Firecracker Pmem API

The Pmem API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for pmem.

Operations 2

PUT /pmem/{id} Creates or updates a pmem device. Pre-boot only. #
PATCH /pmem/{id} Updates the rate limiter of a pmem device. Post-boot only. #

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OpenAPI Specification

firecracker-pmem-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Firecracker Actions Pmem API
  description: RESTful public-facing API. The API is accessible through HTTP calls on specific URLs carrying JSON modeled data. The transport medium is a Unix Domain Socket.
  version: 1.16.0-dev
  termsOfService: ''
  contact:
    email: firecracker-maintainers@amazon.com
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- url: http://localhost/
tags:
- name: Pmem
paths:
  /pmem/{id}:
    put:
      summary: Creates or updates a pmem device. Pre-boot only.
      description: Creates new pmem device with ID specified by id parameter. If a pmem device with the specified ID already exists, updates its state based on new input. Will fail if update is not possible.
      operationId: putGuestPmemByID
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        description: The id of the guest pmem device
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        204:
          description: Pmem device is created/updated
        400:
          description: Pmem device cannot be created/updated due to bad input
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        default:
          description: Internal server error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Pmem
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pmem'
        description: Guest pmem device properties
        required: true
    patch:
      summary: Updates the rate limiter of a pmem device. Post-boot only.
      description: Updates the rate limiter applied to the pmem device with the ID specified by the id path parameter.
      operationId: patchGuestPmemByID
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        description: The id of the guest pmem device
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        204:
          description: Pmem device updated
        400:
          description: Pmem device cannot be updated due to bad input
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        default:
          description: Internal server error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      tags:
      - Pmem
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PartialPmem'
        description: Pmem rate limiter properties
        required: true
components:
  schemas:
    TokenBucket:
      type: object
      description: Defines a token bucket with a maximum capacity (size), an initial burst size (one_time_burst) and an interval for refilling purposes (refill_time). The refill-rate is derived from size and refill_time, and it is the constant rate at which the tokens replenish. The refill process only starts happening after the initial burst budget is consumed. Consumption from the token bucket is unbounded in speed which allows for bursts bound in size by the amount of tokens available. Once the token bucket is empty, consumption speed is bound by the refill_rate.
      required:
      - refill_time
      - size
      properties:
        one_time_burst:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The initial size of a token bucket.
          minimum: 0
        refill_time:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The amount of milliseconds it takes for the bucket to refill.
          minimum: 0
        size:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The total number of tokens this bucket can hold.
          minimum: 0
    Pmem:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - path_on_host
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Identificator for this device.
        path_on_host:
          type: string
          description: Host level path for the virtio-pmem device to use as a backing file.
        root_device:
          type: boolean
          description: Flag to make this device be the root device for VM boot. Setting this flag will fail if there is another device configured to be a root device already.
        read_only:
          type: boolean
          description: Flag to map backing file in read-only mode.
        rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'
    RateLimiter:
      type: object
      description: Defines an IO rate limiter with independent bytes/s and ops/s limits. Limits are defined by configuring each of the _bandwidth_ and _ops_ token buckets. This field is optional for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration.
      properties:
        bandwidth:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenBucket'
          description: Token bucket with bytes as tokens
        ops:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenBucket'
          description: Token bucket with operations as tokens
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        fault_message:
          type: string
          description: A description of the error condition
          readOnly: true
    PartialPmem:
      type: object
      description: Defines a partial pmem device structure, used to update the rate limiter for that device, after microvm start.
      required:
      - id
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        rate_limiter:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimiter'