From: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: slp@redhat.com, stevensd@chromium.org,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Stefano Garzarella" <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
stefanha@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, hi@alyssa.is,
mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
"Albert Esteve" <aesteve@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 9/9] vhost_user.rst: Add MEM_READ/WRITE messages
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:40:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250217164012.246727-10-aesteve@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250217164012.246727-1-aesteve@redhat.com>
Add MEM_READ/WRITE request to the vhost-user
spec documentation.
Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>
---
docs/interop/vhost-user.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
index 96156f1900..9f7a2c4cf7 100644
--- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ In QEMU the vhost-user message is implemented with the following struct:
VhostUserTransferDeviceState transfer_state;
VhostUserMMap mmap;
VhostUserShMemConfig shmem;
+ VhostUserMemRWMsg mem_rw;
};
} QEMU_PACKED VhostUserMsg;
@@ -1938,6 +1939,38 @@ is sent by the front-end.
given range shall correspond to the entirety of a valid mapped region.
A reply is generated indicating whether unmapping succeeded.
+``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_MEM_READ``
+ :id: 11
+ :equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ :request payload: ``struct VhostUserMemRWMsg``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ When the ``VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHMEM`` protocol feature has been
+ successfully negotiated, this message can be submitted by the backends to
+ read a memory region that has failed to resolve a translation due to an
+ incomplete memory table, after another device called
+ ``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_SHMEM_MAP`` for the same region on a shared
+ descriptor file.
+
+ This mechanism works as a fallback for resolving those memory
+ accesses and ensure that DMA works with Shared Memory Regions.
+
+``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_MEM_WRITE``
+ :id: 12
+ :equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ :request payload: ``struct VhostUserMemRWMsg``
+ :reply payload: N/A
+
+ When the ``VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHMEM`` protocol feature has been
+ successfully negotiated, this message can be submitted by the backends to
+ write a memory region that has failed due to resolve a translation an
+ incomplete memory table after another device called
+ ``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_SHMEM_MAP`` for the same region on a shared
+ descriptor file.
+
+ This mechanism works as a fallback for resolving those memory
+ accesses and ensure that DMA works with Shared Memory Regions.
+
.. _reply_ack:
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK
--
2.48.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-17 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-17 16:40 [PATCH v4 0/9] vhost-user: Add SHMEM_MAP/UNMAP requests Albert Esteve
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] vhost-user: Add VirtIO Shared Memory map request Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 6:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-18 10:33 ` Albert Esteve
2025-03-06 14:48 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-20 10:59 ` Alyssa Ross
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] vhost_user.rst: Align VhostUserMsg excerpt members Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 6:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] vhost_user.rst: Add SHMEM_MAP/_UNMAP to spec Albert Esteve
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] vhost_user: Add frontend get_shmem_config command Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:27 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] vhost_user.rst: Add GET_SHMEM_CONFIG message Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] qmp: add shmem feature map Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] vhost-user-devive: Add shmem BAR Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-18 10:55 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 13:25 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-18 15:04 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] vhost_user: Add mem_read/write backend requests Albert Esteve
2025-02-18 10:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-17 16:40 ` Albert Esteve [this message]
2025-02-18 11:00 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] vhost_user.rst: Add MEM_READ/WRITE messages Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-18 12:50 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-17 20:01 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] vhost-user: Add SHMEM_MAP/UNMAP requests David Hildenbrand
2025-02-24 8:54 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-24 9:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-24 9:35 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-24 9:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-24 13:41 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-24 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-24 15:15 ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-26 9:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-27 7:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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