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--- Comment #6 from David Chisnall ---
(In reply to Bill Sorenson from comment #5)
`MADV_FREE` and Linux's `MADV_DONTNEED` have different use cases. For C, where
malloc is called a lot more often than calloc, `MADV_FREE` provides much bet
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--- Comment #7 from Bill Sorenson ---
(In reply to David Chisnall from comment #6)
I'm aware they have different use cases. My main point is that if we are going
to adopt a Linux-MADV_DONTNEED equivalent we use Illumos' MADV_PURGE rather
th
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--- Comment #8 from David Chisnall ---
(In reply to Bill Sorenson from comment #7)
As I said above, there is no mechanism for doing this with shared memory
segments - we cannot zero pages in the middle of a shared-memory segment
without us
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--- Comment #9 from Mark Johnston ---
(In reply to David Chisnall from comment #8)
MADV_FREE has no effect on shared memory (or anything other than private
anonymous memory); see vm_object_advice_applies(). We should update the man
page to
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Bug 234878: emulators/virtualbox-ose: Update to 6.0
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