The comment I put in mmap-alloc to document the ppc64 rules
refers to the previous revision of the patch:
we don't look at memory alignment anymore, we check
the fs from which the fd is mapped, instead.
It's also not clear what does "in this case" refer
to, rearrange text to make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Since commit 8561c9244d "exec: allocate PROT_NONE pages on top of
RAM", it is no longer possible to back guest RAM with hugepages on ppc64
hosts:
mmap(NULL, 285212672, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x3fff57000000
mmap(0x3fff57000000, 268435456, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 19, 0) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
This is because on ppc64, Linux fixes a page size for a virtual address
at mmap time, so we can't switch a range of memory from anonymous
small pages to hugetlbs with MAP_FIXED.
See commit d0f13e3c20b6fb73ccb467bdca97fa7cf5a574cd
("[POWERPC] Introduce address space "slices"") in Linux
history for the details.
Detect this and create the PROT_NONE mapping using the same fd.
Naturally, this makes the guard page bigger with hugetlbfs.
Based on patch by Greg Kurz.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Existing callers are checking for MAP_FAILED,
so we should return that on error.
Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Anonymous and file-backed RAM allocation are now almost exactly the same.
Reduce code duplication by moving RAM mmap code out of oslib-posix.c and
exec.c.
Reported-by: Marc-André Lureau <mlureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thibaut Collet <thibaut.collet@6wind.com>
