[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Tell users about out-of-memory errors

[Stefan Weil]

Aborting without an error message when memory is short
is not helpful, so print the reason for the abort.

Try
        qemu -m 1000000
to force an out-of-memory error.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de>
---
 osdep.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/osdep.c b/osdep.c
index 1310684..5d4e810 100644
--- a/osdep.c
+++ b/osdep.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 static void *oom_check(void *ptr)
 {
     if (ptr == NULL) {
+        perror("qemu (memory allocation)");
         abort();
     }
     return ptr;
@@ -91,8 +92,11 @@ void *qemu_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
     int ret;
     void *ptr;
     ret = posix_memalign(&ptr, alignment, size);
-    if (ret != 0)
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate %zu B: %s\n",
+                size, strerror(errno));
         abort();
+    }
     return ptr;
 #elif defined(CONFIG_BSD)
     return oom_check(valloc(size));
-- 
1.6.5