From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fixes to stable/for-linus-3.5 Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:02:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4FBD0A19.30701@citrix.com> References: <1337636562-9579-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1337636562-9579-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david.vrabel@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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