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We use a VFIOContainer to associate an AddressSpace to one or more VFIOGroups. The VFIOContainer represents the DMA context for that AdressSpace for those VFIOGroups and is synchronized to changes in that AddressSpace via a MemoryListener. For IOMMU backed devices, maintaining the DMA context for a VFIOGroup generally involves pinning a host virtual address in order to create a stable host physical address and then mapping a translation from the associated guest physical address to that host physical address into the IOMMU. While the above maintains the VFIOContainer synchronized to the QEMU memory API of the VM, memory ballooning occurs outside of that API. Inflating the memory balloon (ie. cooperatively capturing pages from the guest for use by the host) simply uses MADV_DONTNEED to "zap" pages from QEMU's host virtual address space. The page pinning and IOMMU mapping above remains in place, negating the host's ability to reuse the page, but the host virtual to host physical mapping of the page is invalidated outside of QEMU's memory API. When the balloon is later deflated, attempting to cooperatively return pages to the guest, the page is simply freed by the guest balloon driver, allowing it to be used in the guest and incurring a page fault when that occurs. The page fault maps a new host physical page backing the existing host virtual address, meanwhile the VFIOContainer still maintains the translation to the original host physical address. At this point the guest vCPU and any assigned devices will map different host physical addresses to the same guest physical address. Badness. The IOMMU typically does not have page level granularity with which it can track this mapping without also incurring inefficiencies in using page size mappings throughout. MMU notifiers in the host kernel also provide indicators for invalidating the mapping on balloon inflation, not for updating the mapping when the balloon is deflated. For these reasons we assume a default behavior that the mapping of each VFIOGroup into the VFIOContainer is incompatible with memory ballooning and increment the balloon inhibitor to match the attached VFIOGroups. Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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