On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 11:03, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > > I didn't think migration distinguished between "main memory" > > and any other kind of RAMBlock-backed memory ? > > In Yury's case there's a distinction between RAMBlock's that are mapped > with RAM_SHARED (which normally ends up as MAP_SHARED) and all others. > You can set that for main memory by using -numa to specify a memdev > that's backed by a file and has the share=on property. > > On x86 the ROMs end up as separate RAMBlock's that aren't affected > by that -numa/share=on - so they don't fight Yury's trick.
You can use the generic loader on x86 to load an ELF file into RAM if you want, which would I think also trigger this. thanks -- PMM
