We increase the limit before plugging in a PCI hostdev or a memory
module because some memory might need to be locked due to eg. VFIO.
Of course we should do the opposite after unplugging a device: this
was already the case for memory modules, but not for hostdevs.
---
src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
index 0bd88ce..2a16f89 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
@@ -3084,6 +3084,14 @@ qemuDomainRemoveHostDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
networkReleaseActualDevice(vm->def, net);
virDomainNetDefFree(net);
}
+
+ /* QEMU might no longer need to lock as much memory, eg. we just detached
+ * a VFIO device, so adjust the limit here */
+ if (qemuDomainRequiresMlock(vm->def))
+ if (virProcessSetMaxMemLock(vm->pid,
+ qemuDomainGetMlockLimitBytes(vm->def)) < 0)
+ VIR_WARN("Failed to adjust locked memory limit");
+
ret = 0;
cleanup:
--
2.5.0