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authorDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2018-03-12 17:21:06 +0000
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-03-20 05:03:28 +0200
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vhost+postcopy: Transmit 'listen' to slave
Notify the vhost-user slave on reception of the 'postcopy-listen' event from the source. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
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@@ -709,6 +709,17 @@ Master message types
the slave must open a userfaultfd for later use.
Note that at this stage the migration is still in precopy mode.
+ * VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_LISTEN
+ Id: 29
+ Master payload: N/A
+
+ Master advises slave that a transition to postcopy mode has happened.
+ The slave must ensure that shared memory is registered with userfaultfd
+ to cause faulting of non-present pages.
+
+ This is always sent sometime after a VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_ADVISE, and
+ thus only when VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_PAGEFAULT is supported.
+
Slave message types
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