On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:00:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> The current method of finding out the size of huge pages does not work
>> reliably anymore. Current Linux supports more than one huge page size
>> but /proc/meminfo only show one of the supported sizes.
>> To find out the real page size used can be found by calling statfs. This
>> patch changes qemu to use statfs instead of parsing /proc/meminfo.
>>
>
> Since we don't support 1GBpages in stable-0.10, this is unneeded.
This patch is needed to run current KVM on a hugetlbfs backed with
1GB pages. Therefore I think this patch is needed. It is an improvement
over the /proc/meminfo parsing anyway and is not strictly related to
kvm kernel support for 1GB pages.
Joerg
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