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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Check allocations when starting HVM domains

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Check allocations when starting HVM domains
From: "Charles Coffing" <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:42:43 -0400
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Several page allocations, done in the hypervisor when starting an HVM
domain, are not checked.  This can cause the physical machine to crash
when starting the HVM domain during low-memory conditions.

One patch is against xen-3.0-testing; the other is for xen-unstable.

Kudos to Charles Arnold for catching the problem with
shadow_direct_map_init.
Signed-off-by: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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