On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 11:32:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > When using a memory-backend object with prealloc turned on, QEMU > will memset() the first byte in every memory page to zero. While > this might have been acceptable for memory backends associated > with RAM, this corrupts application data for NVDIMMs. > > Instead of setting every page to zero, read the current byte > value and then just write that same value back, so we are not > corrupting the original data. Directly write the value instead > of memset()ing it, since there's no benefit to memset for a > single byte write. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> > --- > > Changed in v3:
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Thanks, Andrea
