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Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH] xl create: endless loop

To: <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH] xl create: endless loop
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:31:31 +0200
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On Monday 18 October 2010 14:50:35 Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I cannot start a guest with 'xl create' due to an endless loop in libxl.c,
> function libxl__get_free_memory_slack():
>
> There is this code snippet:
>
> retry:
>     free_mem_slack_s = libxl__xs_read(gc, XBT_NULL, free_mem_slack_path);
>     if (!free_mem_slack_s) {
>         rc = libxl__fill_dom0_memory_info(gc, &target_memkb);
>         if (rc < 0)
>             return rc;
>         goto retry;
>     } else {
>
>
> libxl__xs_read() returns 0 and libxl__fill_dom0_memory_info() also returns
> 0. So there's a loop of retries.

Attached patch fixes the endless loop.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>


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