From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6zJP-0004ZP-5e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:23:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6zJK-0005Hp-2u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:23:03 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6zJJ-0005Hl-TO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:22:58 -0500 References: <87a8pl9hmt.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20151208141938.GB2593@work-vm> <87io480y0n.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <566827FC.4080701@redhat.com> <87a8piimvi.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20151210112114.GD2570@work-vm> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <56696088.6090109@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:22:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151210112114.GD2570@work-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Error handling in realize() methods List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Markus Armbruster Cc: Peter Maydell , Peter Crosthwaite , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= On 10/12/2015 12:21, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > I guess the use of abort() could tell us > that - however it's a really big assumption that in an OOM case we'd > be able to dump the information. If it's not OOM, but just a multi-gigabyte allocation, we should. Paolo