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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gleb@redhat.com

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Because offsets are zero, and lengths match the RAM block lengths, you
> do not need any complication with aliasing.  This still has to be done
> only for new machine types.

Not possible because you just wasted holesize bytes (if number of
additional bytes due to huge page alignment is smaller than holesize, a
new hugepage is required, which is not acceptable).

Is there a tree the new machine types can live until 1.8 opens up?

Can you pick up the MAP_POPULATE patch?