Re: Page alignment & memory regions expectations

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 17:43, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> One idea is doing another pass over the list at the end (after possible
> merging of sections) and making sure everything is page-aligned.
>
> Another idea is specifying somehow that that memory region should simply
> not be dumped ...
>
>
> But I do wonder why the ram memory region that's mapped into the guest
> physical address space has such a weird alignment/size ...

Lumps of memory can be any size you like and anywhere in
memory you like. Sometimes we are modelling real hardware
that has done something like that. Sometimes it's just
a convenient way to model a device. Generic code in
QEMU does need to cope with this...

-- PMM