If pc-dimm is specified on qemu command line, but only with -m size (aka not -m size,maxmem,slots) then qemu will core dump.
This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hu...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- hw/mem/pc-dimm.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/mem/pc-dimm.c b/hw/mem/pc-dimm.c index 8c26568..a57b9a3 100644 --- a/hw/mem/pc-dimm.c +++ b/hw/mem/pc-dimm.c @@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ uint64_t pc_dimm_get_free_addr(uint64_t address_space_start, uint64_t new_addr, ret = 0; uint64_t address_space_end = address_space_start + address_space_size; + if (address_space_size == 0) { + error_setg(errp, "no space left for hotplugged memory. did you forget " + "maxmem and slots on " + "-m(aka -m size,maxmem=maxmem,slots=slots)?"); + goto out; + } + assert(address_space_end > address_space_size); object_child_foreach(qdev_get_machine(), pc_dimm_built_list, &list); -- 1.9.3