From: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
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Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
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"jonathan.davies@nutanix.com" <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>,
Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
"Liu, Changpeng" <changpeng.liu@intel.com>,
"Ken.Xue@amd.com" <Ken.Xue@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 QEMU 08/16] vfio: Register SaveVMHandlers for VFIO device
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 01:00:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f351c0f0-685f-7d9b-46cc-1e1c7187f06d@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506165305.GP2743@work-vm>
On 5/6/2020 10:23 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Cornelia Huck (cohuck@redhat.com) wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 May 2020 02:38:46 -0400
>> Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 12:37:26PM +0800, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>> It's been a long time, but that doesn't seem like what I was asking.
>>>> The sysfs version checking is used to select a target that is likely to
>>>> succeed, but the migration stream is still generated by a user and the
>>>> vendor driver is still ultimately responsible for validating that
>>>> stream. I would hope that a vendor migration stream therefore starts
>>>> with information similar to that found in the sysfs interface, allowing
>>>> the receiving vendor driver to validate the source device and vendor
>>>> software version, such that we can fail an incoming migration that the
>>>> vendor driver deems incompatible. Ideally the vendor driver might also
>>>> include consistency and sequence checking throughout the stream to
>>>> prevent a malicious user from exploiting the internal operation of the
>>>> vendor driver. Thanks,
>>
>> Some kind of somewhat standardized marker for driver/version seems like
>> a good idea. Further checking is also a good idea, but I think the
>> details of that need to be left to the individual drivers.
>
> Standardised markers like that would be useful; although the rules of
> how to compare them might be a bit vendor specific; but still - it would
> be good for us to be able to dump something out when it all goes wrong.
>
Such checking should already there in vendor driver. Vendor driver might
also support across version migration. I think checking in QEMU again
would be redundant. Let vendor driver handle version checks.
Thanks,
Kirti
>>>>
>>> maybe we can add a rw field migration_version in
>>> struct vfio_device_migration_info besides sysfs interface ?
>>>
>>> when reading it in src, it gets the same string as that from sysfs;
>>> when writing it in target, it returns success or not to check
>>> compatibility and fails the migration early in setup phase.
>>
>> Getting both populated from the same source seems like a good idea.
>>
>> Not sure if a string is the best value to put into a migration stream;
>> maybe the sysfs interface can derive a human-readable string from a
>> more compact value to be put into the migration region (and ultimately
>> the stream)? Might be overengineering, just thinking out aloud here.
>
> A string might be OK fi you specify a little about it.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 21:08 [PATCH v16 QEMU 00/16] Add migration support for VFIO devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:08 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 01/16] vfio: KABI for migration interface - Kernel header placeholder Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 02/16] vfio: Add function to unmap VFIO region Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 03/16] vfio: Add vfio_get_object callback to VFIODeviceOps Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 04/16] vfio: Add save and load functions for VFIO PCI devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-25 19:56 ` Alex Williamson
2020-03-26 17:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-03-26 17:38 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-04 23:18 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-05 4:37 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-06 6:11 ` Yan Zhao
2020-05-06 19:48 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-06 20:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-07 5:40 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-07 18:14 ` Alex Williamson
2020-03-26 17:46 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:19 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-04-07 4:10 ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2020-05-04 23:21 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 05/16] vfio: Add migration region initialization and finalize function Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-26 17:52 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:19 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-19 19:32 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 06/16] vfio: Add VM state change handler to know state of VM Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 07/16] vfio: Add migration state change notifier Kirti Wankhede
2020-04-01 11:27 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 08/16] vfio: Register SaveVMHandlers for VFIO device Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-25 21:02 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-04 23:19 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-05 4:37 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-06 6:38 ` Yan Zhao
2020-05-06 9:58 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-05-06 16:53 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-06 19:30 ` Kirti Wankhede [this message]
2020-05-07 6:37 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-05-07 20:29 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-01 17:36 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 09/16] vfio: Add save state functions to SaveVMHandlers Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-25 22:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-04 23:18 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-05 4:37 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-11 9:53 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-11 15:59 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-12 2:06 ` Yan Zhao
2020-05-09 5:31 ` Yan Zhao
2020-05-11 10:22 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-05-12 0:50 ` Yan Zhao
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 10/16] vfio: Add load " Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-25 22:36 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-01 18:58 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 11/16] iommu: add callback to get address limit IOMMU supports Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 12/16] memory: Set DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION when IOMMU is enabled Kirti Wankhede
2020-04-01 19:00 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-04-01 19:42 ` Alex Williamson
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 13/16] vfio: Add function to start and stop dirty pages tracking Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-26 19:10 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-04 23:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-04-01 19:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-05-04 23:21 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 14/16] vfio: Add vfio_listener_log_sync to mark dirty pages Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-25 2:19 ` Yan Zhao
2020-03-26 19:46 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-01 19:08 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-04-01 5:50 ` Yan Zhao
2020-04-03 20:11 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 15/16] vfio: Add ioctl to get dirty pages bitmap during dma unmap Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 21:09 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 16/16] vfio: Make vfio-pci device migration capable Kirti Wankhede
2020-03-24 23:36 ` [PATCH v16 QEMU 00/16] Add migration support for VFIO devices no-reply
2020-03-31 18:34 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-01 6:41 ` Yan Zhao
2020-04-01 18:34 ` Alex Williamson
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