[Xen-users] How to set up trivial shared-memory buffer between VMs (on ARM) ?

["Chris (Christopher) Brand" <chris.brand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I want to set up a simple shared-memory buffer between two VMs on my ARM system.

I was looking at the passthrough stuff, hoping that that might work, but it does seem tightly coupled to the use of an IOMMU, which my system doesn’t have. (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/talk_5.pdf was very helpful for exploring this path, BTW). It’s fairly trivial to move a block of RAM from the memory node to “device” node in the devicetree for Xen, which makes it available to Dom0, but how can I then share it with another VM ?

 

For context, I have an existing Linux kernel driver that I want to try out under Xen. I suspect that the best way to do so is to migrate it to use virtio, but for now I just need to get it running as quickly as possible, so I’d like to minimize the changes needed.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

P.S. Please move the devel list if that’s more appropriate

 

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