[Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] to fix xm list memory reporting

["McAfee, Tommie M" <Tommie.McAfee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This patch addresses bugzilla #649, enabling `xm list' to display the actual 
amount of memory allocated by a guest.  This is done by checking the value that 
the balloon driver returns after memory requests.  As a result, I'm noticing 
that a guest that I've set to start with 128Mb will actually give the user 
126Mb.  All other allocations perform normally, and attempting to over-allocate 
will simply return the amount of space that the domain was able to expand to.  

Under the premises that xm list should report actual memory values, 
 2 tests in xm-test may need to be modified to verify the amount of memory that 
a guest is physically using, and not rely on the value in the config file as 
being the amount of memory that the guest will have.

xm-test reactions to patch as of changset 11376:

REASON: Started domain with 128MB, but it got 126 MB
FAIL: 08_create_mem128_pos.test
REASON: Started domain with 256MB, but it got 254 MB
FAIL: 09_create_mem256_pos.test

Running 'free' inside of each guest shows 126, and 254 respectively, not their 
config file #'s. 


Signed-off-by: Tommie McAfee <tommie.mcafee@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Tommie McAfee
Xen-Testing

Attachment: xm_list.patch
Description: xm_list.patch

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