Add a vmstate subsection to SCSIDiskState so that scsi-block devices can
transfer their reservation state during live migration. Upon loading the
subsection, the destination QEMU invokes the PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT
command's PREEMPT service action to atomically move the reservation from
the source I_T nexus to the destination I_T nexus. This results in
transparent live migration of SCSI reservations.
This approach is incomplete since SCSI reservations are cooperative and
other hosts could interfere. Neither the source QEMU nor the destination
QEMU are aware of changes made by other hosts. The assumption is that
reservation is not taken over by a third host without cooperation from
the source host.
I considered adding the vmstate subsection to SCSIDevice instead of
SCSIDiskState, since reservations are part of the SCSI Primary Commands
that other devices apart from disks could support. However, due to
fragility of migrating reservations, we will probably limit support to
scsi-block and maybe scsi-disk in the future. In the end, I think it
makes sense to place this within scsi-disk.c.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20260129212035.219676-5-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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