Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> + /* above 4giga memory allocation */
>>> + if (above_4g_mem_size > 0) {
>>> + ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(above_4g_mem_size);
>>> + cpu_register_physical_memory(0x100000000,
>>> above_4g_mem_size, ram_addr);
>>> + }
>>> +
>>
>> Why do you need this ? All the RAM can be registered with a single
>> call. I fear you need to do that because of KVM RAM handling
>> limitations.
>
> On the x86, there is a rather large hole at the top of memory.
> Currently, we do separate allocations around this whole. You can't
> get away from doing multiple cpu_register_physical_memory calls here.
> We've discussed just allocating a single chunk with qemu_ram_alloc
> since so many places in QEMU assume that you can do phys_ram_base + PA.
>
> I think I'll change this too into a single qemu_ram_alloc. That will
> fix the bug with KVM when using -kernel and large memory anyway :-)
Won't that cause all of the memory in the hole to be wasted?
You could munmap() it, but it's hardly elegant.
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