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Diffstat (limited to 'softmmu')
| -rw-r--r-- | softmmu/physmem.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/softmmu/physmem.c b/softmmu/physmem.c index b78b30e7ba..c0a3c47167 100644 --- a/softmmu/physmem.c +++ b/softmmu/physmem.c @@ -3527,6 +3527,7 @@ int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length) /* The logic here is messy; * madvise DONTNEED fails for hugepages * fallocate works on hugepages and shmem + * shared anonymous memory requires madvise REMOVE */ need_madvise = (rb->page_size == qemu_host_page_size); need_fallocate = rb->fd != -1; @@ -3560,7 +3561,11 @@ int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length) * fallocate'd away). */ #if defined(CONFIG_MADVISE) - ret = madvise(host_startaddr, length, MADV_DONTNEED); + if (qemu_ram_is_shared(rb) && rb->fd < 0) { + ret = madvise(host_startaddr, length, QEMU_MADV_REMOVE); + } else { + ret = madvise(host_startaddr, length, QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED); + } if (ret) { ret = -errno; error_report("ram_block_discard_range: Failed to discard range " |