[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/4] add -keep-mem-path-files option

[Eduardo Habkost]

This make QEMU create files inside the -mem-path directory using
more predictable names, and not remove them afterwards.

This allow (for example) users or management layers to use numactl
later, to set NUMA policy for the guest RAM.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
---
 cpu-all.h       |    1 +
 exec.c          |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 qemu-options.hx |   12 ++++++++++++
 vl.c            |    5 +++++
 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cpu-all.h b/cpu-all.h
index 2beed5a..acd59ff 100644
--- a/cpu-all.h
+++ b/cpu-all.h
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ typedef struct RAMList {
 extern RAMList ram_list;
 
 extern const char *mem_path;
+extern bool keep_mem_path_files;
 extern bool mem_prealloc;
 
 /* Flags stored in the low bits of the TLB virtual address.  These are
diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index dcbe4e1..504e19f 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2377,6 +2377,28 @@ static int get_temp_fd(const char *path)
     return fd;
 }
 
+/* Return FD to RAM block file, using the memory region name as filename
+ */
+static int open_ramblock_file(RAMBlock *block, const char *path)
+{
+    int fd;
+    char *filename;
+
+    if (asprintf(&filename, "%s/%s", path, block->mr->name) == -1) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    fd = open(filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
+    if (fd < 0) {
+        perror("unable to open backing store for hugepages");
+        free(filename);
+        return -1;
+    }   
+    free(filename);
+
+    return fd;
+}
+
 static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block,
                             size_t length,
                             const char *path)
@@ -2402,7 +2424,10 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block,
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    fd = get_temp_fd(path);
+    if (keep_mem_path_files)
+        fd = open_ramblock_file(block, path);
+    else
+        fd = get_temp_fd(path);
     if (fd < 0) {
         return NULL;
     }
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 8b66264..f2eb237 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -399,6 +399,18 @@ STEXI
 Allocate guest RAM from a temporarily created file in @var{path}.
 ETEXI
 
+DEF("keep-mem-path-files", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_keep_mempath_files,
+    "-keep-mem-path-files  Keep files created in -mem-path\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+STEXI
address@hidden -keep-mem-path-files
+Create the files for -mem-path using the memory region names, and don't remove
+them afterwards.
+
+This allows further fine-tuning of NUMA policy for memory regions using
+numactl.
+ETEXI
+
+
 #ifdef MAP_POPULATE
 DEF("mem-prealloc", 0, QEMU_OPTION_mem_prealloc,
     "-mem-prealloc   preallocate guest memory (use with -mem-path)\n",
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 4e3403c..1dc595f 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ int display_remote = 0;
 const char* keyboard_layout = NULL;
 ram_addr_t ram_size;
 const char *mem_path = NULL;
+bool keep_mem_path_files = false; /* Keep files created at mem_path.
+                                   * use memory region names as filename */
 #ifdef MAP_POPULATE
 bool mem_prealloc = false; /* force preallocation of physical target memory */
 #endif
@@ -2671,6 +2673,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             case QEMU_OPTION_mempath:
                 mem_path = optarg;
                 break;
+            case QEMU_OPTION_keep_mempath_files:
+                keep_mem_path_files = true;
+                break;
 #ifdef MAP_POPULATE
             case QEMU_OPTION_mem_prealloc:
                 mem_prealloc = true;
-- 
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