Since the virt board model will never create a CPU which is pre-ARMv7, we know that our minimum page size is 4K and can set minimum_page_bits accordingly, for improved performance.
Note that this is a migration compatibility break. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- hw/arm/virt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c index c5c125e..f9b51aa 100644 --- a/hw/arm/virt.c +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c @@ -1440,6 +1440,8 @@ static void virt_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) mc->block_default_type = IF_VIRTIO; mc->no_cdrom = 1; mc->pci_allow_0_address = true; + /* We know we will never create a pre-ARMv7 CPU which needs 1K pages */ + mc->minimum_page_bits = 12; } static const TypeInfo virt_machine_info = { -- 1.9.1