On 02/19/2013 04:51 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 19/02/2013 15:41, Fabien Chouteau ha scritto: >> The current elf loader uses too much memory. For example, I have a >> executable with a bss section of 400 MB and I set the ram size to 512 >> MB. Qemu uses about 780MB of RAM (which is fine), but there's a peak at >> 1.6 GB during initialization (this is not fine). >> >> This patch fixes two things: >> 1) do not allocate each elf program twice. >> 2) do not allocate memory for areas that are only zeros. >> >> For this we need a new field in Rom: "datasize" which is the size of the >> allocated data. If datasize is less than romsize, it means that the area >> from datasize to romsize is filled with zeros. > > You haven't CCed the only two people that likely would review your patch. :) >
I didn't know who involve, so I took the output of get_maintainer.pl... Regards, -- Fabien Chouteau
