From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/balloon: cancel ballooning if adding new memory failed Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:34:02 +0000 Message-ID: <1422617642.12551.10.camel@citrix.com> References: <1409593964-15144-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> <1422538593.5198.1.camel@citrix.com> <54CA7580.4090409@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YH9pv-00022R-HP for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:34:07 +0000 In-Reply-To: <54CA7580.4090409@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: David Vrabel Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Boris Ostrovsky , Daniel Kiper List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 18:01 +0000, David Vrabel wrote: > On 29/01/15 13:36, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 18:52 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > >> If the balloon driver is adding additional memory regions to the > >> balloon and add_memory() fails it will likely continuously fail so > >> cancel the balloon operation. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776448 and > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1304001 seem to > > suggest this should be a candidate for stable backports? > > It's up to the distro kernel maintainer to request it if they think it > is important. Which is what I thought I was doing. Surely you don't think I should just ask stable@ without conferring with the relevant maintainers first? Ian.