[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] Unify memory allocation failure handling

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Memory allocation failures are a very rare condition on virtual-memory
> hosts.  They are also very difficult to handle correctly (especially in a
> hardware emulation context).  Because of this, it is better to gracefully
> terminate emulation rather than executing untested or even unwritten recovery
> code paths.
>
> This patchset modifies qemu_malloc() and related functions to terminate
> on error, and updates callers not to perform their own error handling.  In
> many cases error handling was already missing or incorrect.
>
> Avi Kivity (6):
>   Terminate emulation on memory allocation failure
>   block: remove error handling from qemu_malloc() callers
>   audio: remove error handling from qemu_malloc() callers
>   hw: remove error handling from qemu_malloc() callers
>   targets: remove error handling from qemu_malloc() callers
>   toplevel: remove error handling from qemu_malloc() callers
>   

Applied all.  Thanks.

Did you do this all by hand or were scripts involved?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori