[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Call MADV_HUGEPAGE for guest RAM allocations

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

This makes it possible for QEMU to use transparent huge pages (THP)
when transparent_hugepage/enabled=madvise. Otherwise THP is only
used when it's enabled system wide.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
---
 exec.c  | 1 +
 osdep.h | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 1114a09..7504909 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2584,6 +2584,7 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr(ram_addr_t size, void *host,
     cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range(new_block->offset, size, 0xff);
 
     qemu_ram_setup_dump(new_block->host, size);
+    qemu_madvise(new_block->host, size, QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE);
 
     if (kvm_enabled())
         kvm_setup_guest_memory(new_block->host, size);
diff --git a/osdep.h b/osdep.h
index cb213e0..c5fd3d9 100644
--- a/osdep.h
+++ b/osdep.h
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ void qemu_vfree(void *ptr);
 #else
 #define QEMU_MADV_DONTDUMP QEMU_MADV_INVALID
 #endif
+#ifdef MADV_HUGEPAGE
+#define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE MADV_HUGEPAGE
+#else
+#define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
+#endif
 
 #elif defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MADVISE)
 
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