Il 25/10/2013 20:50, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto: > 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).
Ok. Thanks for explaining---the patch seems good with the proper compatibility option in the machine type. Please run the guest_memory_dump_analysis test in autotest too. > Is there a tree the new machine types can live until 1.8 opens up? > > Can you pick up the MAP_POPULATE patch? Yes, I can pick that one up next week. Michael is usually gathering hw/i386/pc* patches in his PCI tree, you can Cc him on v2 of this one. Paolo
