memory: alloc RAM from file at offset

Allow RAM MemoryRegion to be created from an offset in a file, instead
of allocating at offset of 0 by default. This is needed to synchronize
RAM between QEMU & remote process.

Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 609996697ad8617e3b01df38accc5c208c24d74e.1611938319.git.jag.raman@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Jagannathan Raman 2021-01-29 11:46:04 -05:00 committed by Stefan Hajnoczi
parent 639090d850
commit 44a4ff31c0
9 changed files with 25 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -998,6 +998,7 @@ void memory_region_init_ram_from_file(MemoryRegion *mr,
* @size: size of the region.
* @share: %true if memory must be mmaped with the MAP_SHARED flag
* @fd: the fd to mmap.
* @offset: offset within the file referenced by fd
* @errp: pointer to Error*, to store an error if it happens.
*
* Note that this function does not do anything to cause the data in the
@ -1009,6 +1010,7 @@ void memory_region_init_ram_from_fd(MemoryRegion *mr,
uint64_t size,
bool share,
int fd,
ram_addr_t offset,
Error **errp);
#endif