On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Current PPC code relies on -mem-path being used in order for
> hugepage support to be detected. With the introduction of
> MemoryBackendFile we can now handle this via:
>   -object memory-file-backend,mem-path=...,id=hugemem0 \
>   -numa node,id=mem0,memdev=hugemem0
> 
> Management tools like libvirt treat the 2 approaches as
> interchangeable in some cases, which can lead to user-visible
> regressions even for previously supported guest configurations.
> 
> Fix these by also iterating through any configured memory
> backends that may be backed by hugepages.
> 
> Since the old code assumed hugepages always backed the entirety
> of guest memory, play it safe an pick the minimum across the
> max pages sizes for all backends, even ones that aren't backed
> by hugepages.
> 
> Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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