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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Don't leak memory when unmapping the ring on HVM backend

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On 10/08/15 19:10, Julien Grall wrote:
> The commit ccc9d90a9a8b5c4ad7e9708ec41f75ff9e98d61d "xenbus_client:
> Extend interface to support multi-page ring" removes the call to
> free_xenballooned_pages in xenbus_unmap_ring_vfree_hvm.
> 
> This will result to not give back the pages to Linux and loose them
> forever. It only happens when the backends are running in HVM domains.

Applied to for-linus-4.2 and tagged for stable, thanks.

David
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[PATCH] xen/xenbus: Don't leak memory when unmapping the ring on HVM backend Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> - 2015-08-10 20:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Don't leak memory when unmapping the ring  on HVM backend Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-08-10 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Don't leak memory when unmapping the ring on  HVM backend Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> - 2015-08-10 20:50 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Don't leak memory when unmapping  the ring on HVM backend David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2015-08-11 12:10 +0200

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