Re: [Qemu-devel] osdep.c patch (FreeBSD hosts)

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:57:13AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:54:31PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Is it really needed to mmap() the RAM on FreeBSD ? This is a Linux
> > specific hack, and it may even be obsolete with recent Linux kernels.
> > 
> Hmm actually I don't know...  You think the...
> 
> > > +#else
> > > +    ptr = mmap(NULL, 
> > > +               size, 
> > > +               PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, 
> > > +               -1, 0);
> > > +#endif
> 
> could be replaced by just malloc?  Or would there be align issues too?

..and I just checked the manpage, our malloc page-aligns too (for sizes >=
pagesize), so at least that shouldn't be an issue.

        Juergen