mm: ensure useful progress in decrease_reservation
authorWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:15 +0000 (17:35 +0100)
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:15 +0000 (17:35 +0100)
During my fun time playing with balloon driver I found that hypervisor's
preemption check kept decrease_reservation from doing any useful work
for 32 bit guests, resulting in hanging the guests.

As Andrew suggested, we can force the check to fail for the first
iteration to ensure progress. We did this in d3a55d7d9 "x86/mm: Ensure
useful progress in alloc_l2_table()" already.

After this change I cannot see the hang caused by continuation logic
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
xen/common/memory.c

index 5a0efd57e236a90a318903a60801a7bf0d123d06..9d0d32e326e2ccdb9bde092972a54d3eadc468f0 100644 (file)
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static void decrease_reservation(struct memop_args *a)
 
     for ( i = a->nr_done; i < a->nr_extents; i++ )
     {
-        if ( hypercall_preempt_check() )
+        if ( hypercall_preempt_check() && i != a->nr_done )
         {
             a->preempted = 1;
             goto out;