Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl, e820_host, PV passthrough: Fix guests crashing when memory == maxmem

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 10:51 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:58:24PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 09:36 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > The code had an obvious bug where it would assume that the balloon
> > > amount would always be _something_ and add an E820_RAM entry at the
> > > end of the E820 array. The added E820_RAM would contain the balloon amount
> > > plus the delta of memory that had to be subtracted b/c of the various
> > > E820 entries. That assumption is certainly true when maxmem != mem,
> > > but if guest config has maxmem = memory that is incorrect (as balloon
> > > value is zero). The end result is that the E820 that is constructed
> > > is missing a swath of "delta" memory and in most cases ends up with
> > > only one E820_RAM entry that is of 512MB size on many Intel systems.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Christian Holpert <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> George,
> Would you be OK putting this in Xen 4.3? It is only exposed if a user
>  1) launches a PV guest
>  2). Has in the guest config: pci=['blabla']\ne820_host=1
>  3). Is not that freq used as only a couple of people seem to use it

TBH I was just going to commit it as an obvious bug fix in my next sweep
of my queue (probably on Tuesday at this rate...)

I guess George has until then to object ;-)

Ian


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