[PATCH v2 3/3] vhost-user: warn when guest RAM is not shared

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

Memory regions must be mmap(MAP_SHARED) so that modifications made by
the vhost device backend process are visible to QEMU and vice versa. Use
the new memory_region_is_mapped_shared() function to check this and
print a warning if guest RAM is not shared:

  qemu-system-x86_64: -device vhost-user-fs-pci,chardev=char0,tag=myfs: 
warning: Found vhost-user memory region without MAP_SHARED (did you forget 
-object memory-*,share=on?)
  qemu-system-x86_64: Failed to read from slave.

This warning makes it clear that memory needs to be configured with
share=on. Without this patch the vhost device is initialized and the
device fails with vague error messages caused by inconsistent memory
views. The warning should make it easier to troubleshoot QEMU
command-lines that lack share=on memory.

I couldn't figure out how to make this a vhost_dev_init() error, because
memory regions aren't necessarily final when it is called. Also, hotplug
can add memory regions without MAP_SHARED in the future, so we still
need to warn about that.

Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
index ee57abe045..42976e6b30 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
@@ -2287,11 +2287,23 @@ vhost_user_crypto_close_session(struct vhost_dev *dev, 
uint64_t session_id)
 static bool vhost_user_mem_section_filter(struct vhost_dev *dev,
                                           MemoryRegionSection *section)
 {
-    bool result;
+    /* An fd is required so we can pass it to the device backend process */
+    if (memory_region_get_fd(section->mr) < 0) {
+        return false;
+    }
 
-    result = memory_region_get_fd(section->mr) >= 0;
-
-    return result;
+    /*
+     * It must be mmap(MAP_SHARED) so memory stores from the device backend
+     * process are visible to us and vice versa.
+     */
+    if (!memory_region_is_mapped_shared(section->mr)) {
+        static bool warned;
+        warn_report_once_cond(&warned, "Found vhost-user memory region "
+                "without MAP_SHARED (did you forget -object "
+                "memory-*,share=on?)");
+        return false;
+    }
+    return true;
 }
 
 static int vhost_user_get_inflight_fd(struct vhost_dev *dev,
-- 
2.31.1