[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: use proper maximum for parsing memory values

[Eric Blake]

On 10/30/2014 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> Or maybe the problem is that at some point we used unsigned long, and
> later moved to unsigned long long, but never updated the comment?  I'm
> trying to investigate the history of this code...

Looking a bit deeper, commit 4888f0fb5 was where we changed all internal
tracking to use unsigned long long; but we still have the public API
virDomain{Get,Set}MaxMemory that are tied to 'unsigned long'.  I guess
what I was trying to do in 2e22f23 (both in 2012) was to ensure that
virDomainGetMaxMemory would never have to fail due to overflow, by
capping the input to something that would fit in the output.  And we
still got it wrong then, since commit 19e7c04 (in 2013) fixed a case
where 32-bit hosts were truncating incorrectly.

Meanwhile, it looks like virDomain{Get,Set}MemoryParamters have ALWAYS
used ullong.  But this interface doesn't report max memory - so we still
have to live with the fact that there is currently no interface for the
user getting at max memory other than crippled API.

Maybe the solution is to enhance virDomain{Get,Set}MemoryParameters to
be a superset of the older APIs of virDomain{Get,Set}MaxMemory, and
teach the older APIs to fail with VIR_ERR_OVERFLOW when the value can
only be passed through the newer API.

Or maybe the solution is to make virDomainParseMemory add a bool
parameter that says whether the caller is old-style (32-bit cap) or
new-style (full 64-bit width), and set the maximum according to that
information.  That's probably the easiest for doing right now.  I can
take a stab at it, since it was my commit in 2012 that originally
introduced the weird 32-bit cap even when parsing a 64-bit field.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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