Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash

[Markus Armbruster]

Blue Swirl <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Blue Swirl <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Markus Armbruster
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Asking for "funny" memory sizes sometimes crashes for me.  For instance
>>>> -m 0.8 or the equivalent -m 838860b.  -m 0.7 appears to work.
>>>>
>>>> Should we round memory sizes?  How?  Where?
>>>
>>> We had a discussion about this recently:
>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-06/msg02800.html
>>
>> I missed that, thanks!
>>
>> Unfortunately, the thread petered out without a conclusion.  What now?
>
> There's no patch to do the check in vl.c for 8k. Lacking the patch, we
> don't know exactly what is the charge level of megaphone batteries:
> like Schrödinger's cat, they may be dead or fully charged.

What would you like me to do?  Round argument of -m up to next multiple
of 8KiB?