File Raise-soft-address-space-limit-to-hard-l.patch of Package qemu

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File Raise-soft-address-space-limit-to-hard-l.patch of Package qemu (Revision b19dceaa5580d24af0f5bd6c28b66935)

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:53:49 +0100
Subject: Raise soft address space limit to hard limit
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For SLES we want users to be able to use large memory configurations
with KVM without fiddling with ulimit -Sv.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
[BR: add include for sys/resource.h]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
---
 softmmu/vl.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index 4eb9d1f7fd54f27583bfb1ce9407..c6e7530b012db308d0c607ec749d 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include "qemu/uuid.h"
 #include "sysemu/reset.h"
 #include "sysemu/runstate.h"
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include "sysemu/seccomp.h"
 #include "sysemu/tcg.h"
 #include "sysemu/xen.h"
@@ -2868,6 +2869,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     BlockdevOptionsQueue bdo_queue = QSIMPLEQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(bdo_queue);
     QemuPluginList plugin_list = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(plugin_list);
     int mem_prealloc = 0; /* force preallocation of physical target memory */
+    struct rlimit rlimit_as;
 
     os_set_line_buffering();
 
@@ -2879,6 +2881,16 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
 
     qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
 
+    /*
+     * Try to raise the soft address space limit.
+     * Default on SLES 11 SP2 is 80% of physical+swap memory.
+     */
+    getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &rlimit_as);
+    if (rlimit_as.rlim_cur < rlimit_as.rlim_max) {
+        rlimit_as.rlim_cur = rlimit_as.rlim_max;
+        setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &rlimit_as);
+    }
+
     atexit(qemu_run_exit_notifiers);
     qemu_init_exec_dir(argv[0]);

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