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-rw-r--r--backends/hostmem-file.c29
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx8
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/backends/hostmem-file.c b/backends/hostmem-file.c
index fc4ef46d11..e44c319915 100644
--- a/backends/hostmem-file.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem-file.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct HostMemoryBackendFile {
HostMemoryBackend parent_obj;
bool share;
+ bool discard_data;
char *mem_path;
};
@@ -103,16 +104,44 @@ static void file_memory_backend_set_share(Object *o, bool value, Error **errp)
fb->share = value;
}
+static bool file_memory_backend_get_discard_data(Object *o, Error **errp)
+{
+ return MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE(o)->discard_data;
+}
+
+static void file_memory_backend_set_discard_data(Object *o, bool value,
+ Error **errp)
+{
+ MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE(o)->discard_data = value;
+}
+
+static void file_backend_unparent(Object *obj)
+{
+ HostMemoryBackend *backend = MEMORY_BACKEND(obj);
+ HostMemoryBackendFile *fb = MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE(obj);
+
+ if (host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend) && fb->discard_data) {
+ void *ptr = memory_region_get_ram_ptr(&backend->mr);
+ uint64_t sz = memory_region_size(&backend->mr);
+
+ qemu_madvise(ptr, sz, QEMU_MADV_REMOVE);
+ }
+}
+
static void
file_backend_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
{
HostMemoryBackendClass *bc = MEMORY_BACKEND_CLASS(oc);
bc->alloc = file_backend_memory_alloc;
+ oc->unparent = file_backend_unparent;
object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "share",
file_memory_backend_get_share, file_memory_backend_set_share,
&error_abort);
+ object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "discard-data",
+ file_memory_backend_get_discard_data, file_memory_backend_set_discard_data,
+ &error_abort);
object_class_property_add_str(oc, "mem-path",
get_mem_path, set_mem_path,
&error_abort);
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 600614f6e5..77859a248c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4182,7 +4182,7 @@ property must be set. These objects are placed in the
@table @option
-@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off}
+@item -object memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off},discard-data=@var{on|off}
Creates a memory file backend object, which can be used to back
the guest RAM with huge pages. The @option{id} parameter is a
@@ -4194,6 +4194,12 @@ the path to either a shared memory or huge page filesystem mount.
The @option{share} boolean option determines whether the memory
region is marked as private to QEMU, or shared. The latter allows
a co-operating external process to access the QEMU memory region.
+Setting the @option{discard-data} boolean option to @var{on}
+indicates that file contents can be destroyed when QEMU exits,
+to avoid unnecessarily flushing data to the backing file. Note
+that @option{discard-data} is only an optimization, and QEMU
+might not discard file contents if it aborts unexpectedly or is
+terminated using SIGKILL.
@item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random}