From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] file_ram_alloc: unify mem-path, mem-prealloc error handling
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:43:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140204184314.GA25613@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140204184153.GA25368@amt.cnet>
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-04 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-04 18:41 [Qemu-devel] file_ram_alloc: unify mem-path, mem-prealloc error handling Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-04 18:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2014-02-07 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 18:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-28 1:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-02-28 12:55 ` Igor Mammedov
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