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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "David Hildenbrand" <david@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 8/9] docs: Don't mention "-mem-path" in multi-process.rst
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:44:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230822114504.239505-9-david@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230822114504.239505-1-david@redhat.com>

"-mem-path" corresponds to "memory-backend-file,share=off" and,
therefore, creates a private COW mapping of the file. For multi-proces
QEMU, we need proper shared file-backed memory.

Let's make that clearer.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/multi-process.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/multi-process.rst b/docs/devel/multi-process.rst
index e4801751f2..4ef539c0b0 100644
--- a/docs/devel/multi-process.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/multi-process.rst
@@ -409,8 +409,9 @@ the initial messages sent to the emulation process is a guest memory
 table. Each entry in this table consists of a file descriptor and size
 that the emulation process can ``mmap()`` to directly access guest
 memory, similar to ``vhost_user_set_mem_table()``. Note guest memory
-must be backed by file descriptors, such as when QEMU is given the
-*-mem-path* command line option.
+must be backed by shared file-backed memory, for example, using
+*-object memory-backend-file,share=on* and setting that memory backend
+as RAM for the machine.
 
 IOMMU operations
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- 
2.41.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-22 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-22 11:44 [PATCH v2 0/9] memory-backend-file related improvements and VM templating support David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] nvdimm: Reject writing label data to ROM instead of crashing QEMU David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 19:25   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] softmmu/physmem: Distinguish between file access mode and mmap protection David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 13:13   ` ThinerLogoer
2023-08-22 13:25     ` [PATCH " David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] backends/hostmem-file: Add "rom" property to support VM templating with R/O files David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 13:27   ` Markus Armbruster
2023-08-22 13:29     ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 14:26   ` ThinerLogoer
2023-08-23 12:43     ` [PATCH " David Hildenbrand
2023-08-23 14:47       ` ThinerLogoer
2023-08-23 14:59         ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] softmmu/physmem: Remap with proper protection in qemu_ram_remap() David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] softmmu/physmem: Bail out early in ram_block_discard_range() with readonly files David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] softmmu/physmem: Fail creation of new files in file_ram_open() with readonly=true David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] softmmu/physmem: Never return directories from file_ram_open() David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2023-08-22 13:21   ` Re:[PATCH v2 8/9] docs: Don't mention "-mem-path" in multi-process.rst ThinerLogoer
2023-08-22 13:24     ` [PATCH " David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] docs: Start documenting VM templating David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 13:47   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-08-22 14:04     ` David Hildenbrand
2023-08-22 14:23   ` Peter Maydell
2023-08-22 14:31     ` David Hildenbrand

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