From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: libkvm: initialize no_pit_creation
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 14:22:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481AF95E.2030302@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48161063.7040002@siemens.com>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Yeah, it is. Reminds me of another warning I recently came across
> (offsets may vary due to other patches:
>
> ==5801== 1 errors in context 1 of 2:
> ==5801== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==5801== at 0x53F4AE: kvm_register_userspace_phys_mem (libkvm.c:552)
> ==5801== by 0x521ACA: kvm_cpu_register_physical_memory (qemu-kvm.c:654)
> ==5801== by 0x45FC82: pc_init1 (pc.c:809)
> ==5801== by 0x461313: pc_init_pci (pc.c:1149)
> ==5801== by 0x43081B: main (vl.c:9845)
>
> This silences valgrind and may even be correct (if I got the code path
> right):
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>
> --- a/libkvm/libkvm.c
> +++ b/libkvm/libkvm.c
> @@ -328,9 +328,10 @@ static int kvm_create_default_phys_mem(k
>
> #ifdef KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY
> r = ioctl(kvm->fd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY);
> - if (r > 0)
> + if (r > 0) {
> + kvm->physical_memory = NULL;
> return 0;
> - else
> + } else
> #endif
> r = kvm_alloc_kernel_memory(kvm, memory, vm_mem);
> if (r < 0)
>
>
As related earlier, physical_memory is bogus, so I removed it. Let's
pretend it never existed.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 0:53 libkvm: initialize no_pit_creation Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-27 12:50 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-28 17:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-02 11:22 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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