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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm: make --mem-path memory allocation depend on mmu notifiers
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:50:43 -0200
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:38:33PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> Without mmu notifiers usage of hugepages to back guest memory can cause
>> memory corruption.
>>   
>
> Really?  Why's that?  Sorry if I missed a previous discussion of this.

https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2008/12/10/4389914