From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> Unfortunately madvise DONTNEED doesn't work on hugepagetlb so use fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) qemu_fd_getpagesize only sets the page based off a file if the file is from hugetlbfs.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> --- exec.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c index e040cdf..c25f6b3 100644 --- a/exec.c +++ b/exec.c @@ -3324,9 +3324,20 @@ int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length) errno = ENOTSUP; /* If we are missing MADVISE etc */ + if (rb->page_size == qemu_host_page_size) { #if defined(CONFIG_MADVISE) - ret = qemu_madvise(host_startaddr, length, QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED); + ret = qemu_madvise(host_startaddr, length, QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED); #endif + } else { + /* Huge page case - unfortunately it can't do DONTNEED, but + * it can do the equivalent by FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE in the + * huge page file. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_FALLOCATE_PUNCH_HOLE + ret = fallocate(rb->fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, + start, length); +#endif + } if (ret) { ret = -errno; error_report("ram_block_discard_range: Failed to discard range " -- 2.9.3