Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Migrating MMIO from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system
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Application No.: US15806590Application Date: 2017-11-08
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Publication No.: US10209918B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Jesse P. Arroyo , Charles S. Graham , Prathima Kommineni , Timothy J. Schimke
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Kennedy Lenart Spraggins LLP
- Agent Joseph D. Downing; Peter J. Edwards
- Main IPC: G06F13/12
- IPC: G06F13/12 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F13/38 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40

Abstract:
Migrating memory MMIO from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system, includes: collecting, by a source hypervisor of the source computing system, MMIO mapping information, where the source hypervisor supports a logical partition on the source computing system and the logical partition is configured for MMIO operations with the source I/O adapter through an MMU; placing, by a destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination I/O adapter in an error state; migrating the logical partition from the source computing system to the destination computing system; configuring, by the destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination computing system for MMIO with the LPAR utilizing the MMIO mapping information collected by the source hypervisor; and restarting the logical partition on the destination computing system, including recovering, by the logical partition, from the error state.
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