mirror_qemu/docs/specs
Markus Armbruster 62a830b688 ivshmem: Require master to have ID zero
Migration with ivshmem needs to be carefully orchestrated to work.
Exactly one peer (the "master") migrates to the destination, all other
peers need to unplug (and disconnect), migrate, plug back (and
reconnect).  This is sort of documented in qemu-doc.

If peers connect on the destination before migration completes, the
shared memory can get messed up.  This isn't documented anywhere.  Fix
that in qemu-doc.

To avoid messing up register IVPosition on migration, the server must
assign the same ID on source and destination.  ivshmem-spec.txt leaves
ID assignment unspecified, however.

Amend ivshmem-spec.txt to require the first client to receive ID zero.
The example ivshmem-server complies: it always assigns the first
unused ID.

For a bit of additional safety, enforce ID zero for the master.  This
does nothing when we're not using a server, because the ID is zero for
all peers then.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-40-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
2016-03-21 21:29:03 +01:00
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acpi_cpu_hotplug.txt acpi: ich9: add CPU hotplug handling to Q35 machine 2014-01-26 13:11:44 +02:00
acpi_mem_hotplug.txt acpi: add hardware implementation for memory hot unplug 2015-04-27 21:09:07 +02:00
acpi_pci_hotplug.txt acpi_piix4: Re-define PCI hotplug eject register read 2012-04-15 12:17:23 +03:00
edu.txt hw: misc, add educational driver 2015-01-26 12:26:55 +01:00
fw_cfg.txt fw_cfg: document ACPI device node information 2016-03-08 12:15:22 +01:00
ivshmem-spec.txt ivshmem: Require master to have ID zero 2016-03-21 21:29:03 +01:00
parallels.txt parallels: add format spec 2015-12-22 16:01:07 +08:00
pci-ids.txt pci-ids: add virtio 1.0 ids to spec 2016-03-11 16:59:11 +02:00
pci-serial.txt serial: add pci-serial documentation 2012-10-22 13:26:42 -05:00
pci-testdev.txt pci: add pci test device 2013-04-16 01:41:53 +03:00
ppc-spapr-hcalls.txt typofixes - v4 2015-09-11 10:45:43 +03:00
ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt spapr: Support ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory 2015-09-23 10:51:10 +10:00
pvpanic.txt pvpanic: add document of pvpanic 2013-04-30 10:30:01 -05:00
qcow2.txt spec: add qcow2 bitmaps extension specification 2016-02-22 09:49:46 +01:00
qed_spec.txt docs: Describe zero data clusters in QED specification 2011-04-13 12:06:40 +02:00
rocker.txt maint: remove / fix many doubled words 2015-09-11 10:21:38 +03:00
standard-vga.txt vga-pci: add qext region to mmio 2014-10-15 11:08:35 +02:00
vhost-user.txt vhost-user: clarify start and enable 2015-11-25 13:42:38 +02:00
vmw_pvscsi-spec.txt scsi: VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation 2013-04-19 10:44:17 +02:00