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Re: [Xen-devel] That xenstored console leak...

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] That xenstored console leak...
From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:21:43 -0700
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John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:28:46AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>
>   
>>> Which of your three xend patches ought to be ported to 3.2 (and 3.1?)
>>> branches?
>>>       
>> All three for 3.2.  In fact, all of the testing was done on 3.2 branch
>> (they apply cleanly there).  Not sure about 3.1 as I haven't played with
>> it for several months. 
>>     
>
> I've lost track a bit. 3.1 /does/ need to fix the "MAC address is lost"
> problem but currently /doesn't/ have the "/vm/blah is leaked" problems.
>
> If someone can translate that into a patch for me to backport I can try
> it out on our bits.
>   

Yuk.  Changesets 15957 (and subsequent adjustment via c/s 15967) fix the
"MAC address is lost problem" but introduce the /vm/blah leak.  You
could try the last patch I submitted on this thread to fix that.  So
15957, 15967, and my proposed patch should do the trick.

Jim


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