On 10/10/2017 16:44, Greg Kurz wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:21:59 +1100 > David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > >> In order to prevent the guest from forcing the allocation of large amounts >> of qemu memory (or host kernel memory, in the case of KVM HV), we limit >> the size of Hashed Page Table (HPT) it is allowed to allocated, based on >> its RAM size. >> >> However, the current calculation is not correct: it only adds up the size >> of plugged memory, ignoring the base memory size. This patch corrects it. >> >> While we're there, use get_plugged_memory_size() instead of directly >> calling pc_existing_dimms_capacity(). The only difference is that it >> will abort on failure, which is right: a failure here indicates something >> wrong within qemu. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> >> --- >> hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c >> index 8d72bb7c1c..06af1b15c0 100644 >> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c >> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c >> @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static target_ulong h_resize_hpt_prepare(PowerPCCPU *cpu, >> return H_PARAMETER; >> } >> >> - current_ram_size = pc_existing_dimms_capacity(&error_fatal); >> + current_ram_size = ram_size + get_plugged_memory_size(); > > current_ram_size is initialized earlier in this function: > > uint64_t current_ram_size = MACHINE(spapr)->ram_size; > > which is is initialized to ram_size in vl.c. Why not doing: > > current_ram_size += get_plugged_memory_size(); > > ?
I agree, it seems like the original intend of the first patch... Thanks, Laurent