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authorStefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>2019-07-24 16:31:05 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-08-20 17:26:18 +0200
commite502fe96ac4343a3f4a3c13f28eea03ae7b11c3f (patch)
treeedcc405a47e5cbda2ce48580cfe819de5b1dab5d
parent816b9fe450220e19acb91a0ce4a8ade7000648d1 (diff)
hw/i386/pc: Map into memory the initrd
In order to reduce the memory footprint we map into memory the initrd using g_mapped_file_new() instead of reading it. In this way we can share the initrd pages between multiple instances of QEMU. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20190724143105.307042-4-sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--hw/i386/pc.c17
-rw-r--r--include/hw/i386/pc.h1
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
index 3ab4bcb3ca..6b4f32edfe 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
@@ -1244,17 +1244,21 @@ static void load_linux(PCMachineState *pcms,
/* load initrd */
if (initrd_filename) {
+ GMappedFile *mapped_file;
gsize initrd_size;
gchar *initrd_data;
GError *gerr = NULL;
- if (!g_file_get_contents(initrd_filename, &initrd_data,
- &initrd_size, &gerr)) {
+ mapped_file = g_mapped_file_new(initrd_filename, false, &gerr);
+ if (!mapped_file) {
fprintf(stderr, "qemu: error reading initrd %s: %s\n",
initrd_filename, gerr->message);
exit(1);
}
+ pcms->initrd_mapped_file = mapped_file;
+ initrd_data = g_mapped_file_get_contents(mapped_file);
+ initrd_size = g_mapped_file_get_length(mapped_file);
initrd_max = pcms->below_4g_mem_size - pcmc->acpi_data_size - 1;
if (initrd_size >= initrd_max) {
fprintf(stderr, "qemu: initrd is too large, cannot support."
@@ -1381,6 +1385,7 @@ static void load_linux(PCMachineState *pcms,
/* load initrd */
if (initrd_filename) {
+ GMappedFile *mapped_file;
gsize initrd_size;
gchar *initrd_data;
GError *gerr = NULL;
@@ -1390,12 +1395,16 @@ static void load_linux(PCMachineState *pcms,
exit(1);
}
- if (!g_file_get_contents(initrd_filename, &initrd_data,
- &initrd_size, &gerr)) {
+ mapped_file = g_mapped_file_new(initrd_filename, false, &gerr);
+ if (!mapped_file) {
fprintf(stderr, "qemu: error reading initrd %s: %s\n",
initrd_filename, gerr->message);
exit(1);
}
+ pcms->initrd_mapped_file = mapped_file;
+
+ initrd_data = g_mapped_file_get_contents(mapped_file);
+ initrd_size = g_mapped_file_get_length(mapped_file);
if (initrd_size >= initrd_max) {
fprintf(stderr, "qemu: initrd is too large, cannot support."
"(max: %"PRIu32", need %"PRId64")\n",
diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
index 4bb9e29114..2afe285009 100644
--- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
+++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct PCMachineState {
FWCfgState *fw_cfg;
qemu_irq *gsi;
PFlashCFI01 *flash[2];
+ GMappedFile *initrd_mapped_file;
/* Configuration options: */
uint64_t max_ram_below_4g;