hostmem: allow preallocation of any memory region

And allow preallocation of file-based memory even without -mem-prealloc.
Some care is necessary because -mem-prealloc does not allow disabling
preallocation for hostmem-file.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
index 4c7bacf..1cf5981 100644
--- a/include/exec/memory.h
+++ b/include/exec/memory.h
@@ -534,6 +534,16 @@ bool memory_region_is_logging(MemoryRegion *mr);
 bool memory_region_is_rom(MemoryRegion *mr);
 
 /**
+ * memory_region_get_fd: Get a file descriptor backing a RAM memory region.
+ *
+ * Returns a file descriptor backing a file-based RAM memory region,
+ * or -1 if the region is not a file-based RAM memory region.
+ *
+ * @mr: the RAM or alias memory region being queried.
+ */
+int memory_region_get_fd(MemoryRegion *mr);
+
+/**
  * memory_region_get_ram_ptr: Get a pointer into a RAM memory region.
  *
  * Returns a host pointer to a RAM memory region (created with
diff --git a/include/exec/ram_addr.h b/include/exec/ram_addr.h
index deafceb..fcc7ef0 100644
--- a/include/exec/ram_addr.h
+++ b/include/exec/ram_addr.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc_from_file(ram_addr_t size, MemoryRegion *mr,
 ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr(ram_addr_t size, void *host,
                                    MemoryRegion *mr);
 ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc(ram_addr_t size, MemoryRegion *mr);
+int qemu_get_ram_fd(ram_addr_t addr);
 void *qemu_get_ram_ptr(ram_addr_t addr);
 void qemu_ram_free(ram_addr_t addr);
 void qemu_ram_free_from_ptr(ram_addr_t addr);