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.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index 3a50f097ed3e..d19b851c3d3b 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -765,3 +765,23 @@ static int __init balloon_init(void)
return 0;
}
subsys_initcall(balloon_init);
+
+static int __init balloon_wait_finish(void)
+{
+ if (!xen_domain())
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ /* PV guests don't need to wait. */
+ if (xen_pv_domain() || !current_credit())
+ return 0;
+
+ pr_info("Waiting for initial ballooning down having finished.\n");
+
+ while (current_credit())
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 10);
+
+ pr_info("Initial ballooning down finished.\n");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall_sync(balloon_wait_finish);
--
2.26.2
