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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2021-11-02 10:19:44 +0100
committerBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2021-11-04 12:59:17 -0500
commit40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90 (patch)
treebc4df00b32521fde95c18ceec8b47e9967249a2c /include/xen/balloon.h
parenteae446b7654f25b2ca42ed0de54d7005e126fdac (diff)
xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done
When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory < max memory the hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest is crashed as a result of that. In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory. In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests. Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for changing this timeout. [boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()] Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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