Re: [PATCH v2 18/18] contrib/plugins: avoid hanging program

Although we asks for instructions per second we work in quanta and that cannot be 0. Fail to load the plugin instead and report the minimum IPS we can handle. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee(a)linaro.org&gt; Reported-by: Elisha Hollander <just4now666666(a)gmail.com&gt; Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson(a)linaro.org&gt; --- contrib/plugins/ips.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/contrib/plugins/ips.c b/contrib/plugins/ips.c index 29fa556d0f..6f078689dc 100644 --- a/contrib/plugins/ips.c +++ b/contrib/plugins/ips.c @@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ QEMU_PLUGIN_EXPORT int qemu_plugin_install(qemu_plugin_id_t id, vcpus = qemu_plugin_scoreboard_new(sizeof(vCPUTime)); max_insn_per_quantum = max_insn_per_second / NUM_TIME_UPDATE_PER_SEC; + if (max_insn_per_quantum == 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "minimum of %d instructions per second needed\n", NUM_TIME_UPDATE_PER_SEC); + return -1; + } + time_handle = qemu_plugin_request_time_control(); g_assert(time_handle);