From patchwork Tue Nov 20 13:31:10 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [RFC, v4, 8/8] oslib-posix: Align to permit transparent hugepages on ARM Linux Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:31:10 -0000 From: Peter Maydell X-Patchwork-Id: 200336 Message-Id: <1353418270-23881-9-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, patches@linaro.org, Marcelo Tosatti , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, Blue Swirl , Avi Kivity , =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20F=C3=A4rber?= ARM Linux (like x86-64 Linux) can use transparent hugepages for KVM if memory blocks are 2MiB aligned; set QEMU_VMALLOC_ALIGN accordingly. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell --- oslib-posix.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/oslib-posix.c b/oslib-posix.c index 9db9c3d..d25b52a 100644 --- a/oslib-posix.c +++ b/oslib-posix.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ extern int daemon(int, int); #endif -#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__x86_64__) +#if defined(__linux__) && (defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__arm__)) /* 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. */