[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix auto-ballooning of dom0 for HVM domains

["Charles Coffing" <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've been trying to make the auto-ballooning of domain 0 work reliably
for HVM domains.

Patch #1 is a simple bug fix, in preparation for patch #2.  Patch #2
tries to calculate how much memory is needed for HVM domains (XenSource
bug #521) and is certainly open for discussion.  Patches apply cleanly
to both 3.0-testing and unstable.

Patch #1 (xen-hvm-auto-balloon.diff):
When a domain (whether para- or fully-virtualized) reports how much
overhead memory it requires (via getDomainMemory in image.py), all such
memory was immediately allocated to the domain itself.  This is
certainly incorrect for HVM domains, since additional
increase_reservation calls are made later in qemu.  Since all ballooned
memory is already taken, qemu will fail.  The fix is to treat the
requested memory size and the overhead size as separate values.  The
requested memory size is immediately allocated to the new domain; the
overhead is left unallocated for whatever else might need it later.

Patch #2 (xen-get-dom-memory.diff):
This patch calculates the overhead needed for HVM domains.  If HVM is
supported by the hardware, I add a little ballooning overhead to
paravirtualized VMs also, to avoid low-memory situations.  (There are
various unchecked alloc_domheap_pages calls in shadow*.c that I am
trying to avoid tripping over for now...)  The values in this patch work
fine on 32 bit; I may update them later based on feedback and/or testing
on 64 bit.

Thanks,
Chuck

xen-hvm-auto-balloon.diff
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