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On 21/05/12 22:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> The autoballoon one would try to balloon up to E820_MAX when
> there were no dom0_mem=.. argument.

I don't see this behaviour and looking at the code I don't see how it
could.  The autoballoon code only populates pages that were released so
it won't go above xen_start_info->nr_pages.

Do you have any logs showing the problem behaviour?

> The patch fixes it, and
> is also makes the dom0_mem=1G case work better (I think?). The
> other solution would be to use the current_reservation patch
> I posted a while back to work-around when no dom0_mem= argument
> is used.

David