHandlers for VFIO device Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-29 10:19 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-10-17 20:36 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 11:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-18 20:55 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 15:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 17:40 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 08/17] vfio: Add save state functions to SaveVMHandlers Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-23 11:42 ` Wang, Zhi A
2020-10-21 14:30 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 21:02 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 18:00 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 09/17] vfio: Add load " Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-01 10:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-18 20:47 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 16:25 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 10/17] memory: Set DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION when IOMMU is enabled Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 11/17] vfio: Get migration capability flags for container Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 12/17] vfio: Add function to start and stop dirty pages tracking Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 21:55 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 20:52 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 13/17] vfio: create mapped iova list when vIOMMU is enabled Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 22:23 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-19 6:01 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:24 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-19 19:15 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 20:07 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 14/17] vfio: Add vfio_listener_log_sync to mark dirty pages Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 15/17] vfio: Add ioctl to get dirty pages bitmap during dma unmap Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 16/17] vfio: Make vfio-pci device migration capable Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 12:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 17/17] qapi: Add VFIO devices migration stats in Migration stats Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:14 ` Eric Blake
2020-09-25 22:55 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-29 10:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-23 7:06 ` [PATCH QEMU v25 00/17] Add migration support for VFIO devices Zenghui Yu
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