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Re: [PATCH v2] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...



On 27.04.20 12:45, Paul Durrant wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27 April 2020 11:37
To: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...

On 27.04.20 09:53, Paul Durrant wrote:
From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

... to specify a separate migration stream that will also be suitable for
live update.

The original scope of the document was to support non-cooperative migration
of guests [1] but, since then, live update of xenstored has been brought into
scope. Thus it makes more sense to define a separate image format for
serializing xenstore state that is suitable for both purposes.

The document has been limited to specifying a new image format. The mechanism
for acquiring the image for live update or migration is not covered as that
is more appropriately dealt with by a patch to docs/misc/xenstore.txt. It is
also expected that, when the first implementation of live update or migration
making use of this specification is committed, that the document is moved from
docs/designs into docs/specs.

[1] See 
https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/designs/non-cooperative-migration.md

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

Mind adding CC: before those mail addresses in order to let git add
those to the recipients list?


D'oh... good spot.


v2:
   - Address comments from Juergen

Not all unfortunately. :-(


OK.

+### CONNECTION_DATA

-Each WATCH_DATA record specifies a registered watch and is formatted as
-follows:
+For live update the image format will contain a `CONNECTION_DATA` record for
+each connection to xenstore. For migration it will only contain a record for
+the domain being migrated.


   ```
-    0       1       2       3     octet
-+-------+-------+-------+-------+
-| WATCH_DATA                    |
-+-------------------------------+
-| wpath length                  |
-+-------------------------------+
-| wpath data                    |
-...
-| pad (0 to 3 octets)           |
-+-------------------------------+
+    0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7    octet
++-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
+| conn-id                       | pad                           |
++---------------+-----------------------------------------------+
+| conn-type     | conn-spec
   ...

I asked whether it wouldn't be better to drop the pad and move conn-type
and a 2-byte (unified) flag field at its position. This together ...

++-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
+| data-len                      | data
   +-------------------------------+
-| token length                  |
-+-------------------------------+
-| token data                    |
   ...
-| pad (0 to 3 octets)           |
-+-------------------------------+
   ```

-wpath length and token length are specified in octets (excluding the NUL
-terminator). The wpath should be as described for the `WATCH` operation in
-[2]. The token is an arbitrary string of octets not containing any NUL
-values.

+| Field       | Description                                     |
+|-------------|-------------------------------------------------|
+| `conn-id`   | A non-zero number used to identify this         |
+|             | connection in subsequent connection-specific    |
+|             | records                                         |
+|             |                                                 |
+| `conn-type` | 0x0000: shared ring                             |
+|             | 0x0001: socket                                  |
+|             |                                                 |
+| `conn-spec` | See below                                       |
+|             |                                                 |
+| `data-len`  | The length (in octets) of any pending data not  |
+|             | yet written to the connection                   |
+|             |                                                 |
+| `data`      | Pending data (may be empty)                     |

-**TRANSACTION_DATA**
+The format of `conn-spec` is dependent upon `conn-type`.

+\pagebreak

-Each TRANSACTION_DATA record specifies an open transaction and is formatted
-as follows:
+For `shared ring` connections it is as follows:


   ```
-    0       1       2       3     octet
-+-------+-------+-------+-------+
-| TRANSACTION_DATA              |
-+-------------------------------+
-| tx_id                         |
-+-------------------------------+
+    0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7    octet
+                +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
+                | domid         | tdomid        | flags         |
++---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
+| revtchn                       | levtchn                       |
++-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
+| mfn                                                           |
++---------------------------------------------------------------+

... with dropping levtchn (which isn't needed IMO) will make it much
easier to have a union in C (which needs to be aligned to 8 bytes
and have a length of a multiple of 8 bytes due to mfn).

So something like:

struct xs_state_connection {
      uint32_t conn_id;
      uint16_t conn_type;
#define XS_STATE_CONN_TYPE_RING   0
#define XS_STATE_CONN_TYPE_SOCKET 1
      uint16_t flags;
#define XS_STATE_CONN_INTRODUCED  0x0001
#define XS_STATE_CONN_RELEASED    0x0002
#define XS_STATE_CONN_READONLY    0x0004
      union {
          struct {
              uint16_t domid;
              uint16_t tdomid;
#define XS_STATE_DOMID_INVALID  0xffffU
              uint32_t evtchn;
              uint64_t mfn;
#define XS_STATE_MFN_INVALID    0xffffffffffffffffUL
          } ring;
          int32_t socket_fd;
      } spec;
      uint32_t data_out_len;
      uint8_t  data[];
};

The issue is making sure that the mfn is properly aligned. If I can drop the 
levtchn then this gets easier.


   ```

-where tx_id is the non-zero identifier values of an open transaction.
-

-### Protocol Extension
+| Field      | Description                                      |
+|------------|--------------------------------------------------|
+| `domid`    | The domain-id that owns the shared page          |
+|            |                                                  |
+| `tdomid`   | The domain-id that `domid` acts on behalf of if  |
+|            | it has been subject to an SET_TARGET             |
+|            | operation [2] or DOMID_INVALID otherwise         |

DOMID_INVALID needs to be defined (or we need a reference where it is
coming from).

OK. It's in a public header... I'll reference it.


+|            |                                                  |
+| `flags`    | A bit-wise OR of:                                |
+|            | 0x0001: INTRODUCE has been issued                |

Just realized, I think we can drop those flags.

Reasoning: if INTRODUCE hasn't been issued, there can't be an active
connection to Xenstore for that domain, as Xenstore doesn't know about
the parameters to connect (especially the event channel is missing).

+|            | 0x0002: RELEASE has been issued                  |

And the same applies here: RELEASE will drop the connection to the
domain, so it can't appear in a connection record.


Juergen



 


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