If memory-backend-{file,ram} has a size that's not aligned to
underlying page size it is not only wasteful, but also may lead
to hard to debug behaviour. For instance, in case
memory-backend-file and hugepages, madvise() and mbind() fail.
Rightfully so, page is the smallest unit they can work with. And
even though an error is reported, the root cause it not very
clear:
qemu-system-x86_64: Couldn't set property 'dump' on 'memory-backend-file': Invalid argument
After this commit:
qemu-system-x86_64: backend 'memory-backend-file' memory size must be multiple of 2 MiB
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <b5b9f9c6bba07879fb43f3c6f496c69867ae3716.1717584048.git.mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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>
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>
This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230202133830.2152150-18-armbru@redhat.com>
EPC (Enclave Page Cahe) is a specialized type of memory used by Intel
SGX (Software Guard Extensions). The SDM desribes EPC as:
The Enclave Page Cache (EPC) is the secure storage used to store
enclave pages when they are a part of an executing enclave. For an
EPC page, hardware performs additional access control checks to
restrict access to the page. After the current page access checks
and translations are performed, the hardware checks that the EPC
page is accessible to the program currently executing. Generally an
EPC page is only accessed by the owner of the executing enclave or
an instruction which is setting up an EPC page.
Because of its unique requirements, Linux manages EPC separately from
normal memory. Similar to memfd, the device /dev/sgx_vepc can be
opened to obtain a file descriptor which can in turn be used to mmap()
EPC memory.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20210719112136.57018-3-yang.zhong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
