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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Il 12/08/2013 20:56, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>> > Similarly, what you're trying to do here doesn't require
>> > that the guest sees any specific host pointer, so you should
>> > just use memory_region_init_ram().
> I was concerned that we are wasting resources here.
> In particular, huge page memory might get allocated
> and there's no need for it as it's never mapped
> into guest.

You are also right, but I think this issue should be fixed separately
(e.g. only use huge pages for main RAM).

Paolo