From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
peter.maydell@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:48:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502235FA.6050903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wr1921rd.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
On 08/08/2012 12:04 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>> Yes please, maybe with a notice to the user.
>
> Next problem: minimum RAM size.
>
> For instance, -M pc -m X, where X < 32KiB dies "qemu: fatal: Trying to
> execute code outside RAM or ROM at [...] Aborted (core dumped)" with
> TCG, and "KVM internal error. Suberror: 1" with KVM.
>
> Should a minimum RAM size be enforced? Board-specific?
>
It's really a BIOS bug causing a limitation of both kvm and tcg to be
hit. The BIOS should recognize it doesn't have sufficient memory and
hang gracefully (if you can picture that). It just assumes some low
memory is available and tries to execute it with the results you got.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-08 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-25 11:49 [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash Markus Armbruster
2012-07-27 19:00 ` Blue Swirl
2012-07-28 6:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-28 8:29 ` Blue Swirl
2012-07-30 12:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-30 15:05 ` Blue Swirl
2012-08-08 9:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-08 9:16 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-08 10:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-08 9:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-13 13:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-13 13:56 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-13 14:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-08-13 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-13 14:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-08-13 20:35 ` Blue Swirl
2012-08-19 19:26 ` Kevin O'Connor
2012-08-13 14:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-13 14:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-14 8:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-14 10:20 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 10:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 11:01 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 13:16 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 13:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 13:42 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 11:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-14 13:25 ` Avi Kivity
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