Since now we drain pages out of parasite, we can invent any format for
page dumps. Let is be ... prorobuf one! :)
Another thing to keep in mind, is that we're about to use splices and
implement iterative migration, so it's better to have actual pages be
page-aligned in the image.
And -- backward compatibility. That said the new format is:
1. pagemap-... file which contains a header (currently with a ID of
the image with pages, see below) and an array of <nr_pages:vaddr>
pairs. The first value means "how many pages to take from the
file with pages (see below)" and the second -- where in the task
address space to put them. Simple.
2. pages-... file which containes only pages one by one (thus aligned
as we want).
This patch breaks backward compatibility (old images with pages wil
be restored and then crash). Need to do it before v0.5 release.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
The page-pipe is an object, that can accumulate pages inside it. It
consists of list of page-pipe-bufs, which in turn has a pipa, an
array of iovecs that describe the pages' locations and some stats.
Users of it are supposed to vmsplice pages into pipes to accumulate
then for later use, and vmsplice them from pipes when required.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
