Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/10/2013 20:50, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Because offsets are zero, and lengths match the RAM block lengths, you
>> do not need any complication with aliasing.  This still has to be done
>> only for new machine types.
> 
> Not possible because you just wasted holesize bytes (if number of
> additional bytes due to huge page alignment is smaller than holesize, a
> new hugepage is required, which is not acceptable).

Ok.  Thanks for explaining---the patch seems good with the proper
compatibility option in the machine type.  Please run the
guest_memory_dump_analysis test in autotest too.

> Is there a tree the new machine types can live until 1.8 opens up?
> 
> Can you pick up the MAP_POPULATE patch?

Yes, I can pick that one up next week.

Michael is usually gathering hw/i386/pc* patches in his PCI tree, you
can Cc him on v2 of this one.

Paolo