On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:04:26AM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > When adding extra memory regions as ballooned pages also adjust the balloon
> > target, otherwise when the balloon driver is started it will populate
> > memory to match the target value and consume all the extra memory regions
> > added.
> >
> > This made the usage of the Xen `dom0_mem=,max:` command line parameter for
> > dom0 not work as expected, as the target won't be adjusted and when the
> > balloon is started it will populate memory straight to the 'max:' value.
> > It would equally affect domUs that have memory != maxmem.
> >
> > Kernels built with CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC are not affected, because
> > the extra memory regions are consumed by the unpopulated allocation driver,
> > and then balloon_add_regions() becomes a no-op.
> >
> > Reported-by: John <j...@nuclearfallout.net>
> > Fixes: 87af633689ce ('x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH
> > dom0')
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
>
> Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com>I think this wants Cc: stable, since the commit named in Fixes: got backported too. Or is the Fixes tag enough? -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab
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