Right now we can only map PCDIMM/NVDIMM into guest address space. In the future, we might want to do the same for virtio devices - e.g. virtio-pmem or virtio-mem. Especially, they should be able to live side by side to each other.
E.g. the virto based memory devices regions will not be exposed via ACPI and friends. They will be detected just like other virtio devices and indicate the applicable memory region. This makes it possible to also use them on architectures without memory device detection support (e.g. s390x). Let's factor out the memory device code into a MemoryDevice interface. See the patch descriptions for details. David Hildenbrand (3): pc-dimm: factor out MemoryDevice interface machine: make MemoryHotplugState accessible via the machine pc-dimm: factor out address space logic into MemoryDevice code hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 3 +- hw/i386/pc.c | 24 ++- hw/mem/Makefile.objs | 1 + hw/mem/memory-device.c | 281 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/mem/pc-dimm.c | 304 +++++++-------------------- hw/ppc/spapr.c | 15 +- include/hw/boards.h | 16 ++ include/hw/mem/memory-device.h | 48 +++++ include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h | 26 +-- numa.c | 3 +- qmp.c | 4 +- stubs/Makefile.objs | 2 +- stubs/{qmp_pc_dimm.c => qmp_memory_device.c} | 4 +- 13 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 271 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hw/mem/memory-device.c create mode 100644 include/hw/mem/memory-device.h rename stubs/{qmp_pc_dimm.c => qmp_memory_device.c} (61%) -- 2.14.3