This patch set adresses a couple of issues discovered in the balloon driver:
1. Prevent stale pressure report being posted.
2. If memory is not brought online within the allowed time,
do not roll back hot add state if hot add succeeded.
K. Y. Srinivasan (2):
Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug i
When we are posting pressure status, we may get interrupted and handle
the un-balloon operation. In this case just don't post the status as we
know the pressure status is stale.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan
Cc: Stable
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drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c |8
1 files changed, 8 insertions
As we hot-add 128 MB chunks of memory, we wait to ensure that the memory
is onlined before attempting to hot-add the next chunk. If the udev rule for
memory hot-add is not executed within the allowed time, we would rollback the
state and abort further hot-add. Since the hot-add has succeeded and th
How to take this project up ? The project manager is Saravana
Krishnamurthy. How to contact him ? Is this project still alive ?
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 06:56:14AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> As we hot-add 128 MB chunks of memory, we wait to ensure that the memory
> is onlined before attempting to hot-add the next chunk. If the udev rule for
> memory hot-add is not executed within the allowed time, we would rollback the
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 4:17 PM
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:07:19PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote:
[...]
> > Well now it might look like a bug that you don't test the result
> > of wait_for_completion_timeout(). Maybe update the comment to
> > explain why it's OK to continue anyway?
>
> I put in the comment in the patch explaining
