Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] Transparent Hugepage Support #3

[Paul Brook]

> > > Size not multiple I think is legitimate, the below-4G chunk isn't
> > > required to end 2M aligned, all it matters is that the above-4G then
> > > starts aligned. In short one thing to add in the future as parameter
> > > to qemu_ram_alloc is the physical address that the host virtual
> > > address corresponds to.
> >
> > In general you don't know this at allocation time.
> 
> Caller knows it, it's not like the caller is outside of qemu, it's not
> some library. We know this is enough with the caller that there is now.

No we don't.  As discussed previously, there are machines where the physical 
location of RAM is configurable at runtime.  In fact it's common for the ram 
to be completely absent at reset.

Paul