When using monitor command object_add to add a memory backend file but failed to preallocate memory for it, qemu exits silently. In the case we'd better give an error message and keep guest running.
The problem can be reproduced as follows: 1. run qemu with -mem-prealloc 2. (monitor)object_add memory-backend-file,size=100000G,mem-path=/hugepages,id=mem-file0 Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hu...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- exec.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c index 2b9c4c5..0362cd8 100644 --- a/exec.c +++ b/exec.c @@ -1129,8 +1129,8 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block, return area; error: - if (mem_prealloc) { - exit(1); + if (area && area != MAP_FAILED) { + munmap(area, memory); } return NULL; } -- 1.9.3