memory: emulate ioeventfd

memory: emulate ioeventfd

The ioeventfd mechanism is used by vhost, dataplane, and virtio-pci to
turn guest MMIO/PIO writes into eventfd file descriptor events.  This
allows arbitrary threads to be notified when the guest writes to a
specific MMIO/PIO address.

qtest and TCG do not support ioeventfd because memory writes are not
checked against registered ioeventfds in QEMU.  This patch implements
this in memory_region_dispatch_write() so qtest can use ioeventfd.

Also this patch fixes vhost aborting on some misconfigured old kernels
like 3.18.0 on ARM. It is possible to explicitly enable CONFIG_EVENTFD
in expert settings, while MMIO binding support in KVM will still be
missing.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
Message-Id: <006e01d12377$0b9c2d40$22d487c0$@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>