From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
agraf@suse.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 7/8] exec: Don't abort when we can't allocate guest memory
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:33:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B983C5.3060107@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371106939-6968-8-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Am 13.06.2013 09:02, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> We abort() on memory allocation failure. abort() is appropriate for
> programming errors. Maybe most memory allocation failures are
> programming errors, maybe not. But guest memory allocation failure
> isn't, and aborting when the user asks for more memory than we can
> provide is not nice. exit(1) instead, and do it in just one place, so
> the error message is consistent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Thanks for looking into this!
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 7:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/8] Guest memory allocation fixes & cleanup Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] exec: Fix Xen RAM allocation with unusual options Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 11:54 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/8] exec: Clean up fall back when -mem-path allocation fails Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 22:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/8] exec: Reduce ifdeffery around -mem-path Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/8] s390: Simplify the RAM allocation hook Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 8:19 ` Andreas Färber
2013-06-13 22:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 5/8] s390: Make qemu_ram_remap() consistent with allocation Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 22:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 6/8] exec: Clean up unnecessary S390 ifdeffery Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 22:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 8:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-06-15 17:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 7/8] exec: Don't abort when we can't allocate guest memory Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 8:33 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-06-13 16:02 ` Richard Henderson
2013-06-13 17:27 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 16:21 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-13 17:27 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 7:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 8/8] pc_sysfw: Fix ISA BIOS init for ridiculously big flash Markus Armbruster
2013-06-13 7:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/8] Guest memory allocation fixes & cleanup Markus Armbruster
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