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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Cc: Stephen Donnelly <sfdonnelly@gmail.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: R/W HG memory mappings with kvm?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:31:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A716882.5020408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A70E0DB.5020200@cs.ualberta.ca>

On 07/30/2009 02:52 AM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
>> You need a variant of qemu_ram_alloc() that accepts an fd and offset 
>> and mmaps that.  A less intrusive, but uglier, alternative is to call 
>> qemu_ram_alloc() and them mmap(MAP_FIXED) on top of that.
>
>
> Hi Avi,
>
> I noticed that the region of memory being allocated for shared memory 
> using qemu_ram_alloc gets added to the total RAM of the system 
> (according to /proc/meminfo).  I'm wondering if this is normal/OK 
> since memory for the shared memory device (and similarly VGA RAM) is 
> not intended to be used as regular RAM.

qemu_ram_alloc() and the guets /proc/meminfo are totally disconnected.  
I don't understand how that happened.

>
> Should memory of devices be reported as part of MemTotal or is 
> something wrong in my use of qemu_ram_alloc()?

You can call qemu_ram_alloc() all you like.  Guest memory is determined 
by the e820 map, which is in turn determined by the -m parameter.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-05 22:41 R/W HG memory mappings with kvm? Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-06  7:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07 22:23   ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-08  4:36     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 21:33       ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-09  8:10         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 21:45       ` Cam Macdonell
2009-07-08 22:01         ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-09  6:01           ` Cam Macdonell
2009-07-09 22:38             ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-10 17:03               ` Cam Macdonell
2009-07-12 21:28                 ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-14 22:25                   ` [PATCH] Support shared memory device PCI device Cam Macdonell
     [not found]             ` <5f370d430907262256rd7f9fdalfbbec1f9492ce86@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-27 14:48               ` R/W HG memory mappings with kvm? Cam Macdonell
2009-07-27 21:32                 ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-07-28  8:54                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-28 23:06                     ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-13  4:07                       ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-19 12:14                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 21:59                           ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-24  4:55                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 10:22                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-27  2:39                                 ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-27  2:34                               ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-27  4:08                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-30 22:33                                   ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-08-31  8:44                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-31 21:13                                       ` Stephen Donnelly
2009-09-09 12:50                                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 23:52                     ` Cam Macdonell
2009-07-30  9:31                       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-09-28 18:27 Tsuyoshi Ozawa

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