On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Because offsets are zero, and lengths match the RAM block lengths, you > do not need any complication with aliasing. This still has to be done > only for new machine types.
Not possible because you just wasted holesize bytes (if number of additional bytes due to huge page alignment is smaller than holesize, a new hugepage is required, which is not acceptable). Is there a tree the new machine types can live until 1.8 opens up? Can you pick up the MAP_POPULATE patch?