** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Plucky)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Fix Released
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Oracular)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-gcp (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2105142
Title:
GCP kernels need CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m (not =y)
Status in linux-gcp package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in linux-gcp source package in Bionic:
New
Status in linux-gcp source package in Focal:
New
Status in linux-gcp source package in Jammy:
New
Status in linux-gcp source package in Noble:
New
Status in linux-gcp source package in Oracular:
New
Status in linux-gcp source package in Plucky:
Fix Released
Bug description:
SRU Justification
[Impact]
Google requested that the virtio_balloon module be made loadable,
rather than built-in. This is to support disabling the module at
runtime, which is specified as possible in their documentation:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/dynamic-resource-
management#disabling_the_virtio_memory_balloon_device
[Fix]
Change CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON to build the driver as a loadable module
rather than a built-in, drivers/virtio/* is already in the inclusion
list, so the driver will be included in the main modules package.
[Test Plan]
List files in the linux-modules package and verify that
virtio_balloon.ko is there.
[Regression potential]
The regression potential is very low since the module will still be
included with all cloud installations and a user has to manually
disable it to get different behavior.
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