[PATCH QEMU] osdep: powerpc64 align memory to allow 2MB radix THP page tables
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jun 6 11:06:15 AEST 2018
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 05:29:49PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> This allows KVM with the Book3S radix MMU mode to take advantage of
> THP and install larger pages in the partition scope page tables (the
> host translation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
I've applied this to my ppc-for-3.0 tree. It's not strictly within
the code I maintain, but since it only affects ppc, it seems
reasonable to go through my tree.
> ---
> include/qemu/osdep.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
> index 41658060a7..5910682221 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
> @@ -357,7 +357,8 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
> #endif
>
> #if defined(__linux__) && \
> - (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__))
> + (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__) \
> + || defined(__powerpc64__))
> /* Use 2 MiB alignment so transparent hugepages can be used by KVM.
> Valgrind does not support alignments larger than 1 MiB,
> therefore we need special code which handles running on Valgrind. */
--
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