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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Assume madvise for (no)hugepage works


From: Juan Quintela
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Assume madvise for (no)hugepage works
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:26:33 +0100
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"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
>
> madvise() returns EINVAL in the case of many failures, but also
> returns it in cases where the host kernel doesn't have THP enabled.
> Postcopy only really cares that THP is off before it detects faults,
> and turns it back on afterwards; so we're going to have
> to assume that if the madvise fails then the host just doesn't do
> THP and we can carry on with the postcopy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> Tested-by: Jason J. Herne <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>



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