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It does >>>> not apply to memory-backend-objects, whether explicitly specified on >>>> the command line, or implicitly created by the -m command line option. >>>> >>>> The memfd option is intended to support new migration modes, in which the >>>> memory region can be transferred in place to a new QEMU process, by sending >>>> the memfd file descriptor to the process.  Memory contents are preserved, >>>> and if the mode also transfers device descriptors, then pages that are >>>> locked in memory for DMA remain locked.  This behavior is a pre-requisite >>>> for supporting vfio, vdpa, and iommufd devices with the new modes. >>> >>> A more portable, non-Linux specific variant of this will be using shm, >>> similar to backends/hostmem-shm.c. >>> >>> Likely we should be using that instead of memfd, or try hiding the >>> details. See below. >> >> For this series I would prefer to use memfd and hide the details. It's a >> concise (and well tested) solution albeit linux only. The code you supply >> for posix shm would be a good follow on patch to support other unices. > > Unless there is reason to use memfd we should start with the more > generic POSIX variant that is available even on systems without memfd. > Factoring stuff out as I drafted does look quite compelling. > > I can help with the rework, and send it out separately, so you can focus > on the "machine toggle" as part of this series. > > Of course, if we find out we need the memfd internally instead under > Linux for whatever reason later, we can use that instead. > > But IIUC, the main selling point for memfd are additional features > (hugetlb, memory sealing) that you aren't even using. FWIW, I'm looking into some details, and one difference is that shmem_open() under Linux (glibc) seems to go to /dev/shmem and memfd/SYSV go to the internal tmpfs mount. There is not a big difference, but there can be some difference (e.g., sizing of the /dev/shm mount). Regarding memory-backend-ram,share=on, I assume we can use memfd if available, but then fallback to shm_open(). I'm hoping we can find a way where it just all is rather intuitive, like "default-ram-share=on": behave for internal RAM just like "memory-backend-ram,share=on" "memory-backend-ram,share=on": use whatever mechanism we have to give us "anonymous" memory that can be shared using an fd with another process. Thoughts? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb