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authorAndrey Gruzdev <andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com>2021-04-01 12:22:25 +0300
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2021-04-07 18:37:28 +0100
commiteeccb99c9d28484303f721e94c5084e9c29a3d03 (patch)
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parent1a8e44a89f1976e06300393337f78d561f95b339 (diff)
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migration: Pre-fault memory before starting background snasphot
This commit solves the issue with userfault_fd WP feature that
background snapshot is based on. For any never poluated or discarded
memory page, the UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT ioctl() would skip updating
PTE for that page, thereby loosing WP setting for it.

So we need to pre-fault pages for each RAM block to be protected
before making a userfault_fd wr-protect ioctl().

Fixes: 278e2f551a095b234de74dca9c214d5502a1f72c (migration: support
  UFFD write fault processing in ram_save_iterate())
Signed-off-by: Andrey Gruzdev <andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210401092226.102804-4-andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
dgilbert:
  Bodged ifdef __linux__ on ram_write_tracking_prepare, should really
      go in a stub
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diff --git a/migration/ram.h b/migration/ram.h
index 6378bb3ebc..4833e9fd5b 100644
--- a/migration/ram.h
+++ b/migration/ram.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ void colo_incoming_start_dirty_log(void);
 /* Background snapshot */
 bool ram_write_tracking_available(void);
 bool ram_write_tracking_compatible(void);
+void ram_write_tracking_prepare(void);
 int ram_write_tracking_start(void);
 void ram_write_tracking_stop(void);