Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost-user:Bad ram offset

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 05:21:32PM +0800, Linhaifeng wrote:
> Hi,all
> 
> VM use vhost-user backend cannot startup when memory bigger than 3.5G.The log print "Bad ram offset 100000000" .Is this a bug?
> 
> log：
> [2014-11-01T08:39:07.245324Z] virtio_set_status:524 virtio-net device status is 1 that means ACKNOWLEDGE
> [2014-11-01T08:39:07.247225Z] virtio_set_status:524 virtio-balloon device status is 1 that means ACKNOWLEDGE
> [2014-11-01T08:39:07.320191Z] virtio_set_status:524 virtio-net device status is 3 that means DRIVER
> Bad ram offset 100000000
> [2014-11-01 08:39:07]: shutting down
> 
> 
> command：
> /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name vm1
> -smp 4
> -drive file=/mnt/sdb/linhf/imgs/vm1.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \
> -chardev socket,id=charnet0,path=/var/run/vhost-user/port1 -netdev type=vhost-user,id=hostnet0,chardev=charnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
> -enable-kvm -mem-prealloc -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=3968M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem
> 
> when memory is smaller than 3.5G VM would run well.

I reproduced this.
Interestingly, this does not trigger with 4096.
It does trigger with 3968.

> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Haifeng