The hypervisor may not have enough memory to satisfy the request. While there, make the unit of the value clear by renaming the local variable.
Requested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> --- v2: Rename local variables. Also log requested value. Don't log errno explicitly in LOGED() (nor function return value). Integrate into series. --- Especially if the request was mostly fulfilled, guests may have done fine despite the failure, so there is a risk of perceived regressions here. But not checking the error at all was certainly wrong. --- a/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c +++ b/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c @@ -529,10 +529,20 @@ int libxl__arch_domain_create(libxl__gc xc_domain_set_time_offset(ctx->xch, domid, rtc_timeoffset); if (d_config->b_info.type != LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_PV) { - unsigned long shadow = DIV_ROUNDUP(d_config->b_info.shadow_memkb, - 1024); - xc_shadow_control(ctx->xch, domid, XEN_DOMCTL_SHADOW_OP_SET_ALLOCATION, - NULL, 0, &shadow, 0, NULL); + unsigned long shadow_mb = DIV_ROUNDUP(d_config->b_info.shadow_memkb, + 1024); + int r = xc_shadow_control(ctx->xch, domid, + XEN_DOMCTL_SHADOW_OP_SET_ALLOCATION, + NULL, 0, &shadow_mb, 0, NULL); + + if (r) { + LOGED(ERROR, domid, + "Failed to set %lu MiB %s allocation", + shadow_mb, + libxl_defbool_val(d_config->c_info.hap) ? "HAP" : "shadow"); + ret = ERROR_FAIL; + goto out; + } } if (d_config->c_info.type == LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_PV &&