linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4 of 4] paravirt_ops: don't steal memory resources in paravirt_disable

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:41:13 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 of 4] paravirt_ops: don't steal memory resources in paravirt_disable_iospace

On Friday 28 March 2008 11:28:40 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The memory resource is also used for main memory, and we need it to
> allocate physical addresses for memory hotplug.  Knobbling io space is
> enough to get the job done anyway.

Indeed, tested with lguest and it works for me.  I've put this in my 
patchqueue, but if it all gets taken by someone else I can easily drop it.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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