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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mmap-alloc: tweak a comment on ppc64


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mmap-alloc: tweak a comment on ppc64
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:38:10 +0200

The comment I put in mmap-alloc to document the ppc64 rules
refers to the previous revision of the patch:
we don't look at memory alignment anymore, we check
the fs from which the fd is mapped, instead.

It's also not clear what does "in this case" refer
to, rearrange text to make it clearer.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
---
 util/mmap-alloc.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/mmap-alloc.c b/util/mmap-alloc.c
index 54793a5..5cd7f71 100644
--- a/util/mmap-alloc.c
+++ b/util/mmap-alloc.c
@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ void *qemu_ram_mmap(int fd, size_t size, size_t align, bool 
shared)
 #if defined(__powerpc64__) && defined(__linux__)
     /* On ppc64 mappings in the same segment (aka slice) must share the same
      * page size. Since we will be re-allocating part of this segment
-     * from the supplied fd, we should make sure to use the same page size,
-     * unless we are using the system page size, in which case anonymous memory
-     * is OK. Use align as a hint for the page size.
-     * In this case, set MAP_NORESERVE to avoid allocating backing store 
memory.
+     * from the supplied fd, we should make sure to use the same page size, to
+     * this end we mmap the supplied fd.  In this case, set MAP_NORESERVE to
+     * avoid allocating backing store memory.
+     * We do this unless we are using the system page size, in which case
+     * anonymous memory is OK.
      */
     int anonfd = fd == -1 || qemu_fd_getpagesize(fd) == getpagesize() ? -1 : 
fd;
     int flags = anonfd == -1 ? MAP_ANONYMOUS : MAP_NORESERVE;
-- 
MST



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