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Bug 1357924 - Incorrect memory virtualization in lxc driver
Summary: Incorrect memory virtualization in lxc driver
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-19 15:15 UTC by greg.franklin
Modified: 2016-11-03 18:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-2.0.0-2.el7
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Last Closed: 2016-11-03 18:50:37 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2577 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-11-03 12:07:06 UTC

Description greg.franklin 2016-07-19 15:15:21 UTC 
The following bug, fixed in FC23 also affect RHEL7.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300781

I tried applying the following patches from FC23 to the libvirt package from RHEL7.2, which successfully fixed the problem.

0009-lxc-fuse-Unindent-meminfo-logic.patch
0010-lxc-fuse-Fix-proc-meminfo-size-calculation.patch
0011-lxc-fuse-Fill-in-MemAvailable-for-proc-meminfo.patch
0012-lxc-fuse-Stub-out-Slab-bits-in-proc-meminfo.patch

Please apply these patches to RHEL7.
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2016-07-19 15:37:04 UTC 
The next update of RHEL-7 will include libvirt 2.0.0, and will thus already include these patches.
Comment 4 yisun 2016-09-02 12:31:25 UTC 
Try to reproduce on rhel7.2 and reproducible

# rpm -qa | grep libvirt-1
libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost virtmanager]# virt-install --connect lxc:/// --name fedora23 --memory 2048

Starting install...
Creating domain...                                                                                                             |    0 B  00:00:00     
Connected to domain fedora23
Escape character is ^]
sh-4.2# free 
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        2097152     -177480     2095896      153880      178736     4355436
Swap:       8126460          36     8126424


sh-4.2# cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i mem       
MemTotal:        2097152 kB
MemFree:         2095948 kB
MemAvailable:    4355124 kB
Shmem:            153880 kB
Comment 5 yisun 2016-09-02 12:36:32 UTC 
Verified on libvirt-2.0.0-6.el7.x86_64 and passed.

# rpm -qa | grep libvirt-2
libvirt-2.0.0-6.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost virtmanager]# virt-install --connect lxc:/// --name fedora23 --memory 2048

Starting install...
Creating domain...                                                                                                             |    0 B  00:00:00     
Connected to domain fedora23
Escape character is ^]
sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
sh: no job control in this shell
sh-4.2# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        2097152        1156     2095996      153880           0     2095996
Swap:       8126460          36     8126424
sh-4.2# cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i mem
MemTotal:        2097152 kB
MemFree:         2096004 kB
MemAvailable:    2096004 kB
Shmem:            153880 kB
sh-4.2#
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 18:50:37 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html
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