Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V10 2/4] util/mmap-alloc: support MAP_SYNC in qemu_ram_mmap()

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:59:45AM +0800, Zhang, Yi wrote:
> From: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> 
> When a file supporting DAX is used as vNVDIMM backend, mmap it with
> MAP_SYNC flag in addition which can ensure file system metadata
> synced in each guest writes to the backend file, without other QEMU
> actions (e.g., periodic fsync() by QEMU).
> 
> Current, We have below different possible use cases:
> 
> 1. pmem=on is set, shared=on is set, MAP_SYNC supported:
>    a: backend is a dax supporting file.
>     - MAP_SYNC will active.
>    b: backend is not a dax supporting file.
>     - mmap will result in an EOPNOTSUPP error.
> 
> 2. The rest of cases:
>    - we will never pass the MAP_SYNC to mmap2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h |  1 +
>  include/qemu/osdep.h      | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  util/mmap-alloc.c         |  7 ++++++-
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h b/include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h
> index 6fe6ed4..a95d91c 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ size_t qemu_mempath_getpagesize(const char *mem_path);
>   *  @flags: specifies additional properties of the mapping, which can be one or
>   *          bit-or of following values
>   *          - RAM_SHARED: mmap with MAP_SHARED flag
> + *          - RAM_PMEM: mmap with MAP_SYNC flag
>   *          Other bits are ignored.
>   *
>   * Return:
> diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
> index 457d24e..3bcf155 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
> @@ -419,6 +419,27 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
>  #  define QEMU_VMALLOC_ALIGN getpagesize()
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC are introduced in Linux kernel
> + * 4.15, so they may not be defined when compiling on older kernels.
> + */


I commented on this part in v7. That's a wrong way to handle
compatibility.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
> +
> +#include <linux/mman.h>
> +
> +#ifndef MAP_SYNC
> +#define MAP_SYNC 0x0
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE
> +#define MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE 0x0
> +#endif
> +




> +#else  /* !CONFIG_LINUX */
> +#define MAP_SYNC              0x0
> +#define MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE   0x0
> +#endif /* CONFIG_LINUX */
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
>  struct qemu_signalfd_siginfo {
>      uint32_t ssi_signo;   /* Signal number */
> diff --git a/util/mmap-alloc.c b/util/mmap-alloc.c
> index 8f0a740..a4ce9b5 100644
> --- a/util/mmap-alloc.c
> +++ b/util/mmap-alloc.c
> @@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ void *qemu_ram_mmap(int fd, size_t size, size_t align, uint32_t flags)
>      void *ptr = mmap(0, total, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
>  #endif
>      bool shared = flags & RAM_SHARED;
> +    bool is_pmem = flags & RAM_PMEM;
> +    int mmap_xflags = 0;
>      size_t offset;
>      void *ptr1;
>  
> @@ -109,12 +111,15 @@ void *qemu_ram_mmap(int fd, size_t size, size_t align, uint32_t flags)
>      assert(is_power_of_2(align));
>      /* Always align to host page size */
>      assert(align >= getpagesize());
> +    if (shared && is_pmem) {
> +        mmap_xflags |= (MAP_SYNC | MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE);
> +    }
>  
>      offset = QEMU_ALIGN_UP((uintptr_t)ptr, align) - (uintptr_t)ptr;
>      ptr1 = mmap(ptr + offset, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>                  MAP_FIXED |
>                  (fd == -1 ? MAP_ANONYMOUS : 0) |
> -                (shared ? MAP_SHARED : MAP_PRIVATE),
> +                (shared ? MAP_SHARED : MAP_PRIVATE) | mmap_xflags,
>                  fd, 0);
>      if (ptr1 == MAP_FAILED) {
>          munmap(ptr, total);
> -- 
> 2.7.4