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Commit 5b82b703 authored by Stefan Hajnoczi's avatar Stefan Hajnoczi Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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memory: RCU ram_list.dirty_memory[] for safe RAM hotplug


Although accesses to ram_list.dirty_memory[] use atomics so multiple
threads can safely dirty the bitmap, the data structure is not fully
thread-safe yet.

This patch handles the RAM hotplug case where ram_list.dirty_memory[] is
grown.  ram_list.dirty_memory[] is change from a regular bitmap to an
RCU array of pointers to fixed-size bitmap blocks.  Threads can continue
accessing bitmap blocks while the array is being extended.  See the
comments in the code for an in-depth explanation of struct
DirtyMemoryBlocks.

I have tested that live migration with virtio-blk dataplane works.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1453728801-5398-2-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 8bafcb21
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