Re: [PATCH] softmmu/physmem: Improve guest memory allocation failure error message

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 05:52:11PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> When Linux refuses to overcommit a seriously wild allocation we get:
> 
>   $ qemu-system-i386 -m 40000000
>   qemu-system-i386: cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate 
> memory
> 
> Slighly improve the error message, displaying the memory size
> requested (in case the user didn't expect unspecified memory size
> unit is in MiB):
> 
>   $ qemu-system-i386 -m 40000000
>   qemu-system-i386: Cannot set up 38.1 TiB of guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot 
> allocate memory
> 
> Reported-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu