Re: out of memory page request

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

David Brown wrote:
> I just noticed something bad, I forgot to pass the -m argument when
> starting my kvm session. So I tried to load an initrd that was 100+M
> into the default memory size which is smaller using an etherboot image
> for the rtl8139 card. Obviously this is my bad but I got a kernel
> oopse and it froze the qemu process and wouldn't release the memory
> back to the system.
>
> Could this be handled a little more cleanly? Maybe kill the qemu
> process and hand the memory back to the system saying that it couldn't
> allocate the memory or something?
>
> [ 5487.411029] Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff810213a9ad04 RIP:
> [ 5487.411036]  [<ffffffff88ae75b9>] :kvm:ioapic_mmio_write+0x59/0xa0
>   

Can you run 'gdb /path/to/kvm.ko' and post the output of 'disassemble 
ioapic_mmio_write' please?

-- 
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