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Re: [Xen-devel] linux 3.3-pre-rc1: Starting domU fails with Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0.



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 17:40, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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:
>> > Â bus_unregister(&balloon_subsys);
>> > to:
>> > Â subsys_system_register(&balloon_subsys, NULL);
>> > in:
>> > Â 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Â Thu Jan 12 11:35:50 2012 -0500
>
> Â Âxen/balloon: Move the registration from device to subsystem.
>
> Â ÂWith git commit 070680218379e15c1901f4bf21b98e3cbf12b527
> Â Â"xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem" we would
> Â Âend up with the attributes being put in:
>
> Â Â /sys/devices/xen_memory0/target_kb
> Â Âinstead of
> Â Â/sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb
>
> Â ÂMaking the tools unable to deflate the kernel to make more space
> Â Âfor launching another guest and printing:
>
> Â ÂError: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0
>
> Â ÂReported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Â ÂSuggested-by: ÂKay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Â ÂSigned-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sure, looks good.

Thanks for fixing this,
Kay

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