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Re: [Xen-devel] Strange memory balloning problem even if balloning is disabled



On 02/03/15 16:23, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 02.03.15 at 16:52, <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On systems with wheezy as dom0 and kernel 3.2 it seems there are no 
>> visible problems.
>> After updating the kernel to 3.16 (from backports repository), after 
>> starting the domUs, I get many of these errors in syslog and kern.log 
>> (infinite loop):
>> xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17)
> 
> I have a vague recollection of some fix from David aiming at
> avoiding to issue this message, but you would clearly have better
> luck getting a qualified response if you Cc-ed kernel people when
> reporting kernel problems (assuming you need explicit Cc-s at all,
> as most relevant people read the list anyway afaik) - I certainly
> can't figure by what criteria you put together the Cc list.

You need

3dcf63677d4eb7fdfc13290c8558c301d2588fe8 (xen/balloon: cancel ballooning
if adding new memory failed)
fd8b79511349efd1f0decea920f61b93acb34a75 (xen/balloon: Don't continue
ballooning when BP_ECANCELED is encountered)

Or you can disable CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.

David

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