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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/9] Add memfd memory backend
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To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 07:48:43PM +0100, Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau
> <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add a new Linux-specific memory backend, similar to hostmem-file,
> > except that it doesn't need file path. It also try to enforce memory
> > sealing if available. It is thus slightly easier and secure, and is
> > compatible with transparent huge-pages since Linux 4.8.
> >
> > Since Linux 4.14, memfd supports explicit hugetlb, however without
> > sealing.
>=20
> A little update here, 4.16 is likely to support sealing with hugetlb
> too (patches are in -mm tree). This should make memfd the prefered
> backend for sharing memory with a vhost-user backend.
>=20
> please review.
> thanks

I've queued patches 1-2 on machine-next.  I plan to review the
rest soon.  Sorry for the long delay.

--=20
Eduardo