Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] Minimal RAM API support

Alex Williamson
2010-12-15T19:11:51Z

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:23 +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > This adds a minimum chunk of Anthony's RAM API support so that we
> > can identify actual VM RAM versus all the other things that make
> > use of qemu_ram_alloc.
>
> Why do we care? How are you defining "actual VM RAM"?
>
> Surely the whole point of qemu_ram_alloc is to allocate a chunk of memory that
> can be mapped into the guest physical address space, so all uses of
> qemu_ram_alloc should be using this API.