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diff --git a/gitlab/issues/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1689.toml b/gitlab/issues/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1689.toml deleted file mode 100644 index a31557d6..00000000 --- a/gitlab/issues/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1689.toml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -id = 1689 -title = "memory backend file unnecessarily requires write permission while it is only mapped privately" -state = "closed" -created_at = "2023-06-06T10:51:20.741Z" -closed_at = "2023-09-28T09:52:29.414Z" -labels = [] -url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1689" -host-os = "linux" -host-arch = "x86" -qemu-version = "8.0.2" -guest-os = "unrelated" -guest-arch = "unrelated" -description = """One day I wanted to boot the machine with physical memory initialized with a file, in a copy-on-write style. That is why I tried out `-mem-path` and `-object memory-backend-file`. Actually `-mem-path` already works if not considering that qemu dislikes the backing file being readonly and requires it to be writeable even when only private mappings are used here. - -I sadly found out that when using memory-backend-file, and when `share=off`, if `readonly=on`, then file is `open`ed with `O_RDONLY` and mmap prot is `PROT_READ`; if `readonly=off`, then the file is `open`ed with `O_RDWR` and mmap prot is `PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE`. I want `O_RDONLY` and `PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE` but I cannot find it anywhere. - -In my opinion, expected behavior should be that if `share=off`, the file can already be opened with `O_RDONLY` no matter what prot the mmap is. That is how linux `MAP_PRIVATE` works - basically copy on write. When I only need copy on write for the content of file, why do I require write permission for it? - -Now I cannot find a setup that opens the file with `fd=open(*, O_RDONLY)` and mmap it with `mmap(*, *, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|*, fd, *)`. - -Tell me if I misunderstood linux (for example certain file behave differently if one open with O_RDONLY and this behavior is necessary) or qemu or other posix systems where copy-on-write does not work like this.""" -reproduce = "n/a" -additional = "n/a" |