Rob Bradford f7197e8415 vmm: Add a "discard_writes=" to --pmem ...

This opens the backing file read-only, makes the pages in the mmap()
read-only and also makes the KVM mapping read-only. The file is also
mapped with MAP_PRIVATE to make the changes local to this process only.

This is functional alternative to having support for making a
virtio-pmem device readonly. Unfortunately there is no concept of
readonly virtio-pmem (or any type of NVDIMM/PMEM) in the Linux kernel so
to be able to have a block device that is appears readonly in the guest
requires significant specification and kernel changes.

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>

2020-03-20 14:46:34 +01:00

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cloud-hypervisor.yaml

vmm: Add a "discard_writes=" to --pmem

2020-03-20 14:46:34 +01:00