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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



  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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