[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Disallow setting maxmem to higher value than total physical memory size

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
this is the patch to disallow changing the maxmem value to higher value 
than total physical memory size since without this patch I was able to 
set dom0 maxmem to higher (invalid) value which is not correct. The 
check for total memory size using the xc.physinfo()['total_mem'] has 
been implemented in this patch and also the check for negative or zero 
value in setMemoryMaximum() has been added. When user enters an invalid 
value (no matter whether negative/zero or higher than total physical 
memory size) an error is returned saying that the memory size is invalid 
since no domain (no matter whether dom0 or domU) can have memory higher 
than maxmem and this prevents maxmem value to be higher than total 
physical memory installed on dom0. Also, on dom0/domU start the domain 
maxmem is being checked against whether it doesn't exceed the total 
physical memory configuration and if it does the value is being reduced 
the the physical memory size to disallow possibility to set to some 
higher value.
You can check the patch by `xm list -l | grep maxmem` command which now 
returns the dom0 physical size on dom0 boot up and when you try to set 
maximum memory of both dom0 and domU you can't set this to higher value 
than dom0 total physical memory size. Since there's a sanity check on 
setting up new memory on domain you'll get "Error: memory_dynamic_max 
must be less than or equal to memory_static_max" when trying to set to 
higher value than domain's maxmem.
Michal

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Michal Novotny<minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat

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