[Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 1/2] Allocate memory below 4GB as one chunk

[Marcelo Tosatti]

From: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>

Instead of allocating a separate chunk for the first 640KB and another
for 1MB+, allocate one large chunk.  This plays well in terms of alignment
and size with large pages.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
(cherry picked from commit cfe0cef63988a7876a9bbcb098500a3983e63814)

Index: qemu-kvm/hw/pc.c
===================================================================
--- qemu-kvm.orig/hw/pc.c
+++ qemu-kvm/hw/pc.c
@@ -798,18 +798,11 @@ static void pc_init1(ram_addr_t ram_size
     vmport_init();
 
     /* allocate RAM */
-    ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(0xa0000);
+    ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(below_4g_mem_size);
     cpu_register_physical_memory(0, 0xa0000, ram_addr);
-
-    /* Allocate, even though we won't register, so we don't break the
-     * phys_ram_base + PA assumption. This range includes vga (0xa0000 - 
0xc0000),
-     * and some bios areas, which will be registered later
-     */
-    ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(0x100000 - 0xa0000);
-    ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(below_4g_mem_size - 0x100000);
     cpu_register_physical_memory(0x100000,
                  below_4g_mem_size - 0x100000,
-                 ram_addr);
+                 ram_addr + 0x100000);
 
     /* above 4giga memory allocation */
     if (above_4g_mem_size > 0) {