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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
To: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: christian@holpert.de, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xl, e820_host, PV passthrough: Fix guests crashing when memory == maxmem
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 09:36:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369402576-2958-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> (raw)

The code had an obvious bug where it would assume that the balloon
amount would always be _something_ and add an E820_RAM entry at the
end of the E820 array. The added E820_RAM would contain the balloon amount
plus the delta of memory that had to be subtracted b/c of the various
E820 entries. That assumption is certainly true when maxmem != mem,
but if guest config has maxmem = memory that is incorrect (as balloon
value is zero). The end result is that the E820 that is constructed
is missing a swath of "delta" memory and in most cases ends up with
only one E820_RAM entry that is of 512MB size on many Intel systems.

Reported-by: Christian Holpert <christian@holpert.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
 tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c
index a17f6ae..a78c91d 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_x86.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static int e820_sanitize(libxl_ctx *ctx, struct e820entry src[],
         idx++;
     }
     /* At this point we have the mapped RAM + E820 entries from src. */
-    if (balloon_kb) {
+    if (balloon_kb || delta_kb) {
         /* and if we truncated the RAM region, then add it to the end. */
         e820[idx].type = E820_RAM;
         e820[idx].addr = (uint64_t)(1ULL << 32) > last ?
-- 
1.7.7.6

             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-24 13:36 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-05-24 13:58 ` [PATCH] xl, e820_host, PV passthrough: Fix guests crashing when memory == maxmem Ian Campbell
2013-05-24 14:51   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-05-24 14:55     ` Ian Campbell
2013-05-24 14:57       ` George Dunlap
2013-05-30  9:01   ` Ian Campbell

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