To achieve desired "x-ignore-shared" functionality, we should not
discard all RAM when realizing the device and not mess with
preallocation/postcopy when loading device state. In essence, we should
not touch RAM content.
As "x-ignore-shared" gets set after realizing the device, we cannot
rely on that. Let's simply skip discarding of RAM on incoming migration.
Note that virtio_mem_post_load() will call
virtio_mem_restore_unplugged() -- unless "x-ignore-shared" is set. So
once migration finished we'll have a consistent state.
The initial system reset will also not discard any RAM, because
virtio_mem_unplug_all() will not call virtio_mem_unplug_all() when no
memory is plugged (which is the case before loading the device state).
Note that something like VM templating -- see commit b17fbbe55cba
("migration: allow private destination ram with x-ignore-shared") -- is
currently incompatible with virtio-mem and ram_block_discard_range() will
warn in case a private file mapping is supplied by virtio-mem.
For VM templating with virtio-mem, it makes more sense to either
(a) Create the template without the virtio-mem device and hotplug a
virtio-mem device to the new VM instances using proper own memory
backend.
(b) Use a virtio-mem device that doesn't provide any memory in the
template (requested-size=0) and use private anonymous memory.
Message-ID: <20230706075612.67404-5-david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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