Re: [PATCH 2/3] microvm: drop max-ram-below-4g support

[Igor Mammedov]

On Mon, 25 May 2020 15:41:00 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> Not useful for microvm and allows users to shot themself
s/shot/shoot/

> into the foot (make ram + mmio overlap).
also see my toher reply to previous version, parhaps we can drop some more 
logic here

> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>

> ---
>  hw/i386/microvm.c | 19 -------------------
>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/microvm.c b/hw/i386/microvm.c
> index 44c08f8a5ab0..4b6ec2bbe331 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/microvm.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/microvm.c
> @@ -173,25 +173,6 @@ static void microvm_memory_init(MicrovmMachineState *mms)
>      ram_addr_t lowmem = 0x80000000; /* 2G */
>      int i;
>  
> -    /*
> -     * Handle the machine opt max-ram-below-4g.  It is basically doing
> -     * min(qemu limit, user limit).
> -     */
> -    if (!x86ms->max_ram_below_4g) {
> -        x86ms->max_ram_below_4g = 4 * GiB;
> -    }
> -    if (lowmem > x86ms->max_ram_below_4g) {
> -        lowmem = x86ms->max_ram_below_4g;
> -        if (machine->ram_size - lowmem > lowmem &&
> -            lowmem & (1 * GiB - 1)) {
> -            warn_report("There is possibly poor performance as the ram size "
> -                        " (0x%" PRIx64 ") is more then twice the size of"
> -                        " max-ram-below-4g (%"PRIu64") and"
> -                        " max-ram-below-4g is not a multiple of 1G.",
> -                        (uint64_t)machine->ram_size, 
> x86ms->max_ram_below_4g);
> -        }
> -    }
> -
>      if (machine->ram_size > lowmem) {
>          x86ms->above_4g_mem_size = machine->ram_size - lowmem;
>          x86ms->below_4g_mem_size = lowmem;