From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlNPe-0004ti-2G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:49:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlNPd-0007tF-5v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:49:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlNPc-0007t8-TD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:49:45 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6PFnhQJ029067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:49:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:19:38 +0530 From: Amit Shah Message-ID: <20110725154938.GA31219@amit-x200.redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] balloon: cleanups, fix segfault List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu list On (Mon) 25 Jul 2011 [16:13:33], Markus Armbruster wrote: > Amit Shah writes: > > > 'balloon 0' in the monitor causes a segfault. This happens because > > the function that handles change in balloon values is also tasked with > > handling stats retrieval from the guest, and it does the retrieval > > when the balloon target is '0'. > > > > Silly API, replace it. Also do a few cleanups along the way. > > Silly indeed. > > Consider explaining the crash in 5/7's commit message. Thanks for the detailed comment; will add that to the changelog. > Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster Thanks! Amit