Hot-adding memory to RHEL6 guest running on VMWare fails or results in kernel oops
Issue
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Hot-adding memory to RHEL6 guest running on VMWare virtualization may result in the system not detecting added memory or some kernel oops may occur.
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While trying to hot-add memory in VMware RHEL6 guest, the following errors may occur (this log is stripped):
Hotplug Mem Device
init_memory_mapping: 00000003c0000000-00000005c0000000
kacpi_notify: page allocation failure. order:9, mode:0x80d0
ACPI:memory_hp:add_memory failed
ACPI:memory_hp:Error in acpi_memory_enable_device
acpi_memhotplug: probe of PNP0C80:00 failed with error -22
ACPI:memory_hp:Cannot find driver data
Environment
- VMware ESXi 4/5 with "Memory Hot Add" enabled
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and newer
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