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![]() We can create shared anonymous memory via
"-object memory-backend-ram,share=on,..."
which is, for example, required by PVRDMA for mremap() to work.
Shared anonymous memory is weird, though. Instead of MADV_DONTNEED, we
have to use MADV_REMOVE: MADV_DONTNEED will only remove / zap all
relevant page table entries of the current process, the backend storage
will not get removed, resulting in no reduced memory consumption and
a repopulation of previous content on next access.
Shared anonymous memory is internally really just shmem, but without a
fd exposed. As we cannot use fallocate() without the fd to discard the
backing storage, MADV_REMOVE gets the same job done without a fd as
documented in "man 2 madvise". Removing backing storage implicitly
invalidates all page table entries with relevant mappings - an additional
MADV_DONTNEED is not required.
Fixes:
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.. | ||
authz | ||
block | ||
chardev | ||
crypto | ||
disas | ||
exec | ||
fpu | ||
hw | ||
io | ||
libdecnumber | ||
migration | ||
monitor | ||
net | ||
qapi | ||
qemu | ||
qom | ||
scsi | ||
semihosting | ||
standard-headers | ||
sysemu | ||
tcg | ||
ui | ||
user | ||
elf.h | ||
glib-compat.h | ||
qemu-common.h | ||
qemu-io.h | ||
trace-tcg.h |