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-rw-r--r--include/qemu/cutils.h1
-rw-r--r--include/qemu/osdep.h13
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/qemu/cutils.h b/include/qemu/cutils.h
index e873bad366..fb47ec9318 100644
--- a/include/qemu/cutils.h
+++ b/include/qemu/cutils.h
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ const char *qemu_strchrnul(const char *s, int c);
 #endif
 time_t mktimegm(struct tm *tm);
 int qemu_fdatasync(int fd);
-int qemu_msync(void *addr, size_t length, int fd);
 int qemu_parse_fd(const char *param);
 int qemu_strtoi(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
                 int *result);
diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
index 14b6b65a5f..bf4f75dcde 100644
--- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
+++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
@@ -642,6 +642,19 @@ static inline void qemu_reset_optind(void)
 }
 
 /**
+ * Sync changes made to the memory mapped file back to the backing
+ * storage. For POSIX compliant systems this will fallback
+ * to regular msync call. Otherwise it will trigger whole file sync
+ * (including the metadata case there is no support to skip that otherwise)
+ *
+ * @addr   - start of the memory area to be synced
+ * @length - length of the are to be synced
+ * @fd     - file descriptor for the file to be synced
+ *           (mandatory only for POSIX non-compliant systems)
+ */
+int qemu_msync(void *addr, size_t length, int fd);
+
+/**
  * qemu_get_host_name:
  * @errp: Error object
  *