File balloon-fullmem.diff of Package xen_uvp
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c275a57f5ec3056f732843b11659d892235faff7 xen/balloon: Set balloon's initial state to number of existing RAM pages Currently balloon's initial value is set to max_pfn which includes non-RAM ranges such as MMIO hole. As result, initial memory target (specified by guest's configuration file) will appear smaller than what balloon driver perceives to be the current number of available pages. Thus it will balloon down "extra" pages, decreasing amount of available memory for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- linux-4.1/drivers/xen/balloon.c.orig 2016-12-09 16:56:17.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-4.1/drivers/xen/balloon.c 2017-04-05 08:06:02.798042857 +0200 @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ static int __init balloon_init(void) balloon_stats.current_pages = xen_pv_domain() ? min(xen_start_info->nr_pages - xen_released_pages, max_pfn) - : max_pfn; + : get_num_physpages(); balloon_stats.target_pages = balloon_stats.current_pages; balloon_stats.balloon_low = 0; balloon_stats.balloon_high = 0;