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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	qemu-s390x <qemu-s390x@nongnu.org>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390/kvm: implement clearing part of IPL clear
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:44:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e73ea6e-d8c0-4d10-ce9f-a000498df345@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79f7059b-f2d3-a758-6bb9-29433b31b313@redhat.com>

On 01/03/2018 04:58, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> When a guests reboots with diagnose 308 subcode 3 it requests the memory
>> to be cleared. We did not do it so far. This does not only violate the
>> architecture, it also misses the chance to free up that memory on
>> reboot, which would help on host memory over commitment.  By using
>> ram_block_discard_range we can cover both cases.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. I wonder whether that release_all_ram()
> function should maybe rather reside in exec.c, so that other machines
> that want to clear all RAM at reset time can use it, too?

Either way is fine for me.  With s/rams/ram/ the s390-only patch is ok.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-01  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28 19:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390/kvm: implement clearing part of IPL clear Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01  3:58 ` Thomas Huth
2018-03-01  7:37   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01  8:44   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-03-01  9:24   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-01 11:00     ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01 11:45       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-01 12:08         ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01 12:28           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-01 12:35             ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01 12:39               ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-03-01 12:58                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-01 12:49               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-01  9:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-03-05 12:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-03-05 13:04   ` Christian Borntraeger

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