[patch uq/master 1/2] Allocate memory below 4GB as one chunk

Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-24T21:16:35Z

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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Instead of allocating a separate chunk for the first 640KB and another
for 1MB+, allocate one large chunk. This plays well in terms of alignment
and size with large pages.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit cfe0cef63988a7876a9bbcb098500a3983e63814)

Index: qemu-kvm/hw/pc.c
===================================================================
--- qemu-kvm.orig/hw/pc.c
+++ qemu-kvm/hw/pc.c
@@ -798,18 +798,11 @@ static void pc_init1(ram_addr_t ram_size
vmport_init();

/* allocate RAM */
- ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(0xa0000);
+ ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(below_4g_mem_size);
cpu_register_physical_memory(0, 0xa0000, ram_addr);
-
- /* Allocate, even though we won't register, so we don't break the
- * phys_ram_base + PA assumption. This range includes vga (0xa0000 - 0xc0000),
- * and some bios areas, which will be registered later
- */
- ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(0x100000 - 0xa0000);
- ram_addr = qemu_ram_alloc(below_4g_mem_size - 0x100000);
cpu_register_physical_memory(0x100000,
below_4g_mem_size - 0x100000,
- ram_addr);
+ ram_addr + 0x100000);

/* above 4giga memory allocation */
if (above_4g_mem_size > 0) {