Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block, migration: Use qemu_madvise inplace of madvise

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri 17 Feb 2017 01:30:09 PM CET, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> I think 'posix_madvise' was added for systems which didnot have
> 'madvise' [...] For the systems which don't have madvise call
> 'posix_madvise' is called which as per discussion is not right thing
> for 'DONTNEED' option. It will not give desired results.
>
> Either we have to find right alternative or else it is already broken
> for systems which don't support madvise.

Do you have an example of a call that is currently broken in the QEMU
code?

Berto