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| -rw-r--r-- | exec.c | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-doc.texi | 2 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -1205,6 +1205,7 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block, const char *path, Error **errp) { + struct stat st; char *filename; char *sanitized_name; char *c; @@ -1233,26 +1234,33 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block, goto error; } - /* Make name safe to use with mkstemp by replacing '/' with '_'. */ - sanitized_name = g_strdup(memory_region_name(block->mr)); - for (c = sanitized_name; *c != '\0'; c++) { - if (*c == '/') - *c = '_'; - } + if (!stat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) { + /* Make name safe to use with mkstemp by replacing '/' with '_'. */ + sanitized_name = g_strdup(memory_region_name(block->mr)); + for (c = sanitized_name; *c != '\0'; c++) { + if (*c == '/') { + *c = '_'; + } + } - filename = g_strdup_printf("%s/qemu_back_mem.%s.XXXXXX", path, - sanitized_name); - g_free(sanitized_name); + filename = g_strdup_printf("%s/qemu_back_mem.%s.XXXXXX", path, + sanitized_name); + g_free(sanitized_name); + + fd = mkstemp(filename); + if (fd >= 0) { + unlink(filename); + } + g_free(filename); + } else { + fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0644); + } - fd = mkstemp(filename); if (fd < 0) { error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "unable to create backing store for hugepages"); - g_free(filename); goto error; } - unlink(filename); - g_free(filename); memory = ROUND_UP(memory, hpagesize); diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 3126abdcd3..460ab716ac 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ Instead of specifying the <shm size> using POSIX shm, you may specify a memory backend that has hugepage support: @example -qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages,id=mb1 +qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1 -device ivshmem,memdev=mb1 @end example |