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SubjectRe: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2] qemu: Add virtio pmem device
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On 04/25/2018 06:24 AM, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> This patch adds virtio-pmem Qemu device.
>
> This device presents memory address range
> information to guest which is backed by file
> backend type. It acts like persistent memory
> device for KVM guest. Guest can perform read
> and persistent write operations on this memory
> range with the help of DAX capable filesystem.
>
> Persistent guest writes are assured with the
> help of virtio based flushing interface. When
> guest userspace space performs fsync on file
> fd on pmem device, a flush command is send to
> Qemu over VIRTIO and host side flush/sync is
> done on backing image file.
>
> This PV device code is dependent and tested
> with 'David Hildenbrand's ' patchset[1] to
> map non-PCDIMM devices to guest address space.

This sentence doesn't belong in git history. It is better to put
information like this...

> There is still upstream discussion on using
> among PCI bar vs memory device, will update
> as per concensus.

s/concensus/consensus/

>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=152450249319168&w=2
>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> ---

...here, where it is part of the email, but not picked up by 'git am'.


> +++ b/qapi/misc.json
> @@ -2871,6 +2871,29 @@
> }
> }
>
> +##
> +# @VirtioPMemDeviceInfo:
> +#
> +# VirtioPMem state information
> +#
> +# @id: device's ID
> +#
> +# @start: physical address, where device is mapped
> +#
> +# @size: size of memory that the device provides
> +#
> +# @memdev: memory backend linked with device
> +#
> +# Since: 2.13
> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'VirtioPMemDeviceInfo',
> + 'data': { '*id': 'str',
> + 'start': 'size',
> + 'size': 'size',

TAB damage.

> + 'memdev': 'str'
> + }
> +}
> +
> ##
> # @MemoryDeviceInfo:
> #
> @@ -2880,7 +2903,8 @@
> ##
> { 'union': 'MemoryDeviceInfo',
> 'data': { 'dimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo',
> - 'nvdimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo'
> + 'nvdimm': 'PCDIMMDeviceInfo',
> + 'virtio-pmem': 'VirtioPMemDeviceInfo'
> }
> }
>
>

--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

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