For fd-based shared memory, MAP_NORESERVE is only effective for hugetlb,
otherwise it's ignored. Older Linux versions that didn't support
reservation of huge pages ignored MAP_NORESERVE completely.
The first client to mmap a hugetlb fd without MAP_NORESERVE will
trigger reservation of huge pages for the whole mmapped range. There are
two cases to consider:
1) QEMU mapped RAM without MAP_NORESERVE
We're not dealing with a sparse mapping, huge pages for the whole range
have already been reserved by QEMU. An additional mmap() without
MAP_NORESERVE won't have any effect on the reservation.
2) QEMU mapped RAM with MAP_NORESERVE
We're delaing with a sparse mapping, no huge pages should be reserved.
Further mappings without MAP_NORESERVE should be avoided.
For 1), it doesn't matter if we set MAP_NORESERVE or not, so we can
simply set it. For 2), we'd be overriding QEMUs decision and trigger
reservation of huge pages, which might just fail if there are not
sufficient huge pages around. We must map with MAP_NORESERVE.
This change is required to support virtio-mem with hugetlb: a
virtio-mem device mapped into the guest physical memory corresponds to
a sparse memory mapping and QEMU maps this memory with MAP_NORESERVE.
Whenever memory in that sparse region will be accessed by the VM, QEMU
populates huge pages for the affected range by preallocating memory
and handling any preallocation errors gracefully.
So let's map shared RAM with MAP_NORESERVE. As libvhost-user only
supports Linux, there shouldn't be anything to take care of in regard of
other OS support.
Without this change, libvhost-user will fail mapping the region if there
are currently not enough huge pages to perform the reservation:
fv_panic: libvhost-user: region mmap error: Cannot allocate memory
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220111123939.132659-1-david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
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