Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455Ab1CIOBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:01:51 -0500 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:19800 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756937Ab1CIOBs (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:01:48 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,290,1297036800"; d="scan'208";a="4696771" Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:01:25 +0000 From: Stefano Stabellini X-X-Sender: sstabellini@kaball-desktop To: Daniel Kiper CC: Ian Campbell , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "andi.kleen@intel.com" , "haicheng.li@linux.intel.com" , "fengguang.wu@intel.com" , "jeremy@goop.org" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , Dan Magenheimer , "v.tolstov@selfip.ru" , "pasik@iki.fi" , "dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "wdauchy@gmail.com" , "rientjes@google.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH R4 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver In-Reply-To: <20110308214429.GA27331@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> Message-ID: References: <20110308214429.GA27331@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1566 Lines: 38 On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > I am sending next version of memory hotplug > support for Xen balloon driver patch. It applies > to Linus' git tree, v2.6.38-rc8 tag. Most of > suggestions were taken into account. Thanks for > everybody who tested and/or sent suggestions > to my work. > > There are a few prerequisite patches which fixes > some problems found during work on memory hotplug > patch or add some futures which are needed by > memory hotplug patch. > > Full list of fixes/futures: > - xen/balloon: Removal of driver_pages, > - xen/balloon: HVM mode support, > - xen/balloon: Migration from mod_timer() to schedule_delayed_work(), > - xen/balloon: Protect against CPU exhaust by event/x process, > - xen/balloon: Minor notation fixes, > - mm: Extend memory hotplug API to allow memory hotplug in virtual guests, > - xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver. > > Additionally, I suggest to apply patch prepared by Steffano Stabellini > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/31/232) which fixes memory management > issue in Xen guest. I was not able boot guest machine without > above mentioned patch. after some discussions we came up with a different approach to fix the issue; I sent a couple of patches a little while ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/28/410 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/