un-hotplug memory will continue to fail after rebooting guest with hot-plugged memory already installed

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

When trying to hot-remove memory from a pseries guest, the following error can be found:

(qemu) device_del my-memory-1
pseries-hotplug-mem: Memory indexed-count-remove failed, adding any removed LMBs

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2

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