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Author SHA1 Message Date
Xiaoyao Li
37662d85b0 HostMem: Add mechanism to opt in kvm guest memfd via MachineState
Add a new member "guest_memfd" to memory backends. When it's set
to true, it enables RAM_GUEST_MEMFD in ram_flags, thus private kvm
guest_memfd will be allocated during RAMBlock allocation.

Memory backend's @guest_memfd is wired with @require_guest_memfd
field of MachineState. It avoid looking up the machine in phymem.c.

MachineState::require_guest_memfd is supposed to be set by any VMs
that requires KVM guest memfd as private memory, e.g., TDX VM.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240320083945.991426-8-michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2024-04-23 17:35:25 +02:00
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
fdb63cf3b5 backends: Have HostMemoryBackendClass::alloc() handler return a boolean
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have HostMemoryBackendClass::alloc
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-17-philmd@linaro.org>
2024-01-05 16:20:15 +01:00
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2d7a1eb6e6 backends: Use g_autofree in HostMemoryBackendClass::alloc() handlers
In preparation of having HostMemoryBackendClass::alloc() handlers
return a boolean, have them use g_autofree.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-15-philmd@linaro.org>
2024-01-05 16:20:15 +01:00
David Hildenbrand
9181fb7043 hostmem: Wire up RAM_NORESERVE via "reserve" property
Let's provide a way to control the use of RAM_NORESERVE via memory
backends using the "reserve" property which defaults to true (old
behavior).

Only Linux currently supports clearing the flag (and support is checked at
runtime, depending on the setting of "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory").
Windows and other POSIX systems will bail out with "reserve=false".

The target use case is virtio-mem, which dynamically exposes memory
inside a large, sparse memory area to the VM. This essentially allows
avoiding to set "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 0") when using
virtio-mem and also supporting hugetlbfs in the future.

As really only Linux implements RAM_NORESERVE right now, let's expose
the property only with CONFIG_LINUX. Setting the property to "false"
will then only fail in corner cases -- for example on very old kernels
or when memory overcommit was completely disabled by the admin.

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-11-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-06-15 20:27:38 +02:00
David Hildenbrand
d5015b8013 softmmu/memory: Pass ram_flags to qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd()
Let's pass in ram flags just like we do with qemu_ram_alloc_from_file(),
to clean up and prepare for more flags.

Simplify the documentation of passed ram flags: Looking at our
documentation of RAM_SHARED and RAM_PMEM is sufficient, no need to be
repetitive.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-5-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-06-15 20:27:38 +02:00
Thomas Huth
4c386f8064 Do not include sysemu/sysemu.h if it's not really necessary
Stop including sysemu/sysemu.h in files that don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210416171314.2074665-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
2021-05-02 17:24:50 +02:00
Jagannathan Raman
44a4ff31c0 memory: alloc RAM from file at offset
Allow RAM MemoryRegion to be created from an offset in a file, instead
of allocating at offset of 0 by default. This is needed to synchronize
RAM between QEMU & remote process.

Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 609996697ad8617e3b01df38accc5c208c24d74e.1611938319.git.jag.raman@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2021-02-09 20:53:56 +00:00
Eduardo Habkost
8063396bf3 Use OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE when possible
This converts existing DECLARE_INSTANCE_CHECKER usage to
OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE when possible.

$ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i \
  --pattern=AddObjectDeclareSimpleType $(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Message-Id: <20200916182519.415636-6-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2020-09-18 14:12:32 -04:00
Eduardo Habkost
8110fa1d94 Use DECLARE_*CHECKER* macros
Generated using:

 $ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i \
   --pattern=TypeCheckMacro $(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-12-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-13-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-14-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2020-09-09 09:27:09 -04:00
Eduardo Habkost
db1015e92e Move QOM typedefs and add missing includes
Some typedefs and macros are defined after the type check macros.
This makes it difficult to automatically replace their
definitions with OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE.

Patch generated using:

 $ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i \
   --pattern=QOMStructTypedefSplit $(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')

which will split "typdef struct { ... } TypedefName"
declarations.

Followed by:

 $ ./scripts/codeconverter/converter.py -i --pattern=MoveSymbols \
    $(git grep -l '' -- '*.[ch]')

which will:
- move the typedefs and #defines above the type check macros
- add missing #include "qom/object.h" lines if necessary

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-9-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-10-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200831210740.126168-11-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2020-09-09 09:26:43 -04:00
Markus Armbruster
668f62ec62 error: Eliminate error_propagate() with Coccinelle, part 1
When all we do with an Error we receive into a local variable is
propagating to somewhere else, we can just as well receive it there
right away.  Convert

    if (!foo(..., &err)) {
        ...
        error_propagate(errp, err);
        ...
        return ...
    }

to

    if (!foo(..., errp)) {
        ...
        ...
        return ...
    }

where nothing else needs @err.  Coccinelle script:

    @rule1 forall@
    identifier fun, err, errp, lbl;
    expression list args, args2;
    binary operator op;
    constant c1, c2;
    symbol false;
    @@
         if (
    (
    -        fun(args, &err, args2)
    +        fun(args, errp, args2)
    |
    -        !fun(args, &err, args2)
    +        !fun(args, errp, args2)
    |
    -        fun(args, &err, args2) op c1
    +        fun(args, errp, args2) op c1
    )
            )
         {
             ... when != err
                 when != lbl:
                 when strict
    -        error_propagate(errp, err);
             ... when != err
    (
             return;
    |
             return c2;
    |
             return false;
    )
         }

    @rule2 forall@
    identifier fun, err, errp, lbl;
    expression list args, args2;
    expression var;
    binary operator op;
    constant c1, c2;
    symbol false;
    @@
    -    var = fun(args, &err, args2);
    +    var = fun(args, errp, args2);
         ... when != err
         if (
    (
             var
    |
             !var
    |
             var op c1
    )
            )
         {
             ... when != err
                 when != lbl:
                 when strict
    -        error_propagate(errp, err);
             ... when != err
    (
             return;
    |
             return c2;
    |
             return false;
    |
             return var;
    )
         }

    @depends on rule1 || rule2@
    identifier err;
    @@
    -    Error *err = NULL;
         ... when != err

Not exactly elegant, I'm afraid.

The "when != lbl:" is necessary to avoid transforming

         if (fun(args, &err)) {
             goto out
         }
         ...
     out:
         error_propagate(errp, err);

even though other paths to label out still need the error_propagate().
For an actual example, see sclp_realize().

Without the "when strict", Coccinelle transforms vfio_msix_setup(),
incorrectly.  I don't know what exactly "when strict" does, only that
it helps here.

The match of return is narrower than what I want, but I can't figure
out how to express "return where the operand doesn't use @err".  For
an example where it's too narrow, see vfio_intx_enable().

Silently fails to convert hw/arm/armsse.c, because Coccinelle gets
confused by ARMSSE being used both as typedef and function-like macro
there.  Converted manually.

Line breaks tidied up manually.  One nested declaration of @local_err
deleted manually.  Preexisting unwanted blank line dropped in
hw/riscv/sifive_e.c.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-35-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-07-10 15:18:08 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
dcfe480544 error: Avoid unnecessary error_propagate() after error_setg()
Replace

    error_setg(&err, ...);
    error_propagate(errp, err);

by

    error_setg(errp, ...);

Related pattern:

    if (...) {
        error_setg(&err, ...);
        goto out;
    }
    ...
 out:
    error_propagate(errp, err);
    return;

When all paths to label out are that way, replace by

    if (...) {
        error_setg(errp, ...);
        return;
    }

and delete the label along with the error_propagate().

When we have at most one other path that actually needs to propagate,
and maybe one at the end that where propagation is unnecessary, e.g.

    foo(..., &err);
    if (err) {
        goto out;
    }
    ...
    bar(..., &err);
 out:
    error_propagate(errp, err);
    return;

move the error_propagate() to where it's needed, like

    if (...) {
        foo(..., &err);
        error_propagate(errp, err);
        return;
    }
    ...
    bar(..., errp);
    return;

and transform the error_setg() as above.

In some places, the transformation results in obviously unnecessary
error_propagate().  The next few commits will eliminate them.

Bonus: the elimination of gotos will make later patches in this series
easier to review.

Candidates for conversion tracked down with this Coccinelle script:

    @@
    identifier err, errp;
    expression list args;
    @@
    -    error_setg(&err, args);
    +    error_setg(errp, args);
         ... when != err
         error_propagate(errp, err);

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-34-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-07-10 15:18:08 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
62a35aaa31 qapi: Use returned bool to check for failure, Coccinelle part
The previous commit enables conversion of

    visit_foo(..., &err);
    if (err) {
        ...
    }

to

    if (!visit_foo(..., errp)) {
        ...
    }

for visitor functions that now return true / false on success / error.
Coccinelle script:

    @@
    identifier fun =~ "check_list|input_type_enum|lv_start_struct|lv_type_bool|lv_type_int64|lv_type_str|lv_type_uint64|output_type_enum|parse_type_bool|parse_type_int64|parse_type_null|parse_type_number|parse_type_size|parse_type_str|parse_type_uint64|print_type_bool|print_type_int64|print_type_null|print_type_number|print_type_size|print_type_str|print_type_uint64|qapi_clone_start_alternate|qapi_clone_start_list|qapi_clone_start_struct|qapi_clone_type_bool|qapi_clone_type_int64|qapi_clone_type_null|qapi_clone_type_number|qapi_clone_type_str|qapi_clone_type_uint64|qapi_dealloc_start_list|qapi_dealloc_start_struct|qapi_dealloc_type_anything|qapi_dealloc_type_bool|qapi_dealloc_type_int64|qapi_dealloc_type_null|qapi_dealloc_type_number|qapi_dealloc_type_str|qapi_dealloc_type_uint64|qobject_input_check_list|qobject_input_check_struct|qobject_input_start_alternate|qobject_input_start_list|qobject_input_start_struct|qobject_input_type_any|qobject_input_type_bool|qobject_input_type_bool_keyval|qobject_input_type_int64|qobject_input_type_int64_keyval|qobject_input_type_null|qobject_input_type_number|qobject_input_type_number_keyval|qobject_input_type_size_keyval|qobject_input_type_str|qobject_input_type_str_keyval|qobject_input_type_uint64|qobject_input_type_uint64_keyval|qobject_output_start_list|qobject_output_start_struct|qobject_output_type_any|qobject_output_type_bool|qobject_output_type_int64|qobject_output_type_null|qobject_output_type_number|qobject_output_type_str|qobject_output_type_uint64|start_list|visit_check_list|visit_check_struct|visit_start_alternate|visit_start_list|visit_start_struct|visit_type_.*";
    expression list args;
    typedef Error;
    Error *err;
    @@
    -    fun(args, &err);
    -    if (err)
    +    if (!fun(args, &err))
         {
             ...
         }

A few line breaks tidied up manually.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-19-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-07-10 15:18:08 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
d2623129a7 qom: Drop parameter @errp of object_property_add() & friends
The only way object_property_add() can fail is when a property with
the same name already exists.  Since our property names are all
hardcoded, failure is a programming error, and the appropriate way to
handle it is passing &error_abort.

Same for its variants, except for object_property_add_child(), which
additionally fails when the child already has a parent.  Parentage is
also under program control, so this is a programming error, too.

We have a bit over 500 callers.  Almost half of them pass
&error_abort, slightly fewer ignore errors, one test case handles
errors, and the remaining few callers pass them to their own callers.

The previous few commits demonstrated once again that ignoring
programming errors is a bad idea.

Of the few ones that pass on errors, several violate the Error API.
The Error ** argument must be NULL, &error_abort, &error_fatal, or a
pointer to a variable containing NULL.  Passing an argument of the
latter kind twice without clearing it in between is wrong: if the
first call sets an error, it no longer points to NULL for the second
call.  ich9_pm_add_properties(), sparc32_ledma_realize(),
sparc32_dma_realize(), xilinx_axidma_realize(), xilinx_enet_realize()
are wrong that way.

When the one appropriate choice of argument is &error_abort, letting
users pick the argument is a bad idea.

Drop parameter @errp and assert the preconditions instead.

There's one exception to "duplicate property name is a programming
error": the way object_property_add() implements the magic (and
undocumented) "automatic arrayification".  Don't drop @errp there.
Instead, rename object_property_add() to object_property_try_add(),
and add the obvious wrapper object_property_add().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200505152926.18877-15-armbru@redhat.com>
[Two semantic rebase conflicts resolved]
2020-05-15 07:07:58 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
7eecec7d12 qom: Drop object_property_set_description() parameter @errp
object_property_set_description() and
object_class_property_set_description() fail only when property @name
is not found.

There are 85 calls of object_property_set_description() and
object_class_property_set_description().  None of them can fail:

* 84 immediately follow the creation of the property.

* The one in spapr_rng_instance_init() refers to a property created in
  spapr_rng_class_init(), from spapr_rng_properties[].

Every one of them still gets to decide what to pass for @errp.

51 calls pass &error_abort, 32 calls pass NULL, one receives the error
and propagates it to &error_abort, and one propagates it to
&error_fatal.  I'm actually surprised none of them violates the Error
API.

What are we gaining by letting callers handle the "property not found"
error?  Use when the property is not known to exist is simpler: you
don't have to guard the call with a check.  We haven't found such a
use in 5+ years.  Until we do, let's make life a bit simpler and drop
the @errp parameter.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200505152926.18877-8-armbru@redhat.com>
[One semantic rebase conflict resolved]
2020-05-15 07:06:49 +02:00
Igor Mammedov
4ebc74dbbf hostmem: fix strict bind policy
When option -mem-prealloc is used with one or more memory-backend
objects, created backends may not obey configured bind policy or
creation may fail after kernel attempts to move pages according
to bind policy.
Reason is in file_ram_alloc(), which will pre-allocate
any descriptor based RAM if global mem_prealloc != 0 and that
happens way before bind policy is applied to memory range.

One way to fix it would be to extend memory_region_foo() API
and add more invariants that could broken later due implicit
dependencies that's hard to track.

Another approach is to drop adhoc main RAM allocation and
consolidate it around memory-backend. That allows to have
single place that allocates guest RAM (main and memdev)
in the same way and then global mem_prealloc could be
replaced by backend's property[s] that will affect created
memory-backend objects but only in correct order this time.

With main RAM now converted to hostmem backends, there is no
point in keeping global mem_prealloc around, so alias
 -mem-prealloc to "memory-backend.prealloc=on"
machine compat[*] property and make mem_prealloc a local
variable to only stir registration of compat property.

*) currently user accessible -global works only with DEVICE
   based objects and extra work is needed to make it work
   with hostmem backends. But that is convenience option
   and out of scope of this already huge refactoring.
   Hence machine compat properties were used.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200219160953.13771-78-imammedo@redhat.com>
2020-02-19 16:50:02 +00:00
Markus Armbruster
0b8fa32f55 Include qemu/module.h where needed, drop it from qemu-common.h
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190523143508.25387-4-armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased with conflicts resolved automatically, except for
hw/usb/dev-hub.c hw/misc/exynos4210_rng.c hw/misc/bcm2835_rng.c
hw/misc/aspeed_scu.c hw/display/virtio-vga.c hw/arm/stm32f205_soc.c;
ui/cocoa.m fixed up]
2019-06-12 13:18:33 +02:00
Ilya Maximets
4a66c7a999 hostmem-memfd: disable for systems without sealing support
If seals are not supported, memfd_create() will fail.
Furthermore, there is no way to disable it in this case because
'.seal' property is not registered.

This issue leads to vhost-user-test failures on RHEL 7.2:

  qemu-system-x86_64: -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=2M,: \
                      failed to create memfd: Invalid argument

and actually breaks the feature on such systems.

Let's restrict memfd backend to systems with sealing support.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Message-Id: <20190311135850.6537-2-i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2019-03-11 17:16:56 -03:00
Marc-André Lureau
fa0cb34d22 hostmem: use object id for memory region name with >= 4.0
hostmem-file and hostmem-memfd use the whole object path for the
memory region name, and hostname-ram uses only the path component (the
object id, or canonical path basename):

qemu -m 1024 -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=1G,mem-path=/tmp/foo -numa node,memdev=mem -monitor stdio
(qemu) info ramblock
              Block Name    PSize              Offset               Used              Total
            /objects/mem    4 KiB  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000

qemu -m 1024 -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=1G -numa node,memdev=mem -monitor stdio
(qemu) info ramblock
              Block Name    PSize              Offset               Used              Total
            /objects/mem    4 KiB  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000

qemu -m 1024 -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem,size=1G -numa node,memdev=mem -monitor stdio
(qemu) info ramblock
              Block Name    PSize              Offset               Used              Total
                     mem    4 KiB  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000040000000 0x0000000040000000

For consistency, change to use object id for -file and -memfd as well
with >= 4.0.

Having a consistent naming allows to migrate to different hostmem
backends.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2019-01-07 16:18:42 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau
86100290cb hostmem: no need to check for host_memory_backend_mr_inited() in alloc()
memfd_backend_memory_alloc/file_backend_memory_alloc both needlessly
are are calling host_memory_backend_mr_inited() which creates an
illusion that alloc could be called multiple times but it isn't, it's
called once from UserCreatable complete().

Suggested-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-11-28 11:51:24 +01:00
Marc-André Lureau
36ea397956 hostmem-memfd: honour share=on/off property
The share=on/off property is used to modified mmap() MAP_SHARED
setting. Make it on by default for convenience and compatibility
reasons.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-11-27 19:36:22 +01:00
Marc-André Lureau
033bfc5e0e hostmem: add some properties description
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-05 16:27:09 +04:00
Marc-André Lureau
3829640049 hostmem-memfd: add checks before adding hostmem-memfd & properties
Run some memfd-related checks before registering hostmem-memfd &
various properties. This will help libvirt to figure out what the host
is supposed to be capable of.

qemu_memfd_check() is changed to a less optimized version, since it is
used with various flags, it no longer caches the result.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180906161415.8543-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-10-02 18:47:55 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau
dbb9e0f40d Add memfd based hostmem
Add a new memory backend, similar to hostmem-file, except that it
doesn't need to create files. It also enforces memory sealing.

This backend is mainly useful for sharing the memory with other
processes.

Note that Linux supports transparent huge-pages of shmem/memfd memory
since 4.8. It is relatively easier to set up THP than a dedicate
hugepage mount point by using "madvise" in
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled.

Since 4.14, memfd allows to set hugetlb requirement explicitly.

Pending for merge in 4.16 is memfd sealing support for hugetlb backed
memory.

Usage:
-object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem1,size=1G

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180201132757.23063-5-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-02-07 14:09:25 +01:00