From: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: stevensd@chromium.org, dbassey@redhat.com,
"Laurent Vivier" <lvivier@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
mst@redhat.com, slp@redhat.com, hi@alyssa.is,
stefanha@redhat.com, "Fabiano Rosas" <farosas@suse.de>,
"Stefano Garzarella" <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
jasowang@redhat.com, david@redhat.com,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Albert Esteve" <aesteve@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/7] vhost_user.rst: Add SHMEM_MAP/_UNMAP to spec
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:54:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250910115420.1012191-4-aesteve@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250910115420.1012191-1-aesteve@redhat.com>
Add SHMEM_MAP/_UNMAP request to the vhost-user
spec documentation.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>
---
docs/interop/vhost-user.rst | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
index 436a94c0ee..dab9f3af42 100644
--- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
@@ -350,6 +350,27 @@ Device state transfer parameters
In the future, additional phases might be added e.g. to allow
iterative migration while the device is running.
+MMAP request
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
++-------+---------+-----------+------------+-----+-------+
+| shmid | padding | fd_offset | shm_offset | len | flags |
++-------+---------+-----------+------------+-----+-------+
+
+:shmid: a 8-bit shared memory region identifier
+
+:fd_offset: a 64-bit offset of this area from the start
+ of the supplied file descriptor
+
+:shm_offset: a 64-bit offset from the start of the
+ pointed shared memory region
+
+:len: a 64-bit size of the memory to map
+
+:flags: a 64-bit value:
+ - 0: Pages are mapped read-only
+ - 1: Pages are mapped read-write
+
C structure
-----------
@@ -375,6 +396,7 @@ In QEMU the vhost-user message is implemented with the following struct:
VhostUserInflight inflight;
VhostUserShared object;
VhostUserTransferDeviceState transfer_state;
+ VhostUserMMap mmap;
};
} QEMU_PACKED VhostUserMsg;
@@ -1057,6 +1079,7 @@ Protocol features
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_XEN_MMAP 17
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHARED_OBJECT 18
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_DEVICE_STATE 19
+ #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SHMEM 20
Front-end message types
-----------------------
@@ -1865,6 +1888,41 @@ is sent by the front-end.
when the operation is successful, or non-zero otherwise. Note that if the
operation fails, no fd is sent to the backend.
+``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_SHMEM_MAP``
+ :id: 9
+ :equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ :request payload: fd and ``struct VhostUserMMap``
+ :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
+ advertise a new mapping to be made in a given VIRTIO Shared Memory Region.
+ Upon receiving the message, the front-end will mmap the given fd into the
+ VIRTIO Shared Memory Region with the requested ``shmid``.
+ If``VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK`` is negotiated, and
+ back-end set the ``VHOST_USER_NEED_REPLY`` flag, the front-end
+ must respond with zero when operation is successfully completed,
+ or non-zero otherwise.
+
+ Mapping over an already existing map is not allowed and requests shall fail.
+ Therefore, the memory range in the request must correspond with a valid,
+ free region of the VIRTIO Shared Memory Region. Also, note that mappings
+ consume resources and that the request can fail when there are no resources
+ available.
+
+``VHOST_USER_BACKEND_SHMEM_UNMAP``
+ :id: 10
+ :equivalent ioctl: N/A
+ :request payload: ``struct VhostUserMMap``
+ :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 so
+ that the front-end un-mmaps a given range (``shm_offset``, ``len``) in the
+ VIRTIO Shared Memory Region with the requested ``shmid``. Note that the
+ given range shall correspond to the entirety of a valid mapped region.
+ A reply is generated indicating whether unmapping succeeded.
+
.. _reply_ack:
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-10 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-10 11:54 [PATCH v8 0/7] vhost-user: Add SHMEM_MAP/UNMAP requests Albert Esteve
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 1/7] vhost-user: Add VirtIO Shared Memory map request Albert Esteve
2025-09-29 18:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-10-14 13:52 ` Albert Esteve
2025-10-14 15:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-10-15 6:51 ` Albert Esteve
2025-09-29 19:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 2/7] vhost_user.rst: Align VhostUserMsg excerpt members Albert Esteve
2025-09-10 11:54 ` Albert Esteve [this message]
2025-09-29 18:48 ` [PATCH v8 3/7] vhost_user.rst: Add SHMEM_MAP/_UNMAP to spec Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 4/7] vhost_user: Add frontend get_shmem_config command Albert Esteve
2025-09-29 18:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 5/7] vhost_user.rst: Add GET_SHMEM_CONFIG message Albert Esteve
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 6/7] qmp: add shmem feature map Albert Esteve
2025-09-10 11:54 ` [PATCH v8 7/7] vhost-user-device: Add shared memory BAR Albert Esteve
2025-09-29 19:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-10-13 15:37 ` Albert Esteve
2025-10-14 15:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-10-15 6:46 ` Albert Esteve
2025-09-26 8:28 ` [PATCH v8 0/7] vhost-user: Add SHMEM_MAP/UNMAP requests Albert Esteve
2025-09-29 19:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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