memory: add a sparse memory device for fuzzing

For testing, it can be useful to simulate an enormous amount of memory
(e.g. 2^64 RAM). This adds an MMIO device that acts as sparse memory.
When something writes a nonzero value to a sparse-mem address, we
allocate a block of memory. For now, since the only user of this device
is the fuzzer, we do not track and free zeroed blocks. The device has a
very low priority (so it can be mapped beneath actual RAM, and virtual
device MMIO regions).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/mem/sparse-mem.h b/include/hw/mem/sparse-mem.h
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+/*
+ * A sparse memory device. Useful for fuzzing
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat Inc., 2021
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Alexander Bulekov   <alxndr@bu.edu>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#ifndef SPARSE_MEM_H
+#define SPARSE_MEM_H
+#define TYPE_SPARSE_MEM "sparse-mem"
+
+MemoryRegion *sparse_mem_init(uint64_t addr, uint64_t length);
+
+#endif