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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2018-08-28 17:38:40 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2018-11-27 19:36:22 +0100
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hostmem-memfd: honour share=on/off property
The share=on/off property is used to modified mmap() MAP_SHARED setting. Make it on by default for convenience and compatibility reasons. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
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@@ -4025,7 +4025,7 @@ Memory backend objects offer more control than the @option{-m} option that is
traditionally used to define guest RAM. Please refer to
@option{memory-backend-file} for a description of the options.
-@item -object memory-backend-memfd,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave},seal=@var{on|off},hugetlb=@var{on|off},hugetlbsize=@var{size}
+@item -object memory-backend-memfd,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},share=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave},seal=@var{on|off},hugetlb=@var{on|off},hugetlbsize=@var{size}
Creates an anonymous memory file backend object, which allows QEMU to
share the memory with an external process (e.g. when using
@@ -4047,6 +4047,8 @@ with the @option{seal} option (requires at least Linux 4.16).
Please refer to @option{memory-backend-file} for a description of the
other options.
+The @option{share} boolean option is @var{on} by default with memfd.
+
@item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random}
Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from