linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest

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Message-ID: <20090129122059.GB9588@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:20:59 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@...nel.org>,
	"dan.magenheimer@...cle.com" <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> 1: make "target_kb" only accept and produce a memory size in kilobytes.
> 2: add a second "target" file which produces output in bytes, and will accept
>   memparse input (scaled bytes)
>
> This fixes the rather irritating problem that writing the same value
> read back into target_kb would end up shrinking the domain by a factor
> of 1024, with generally bad results.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> ---
> drivers/xen/balloon.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Jeremy!

	Ingo
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