The existing auto-align behavior for pSeries has the idea to
alleviate user configuration of the NVDIMM size, given that the
alignment calculation is not trivial to do (256MiB alignment
of mem->size - mem->label_size value, a.k.a guest area). We
align mem->size down to avoid end of file problems.
The end result is not ideal though. We do not touch the domain
XML, meaning that the XML can report a NVDIMM size 255MiB smaller
than the actual size the guest is seeing. It also adds one more
thing to consider in case the guest is reporting less memory
than declared, since the auto-align is transparent to the
user.
Following Andrea's suggestion in [1], let's instead do an
size alignment validation. If the NVDIMM is unaligned, error out
and suggest a rounded up value. This can be bothersome to users,
but will bring consistency of NVDIMM size between the domain XML
and the guest.
This approach will force existing non-running pSeries guests to
readjust the NVDIMM value in their XMLs, if necessary. No changes
were made for x86 NVDIMM support.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-July/msg01471.html
Suggested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The churn in the output files is caused primarily by the fact that
replies were generated on a POWER9 machine, which is good because
we didn't have coverage of that before.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Using the 'uuid' element for ppc64 NVDIMM memory added in the
previous patch, use it in qemuBuildMemoryDeviceStr() to pass
it over to QEMU.
Another ppc64 restriction is the necessity of a mem->labelsize,
given than ppc64 only support label-area backed NVDIMMs.
Finally, we don't want ppc64 NVDIMMs to align up due to the
high risk of going beyond the end of file with a 256MiB
increment that the user didn't predict. Align it down
instead. If target size is less than the minimum of
256MiB + labelsize, error out since QEMU will error out
if we attempt to round it up to the minimum.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
