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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: file_ram_alloc: unify mem-path,mem-prealloc error handling
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:43:14 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 01:41:53PM -0500, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> -mem-prealloc asks to preallocate memory residing on -mem-path path. 
> 
> Currently QEMU exits in case:
> 
> - Memory file has been created but allocation via explicit write 
> fails.
> 
> And it fallbacks to malloc in case:
> - Querying huge page size fails.
> - Lack of sync MMU support.
> - Open fails.
> - mmap fails.
> 
> Have the same behaviour for all cases: fail in case -mem-path and
> -mem-prealloc are specified for regions where the requested size is
> suitable for hugepages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Forgot uq/master on the subject (but its aimed for that tree).