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Re: [Qemu-devel] When it's okay to treat OOM as fatal?


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] When it's okay to treat OOM as fatal?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:28:27 +0200
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On 18/10/2018 15:06, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Device "qxl" creates a memory region "qxl.vgavram" with a size taken
> from uint32_t property "ram_size", silently rounded up to the next power
> of two.  It uses &error_fatal for error handling.

That's good to some extent---it means that the core code _is_ ready for
handling ENOMEM in this part of QEMU, it's just the device that doesn't
use it.

Paolo



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