Le Friday 20 Sep 2013 à 20:34:47 (+0200), Damien Millescamps a écrit : > This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to > /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu. > A new parameter 'file' has been added to specify the file to use. > > A use case for this patch is sharing huge pages available through a > hugetlbfs mountpoint. > > Signed-off-by: Damien Millescamps <damien.millesca...@6wind.com> > --- > docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt | 7 +++- > hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt > b/docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt > index 667a862..cb7d310 100644 > --- a/docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt > +++ b/docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt > @@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ Device Specification for Inter-VM shared memory device > > The Inter-VM shared memory device is designed to share a region of memory to > userspace in multiple virtual guests. The memory region does not belong to > any > -guest, but is a POSIX memory object on the host. Optionally, the device may > -support sending interrupts to other guests sharing the same memory region. > +guest, but is a either a POSIX memory object or a mmap'd file (including > +hugepage-backed file) on the host. > + > +Optionally, the device may support sending interrupts to other guests sharing > +the same memory region. > > > The Inter-VM PCI device > diff --git a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c > index 2838866..5d991cf 100644 > --- a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c > +++ b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c > @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ typedef struct IVShmemState { > Error *migration_blocker; > > char * shmobj; > + char * fileobj; > char * sizearg; > char * role; > int role_val; /* scalar to avoid multiple string comparisons */ > @@ -715,9 +716,10 @@ static int pci_ivshmem_init(PCIDevice *dev) > /* if we get a UNIX socket as the parameter we will talk > * to the ivshmem server to receive the memory region */ > > - if (s->shmobj != NULL) { > - fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: do not specify both 'chardev' " > - "and 'shm' with ivshmem\n"); > + if (s->shmobj != NULL || s->fileobj != NULL) { > + fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: both 'chardev' and '%s' specified.\n" > + "Falling back to 'chardev' only.\n", > + s->shmobj ? "shm" : "file"); > } > > IVSHMEM_DPRINTF("using shared memory server (socket = %s)\n", > @@ -743,28 +745,43 @@ static int pci_ivshmem_init(PCIDevice *dev) > } else { > /* just map the file immediately, we're not using a server */ > int fd; > + int is_shm = !!(s->shmobj != NULL); > + int is_file = !!(s->fileobj != NULL);
Out of curiosity why doing !! on a boolean which would be converted either to zero or one by implicit casting ? > > - if (s->shmobj == NULL) { > - fprintf(stderr, "Must specify 'chardev' or 'shm' to ivshmem\n"); > + if (!(is_shm ^ is_file)) { > + fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: both 'file' and 'shm' specified for the " > + "same ivshmem device.\n"); > exit(1); > } > > - IVSHMEM_DPRINTF("using shm_open (shm object = %s)\n", s->shmobj); > - > - /* try opening with O_EXCL and if it succeeds zero the memory > - * by truncating to 0 */ > - if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_EXCL, > - S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)) > 0) { > - /* truncate file to length PCI device's memory */ > - if (ftruncate(fd, s->ivshmem_size) != 0) { > - fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: could not truncate shared file\n"); > + if (is_shm) { > + IVSHMEM_DPRINTF("using shm_open (shm object = %s)\n", s->shmobj); > + > + /* try opening with O_EXCL and if it succeeds zero the memory > + * by truncating to 0 */ > + if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_EXCL, > + S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)) > 0) { > + /* truncate file to length PCI device's memory */ > + if (ftruncate(fd, s->ivshmem_size) != 0) { > + fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: could not truncate" > + " shared file: %m\n"); > + exit(-1); > + } > + > + } else if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_RDWR, > + S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)) < 0) { > + fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: could not open shared file: %m\n"); > + exit(-1); > } > + } else { > + IVSHMEM_DPRINTF("using open (file object = %s)\n", s->fileobj); > > - } else if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, > - S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)) < 0) { > - fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: could not open shared file\n"); > - exit(-1); > - > + /* try opening a mmap's file. This file must have been previously > + * created on the host */ > + if ((fd = open(s->fileobj, O_RDWR)) < 0) { > + fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: could not open mmap'd file: %m\n"); > + exit(-1); > + } > } > > if (check_shm_size(s, fd) == -1) { > @@ -804,6 +821,7 @@ static Property ivshmem_properties[] = { > DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", IVShmemState, features, IVSHMEM_IOEVENTFD, > false), > DEFINE_PROP_BIT("msi", IVShmemState, features, IVSHMEM_MSI, true), > DEFINE_PROP_STRING("shm", IVShmemState, shmobj), > + DEFINE_PROP_STRING("file", IVShmemState, fileobj), > DEFINE_PROP_STRING("role", IVShmemState, role), > DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("use64", IVShmemState, ivshmem_64bit, 1), > DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(), > -- > 1.7.2.5 > > Hi, I won't be able to help you much on the semantic of the patch. However you should ./script/checkpatch.pl before posting: benoit@Laure:~/qemu (quorum_reboot2)$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl /tmp/onx ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #115: FILE: hw/misc/ivshmem.c:101: + char * fileobj; WARNING: suspect code indent for conditional statements (12, 15) #162: FILE: hw/misc/ivshmem.c:762: + if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_EXCL, [...] + /* truncate file to length PCI device's memory */ ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition #162: FILE: hw/misc/ivshmem.c:762: + if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_EXCL, ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition #171: FILE: hw/misc/ivshmem.c:771: + } else if ((fd = shm_open(s->shmobj, O_RDWR, ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition #186: FILE: hw/misc/ivshmem.c:781: + if ((fd = open(s->fileobj, O_RDWR)) < 0) { total: 4 errors, 1 warnings, 99 lines checked /tmp/patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Best regards Benoît