Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] backends/hostmem: Ignore ENOSYS while setting MPOL_DEFAULT

[Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>]

 Sorry, guys, i forgot to add "v2" and simply sent the mail. Log is:

v1 => v2:
- Removed unnecessary parenthesis

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qemu-devel-bounces+p.fedin=samsung.com@nongnu.org [mailto:qemu-devel-
> bounces+p.fedin=samsung.com@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Fedin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:52 PM
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: 'Paolo Bonzini'; 'Eduardo Habkost'
> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] backends/hostmem: Ignore ENOSYS while setting MPOL_DEFAULT
> 
> Currently hostmem backend fails if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled for the qemu
> (default), but NUMA is not supported by the kernel. This makes it
> impossible to use ivshmem in such configurations.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by ignoring ENOSYS error if policy is set to
> MPOL_DEFAULT. This way the code behaves in the same way as if CONFIG_NUMA
> was not defined. qemu will still fail if the user specifies some other
> policy, so that the user knows it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
> ---
>  backends/hostmem.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/backends/hostmem.c b/backends/hostmem.c
> index 41ba2af..94a4ac0 100644
> --- a/backends/hostmem.c
> +++ b/backends/hostmem.c
> @@ -313,9 +313,11 @@ host_memory_backend_memory_complete(UserCreatable *uc, Error **errp)
>          assert(maxnode <= MAX_NODES);
>          if (mbind(ptr, sz, backend->policy,
>                    maxnode ? backend->host_nodes : NULL, maxnode + 1, flags)) {
> -            error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
> +            if (backend->policy != MPOL_DEFAULT || errno != ENOSYS) {
> +                error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
>                               "cannot bind memory to host NUMA nodes");
> -            return;
> +                return;
> +            }
>          }
>  #endif
>          /* Preallocate memory after the NUMA policy has been instantiated.
> --
> 1.9.5.msysgit.0
>