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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] increase maxmem before calling xc_domain_populate_physmap
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:38:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204163839.GC31446@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54808B52.8010603@terremark.com>

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:26:58AM -0500, Don Slutz wrote:
[...]
> >those warnings less scary.
> 
> It was not so much that hvmloader is the one to change (but having it check
> for room first might be good), but more that a change to xen would be good
> (like changing the wording or maybe only output in debug=y builds, etc.).
> 
> Maybe a new XENMEMF to suppress the message?
> 

I don't think it should work like that. That message is perfectly
legitimate -- a domain is asking for more memory than it should and Xen
rightfully rejects that. Having a guest controlable way to suppress that
is a bad idea.

Wei.

> 
>    -Don Slutz
> 
> 
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 17:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] increase maxmem before calling xc_domain_populate_physmap Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-25 18:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2014-11-26 18:17   ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-27  2:42     ` Don Slutz
2014-11-27 10:48       ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-12-01 13:33         ` Don Slutz
2014-12-01 15:37           ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-12-01 23:16             ` Don Slutz
2014-12-02 12:26               ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-12-02 20:23                 ` Don Slutz
2014-12-03 10:54                   ` Wei Liu
2014-12-03 12:20                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-12-03 13:39                       ` Don Slutz
2014-12-03 14:50                         ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-12-04 16:26                           ` Don Slutz
2014-12-04 16:38                             ` Wei Liu [this message]

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