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| -rw-r--r-- | backends/hostmem-shm.c | 123 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | backends/meson.build | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qapi/qom.json | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 16 |
5 files changed, 164 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/backends/hostmem-shm.c b/backends/hostmem-shm.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..374edc3db8 --- /dev/null +++ b/backends/hostmem-shm.c @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +/* + * QEMU host POSIX shared memory object backend + * + * Copyright (C) 2024 Red Hat Inc + * + * Authors: + * Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> + * + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. + * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory. + */ + +#include "qemu/osdep.h" +#include "sysemu/hostmem.h" +#include "qapi/error.h" + +#define TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND_SHM "memory-backend-shm" + +OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE(HostMemoryBackendShm, MEMORY_BACKEND_SHM) + +struct HostMemoryBackendShm { + HostMemoryBackend parent_obj; +}; + +static bool +shm_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp) +{ + g_autoptr(GString) shm_name = g_string_new(NULL); + g_autofree char *backend_name = NULL; + uint32_t ram_flags; + int fd, oflag; + mode_t mode; + + if (!backend->size) { + error_setg(errp, "can't create shm backend with size 0"); + return false; + } + + if (!backend->share) { + error_setg(errp, "can't create shm backend with `share=off`"); + return false; + } + + /* + * Let's use `mode = 0` because we don't want other processes to open our + * memory unless we share the file descriptor with them. + */ + mode = 0; + oflag = O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL; + backend_name = host_memory_backend_get_name(backend); + + /* + * Some operating systems allow creating anonymous POSIX shared memory + * objects (e.g. FreeBSD provides the SHM_ANON constant), but this is not + * defined by POSIX, so let's create a unique name. + * + * From Linux's shm_open(3) man-page: + * For portable use, a shared memory object should be identified + * by a name of the form /somename;" + */ + g_string_printf(shm_name, "/qemu-" FMT_pid "-shm-%s", getpid(), + backend_name); + + fd = shm_open(shm_name->str, oflag, mode); + if (fd < 0) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, + "failed to create POSIX shared memory"); + return false; + } + + /* + * We have the file descriptor, so we no longer need to expose the + * POSIX shared memory object. However it will remain allocated as long as + * there are file descriptors pointing to it. + */ + shm_unlink(shm_name->str); + + if (ftruncate(fd, backend->size) == -1) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, + "failed to resize POSIX shared memory to %" PRIu64, + backend->size); + close(fd); + return false; + } + + ram_flags = RAM_SHARED; + ram_flags |= backend->reserve ? 0 : RAM_NORESERVE; + + return memory_region_init_ram_from_fd(&backend->mr, OBJECT(backend), + backend_name, backend->size, + ram_flags, fd, 0, errp); +} + +static void +shm_backend_instance_init(Object *obj) +{ + HostMemoryBackendShm *m = MEMORY_BACKEND_SHM(obj); + + MEMORY_BACKEND(m)->share = true; +} + +static void +shm_backend_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) +{ + HostMemoryBackendClass *bc = MEMORY_BACKEND_CLASS(oc); + + bc->alloc = shm_backend_memory_alloc; +} + +static const TypeInfo shm_backend_info = { + .name = TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND_SHM, + .parent = TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND, + .instance_init = shm_backend_instance_init, + .class_init = shm_backend_class_init, + .instance_size = sizeof(HostMemoryBackendShm), +}; + +static void register_types(void) +{ + type_register_static(&shm_backend_info); +} + +type_init(register_types); diff --git a/backends/meson.build b/backends/meson.build index 106312f0c8..749b491f12 100644 --- a/backends/meson.build +++ b/backends/meson.build @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ system_ss.add([files( if host_os != 'windows' system_ss.add(files('rng-random.c')) system_ss.add(files('hostmem-file.c')) + system_ss.add([files('hostmem-shm.c'), rt]) endif if host_os == 'linux' system_ss.add(files('hostmem-memfd.c')) diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst index 9b2da106ce..35259d8ec7 100644 --- a/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst +++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst @@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ Shared memory object In order for the daemon to access the VirtIO queues to process the requests it needs access to the guest's address space. This is -achieved via the ``memory-backend-file`` or ``memory-backend-memfd`` -objects. A reference to a file-descriptor which can access this object +achieved via the ``memory-backend-file``, ``memory-backend-memfd``, or +``memory-backend-shm`` objects. +A reference to a file-descriptor which can access this object will be passed via the socket as part of the protocol negotiation. Currently the shared memory object needs to match the size of the main diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json index 9b8f6a7ab5..92b0fea76c 100644 --- a/qapi/qom.json +++ b/qapi/qom.json @@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ # # @share: if false, the memory is private to QEMU; if true, it is # shared (default false for backends memory-backend-file and -# memory-backend-ram, true for backends memory-backend-epc and -# memory-backend-memfd) +# memory-backend-ram, true for backends memory-backend-epc, +# memory-backend-memfd, and memory-backend-shm) # # @reserve: if true, reserve swap space (or huge pages) if applicable # (default: true) (since 6.1) @@ -722,6 +722,21 @@ '*seal': 'bool' } } ## +# @MemoryBackendShmProperties: +# +# Properties for memory-backend-shm objects. +# +# This memory backend supports only shared memory, which is the +# default. +# +# Since: 9.1 +## +{ 'struct': 'MemoryBackendShmProperties', + 'base': 'MemoryBackendProperties', + 'data': { }, + 'if': 'CONFIG_POSIX' } + +## # @MemoryBackendEpcProperties: # # Properties for memory-backend-epc objects. @@ -1049,6 +1064,8 @@ { 'name': 'memory-backend-memfd', 'if': 'CONFIG_LINUX' }, 'memory-backend-ram', + { 'name': 'memory-backend-shm', + 'if': 'CONFIG_POSIX' }, 'pef-guest', { 'name': 'pr-manager-helper', 'if': 'CONFIG_LINUX' }, @@ -1121,6 +1138,8 @@ 'memory-backend-memfd': { 'type': 'MemoryBackendMemfdProperties', 'if': 'CONFIG_LINUX' }, 'memory-backend-ram': 'MemoryBackendProperties', + 'memory-backend-shm': { 'type': 'MemoryBackendShmProperties', + 'if': 'CONFIG_POSIX' }, 'pr-manager-helper': { 'type': 'PrManagerHelperProperties', 'if': 'CONFIG_LINUX' }, 'qtest': 'QtestProperties', diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 8ca7f34ef0..ad6521ef5e 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -5240,6 +5240,22 @@ SRST The ``share`` boolean option is on by default with memfd. + ``-object memory-backend-shm,id=id,merge=on|off,dump=on|off,share=on|off,prealloc=on|off,size=size,host-nodes=host-nodes,policy=default|preferred|bind|interleave`` + Creates a POSIX shared memory backend object, which allows + QEMU to share the memory with an external process (e.g. when + using vhost-user). + + ``memory-backend-shm`` is a more portable and less featureful version + of ``memory-backend-memfd``. It can then be used in any POSIX system, + especially when memfd is not supported. + + Please refer to ``memory-backend-file`` for a description of the + options. + + The ``share`` boolean option is on by default with shm. Setting it to + off will cause a failure during allocation because it is not supported + by this backend. + ``-object iommufd,id=id[,fd=fd]`` Creates an iommufd backend which allows control of DMA mapping through the ``/dev/iommu`` device. |