This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen/balloon: fix ballooned page accounting without hotplug enabled to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xen-balloon-fix-ballooned-page-accounting-without-ho.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1153fb22b065e1f885f4a12472f1b8677eaefbb5 Author: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 12 15:17:50 2019 +0100 xen/balloon: fix ballooned page accounting without hotplug enabled [ Upstream commit c673ec61ade89bf2f417960f986bc25671762efb ] When CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not defined reserve_additional_memory() will set balloon_stats.target_pages to a wrong value in case there are still some ballooned pages allocated via alloc_xenballooned_pages(). This will result in balloon_process() no longer be triggered when ballooned pages are freed in batches. Reported-by: Nicholas Tsirakis <niko.tsirakis@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c index 731cf54f75c6..05f9f5983ee1 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c @@ -403,7 +403,8 @@ static struct notifier_block xen_memory_nb = { #else static enum bp_state reserve_additional_memory(void) { - balloon_stats.target_pages = balloon_stats.current_pages; + balloon_stats.target_pages = balloon_stats.current_pages + + balloon_stats.target_unpopulated; return BP_ECANCELED; } #endif /* CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */