Print help info on huge page shmget() returning EINVAL

[fio.git] / memory.c

diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
index e5680389072e1f13910dea1b87a1d9c3bd7fd570..8d6f95579a3366cb633226237965c5de971243e4 100644 (file)
--- a/memory.c
+++ b/memory.c
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ int allocate_io_mem(struct thread_data *td)
                        td_verror(td, errno, "shmget");
                        if (geteuid() != 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
                                log_err("fio: you may need to run this job as root\n");
+                       if (errno == EINVAL && td->o.mem_type == MEM_SHMHUGE)
+                               log_err("fio: check that you have free huge pages and that hugepage-size is correct.\n");
                        
                        return 1;
                }