Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: align ram_size to page boundary

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 17.06.2012 17:14, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/17/2012 04:06 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> 
>>> strtosz() is much too general.  We could do it in vl.c without trouble.
>>>  However, it takes away our ability to emulate a "640k should be enough
>>> for everyone" machine.
>>
>> Then how about current max of target page sizes: 8k? No machine should
>> want less than that.
> 
> Okay by me, but I can hear the we-should-have-a-generic-mechanism crowd
> charging their megaphone batteries.

So, is there some bottom line in that?  I think I'll put a (temp)
fix/workaround for the debian package to require memory size to be
a multiple of 8K, and to produce a warning if that requiriment hasn't
met.

Something like this:

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 5d9fc55..db98a4a 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2671,7 +2675,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                     fprintf(stderr, "qemu: ram size too large\n");
                     exit(1);
                 }
-                ram_size = value;
+#define RAM_SIZE_GRANULARITY (8*1024)
+                ram_size = value / RAM_SIZE_GRANULARITY;
+                ram_size *= RAM_SIZE_GRANULARITY;
+                if (ram_size != value) {
+                    fprintf(stderr,
+                            "warning: requested memory size (%" PRIu64 " bytes) "
+                            "truncated to %" PRIu64 " bytes\n",
+                            value, (uint64_t)ram_size);
+                }
                 break;
             }
             case QEMU_OPTION_mempath:


With this patch, running
  qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1.4g
produces the following:

warning: requested memory size (1503238553 bytes) truncated to 1503232000 bytes


Thanks,

/mjt