https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-146583
Windows guests when hotplugging memory

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 03:59:21PM +0300, Alex Fishman wrote:
> > Virtio-mem dynamic memslots are intentionally exposed as separate memory
> > regions. If a guest places a vring part across two adjacent slots, a
> later
> > memory update fails vhost ring verification because the complete ring
> part
> > is not contained in one vhost memory region.
>
> when does this happen?
>
> > Coalesce coherent adjacent sections only when a descriptor table,
> > available ring, or used ring crosses their boundary. Unrelated
> > unmergeable sections remain separate so they can still be updated
> > independently.
> >
> > Patch 2 adds an end-to-end qtest reproducer using a fake vhost-user
> > backend and virtio-mem dynamic memslots. It also verifies that a newly
> > activated slot is not folded into the merge required by the crossing
> > vring.
> >
> > Tested with the vhost-user/mem-slots/boundary qtest.
> >
> > Buglink: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-146583
> >
> > Alex Fishman (2):
> >   vhost: coalesce unmergeable sections across vring boundaries
> >   tests/qtest: Add vhost-user memslot boundary test
> >
> >  hw/virtio/vhost.c             |  72 ++++++-
> >  tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c | 395 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 452 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > base-commit: ff1d2d19d7e24893e2012d879f8e73077e17b9bd
> > --
> > 2.52.0
>
>

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