Hi, This is the v17 of the patchset. Thank you for your time reviewing v16.
This version has the following changes: [PATCH v17 08/20] io: add qio_channel_readv_full_all_eof & qio_channel_readv_full_all helpers - Addresses operator precedence issues based on feedback - Initializes/Clears *nfds & *fds in qio_channel_readv_full_all_eof() To touch upon the history of this project, we posted the Proof Of Concept patches before the BoF session in 2018. Subsequently, we have posted 16 versions on the qemu-devel mailing list. You can find them by following the links below ([1] - [16]). Following people contributed to the design and implementation of this project: Jagannathan Raman <jag.ra...@oracle.com> Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> John G Johnson <john.g.john...@oracle.com> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> Konrad Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Kanth Ghatraju <kanth.ghatr...@oracle.com> We would like to thank the QEMU community for your feedback in the design and implementation of this project. Qemu wiki page: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/MultiProcessQEMU For the full concept writeup about QEMU multi-process, please refer to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.rst. Also, see docs/qemu-multiprocess.txt for usage information. Thank you for reviewing this series! [POC]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg566538.html [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg602285.html [2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg624877.html [3]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg642000.html [4]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg655118.html [5]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg682429.html [6]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg697484.html [7]: https://patchew.org/QEMU/cover.1593273671.git.elena.ufimts...@oracle.com/ [8]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg727007.html [9]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg734275.html [10]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg747638.html [11]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg750972.html [12]: https://patchew.org/QEMU/cover.1606853298.git.jag.ra...@oracle.com/ [13]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg766825.html [14]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg768376.html [15]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg769178.html [16]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg771455.html Elena Ufimtseva (8): multi-process: add configure and usage information io: add qio_channel_writev_full_all helper io: add qio_channel_readv_full_all_eof & qio_channel_readv_full_all helpers multi-process: define MPQemuMsg format and transmission functions multi-process: introduce proxy object multi-process: add proxy communication functions multi-process: Forward PCI config space acceses to the remote process multi-process: perform device reset in the remote process Jagannathan Raman (11): memory: alloc RAM from file at offset multi-process: Add config option for multi-process QEMU multi-process: setup PCI host bridge for remote device multi-process: setup a machine object for remote device process multi-process: Initialize message handler in remote device multi-process: Associate fd of a PCIDevice with its object multi-process: setup memory manager for remote device multi-process: PCI BAR read/write handling for proxy & remote endpoints multi-process: Synchronize remote memory multi-process: create IOHUB object to handle irq multi-process: Retrieve PCI info from remote process John G Johnson (1): multi-process: add the concept description to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess docs/devel/index.rst | 1 + docs/devel/multi-process.rst | 966 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/multi-process.rst | 64 ++ configure | 10 + meson.build | 5 +- hw/remote/trace.h | 1 + include/exec/memory.h | 2 + include/exec/ram_addr.h | 2 +- include/hw/pci-host/remote.h | 30 + include/hw/pci/pci_ids.h | 3 + include/hw/remote/iohub.h | 42 ++ include/hw/remote/machine.h | 38 ++ include/hw/remote/memory.h | 19 + include/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.h | 99 +++ include/hw/remote/proxy-memory-listener.h | 28 + include/hw/remote/proxy.h | 48 ++ include/io/channel.h | 76 +++ include/qemu/mmap-alloc.h | 4 +- include/sysemu/iothread.h | 6 + backends/hostmem-memfd.c | 2 +- hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 3 +- hw/pci-host/remote.c | 75 +++ hw/remote/iohub.c | 119 ++++ hw/remote/machine.c | 80 +++ hw/remote/memory.c | 65 ++ hw/remote/message.c | 230 +++++++ hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c | 267 +++++++++ hw/remote/proxy-memory-listener.c | 227 +++++++ hw/remote/proxy.c | 379 ++++++++++++ hw/remote/remote-obj.c | 203 +++++++ io/channel.c | 102 +++- iothread.c | 6 + softmmu/memory.c | 3 +- softmmu/physmem.c | 11 +- util/mmap-alloc.c | 7 +- util/oslib-posix.c | 2 +- Kconfig.host | 4 + MAINTAINERS | 24 + hw/Kconfig | 1 + hw/meson.build | 1 + hw/pci-host/Kconfig | 3 + hw/pci-host/meson.build | 1 + hw/remote/Kconfig | 4 + hw/remote/meson.build | 13 + hw/remote/trace-events | 4 + 45 files changed, 3248 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/devel/multi-process.rst create mode 100644 docs/multi-process.rst create mode 100644 hw/remote/trace.h create mode 100644 include/hw/pci-host/remote.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/iohub.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/machine.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/memory.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/mpqemu-link.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/proxy-memory-listener.h create mode 100644 include/hw/remote/proxy.h create mode 100644 hw/pci-host/remote.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/iohub.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/machine.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/memory.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/message.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/mpqemu-link.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/proxy-memory-listener.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/proxy.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/remote-obj.c create mode 100644 hw/remote/Kconfig create mode 100644 hw/remote/meson.build create mode 100644 hw/remote/trace-events -- 1.8.3.1