Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:58:31 +0100 | Subject | Re: linux 3.3-pre-rc1: Starting domU fails with Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0. |
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 17:40, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:12:04AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 16:46, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk >> > <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote: >> > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: >> > >> > >> Today i tried linuses tree of today (last commit is 4c4d285ad5665bfbd983b95fde8d7a477d24a361). >> > >> >> > >> It boots dom0 fine, but it fails to start any domU with: "Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0." >> > >> With my previous 3.1.5 kernel everything is fine, nothing else changed in config in between. >> > > Your patch that converts the xen-balloon to use the regular device bus driver >> > > (070680218379e15c1901f4bf21b98e3cbf12b527) has some not-so-happy consequences. >> > > >> > > The toolstack (xen-tools) use: >> > > >> > > /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0 >> > > >> > > But with the change, it is now: >> > > >> > > /sys/devices/xen_memory0/target_kb >> > >> > Urks, seems like a mistake on my side. >> > >> > Please try if changing: >> > bus_unregister(&balloon_subsys); >> > to: >> > subsys_system_register(&balloon_subsys, NULL); >> > in: >> > drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c >> > fixes the issue. >> >> Heh. I was *just* looking at d369a5d8fc70710236ae2d06a0e42dce483712df >> ("clocksource: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem") and typed up this patch >> to try it out: > > Kay, are you Acking this patch? (I can send it to Linus for rc0 or rc1) > > commit 4e6f161986678a25c9e76af98df928408c734a27 > Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> > Date: Thu Jan 12 11:35:50 2012 -0500 > > xen/balloon: Move the registration from device to subsystem. > > With git commit 070680218379e15c1901f4bf21b98e3cbf12b527 > "xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem" we would > end up with the attributes being put in: > > /sys/devices/xen_memory0/target_kb > instead of > /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb > > Making the tools unable to deflate the kernel to make more space > for launching another guest and printing: > > Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0 > > Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> > Suggested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Sure, looks good.
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