Add vhost-user as a vhost backend.

The initialization takes a chardev backed by a unix domain socket.
It should implement qemu_fe_set_msgfds in order to be able to pass
file descriptors to the remote process.

Each ioctl request of vhost-kernel has a vhost-user message equivalent,
which is sent over the control socket.

The general approach is to copy the data from the supplied argument
pointer to a designated field in the message. If a file descriptor is
to be passed it will be placed in the fds array for inclusion in
the sendmsg control header.

VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE ignores the supplied vhost_memory structure and scans
the global ram_list for ram blocks with a valid fd field set. This would
be set when the '-object memory-file' option with share=on property is used.

Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Nikolay Nikolaev 2014-05-27 15:06:02 +03:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent 1a1bfac9ee
commit 5f6f6664bf
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@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ common-obj-y += virtio-mmio.o
common-obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_DATA_PLANE) += dataplane/
obj-y += virtio.o virtio-balloon.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LINUX) += vhost.o vhost-backend.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LINUX) += vhost.o vhost-backend.o vhost-user.o