[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC v4] Introduce qemu_madvise()

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
>
> vl.c has a Sun-specific hack to supply a prototype for madvise(),
> but the call site has apparently moved to arch_init.c.
>
> Haiku doesn't implement madvise() in favor of posix_madvise().
> OpenBSD and Solaris 10 don't implement posix_madvise() but madvise().
>
> Check for madvise() and posix_madvise() in configure and supply qemu_madvise()
> as wrapper. Prefer madvise() over posix_madvise() due to flag availability.
> Convert all callers to use qemu_madvise() and QEMU_MADV_*.
>
> Note that on Solaris the warning is fixed by moving the madvise() prototype,
> not by qemu_madvise() itself. It will help with future porting though.
>
> v3 -> v4:
> * Eliminate #ifdefs at qemu_advise() call sites. Requested by Blue Swirl.
>  This will currently break the check in kvm-all.c by calling madvise() with
>  a supported flag, which will not fail. Ideas/patches welcome.

Your original switch with synthetic (1<<0, 1<<1 etc) values for
QEMU_MADV_* for all hosts (never reusing MADV_* defines).