Host<-->guest connections via AF_VSOCK sockets aren't supposed to
outlive VM migration, since VM is moving to another host.  However
there's a special case, which is QEMU live-update, or CPR
(checkpoint-restore) migration.  In this case, VM remains on the same
host, and we'd like such connections to persist.

For this to work, we need to be able to transfer device ownership from
source QEMU to dest QEMU.  Namely, source needs to reset ownership by
issuing VHOST_RESET_OWNER ioctl, and then target has to claim it by
calling VHOST_SET_OWNER.

Since VHOST_RESET_OWNER isn't yet implemented for vhost-vsock, let's add
such implementation (patches 1-2).  Also fix regression introduced by
the earlier commit [1] (patch 3), and fix the deadlock bug (commit 4).

There's a complementary series for QEMU [0] adding support of vhost-vsock
devices during CPR migration.

NOTE: this series needs to be applied on top of Michael's vhost/linux-next
tree as it contains relevant commit [1], not yet present in master branch.

I've tested this (patched QEMU + patched kernel) approximately as follows:

  * Run listener in the guest:
  socat -u VSOCK-LISTEN:9999 - >/tmp/recv.bin

  * Run data transfer from host to guest:
  socat -u FILE:/root/bigfile.bin VSOCK-CONNECT:CID:9999

  * Perform CPR migration during transfer (either cpr-exec or cpr-transfer)
  * Check that file hash sum matches

[0] 
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]
[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git/commit/?id=bb26ed5f3a8b

Andrey Drobyshev (1):
  vhost/vsock: re-scan TX virtqueue on device start

Denis V. Lunev (1):
  vhost/vsock: suppress EHOSTUNREACH fast-fail during CPR pause

Pavel Tikhomirov (2):
  vhost/vsock: split out vhost_vsock_drop_backends helper
  vhost/vsock: add VHOST_RESET_OWNER ioctl

 drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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2.47.1


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