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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0

Started byDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
First post2015-08-28 12:50 +0200
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  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: avoid another early crash of memory  limited dom0 David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2015-08-28 12:50 +0200

#1215274 — Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0

FromDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Date2015-08-28 12:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0
Message-ID<q2pol-PO-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
On 19/08/15 17:53, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Commit b1c9f169047b ("xen: split counting of extra memory pages...")
> introduced an error when dom0 was started with limited memory occurring
> only on some hardware.
> 
> The problem arises in case dom0 is started with initial memory and
> maximum memory being the same. The kernel must be configured without
> CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG for the problem to happen. If all
> of this is true and the E820 map of the machine is sparse (some areas
> are not covered) then the machine might crash early in the boot
> process.

Applied to for-linus-4.3, thanks.

David
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