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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] make ballooning up to maxmem work

To: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] make ballooning up to maxmem work
From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:40:22 -0200
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>      case XENMEM_current_reservation:
>      case XENMEM_maximum_reservation:
> +    case XENMEM_maximum_memory:
>          if ( copy_from_guest(&domid, arg, 1) )
>              return -EFAULT;

This still makes use of d->max_pages in return. Isn't it supposed to
change in the future too? IIRC, according to Keir, max_pages will track 
the _current_ number of pages, differing from tot_pages only in a brief
timeframe in which you balloon, but tot_pages was not yet updated.


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