[Xen-devel] pvops-dom0 console freezes after latest ballooning patch (+possible fix)

[Ronny.Hegewald@xxxxxxxxx]

Setup: xen 3.4.1, 32-bit linux dom0 2.6.31.6 from pvops-git tree from 2009-12-03

Since the latest ballooning patch "Add hugepage support to balloon driver" i experience dom0 console freezes. Additional to that there is a stacktrace about a kernel-bug in drivers/xen/balloon.c in line 346, invalide opcode 0000 (i can send the full stacktrace if someone is interested).

The cause for that seems to be that in the decrease_reservation-funtion the PageHighMem - check is not executed on the assocciated page for the current pfn. Its always the last page that got allocated in the for-loop before, when all the pages are allocated.

With the attached patch that crashes dont occur anymore. But im not a kernel-developer so im not sure that this is the correct fix.

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