Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH RESEND 5/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Implement hot-add functionality | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:25:07 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@aepfle.de] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:50 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; apw@canonical.com; jasowang@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 5/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Implement hot-add > functionality > > On Tue, Mar 12, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Implement the memory hot-add functionality. With this, Linux guests can fully > > participate in the Dynamic Memory protocol implemented in the Windows > hosts. > > > +++ b/drivers/hv/Kconfig > > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ config HYPERV_UTILS > > > > config HYPERV_BALLOON > > tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V Balloon driver" > > - depends on HYPERV > > + depends on HYPERV && MEMORY_HOTPLUG > > help > > Select this option to enable Hyper-V Balloon driver. > > This driver now depends on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, which is disabled in > openSuSE i386 kernel. As a result, the hv_balloon driver disappears for > 32bit kernels. > > Any chance that the Kconfig dependency can be moved inside the code so > that a 32bit guest can still do balloon operations?
I can preserve the old behavior by getting rid of the config dependency and adding in the MEMORY_HOTPLUG dependency around the affected code. Greg, shall I just re-send this one patch.
Regards,
K. Y > > > Olaf >
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