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-rw-r--r--include/exec/memory.h41
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
index 79ccaaba1f..a75b8c3465 100644
--- a/include/exec/memory.h
+++ b/include/exec/memory.h
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ struct MemoryRegion {
void (*destructor)(MemoryRegion *mr);
uint64_t align;
bool terminates;
- bool skip_dump;
+ bool ram_device;
bool enabled;
bool warning_printed; /* For reservations */
uint8_t vga_logging_count;
@@ -449,6 +449,30 @@ void memory_region_init_ram_ptr(MemoryRegion *mr,
void *ptr);
/**
+ * memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr: Initialize RAM device memory region from
+ * a user-provided pointer.
+ *
+ * A RAM device represents a mapping to a physical device, such as to a PCI
+ * MMIO BAR of an vfio-pci assigned device. The memory region may be mapped
+ * into the VM address space and access to the region will modify memory
+ * directly. However, the memory region should not be included in a memory
+ * dump (device may not be enabled/mapped at the time of the dump), and
+ * operations incompatible with manipulating MMIO should be avoided. Replaces
+ * skip_dump flag.
+ *
+ * @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized.
+ * @owner: the object that tracks the region's reference count
+ * @name: the name of the region.
+ * @size: size of the region.
+ * @ptr: memory to be mapped; must contain at least @size bytes.
+ */
+void memory_region_init_ram_device_ptr(MemoryRegion *mr,
+ struct Object *owner,
+ const char *name,
+ uint64_t size,
+ void *ptr);
+
+/**
* memory_region_init_alias: Initialize a memory region that aliases all or a
* part of another memory region.
*
@@ -574,22 +598,13 @@ static inline bool memory_region_is_ram(MemoryRegion *mr)
}
/**
- * memory_region_is_skip_dump: check whether a memory region should not be
- * dumped
- *
- * Returns %true is a memory region should not be dumped(e.g. VFIO BAR MMAP).
+ * memory_region_is_ram_device: check whether a memory region is a ram device
*
- * @mr: the memory region being queried
- */
-bool memory_region_is_skip_dump(MemoryRegion *mr);
-
-/**
- * memory_region_set_skip_dump: Set skip_dump flag, dump will ignore this memory
- * region
+ * Returns %true is a memory region is a device backed ram region
*
* @mr: the memory region being queried
*/
-void memory_region_set_skip_dump(MemoryRegion *mr);
+bool memory_region_is_ram_device(MemoryRegion *mr);
/**
* memory_region_is_romd: check whether a memory region is in ROMD mode