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author | Peter Maydell | 2015-05-11 17:21:50 +0200 |
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committer | Peter Maydell | 2015-05-11 17:25:33 +0200 |
commit | 0403b0f539f40a21da60409b825b4653b273ab39 (patch) | |
tree | ef1edb203dc4595528c0f86c502df3a8d2931a2b /docs | |
parent | Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bkoppelmann/tags/pull-tricore-20150511'... (diff) | |
parent | acpi: update expected files for memory unplug (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
pc, virtio enhancements
Memory hot-unplug support for pc, MSI-X
mapping update speedup for virtio-pci,
misc refactorings and bugfixes.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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* remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream: (28 commits)
acpi: update expected files for memory unplug
virtio-scsi: Move DEFINE_VIRTIO_SCSI_FEATURES to virtio-scsi
virtio-net: Move DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES to virtio-net
pci: Merge pci_nic_init() into pci_nic_init_nofail()
acpi: add a missing backslash to the \_SB scope.
qmp-event: add event notification for memory hot unplug error
acpi: add hardware implementation for memory hot unplug
acpi: fix "Memory device control fields" register
acpi: extend aml_field() to support UpdateRule
acpi, mem-hotplug: add unplug cb for memory device
acpi, mem-hotplug: add unplug request cb for memory device
acpi, mem-hotplug: add acpi_memory_slot_status() to get MemStatus
docs: update documentation for memory hot unplug
virtio: coding style tweak
pci: remove hard-coded bar size in msix_init_exclusive_bar()
virtio-pci: speedup MSI-X masking and unmasking
virtio: introduce vector to virtqueues mapping
virtio-ccw: using VIRTIO_NO_VECTOR instead of 0 for invalid virtqueue
monitor: check return value of qemu_find_net_clients_except()
monitor: replace the magic number 255 with MAX_QUEUE_NUM
...
Conflicts:
hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c
[PMM: fixed conflict in s390_virtio_scsi_properties and
s390_virtio_net_properties arrays; since the result of the
two conflicting patches is to empty the property arrays
completely, the conflict resolution is to remove them entirely.]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/memory-hotplug.txt | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt | 58 |
3 files changed, 91 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/memory-hotplug.txt b/docs/memory-hotplug.txt index f70571df0c..56bdd0a47b 100644 --- a/docs/memory-hotplug.txt +++ b/docs/memory-hotplug.txt @@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ QEMU memory hotplug This document explains how to use the memory hotplug feature in QEMU, which is present since v2.1.0. -Please, note that memory hotunplug is not supported yet. This means -that you're able to add memory, but you're not able to remove it. -Also, proper guest support is required for memory hotplug to work. +Guest support is required for memory hotplug to work. Basic RAM hotplug ----------------- @@ -74,3 +72,22 @@ comes from regular RAM, 1GB is a 1GB hugepage page and 256MB is from -device pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem1 \ -object memory-backend-file,id=mem2,size=256M,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages-2MB \ -device pc-dimm,id=dimm2,memdev=mem2 + + +RAM hot-unplug +--------------- + +In order to be able to hot unplug pc-dimm device, QEMU has to be told the ids +of pc-dimm device and memory backend object. The ids were assigned when you hot +plugged memory. + +Two monitor commands are used to hot unplug memory: + + - "device_del": deletes a front-end pc-dimm device + - "object_del": deletes a memory backend object + +For example, assuming that the pc-dimm device with id "dimm1" exists, and its memory +backend is "mem1", the following commands tries to remove it. + + (qemu) device_del dimm1 + (qemu) object_del mem1 diff --git a/docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt b/docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt index 64ba46c769..6dc2cca7de 100644 --- a/docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt +++ b/docs/qmp/qmp-events.txt @@ -232,6 +232,23 @@ Example: { "event": "GUEST_PANICKED", "data": { "action": "pause" } } +MEM_HOT_UNPLUG_ERROR +-------------------- +Emitted when memory hot unplug error occurs. + +Data: + +- "device": device name (json-string) +- "msg": Informative message (e.g., reason for the error) (json-string) + +Example: + +{ "event": "MEM_HOT_UNPLUG_ERROR" + "data": { "device": "dimm1", + "msg": "acpi: device unplug for unsupported device" + }, + "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } } + NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED --------------------- diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt b/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt index 12909940cc..3df3620ce4 100644 --- a/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt +++ b/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ QEMU<->ACPI BIOS memory hotplug interface -------------------------------------- ACPI BIOS GPE.3 handler is dedicated for notifying OS about memory hot-add -events. +and hot-remove events. Memory hot-plug interface (IO port 0xa00-0xa17, 1-4 byte access): --------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ Memory hot-plug interface (IO port 0xa00-0xa17, 1-4 byte access): 1: Device insert event, used to distinguish device for which no device check event to OSPM was issued. It's valid only when bit 1 is set. - 2-7: reserved and should be ignored by OSPM + 2: Device remove event, used to distinguish device for which + no device eject request to OSPM was issued. + 3-7: reserved and should be ignored by OSPM [0x15-0x17] reserved write access: @@ -31,14 +33,62 @@ Memory hot-plug interface (IO port 0xa00-0xa17, 1-4 byte access): [0xc-0x13] reserved, writes into it are ignored [0x14] Memory device control fields bits: - 0: reserved, OSPM must clear it before writing to register + 0: reserved, OSPM must clear it before writing to register. + Due to BUG in versions prior 2.4 that field isn't cleared + when other fields are written. Keep it reserved and don't + try to reuse it. 1: if set to 1 clears device insert event, set by OSPM after it has emitted device check event for the selected memory device - 2-7: reserved, OSPM must clear them before writing to register + 2: if set to 1 clears device remove event, set by OSPM + after it has emitted device eject request for the + selected memory device + 3: if set to 1 initiates device eject, set by OSPM when it + triggers memory device removal and calls _EJ0 method + 4-7: reserved, OSPM must clear them before writing to register Selecting memory device slot beyond present range has no effect on platform: - write accesses to memory hot-plug registers not documented above are ignored - read accesses to memory hot-plug registers not documented above return all bits set to 1. + +Memory hot remove process diagram: +---------------------------------- + +-------------+ +-----------------------+ +------------------+ + | 1. QEMU | | 2. QEMU | |3. QEMU | + | device_del +---->+ device unplug request +----->+Send SCI to guest,| + | | | cb | |return control to | + +-------------+ +-----------------------+ |management | + +------------------+ + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +---------------------+ +-------------------------+ + | OSPM: | remove event | OSPM: | + | send Eject Request, | | Scan memory devices | + | clear remove event +<-------------+ for event flags | + | | | | + +---------------------+ +-------------------------+ + | + | + +---------v--------+ +-----------------------+ + | Guest OS: | success | OSPM: | + | process Ejection +----------->+ Execute _EJ0 method, | + | request | | set eject bit in flags| + +------------------+ +-----------------------+ + |failure | + v v + +------------------------+ +-----------------------+ + | OSPM: | | QEMU: | + | set OST event & status | | call device unplug cb | + | fields | | | + +------------------------+ +-----------------------+ + | | + v v + +------------------+ +-------------------+ + |QEMU: | |QEMU: | + |Send OST QMP event| |Send device deleted| + | | |QMP event | + +------------------+ | | + +-------------------+ |