In COLO mode, both VMs are running, and are considered in sync if the
visible network traffic is identical. After some time, they fall out of
sync.
At this point, the two VMs have definitely diverged. Lets call the
primary dirty bitmap set A, while the secondary dirty bitmap set B.
Sets A and B are different.
Under normal migration, the page data for set A will be sent from the
primary to the secondary.
However, the set difference B - A (the one in B but not in A, lets
call this C) is out-of-date on the secondary (with respect to the
primary) and will not be sent by the primary (to secondary), as it
was not memory dirtied by the primary. The secondary needs C page data
to reconstruct an exact copy of the primary at the checkpoint.
The secondary cannot calculate C as it doesn't know A. Instead, the
secondary must send B to the primary, at which point the primary
calculates the union of A and B (lets call this D) which is all the
pages dirtied by both the primary and the secondary, and sends all page
data covered by D.
In the general case, D is a superset of both A and B. Without the
backchannel dirty bitmap, a COLO checkpoint can't reconstruct a valid
copy of the primary.
We transfer the dirty bitmap on libxc side, so we need to introduce back
channel to libxc.
Note: it is different from the paper. We change the original design to
the current one, according to our following concerns:
1. The original design needs extra memory on Secondary host. When there's
multiple backups on one host, the memory cost is high.
2. The memory cache code will be another 1k+, it will make the review
more time consuming.
Note: this patch merely adds new parameters to various prototypes and
functions. The new parameters are used in later patch called
"libxc/restore: send dirty pfn list to primary when checkpoint under
COLO".
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <hongyang.yang@easystack.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Changlong Xie <xiecl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
As recommended in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html.
This is the result of:
$ git grep -El Mass\|Temple\|Franklin | xargs ./fsf.pl
Where fsf.pl is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w -pi.bak -0777
my $repl = 'If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.';
my $br = qr/(?:\s*\n\s*(?:[\*\#]|\/\/|\.\\" )?\s*|\s+)/;
my $inwt = qr/[Ii]f${br}not,${br}write${br}(?:to${br})?the${br}Free${br}Software${br}Foundation,(?:${br}Inc\.,)?/;
my $mass = qr/675${br}Mass${br}Ave,?${br}Cambridge,?${br}MA${br}02139,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
my $franklin = qr/51${br}Franklin${br}St(?:reet)?(?:,${br}| - )Fifth${br}Floor,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}02110-1301,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
my $temple = qr/59${br}Temple${br}Place(?:,${br}| - )Suite${br}330,?${br}Boston,?${br}MA,?${br}021110?-1307,?${br}USA,?\.?/;
s|$inwt$br$mass|$repl|m;
s|$inwt$br$franklin|$repl|m;
s|$inwt$br$temple|$repl|m;
The only remaining mentions of these addresses are in COPYING files which I
haven't touched.
Some of the changed files are imports from elsewhere, however
filtering them out is tricky, I think it is tolerable to have these
files be modified here and then perhaps reverted on the next sync,
since it's only 1-2 lines and obvious what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The VM generation ID support in libxc/libxl was based on a draft
specification which subsequently changed considerably. Remove much of
the code in anticipation of introducing something simpler that
conforms to the current specification from Microsoft.
Switch to using a HVM param (HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR) instead
of the hvmloader/generation-id-address XenStore key. This simplifies
save/restore since it only needs to transfer the value of this param.
There are no changes to the migration stream format or the public
libxl API.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[ ijc -- updated xc_nomigrate.c for interface change ]
Commit 00a4b65f85 Sep 7 2010
"libxc: provide notification of final checkpoint to restore end"
broke migration from any version of Xen using tools from prior to that commit
Older tools have no idea about an XC_SAVE_ID_LAST_CHECKPOINT, causing newer
tools xc_domain_restore() to start reading the qemu save record, as
ctx->last_checkpoint is 0.
The failure looks like:
xc: error: Max batch size exceeded (1970103633). Giving up.
where 1970103633 = 0x756d6551 = *(uint32_t*)"Qemu"
With this fix in place, the behaviour for normal migrations is reverted to how
it was before the regression; the migration is considered non-checkpointed
right from the start. A XC_SAVE_ID_LAST_CHECKPOINT chunk seen in the
migration stream is a nop. For checkpointed migrations the behaviour is
unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca> (Remus bits)
The emacs variable to set the C style from a local variable block is
c-file-style, not c-set-style.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com
Introduce an empty implementation of the arch specific ARM functions in
xc_dom_arm.c.
Provide empty implementations of xc_domain_save and xc_domain_restore
when CONFIG_MIGRATE is not set.
Move xc_hvm_build.c to xc_hvm_build_x86.c because the implementation is
x86 specific, introduce xc_hvm_build_arm.c with empty stubs.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Wei Liu
Wen Congyang
Ian Campbell
Andrew Cooper
David Vrabel
Stefano Stabellini