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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC v4] Introduce qemu_madvise()
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:31:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimdmiuy6TcEuBy-r9OrvuWDJN13WiL12UDSVikm@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284413185-2988-1-git-send-email-andreas.faerber@web.de>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
> From: Andreas Färber <afaerber@opensolaris.org>
>
> vl.c has a Sun-specific hack to supply a prototype for madvise(),
> but the call site has apparently moved to arch_init.c.
>
> Haiku doesn't implement madvise() in favor of posix_madvise().
> OpenBSD and Solaris 10 don't implement posix_madvise() but madvise().
>
> Check for madvise() and posix_madvise() in configure and supply qemu_madvise()
> as wrapper. Prefer madvise() over posix_madvise() due to flag availability.
> Convert all callers to use qemu_madvise() and QEMU_MADV_*.
>
> Note that on Solaris the warning is fixed by moving the madvise() prototype,
> not by qemu_madvise() itself. It will help with future porting though.
>
> v3 -> v4:
> * Eliminate #ifdefs at qemu_advise() call sites. Requested by Blue Swirl.
>  This will currently break the check in kvm-all.c by calling madvise() with
>  a supported flag, which will not fail. Ideas/patches welcome.

Your original switch with synthetic (1<<0, 1<<1 etc) values for
QEMU_MADV_* for all hosts (never reusing MADV_* defines).

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-11 17:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce qemu_madvise() Andreas Färber
2010-09-11 21:37 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-11 22:39   ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-11 22:47     ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-12  7:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-09-12  8:50   ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-12  9:02     ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-12 12:55     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-12 17:29       ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-09-13 12:02         ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-13 21:26         ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v4] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-14 16:31           ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2010-09-14 16:34             ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-09-14 17:10               ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-14 20:28                 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-14 20:36                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-09-14 20:39                     ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-15 18:09                       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-15 19:00                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-09-15 19:35                           ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-15 19:50                             ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-15 20:07                               ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-19 10:11                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-20 20:33                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-09-24 18:08                                   ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-25  7:49                                     ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-25 10:58                                       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-25 15:17                                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl

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