offload_daemon: Add --ondemand restore mode

Add an --ondemand flag to the offload daemon's restore subcommand to
support the post-copy mechanism from the live migration protocol.

In on-demand mode, the daemon creates empty memfds to back the guest
memory and sends them over to the VMM. This lets the VM start quickly,
right after the memfds are mapped into CH's address space.

At runtime, when the guest accesses a page (or the prefault handler
requests it), the daemon faults it in by copying the page content into
its shared memory mapping, then replies to the PageFault request so the
VMM can consider the page present.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sboeuf@meta.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
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Sebastien Boeuf
2026-06-02 06:11:24 -07:00
parent 48ba1f1417
commit 60398f11ff
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--resume
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### On demand restore usage
For speeding up a VM restore, the daemon's `--ondemand` mode hands CH
empty memfds and serves page contents on demand via userfaultfd.
This requires `memory_mode=postcopy` on the receive-migration call so CH
registers userfaultfd on the memfds before resuming vCPUs and keeps
the daemon's socket open for `PageFault` requests:
```bash
./ch-remote --api-socket /tmp/cloud-hypervisor.sock \
receive-migration receiver_url=unix:/tmp/restore.sock,memory_mode=postcopy &
./offload_daemon restore \
--socket /tmp/restore.sock \
--input-dir /var/snapshots/vm1 \
--resume --ondemand
```
### The daemon protocol
The daemon implements the local live-migration wire protocol defined in