Feature #12553
closed
want segment driver for vmm applications
Added by Patrick Mooney about 2 years ago.
Updated about 2 years ago.
Description
Upstreaming SmartOS OS-6549:
Applications such as the coming bhyve will want userspace access to the regions of kmem allocated to be the guest memory. While seg_umap exists to achieve a similar purpose, it was designed to be very constrained (a single page) in its capabilities. Rather than updating that for now, a new segment driver with lessened restrictions could be created.
- Subject changed from vmm segment driver to want segment driver for vmm applications
Without bhyve as a consumer, there is little available to test this. I compared the to-be committed patch with what's present downstream in illumos-joyent to ensure there weren't differences. Additionally, I booted an illumos-gate built with the patch to confirm it didn't introduce a bug via something like missing symbols.
This change has been present in illumos-omnios for quite some time, with bhyve as a successful consumer there.
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 4beb21b1d94ca2e60959502f85aaae16f22c01e2
commit 4beb21b1d94ca2e60959502f85aaae16f22c01e2
Author: Patrick Mooney <pmooney@pfmooney.com>
Date: 2020-04-27T16:06:25.000Z
12553 want segment driver for vmm applications
Reviewed by: Mike Gerdts <mike.gerdts@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross@gmail.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
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