On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 04:33:48PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Sometimes QEMU needs to allocate the HPT in userspace, namely with TCG
> or PR KVM. This is performed with qemu_memalign() because of alignment
> requirements. Like glib's allocators, its behaviour is to abort on OOM
> instead of returning NULL.
> 
> This could be changed to qemu_try_memalign(), but in the specific case
> of spapr_reallocate_hpt(), the outcome would be to terminate QEMU anyway
> since no HPT means no MMU for the guest. Drop the dead code instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>

Series applied to ppc-for-5.2.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c |    6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 227075103e9a..12a012d9dd09 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -1522,12 +1522,6 @@ int spapr_reallocate_hpt(SpaprMachineState *spapr, int 
> shift, Error **errp)
>          int i;
>  
>          spapr->htab = qemu_memalign(size, size);
> -        if (!spapr->htab) {
> -            error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
> -                             "Could not allocate HPT of order %d", shift);
> -            return -ENOMEM;
> -        }
> -
>          memset(spapr->htab, 0, size);
>          spapr->htab_shift = shift;
>  
> 
> 

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