Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] postcopy: Require RAMBlocks that are whole pages

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>
> It turns out that it's legal to create a VM with RAMBlocks that aren't
> a multiple of the pagesize in use; e.g. a 1025M main memory using
> 2M host pages.  That breaks postcopy's atomic placement of pages,
> so disallow it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>


>      }
>  
>      /* We don't support postcopy with shared RAM yet */
> -    if (qemu_ram_foreach_block(test_range_shared, NULL)) {
> +    if (qemu_ram_foreach_block(test_ramblock_postcopiable, NULL)) {

When I was looking at this code, I still don't know why
qemu_ram_foreach_block() don't pass the block directly.  It needs it
almost all callers.

When I saw it I was about to change it, but got sidetracked on other
things :-p

Later, Juan.