From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Fix -mem-path with hugetlbfs
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:12:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503211223.GA18617@amt.cnet> (raw)
Avi, please apply to both master and uq/master.
---
Fallback to qemu_vmalloc in case file_ram_alloc fails.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 467a0e7..7125a93 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2821,8 +2821,12 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc(ram_addr_t size)
if (mem_path) {
#if defined (__linux__) && !defined(TARGET_S390X)
new_block->host = file_ram_alloc(size, mem_path);
- if (!new_block->host)
- exit(1);
+ if (!new_block->host) {
+ new_block->host = qemu_vmalloc(size);
+#ifdef MADV_MERGEABLE
+ madvise(new_block->host, size, MADV_MERGEABLE);
+#endif
+ }
#else
fprintf(stderr, "-mem-path option unsupported\n");
exit(1);
next reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 21:12 UTC|newest]
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2010-05-03 21:12 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2010-05-05 8:53 ` Fix -mem-path with hugetlbfs Avi Kivity
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