Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7 V10] configure: add libpmem support

[Richard Henderson]

On 07/16/2018 11:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Junyan He <address@hidden>
> 
> Add a pair of configure options --{enable,disable}-libpmem to control
> whether QEMU is compiled with PMDK libpmem [1].
> 
> QEMU may write to the host persistent memory (e.g. in vNVDIMM label
> emulation and live migration), so it must take the proper operations
> to ensure the persistence of its own writes. Depending on the CPU
> models and available instructions, the optimal operation can vary [2].
> PMDK libpmem have already implemented those operations on multiple CPU
> models (x86 and ARM) and the logic to select the optimal ones, so QEMU
> can just use libpmem rather than re-implement them.
> 
> Libpem is a part of PMDK project(formerly known as NMVL).
> The project's home page is: http://pmem.io/pmdk/
> And the project's repository is: https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/
> 
> For more information about libpmem APIs, you can refer to the comments
> in source code of: pmdk/src/libpmem/pmem.c, begin at line 33.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junyan He <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>

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