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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU issues on SPARC hosts due to more-than-page-alignm
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU issues on SPARC hosts due to more-than-page-alignment requirement for MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED... |
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Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:03:22 +0100 |
On 19 June 2017 at 23:49, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/16/2017 02:18 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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>> (As an aside I wonder whether any still-used hardware has
>> the cache aliasing constraints in question :-))
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> I strongly doubt it. Certainly none of the 64-bit chips have this.
If so then it would be possible to make the kernel less strict
here, I think (without breaking back compat), though for QEMU's
purposes we probably ought to deal with the kernel as it stands.
thanks
-- PMM