Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v4 01/14] memory-device: drop assert related to align and start of address space

[David Hildenbrand]

On 29.05.2018 15:27, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2018 10:15:14 +0200
> David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> The start of the address space does not have to be aligned for the
>> search. Handle this case explicitly when starting the search for a new
>> address.
> That's true,
> but commit message doesn't explain why address_space_start
> should be allowed to be non aligned.
> 
> At least with this assert we would notice early that
> board allocating misaligned address space.
> I'd keep the assert unless there is a good reason to drop it.

That reason might be that I can easily crash QEMU

 ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256M,maxmem=20G,slots=2 -object
memory-backend-file,id=mem0,size=8192M,mem-path=/dev/zero,align=8192M
-device pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem0

ERROR:hw/mem/memory-device.c:146:memory_device_get_free_addr: assertion
failed: (QEMU_ALIGN_UP(address_space_start, align) == address_space_start)


> 
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/mem/memory-device.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/mem/memory-device.c b/hw/mem/memory-device.c
>> index 3e04f3954e..361d38bfc5 100644
>> --- a/hw/mem/memory-device.c
>> +++ b/hw/mem/memory-device.c
>> @@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ uint64_t memory_device_get_free_addr(MachineState *ms, 
>> const uint64_t *hint,
>>      address_space_start = ms->device_memory->base;
>>      address_space_end = address_space_start +
>>                          memory_region_size(&ms->device_memory->mr);
>> -    g_assert(QEMU_ALIGN_UP(address_space_start, align) == 
>> address_space_start);
>>      g_assert(address_space_end >= address_space_start);
>>  
>>      memory_device_check_addable(ms, size, errp);
>> @@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ uint64_t memory_device_get_free_addr(MachineState *ms, 
>> const uint64_t *hint,
>>              return 0;
>>          }
>>      } else {
>> -        new_addr = address_space_start;
>> +        new_addr = QEMU_ALIGN_UP(address_space_start, align);
>>      }
>>  
>>      /* find address range that will fit new memory device */
> 


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb