[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/3] migration: API to clear bits of guest free pages from the dirty bitmap

[Wei Wang]

This patch adds an API to clear bits corresponding to guest free pages
from the dirty bitmap. Spilt the free page block if it crosses the QEMU
RAMBlock boundary.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <address@hidden>
CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
CC: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
---
 include/migration/misc.h |  2 ++
 migration/ram.c          | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/migration/misc.h b/include/migration/misc.h
index 77fd4f5..fae1acf 100644
--- a/include/migration/misc.h
+++ b/include/migration/misc.h
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@
 #ifndef MIGRATION_MISC_H
 #define MIGRATION_MISC_H
 
+#include "exec/cpu-common.h"
 #include "qemu/notify.h"
 
 /* migration/ram.c */
 
 void ram_mig_init(void);
+void qemu_guest_free_page_hint(void *addr, size_t len);
 
 /* migration/block.c */
 
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 5e33e5c..769a0f6 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -2189,6 +2189,26 @@ static int ram_init_all(RAMState **rsp)
     return 0;
 }
 
+void qemu_guest_free_page_hint(void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+    RAMBlock *block;
+    ram_addr_t offset;
+    size_t used_len, start, npages;
+
+    for (used_len = len; len > 0; len -= used_len) {
+        block = qemu_ram_block_from_host(addr, false, &offset);
+        if (unlikely(offset + len > block->used_length)) {
+            used_len = block->used_length - offset;
+            addr += used_len;
+        }
+
+        start = offset >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS;
+        npages = used_len >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS;
+        bitmap_clear(block->bmap, start, npages);
+        ram_state->migration_dirty_pages -= npages;
+    }
+}
+
 /*
  * Each of ram_save_setup, ram_save_iterate and ram_save_complete has
  * long-running RCU critical section.  When rcu-reclaims in the code
-- 
1.8.3.1