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Juergen Gross 3d995568c9 xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done
commit 40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90 upstream.

When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory < max memory the
hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest
to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work
correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target
memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest
is crashed as a result of that.

In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before
the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory.

In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init
call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests.

Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling
for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for
changing this timeout.

[boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()]

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
arch powerpc/85xx: Fix oops when mpc85xx_smp_guts_ids node cannot be found 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
block Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges" 2021-10-06 15:42:34 +02:00
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Documentation xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
drivers xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
fs btrfs: call btrfs_check_rw_degradable only if there is a missing device 2021-11-17 09:48:22 +01:00
include serial: core: Fix initializing and restoring termios speed 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
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kernel signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop 2021-11-17 09:48:24 +01:00
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net can: j1939: j1939_can_recv(): ignore messages with invalid source address 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
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sound ALSA: mixer: fix deadlock in snd_mixer_oss_set_volume 2021-11-17 09:48:25 +01:00
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