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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Include in balloon page tracking only PFNs which

To: Gianluca Guida <gianluca.guida@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Include in balloon page tracking only PFNs which are marked as RAM in E820.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:43:08 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:02:57PM +0100, Gianluca Guida wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ok, by looking at this patch it's clear that you are testing with a
> kernel that tries to allow kernels to boot ballooned.
> 
> In this case the patch is correct. Since the patch is actually
> reverted, I think we should wait to apply it until I succeed to
> reproduce the bug that caused Jeremy to revert it.

You are talking about the 7394b25905929a92e51771b832ee67b70ccebcf0 patch?
I will wait and if this patch is still needed I will send it out to 
LKML/xen-devel
with your style comment.


>  > > +                int is_ram = page_is_ram(pfn);
> 
> Do you really need to declare this as a variable? couldn't you put the

Not at all. Right after I sent it out I realized it would have been looking
better without.

> expression in the if statement?

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