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[Xen-devel] Re: Balloons, crash-dumps, populate-on-demand, and shared ze
Steven Smith wrote:
That would make things marginally easier on the drivers, but it's at
the expense of potentially more subtle errors when something goes
wrong. At the moment, if the balloon driver tries to deflate the
balloon too far, the populate hypercall fails and it's very obvious
what's gone wrong, whereas with an implicit re-populate it'll look
like everything's working fine for some time afterwards, until the
guest touches too many pages and PoD kills it.
If the balloon driver deflated too far, that would be a bug in the
balloon driver, and if Windows doesn't scrub the memory when it's freed
we could do that ourselves so at least PoD would kill the guest at the
right juncture.
Paul
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