Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Xen-devel] [PATCH for v1.6] pc: Fix initialization of the ram_memory variable.

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > Il 26/08/2013 17:00, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> > > Il 16/08/2013 16:46, Anthony PERARD ha scritto:
> > > > In some cases (Xen), it will not be initialized before to be used. This
> > > > leads to segv.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Fabio Fantoni <address@hidden>
> > > This patch have solved the critical regression of all hvm domUs that
> > > prevented domUs starting with qemu 1.6.
> > > 
> > 
> > I not see this patch on git for now, I think is urgent apply this patch or
> > solve the problem in other way because qemu 1.6 is unusable at all for hvm
> > domUs on xen and 1.5.x doesn't works with hvm domUs with ram > 2gb, with 
> > qemu
> > 1.6 the regression of > 2 gb ram is solved but without this patch doesn't
> > works at all.
> > Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.
> 
> Sorry, you are right. I know about this patch, it's in my queue. I
> haven't had the time to send it upstream yet.

And by that, I mean I haven't looked at it yet, even though I know it
solves an outstanding issue. It might not be the right fix, as Peter
suggested.