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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:13:37 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] Memory core space reduction
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 02/28/2012 11:59 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:25:42PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> [repost with pull info, brain not yet back up to speed]
>>
>> This is the current memory queue (posted as two separate series before
>> my vacation).  When applied, the overhead of 16 bytes/page is reduced to
>> basically nil.
>>
>> Please pull from:
>>
>>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git memory/core
>>
>
> This seems to make things worse for me: I used to see a crash with kvm when using
> a 64 bit BAR, now it crashes very early, and without kvm as well:
>
> #0  0x00007ffff5fc4155 in malloc_consolidate () from /lib64/libc.so.6

FWIW, I'm processing this PULL request right now and I'm seeing a SEGV too.  The 
backtrace is a malloc failure in QOM.

It's either this pull or Gerd's USB pull.  I'm debugging right now.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori