Hello, This is the v12 of the patchset. Thank you very much for the review of the v11 of the series.
We made changes to the following patches in this version: - Moved patches 18 & 19 in v11 to the front of the series based on feedback from Phil - [PATCH v12 02/19 ] multi-process: add configure and usage information - [PATCH v12 04/19 ] multi-process: Add config option for multi-process QEMU - [PATCH v12 08/19] multi-process: define MPQemuMsg format and transmission functions. In summary, we replaced "scripts/mpqemu-launcher.py" with "tests/multiprocess/multiprocess-lsi53c895a.py". We tested this test on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures, which we have access to. We changed the name of the config variable called CONFIG_MPQEMU to CONFIG_MULTIPROCESS. We also moved the config variable definition out of the "configure" script, and into the Kconfig system. Previously, the user specified if multiprocess was enabled using the "--enable-mpqemu" argument to the configure script. In this version, we changed that. The multiprocess support is enabled automatically if Kconfig system detects KVM support. This is needed to run acceptance tests in the future. We are working on acceptance tests (tests/acceptance/) for this project. However, we have hit a roadblock and are working with the avocado-devel community to resolve the issue. We noticed that checkpatch.pl script flagged a warning for Patch 4 for this series, but we don't believe that's a valid concern. We generated the patches using QEMU's git orderfile (git format-patch -O scripts/git.orderfile ...). To touch upon the history of this project, we posted the Proof Of Concept patches before the BoF session in 2018. Subsequently, we have posted 11 versions on the qemu-devel mailing list. You can find them by following the links below ([1] - [11]).Following people contributed to the design and implementation of this project: Jagannathan Raman <jag.ra...@oracle.com> Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> John G Johnson <john.g.john...@oracle.com> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> Konrad Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Kanth Ghatraju <kanth.ghatr...@oracle.com> We would like to thank QEMU community for your feedback in the design and implementation of this project.Qemu wiki page: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/MultiProcessQEMU For the full concept writeup about QEMU multi-process, please refer to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.rst. Also see docs/qemu-multiprocess.txt for usage information. We welcome all your ideas, concerns, and questions for this patchset. Thank you! [POC]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg566538.html [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg602285.html [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg624877.html [3]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg642000.html [4]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg655118.html [5]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg682429.html [6]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg697484.html [7]: https://patchew.org/QEMU/cover.1593273671.git.elena.ufimts...@oracle.com/ [8]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg727007.html [9]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg734275.html [10]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg747638.html [11]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg750972.htmlThank you! Elena Ufimtseva (7): multi-process: add configure and usage information multi-process: add qio channel function to transmit data and fds multi-process: define MPQemuMsg format and transmission functions multi-process: introduce proxy object multi-process: add proxy communication functions multi-process: Forward PCI config space acceses to the remote process multi-process: perform device reset in the remote process Jagannathan Raman (11): memory: alloc RAM from file at offset multi-process: Add config option for multi-process QEMU multi-process: setup PCI host bridge for remote device multi-process: setup a machine object for remote device process multi-process: Initialize message handler in remote device multi-process: Associate fd of a PCIDevice with its object multi-process: setup memory manager for remote device multi-process: PCI BAR read/write handling for proxy & remote endpoints multi-process: Synchronize remote memory multi-process: create IOHUB object to handle irq multi-process: Retrieve PCI info from remote process John G Johnson (1): multi-process: add the concept description to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess docs/devel/index.rst | 1 + docs/devel/multi-process.rst | 966 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/multi-process.rst | 66 ++ include/exec/memory.h | 2 + include/exec/ram_addr.h | 2 +- include/hw/pci-host/remote.h | 31 + include/hw/pci/pci_ids.h | 3 + include/hw/remote/iohub.h | 42 ++ include/hw/remote/machine.h | 40 ++ include/hw/remote/memory-sync.h | 27 + include/hw/remote/memory.h | 19 + include/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.h | 98 +++ include/hw/remote/proxy.h | 53 ++ include/hw/remote/remote-obj.h | 42 ++ include/io/channel.h | 24 + include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h | 3 +- backends/hostmem-memfd.c | 2 +- hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 3 +- hw/pci-host/remote.c | 75 ++ hw/remote/iohub.c | 123 ++++ hw/remote/machine.c | 79 +++ hw/remote/memory-sync.c | 210 ++++++ hw/remote/memory.c | 58 ++ hw/remote/message.c | 241 +++++++ hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c | 308 ++++++++ hw/remote/proxy.c | 378 ++++++++++ hw/remote/remote-obj.c | 154 ++++ io/channel.c | 45 ++ softmmu/memory.c | 3 +- softmmu/physmem.c | 11 +- util/mmap-alloc.c | 7 +- util/oslib-posix.c | 2 +- MAINTAINERS | 25 + accel/Kconfig | 1 + hw/Kconfig | 1 + hw/meson.build | 1 + hw/pci-host/Kconfig | 3 + hw/pci-host/meson.build | 1 + hw/remote/Kconfig | 4 + hw/remote/meson.build | 13 + tests/multiprocess/multiprocess-lsi53c895a.py | 92 +++ 41 files changed, 3246 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/devel/multi-process.rst create mode 100644 docs/multi-process.rst create mode 100644 include/hw/pci-host/remote.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/iohub.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/machine.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/memory-sync.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/memory.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/proxy.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/remote-obj.h create mode 100644 hw/pci-host/remote.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/iohub.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/machine.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/memory-sync.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/memory.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/message.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/proxy.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/remote-obj.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/Kconfig create mode 100644 hw/remote/meson.build create mode 100755 tests/multiprocess/multiprocess-lsi53c895a.py -- 1.8.3.1