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<title>Drivers: hv: balloon: check if ha_region_mutex was acquired in MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE case</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T21:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-05-29T18:18:02+00:00</published>
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Memory notifiers are being executed in a sequential order and when one of
them fails returning something different from NOTIFY_OK the remainder of
the notification chain is not being executed. When a memory block is being
onlined in online_pages() we do memory_notify(MEM_GOING_ONLINE, ) and if
one of the notifiers in the chain fails we end up doing
memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, ) so it is possible for a notifier to see
MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE without seeing the corresponding MEM_GOING_ONLINE event.
E.g. when CONFIG_KASAN is enabled the kasan_mem_notifier() is being used
to prevent memory hotplug, it returns NOTIFY_BAD for all MEM_GOING_ONLINE
events. As kasan_mem_notifier() comes before the hv_memory_notifier() in
the notification chain we don't see the MEM_GOING_ONLINE event and we do
not take the ha_region_mutex. We, however, see the MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE event
and unconditionally try to release the lock, the following is observed:

[  110.850927] =====================================
[  110.850927] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[  110.850927] 4.1.0-rc3_bugxxxxxxx_test_xxxx #595 Not tainted
[  110.850927] -------------------------------------
[  110.850927] systemd-udevd/920 is trying to release lock
(&amp;dm_device.ha_region_mutex) at:
[  110.850927] [&lt;ffffffff81acda0e&gt;] mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[  110.850927] but there are no more locks to release!

At the same time we can have the ha_region_mutex taken when we get the
MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE event in case one of the memory notifiers after the
hv_memory_notifier() in the notification chain failed so we need to add
the mutex_is_locked() check. In case of MEM_ONLINE we are always supposed
to have the mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Memory notifiers are being executed in a sequential order and when one of
them fails returning something different from NOTIFY_OK the remainder of
the notification chain is not being executed. When a memory block is being
onlined in online_pages() we do memory_notify(MEM_GOING_ONLINE, ) and if
one of the notifiers in the chain fails we end up doing
memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, ) so it is possible for a notifier to see
MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE without seeing the corresponding MEM_GOING_ONLINE event.
E.g. when CONFIG_KASAN is enabled the kasan_mem_notifier() is being used
to prevent memory hotplug, it returns NOTIFY_BAD for all MEM_GOING_ONLINE
events. As kasan_mem_notifier() comes before the hv_memory_notifier() in
the notification chain we don't see the MEM_GOING_ONLINE event and we do
not take the ha_region_mutex. We, however, see the MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE event
and unconditionally try to release the lock, the following is observed:

[  110.850927] =====================================
[  110.850927] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[  110.850927] 4.1.0-rc3_bugxxxxxxx_test_xxxx #595 Not tainted
[  110.850927] -------------------------------------
[  110.850927] systemd-udevd/920 is trying to release lock
(&amp;dm_device.ha_region_mutex) at:
[  110.850927] [&lt;ffffffff81acda0e&gt;] mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[  110.850927] but there are no more locks to release!

At the same time we can have the ha_region_mutex taken when we get the
MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE event in case one of the memory notifiers after the
hv_memory_notifier() in the notification chain failed so we need to add
the mutex_is_locked() check. In case of MEM_ONLINE we are always supposed
to have the mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle num_pages&gt;INT_MAX case</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T14:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T18:16:41+00:00</published>
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balloon_wrk.num_pages is __u32 and it comes from host in struct dm_balloon
where it is also __u32. We, however, use 'int' in balloon_up() and in case
we happen to receive num_pages&gt;INT_MAX request we'll end up allocating zero
pages as 'num_pages &lt; alloc_unit' check in alloc_balloon_pages() will pass.
Change num_pages type to unsigned int.

In real life ballooning request come with num_pages in [512, 32768] range so
this is more a future-proof/cleanup.

Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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balloon_wrk.num_pages is __u32 and it comes from host in struct dm_balloon
where it is also __u32. We, however, use 'int' in balloon_up() and in case
we happen to receive num_pages&gt;INT_MAX request we'll end up allocating zero
pages as 'num_pages &lt; alloc_unit' check in alloc_balloon_pages() will pass.
Change num_pages type to unsigned int.

In real life ballooning request come with num_pages in [512, 32768] range so
this is more a future-proof/cleanup.

Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: correctly handle val.freeram&lt;num_pages case</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T14:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T18:16:40+00:00</published>
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'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: refuse to balloon below the floor' fix does not
correctly handle the case when val.freeram &lt; num_pages as val.freeram is
__kernel_ulong_t and the 'val.freeram - num_pages' value will be a huge
positive value instead of being negative.

Usually host doesn't ask us to balloon more than val.freeram but in case
he have a memory hog started after we post the last pressure report we
can get into troubles.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: refuse to balloon below the floor' fix does not
correctly handle the case when val.freeram &lt; num_pages as val.freeram is
__kernel_ulong_t and the 'val.freeram - num_pages' value will be a huge
positive value instead of being negative.

Usually host doesn't ask us to balloon more than val.freeram but in case
he have a memory hog started after we post the last pressure report we
can get into troubles.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: survive ballooning request with num_pages=0</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T14:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T16:10:13+00:00</published>
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... and simplify alloc_balloon_pages() interface by removing redundant
alloc_error from it.

If we happen to enter balloon_up() with balloon_wrk.num_pages = 0 we will enter
infinite 'while (!done)' loop as alloc_balloon_pages() will be always returning
0 and not setting alloc_error. We will also be sending a meaningless message to
the host on every iteration.

The 'alloc_unit == 1 &amp;&amp; alloc_error -&gt; num_ballooned == 0' change and
alloc_error elimination requires a special comment. We do alloc_balloon_pages()
with 2 different alloc_unit values and there are 4 different
alloc_balloon_pages() results, let's check them all.

alloc_unit = 512:
1) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error = 0: we do 'alloc_unit=1' and retry pre- and
  post-patch.
2) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error = 0: we check 'num_ballooned == num_pages'
  and act accordingly,  pre- and post-patch.
3) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: we report this chunk and remain within
  the loop, no changes here.
4) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: we do 'alloc_unit=1' and retry pre- and
  post-patch.

alloc_unit = 1:
1) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error = 0: this can happen in two cases: when we
  passed 'num_pages=0' to alloc_balloon_pages() or when there was no space in
  bl_resp to place a single response. The second option is not possible as
  bl_resp is of PAGE_SIZE size and single response 'union dm_mem_page_range' is
  8 bytes, but the first one is (in theory, I think that Hyper-V host never
  places such requests). Pre-patch code loops forever, post-patch code sends
  a reply with more_pages = 0 and finishes.
2) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error = 0: we ran out of space in bl_resp, we
  report partial success and remain within the loop, no changes pre- and
  post-patch.
3) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: pre-patch code finishes, post-patch code
  does one more try and if there is no progress (we finish with
  'num_ballooned = 0') we finish. So we try a bit harder with this patch.
4) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: both pre- and post-patch code enter
 'more_pages = 0' branch and finish.

So this patch has two real effects:
1) We reply with an empty response to 'num_pages=0' request.
2) We try a bit harder on alloc_unit=1 allocations (and reply with an empty
   tail reply in case we fail).

An empty reply should be supported by host as we were able to send it even with
pre-patch code when we were not able to allocate a single page.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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... and simplify alloc_balloon_pages() interface by removing redundant
alloc_error from it.

If we happen to enter balloon_up() with balloon_wrk.num_pages = 0 we will enter
infinite 'while (!done)' loop as alloc_balloon_pages() will be always returning
0 and not setting alloc_error. We will also be sending a meaningless message to
the host on every iteration.

The 'alloc_unit == 1 &amp;&amp; alloc_error -&gt; num_ballooned == 0' change and
alloc_error elimination requires a special comment. We do alloc_balloon_pages()
with 2 different alloc_unit values and there are 4 different
alloc_balloon_pages() results, let's check them all.

alloc_unit = 512:
1) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error = 0: we do 'alloc_unit=1' and retry pre- and
  post-patch.
2) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error = 0: we check 'num_ballooned == num_pages'
  and act accordingly,  pre- and post-patch.
3) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: we report this chunk and remain within
  the loop, no changes here.
4) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: we do 'alloc_unit=1' and retry pre- and
  post-patch.

alloc_unit = 1:
1) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error = 0: this can happen in two cases: when we
  passed 'num_pages=0' to alloc_balloon_pages() or when there was no space in
  bl_resp to place a single response. The second option is not possible as
  bl_resp is of PAGE_SIZE size and single response 'union dm_mem_page_range' is
  8 bytes, but the first one is (in theory, I think that Hyper-V host never
  places such requests). Pre-patch code loops forever, post-patch code sends
  a reply with more_pages = 0 and finishes.
2) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error = 0: we ran out of space in bl_resp, we
  report partial success and remain within the loop, no changes pre- and
  post-patch.
3) num_ballooned &gt; 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: pre-patch code finishes, post-patch code
  does one more try and if there is no progress (we finish with
  'num_ballooned = 0') we finish. So we try a bit harder with this patch.
4) num_ballooned = 0, alloc_error &gt; 0: both pre- and post-patch code enter
 'more_pages = 0' branch and finish.

So this patch has two real effects:
1) We reply with an empty response to 'num_pages=0' request.
2) We try a bit harder on alloc_unit=1 allocations (and reply with an empty
   tail reply in case we fail).

An empty reply should be supported by host as we were able to send it even with
pre-patch code when we were not able to allocate a single page.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: eliminate jumps in piecewiese linear floor function</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T14:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T16:10:12+00:00</published>
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Commit 79208c57da53 ("Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Make adjustments in computing
the floor") was inacurate as it introduced a jump in our piecewiese linear
'floor' function:

At 2048MB we have:
Left limit:
104 + 2048/8 = 360
Right limit:
256 + 2048/16 = 384 (so the right value is 232)

We now have to make an adjustment at 8192 boundary:
232 + 8192/16 = 744
512 + 8192/32 = 768 (so the right value is 488)

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 79208c57da53 ("Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Make adjustments in computing
the floor") was inacurate as it introduced a jump in our piecewiese linear
'floor' function:

At 2048MB we have:
Left limit:
104 + 2048/8 = 360
Right limit:
256 + 2048/16 = 384 (so the right value is 232)

We now have to make an adjustment at 8192 boundary:
232 + 8192/16 = 744
512 + 8192/32 = 768 (so the right value is 488)

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: do not online pages in offline blocks</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T14:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T16:10:11+00:00</published>
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Currently we add memory in 128Mb blocks but the request from host can be
aligned differently. In such case we add a partially backed block and
when this block goes online we skip onlining pages which are not backed
(hv_online_page() callback serves this purpose). When we receive next
request for the same host add region we online pages which were not backed
before with hv_bring_pgs_online(). However, we don't check if the the block
in question was onlined and online this tail unconditionally. This is bad as
we avoid all online_pages() logic: these pages are not accounted, we don't
send notifications (and hv_balloon is not the only receiver of them),...
And, first of all, nobody asked as to online these pages. Solve the issue by
checking if the last previously backed page was onlined and onlining the tail
only in case it was.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently we add memory in 128Mb blocks but the request from host can be
aligned differently. In such case we add a partially backed block and
when this block goes online we skip onlining pages which are not backed
(hv_online_page() callback serves this purpose). When we receive next
request for the same host add region we online pages which were not backed
before with hv_bring_pgs_online(). However, we don't check if the the block
in question was onlined and online this tail unconditionally. This is bad as
we avoid all online_pages() logic: these pages are not accounted, we don't
send notifications (and hv_balloon is not the only receiver of them),...
And, first of all, nobody asked as to online these pages. Solve the issue by
checking if the last previously backed page was onlined and onlining the tail
only in case it was.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: don't lose memory when onlining order is not natural</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T10:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T19:29:23+00:00</published>
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Memory blocks can be onlined in random order. When this order is not natural
some memory pages are not onlined because of the redundant check in
hv_online_page().

Here is a real world scenario:
1) Host tries to hot-add the following (process_hot_add):
  pg_start=rg_start=0x48000, pfn_cnt=111616, rg_size=262144

2) This results in adding 4 memory blocks:
[  109.057866] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x48000000-0x4fffffff]
[  114.102698] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x50000000-0x57ffffff]
[  119.168039] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x58000000-0x5fffffff]
[  124.233053] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000-0x67ffffff]
The last one is incomplete but we have special has-&gt;covered_end_pfn counter to
avoid onlining non-backed frames and hv_bring_pgs_online() function to bring
them online later on.

3) Now we have 4 offline memory blocks: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9-12
$ for f in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do echo $f `cat $f`; done | grep -v onlin
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state offline

4) We bring them online in non-natural order:
$grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         966348 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1019596 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1150668 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1150668 kB

As you can see memory9 block gives us zero additional memory. We can also
observe a huge discrepancy between host- and guest-reported memory sizes.

The root cause of the issue is the redundant pg &gt;= covered_start_pfn check (and
covered_start_pfn advancing) in hv_online_page(). When upper memory block in
being onlined before the lower one (memory12 and memory11 in the above case) we
advance the covered_start_pfn pointer and all memory9 pages do not pass the
check. If the assumption that host always gives us requests in sequential order
and pg_start always equals rg_start when the first request for the new HA
region is received (that's the case in my testing) is correct than we can get
rid of covered_start_pfn and pg &gt;= start_pfn check in hv_online_page() is
sufficient.

The current char-next branch is broken and this patch fixes
the bug.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Memory blocks can be onlined in random order. When this order is not natural
some memory pages are not onlined because of the redundant check in
hv_online_page().

Here is a real world scenario:
1) Host tries to hot-add the following (process_hot_add):
  pg_start=rg_start=0x48000, pfn_cnt=111616, rg_size=262144

2) This results in adding 4 memory blocks:
[  109.057866] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x48000000-0x4fffffff]
[  114.102698] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x50000000-0x57ffffff]
[  119.168039] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x58000000-0x5fffffff]
[  124.233053] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000-0x67ffffff]
The last one is incomplete but we have special has-&gt;covered_end_pfn counter to
avoid onlining non-backed frames and hv_bring_pgs_online() function to bring
them online later on.

3) Now we have 4 offline memory blocks: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9-12
$ for f in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do echo $f `cat $f`; done | grep -v onlin
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state offline
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state offline

4) We bring them online in non-natural order:
$grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         966348 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1019596 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1150668 kB
$echo online &gt; /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state &amp;&amp; grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1150668 kB

As you can see memory9 block gives us zero additional memory. We can also
observe a huge discrepancy between host- and guest-reported memory sizes.

The root cause of the issue is the redundant pg &gt;= covered_start_pfn check (and
covered_start_pfn advancing) in hv_online_page(). When upper memory block in
being onlined before the lower one (memory12 and memory11 in the above case) we
advance the covered_start_pfn pointer and all memory9 pages do not pass the
check. If the assumption that host always gives us requests in sequential order
and pg_start always equals rg_start when the first request for the new HA
region is received (that's the case in my testing) is correct than we can get
rid of covered_start_pfn and pg &gt;= start_pfn check in hv_online_page() is
sufficient.

The current char-next branch is broken and this patch fixes
the bug.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: keep locks balanced on add_memory() failure</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T10:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T19:29:22+00:00</published>
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When add_memory() fails the following BUG is observed:
[  743.646107] hv_balloon: hot_add memory failed error is -17
[  743.679973]
[  743.680930] =====================================
[  743.680930] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[  743.680930] 3.19.0-rc5_bug1131426+ #552 Not tainted
[  743.680930] -------------------------------------
[  743.680930] kworker/0:2/255 is trying to release lock (&amp;dm_device.ha_region_mutex) at:
[  743.680930] [&lt;ffffffff81aae5fe&gt;] mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[  743.680930] but there are no more locks to release!

This happens as we don't acquire ha_region_mutex and hot_add_req() expects us
to as it does unconditional mutex_unlock(). Acquire the lock on the error path.

The current char-next branch is broken and this patch fixes
the bug.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When add_memory() fails the following BUG is observed:
[  743.646107] hv_balloon: hot_add memory failed error is -17
[  743.679973]
[  743.680930] =====================================
[  743.680930] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[  743.680930] 3.19.0-rc5_bug1131426+ #552 Not tainted
[  743.680930] -------------------------------------
[  743.680930] kworker/0:2/255 is trying to release lock (&amp;dm_device.ha_region_mutex) at:
[  743.680930] [&lt;ffffffff81aae5fe&gt;] mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
[  743.680930] but there are no more locks to release!

This happens as we don't acquire ha_region_mutex and hot_add_req() expects us
to as it does unconditional mutex_unlock(). Acquire the lock on the error path.

The current char-next branch is broken and this patch fixes
the bug.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: refuse to balloon below the floor</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T03:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-28T19:39:00+00:00</published>
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When host asks us to balloon up we need to be sure we're not committing suicide
by overballooning. Use already existent 'floor' metric as our lowest possible
value for free ram.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When host asks us to balloon up we need to be sure we're not committing suicide
by overballooning. Use already existent 'floor' metric as our lowest possible
value for free ram.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: report offline pages as being used</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T03:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-28T19:38:59+00:00</published>
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When hot-added memory pages are not brought online or when some memory blocks
are sent offline the subsequent ballooning process kills the guest with OOM
killer. This happens as we don't report these pages as neither used nor free
and apparently host algorithm considers them as being unused. Keep track of
all online/offline operations and report all currently offline pages as being
used so host won't try to balloon them out.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When hot-added memory pages are not brought online or when some memory blocks
are sent offline the subsequent ballooning process kills the guest with OOM
killer. This happens as we don't report these pages as neither used nor free
and apparently host algorithm considers them as being unused. Keep track of
all online/offline operations and report all currently offline pages as being
used so host won't try to balloon them out.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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