From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: a ton of kernel issues Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:26:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20111215162659.GC7272@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <4EE72A94.6040904@gmail.com> <4EE75080.1000909@citrix.com> <1323783428.20077.298.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4EE7BC9B.6040003@gmail.com> <1323815427.20936.96.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <4EE7D75B.6080209@gmail.com> <1323847523.20936.110.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <1323864969.20077.405.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4EE9EBF5.8000402@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EE9EBF5.8000402@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: George Shuklin Cc: "sandr8@gmail.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Ian Campbell , David Vrabel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:45:41PM +0400, George Shuklin wrote: > On 14.12.2011 16:16, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I take it back, there is indeed a bug in the PV ops kernel in this > >regard. > > > >It works with xm/xend because they set the maximum reservation for > >guests to static-max on boot. xl (and, I think, xapi) instead set the > >maximum reservation to the current balloon target and change it > >dynamically as the target is changed (as a method of enforcing the > >targets). However the pvops kernel incorrectly uses the maximum > >reservation at boot to size the physical address space for guests. > > > >The patch below fixes this. > > > > > (skip) > > I've checked this patch against current vanilla v3.2-rc5 - it fix > problem I wrote about. Excellent. I added a 'Reported-and-Tested-by' with your name. > > Is any chance that fix will go to release of 3.2? That is the plan. >