Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging

virtio,vhost,pci,pc: features, cleanups

SRAT tables for DIMM devices
new virtio net flags for speed/duplex
post-copy migration support in vhost
cleanups in pci

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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* remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream: (51 commits)
  postcopy shared docs
  libvhost-user: Claim support for postcopy
  postcopy: Allow shared memory
  vhost: Huge page align and merge
  vhost+postcopy: Wire up POSTCOPY_END notify
  vhost-user: Add VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_END message
  libvhost-user: mprotect & madvises for postcopy
  vhost+postcopy: Call wakeups
  vhost+postcopy: Add vhost waker
  postcopy: postcopy_notify_shared_wake
  postcopy: helper for waking shared
  vhost+postcopy: Resolve client address
  postcopy-ram: add a stub for postcopy_request_shared_page
  vhost+postcopy: Helper to send requests to source for shared pages
  vhost+postcopy: Stash RAMBlock and offset
  vhost+postcopy: Send address back to qemu
  libvhost-user+postcopy: Register new regions with the ufd
  migration/ram: ramblock_recv_bitmap_test_byte_offset
  postcopy+vhost-user: Split set_mem_table for postcopy
  vhost+postcopy: Transmit 'listen' to slave
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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diff --git a/docs/devel/migration.rst b/docs/devel/migration.rst
index 9d1b7657f0..e32b087f6e 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration.rst
@@ -577,3 +577,44 @@ Postcopy now works with hugetlbfs backed memory:
      hugepages works well, however 1GB hugepages are likely to be problematic
      since it takes ~1 second to transfer a 1GB hugepage across a 10Gbps link,
      and until the full page is transferred the destination thread is blocked.
+
+Postcopy with shared memory
+---------------------------
+
+Postcopy migration with shared memory needs explicit support from the other
+processes that share memory and from QEMU. There are restrictions on the type of
+memory that userfault can support shared.
+
+The Linux kernel userfault support works on `/dev/shm` memory and on `hugetlbfs`
+(although the kernel doesn't provide an equivalent to `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)`
+for hugetlbfs which may be a problem in some configurations).
+
+The vhost-user code in QEMU supports clients that have Postcopy support,
+and the `vhost-user-bridge` (in `tests/`) and the DPDK package have changes
+to support postcopy.
+
+The client needs to open a userfaultfd and register the areas
+of memory that it maps with userfault.  The client must then pass the
+userfaultfd back to QEMU together with a mapping table that allows
+fault addresses in the clients address space to be converted back to
+RAMBlock/offsets.  The client's userfaultfd is added to the postcopy
+fault-thread and page requests are made on behalf of the client by QEMU.
+QEMU performs 'wake' operations on the client's userfaultfd to allow it
+to continue after a page has arrived.
+
+.. note::
+  There are two future improvements that would be nice:
+    a) Some way to make QEMU ignorant of the addresses in the clients
+       address space
+    b) Avoiding the need for QEMU to perform ufd-wake calls after the
+       pages have arrived
+
+Retro-fitting postcopy to existing clients is possible:
+  a) A mechanism is needed for the registration with userfault as above,
+     and the registration needs to be coordinated with the phases of
+     postcopy.  In vhost-user extra messages are added to the existing
+     control channel.
+  b) Any thread that can block due to guest memory accesses must be
+     identified and the implication understood; for example if the
+     guest memory access is made while holding a lock then all other
+     threads waiting for that lock will also be blocked.