Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86/mm: out-of-memory errors in p2m ops

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07.03.13 at 15:52, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> These patches begin to address error handling when the shadow/hap
> pool can't allocate any more p2m pages.
> 
> Patch 1 is a bit of preliminary tidying.
> Patch 2 prints a warning on error so it can be diagnosed.
> Patches 3-5 add checks to direct callers of the p2m allocation functions.

Thanks for doing this!

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
(apart from the last one, where I don't feel qualified)

> With these patches applied, pool allocation errors will be
> propagated as far as the set_p2m_entry() interface.
> Unfortunately there are many callers of that that don't check the
> return code -- PoD and mem_paging are the major cuplrits, but
> there are other cases where the error is discarded further up the
> stack (e.g. some callers of set_mmio_p2m_entry()).  Chasing those
> up is work for another day.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim.
> 
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