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Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] nvdimm: read-only file support
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] nvdimm: read-only file support |
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Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:43:56 +0000 |
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 04:48:57PM +0000, Liam Merwick wrote:
> On 16/09/2020 10:51, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > v2:
> > * s/the the/the/ in documentation [Philippe]
> > * Assign nvdimm->unarmed earlier [Philippe]
> >
> > There is currently no way to back an NVDIMM with a read-only file so it can
> > be
> > safely shared between untrusted guests.
> >
> > Introduce an -object memory-backend-file,readonly=on|off option.
> >
> > Julio Montes sent an earlier patch here:
> > https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190708211936.8037-1-julio.montes@intel.com/
> >
> > Eric Ernst requested this feature again for Kata Containers so I gave it a
> > try.
> >
> > Stefan Hajnoczi (3):
> > memory: add readonly support to memory_region_init_ram_from_file()
> > hostmem-file: add readonly=on|off option
> > nvdimm: honor -object memory-backend-file,readonly=on option
> >
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
> Tested-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
>
> (I just quickly modified kata-runtime to unconditionally pass readonly=on
> and verified that the root filesystem couldn't be remounted as rw)
>
> Is this a candidate for 6.0?
Thanks! Yes, this is for 6.0.
Stefan
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