[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] python: Report nodeinfo's memory in KiB

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Sep 30 09:40:47 UTC 2013


On 30.09.2013 11:37, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> The python binding to virNodeGetInfo API has this awful bug. The
>> amount of RAM the node has is reported in MiB instead of KiB as
>> we have documented in the struct virNodeInfo description. The
>> problem is, after we obtain the nodeinfo the amount is shifted
>> left ten times (divided by 1024).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  python/libvirt-override.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/python/libvirt-override.c b/python/libvirt-override.c
>> index e659bae..3069013 100644
>> --- a/python/libvirt-override.c
>> +++ b/python/libvirt-override.c
>> @@ -2843,7 +2843,7 @@ libvirt_virNodeGetInfo(PyObject *self ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, PyObject *args) {
>>          return VIR_PY_NONE;
>>      py_retval = PyList_New(8);
>>      PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 0, libvirt_constcharPtrWrap(&info.model[0]));
>> -    PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 1, libvirt_longWrap((long) info.memory >> 10));
>> +    PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 1, libvirt_longWrap((long) info.memory));
>>      PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 2, libvirt_intWrap((int) info.cpus));
>>      PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 3, libvirt_intWrap((int) info.mhz));
>>      PyList_SetItem(py_retval, 4, libvirt_intWrap((int) info.nodes));
> 
> NACK, this is a clear backwards compat problem that will break *every*
> application using this API

Yeah, I've posted the patch just for completeness-sake while in fact
preferring the 2/2.

Michal




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