Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:21:37 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNs |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:03:55AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote: > When balloon batching is not supported by the hypervisor, the guest > frame number (GFN) must fit in 32-bit. However, due to a bug, this check > was mistakenly ignored. In practice, when total RAM is greater than > 16TB, the balloon does not work currently, making this bug unlikely to > happen. > > Fixes: ef0f8f112984 ("VMware balloon: partially inline > vmballoon_reserve_page.") >
Why have a bugfix as the 3rd patch of the series? Please put it first, so that it can get into Linus's tree sooner.
Also, no need to line-wrap this, and drop the blank line.
And finally, does this need to go to the stable kernels? If so, please add the correct line for that.
thanks,
greg k-h
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