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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Markus Armbruster
Ilya Maximets
Marc-André Lureau