Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] Memory core space reduction

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/28/2012 11:59 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:25:42PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > [repost with pull info, brain not yet back up to speed]
> >
> > This is the current memory queue (posted as two separate series before
> > my vacation).  When applied, the overhead of 16 bytes/page is reduced to
> > basically nil.
> >
> > Please pull from:
> >
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git memory/core
>
> This seems to make things worse for me: I used to see a crash with kvm when 
> using
> a 64 bit BAR, now it crashes very early, and without kvm as well:
>
> #0  0x00007ffff5fc4155 in malloc_consolidate () from /lib64/libc.so.6

FWIW, I'm processing this PULL request right now and I'm seeing a SEGV too.  The 
backtrace is a malloc failure in QOM.

It's either this pull or Gerd's USB pull.  I'm debugging right now.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori