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bhyve: don't panic if e820 finds no available memory
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Authored by corvink on May 10 2023, 12:45 PM.
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Summary

The GVT-d emulation tries to allocate some specific memory. It could
happen that this address doesn't exist. In that case, GVT-d will fall
back to allocate any address. Nevertheless, this only works if the e820
fails with an error instead of exiting on an assertion.

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usr.sbin/bhyve/e820.c
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Please add a comment describing the scenario where this happens.

  • add comment to explain when adding an e820 entry is intended to fail
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 11 2023, 2:35 PM