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    powerpc/kvm: Contiguous memory allocator based hash page table allocation · fa61a4e3
    Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
    Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping virtual
    addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table to
    be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early reservation
    mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to
    reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest
    simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved memory
    is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the total
    available memory in the host.
    
    This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use
    contiguous memory allocator.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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