kvm: Avoid COW if KVM MMU is asynchronous

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Suggest wrapping in a function and hiding it deep inside kvm-all.c.
>

Done in v2:

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If the KVM MMU is asynchronous (kernel does not support MMU_NOTIFIER),
we have to avoid COW for the guest memory. Otherwise we risk serious
breakage when guest pages change there physical locations due to COW
after fork. Seen when forking smbd during runtime via -smb.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 2effd04f6..c64938124 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2484,6 +2484,9 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc(ram_addr_t size)
 
     last_ram_offset += size;
 
+    if (kvm_enabled())
+        kvm_setup_guest_memory(new_block->host, size);
+
     return new_block->offset;
 }