On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 10:22:36AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > There's no point at which we can do SET_IRQS other than in the > > > _RESUMING state. Generally SET_IRQS ioctls are coordinated with the > > > guest driver based on actions to the device, we can't be mucking > > > with IRQs while the device is presumed running and already > > > generating interrupt conditions. > > > > We need to do it in state 000 > > > > ie resume should go > > > > 000 -> 100 -> 000 -> 001 > > > > With SET_IRQS and any other fixing done during the 2nd 000, after the > > migration data has been loaded into the device. > > Again, this is not how QEMU works today. I know, I think it is a poor choice to carve out certain changes to the device that must be preserved across loading the migration state. > > The uAPI comment does not define when to do the SET_IRQS, it seems > > this has been missed. > > > > We really should fix it, unless you feel strongly that the > > experimental API in qemu shouldn't be changed. > > I think the QEMU implementation fills in some details of how the uAPI > is expected to work. Well, we already know QEMU has problems, like the P2P thing. Is this a bug, or a preferred limitation as designed? > MSI/X is expected to be restored while _RESUMING based on the > config space of the device, there is no intermediate step between > _RESUMING and _RUNNING. Introducing such a requirement precludes > the option of a post-copy implementation of (_RESUMING | _RUNNING). Not precluded, a new state bit would be required to implement some future post-copy. 0000 -> 1100 -> 1000 -> 1001 -> 0001 Instead of overloading the meaning of RUNNING. I think this is cleaner anyhow. (though I don't know how we'd structure the save side to get two bitstreams) Thanks, Jason