Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/17] Move daemonize handling to OS specific files

[Jes Sorensen]

On 06/28/10 17:42, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Jes Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I figured out what was causing it. qemu-options.def has an
>> #ifdef MAP_POPULATE in it, which isn't being set without sys/mmap.h
>> being included. Pretty much every other #ifdef in qemu-options.def are
>> based on CONFIG_foo settings or things like _WIN32 which do not change
>> depending on header file inclusion.
>>
>> I think the easiest fix is to just add sys/mmap.h to the include list in
>> os-posix.c, so I just posted a patch for that. Though, in principle we
>> really shouldn't base qemu-options.def settings on defines pulled in
>> from system header files.
> 
> I think more flags should be added to arch_mask field, like
> QEMU_ARCH_LINUX, QEMU_ARCH_POSIX and QEMU_ARCH_WIN32. Then the #ifdefs
> should be removed. Prealloc command line flag stuff should be
> conditional to CONFIG_LINUX only, there should be another check for
> MAP_POPULATE where mem_preallocate is set.
> 
> Alternatively, we could have more arch_mask flags like QEMU_MAP_POPULATE.

Yeah, the problem with tying it to CONFIG_LINUX is that older version of
Linux may not support it. Looking through the list, MAP_POPULATE is
really an oddball in there though, so maybe it would be cleaner to catch
it via configure and then use CONFIG_MAP_POPULATE or something like that?

Cheers,
Jes