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* virtio-balloon: fix add/get API useMichael S. Tsirkin2012-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since ee7cd8981e15bcb365fc762afe3fc47b8242f630 'virtio: expose added descriptors immediately.', in virtio balloon virtqueue_get_buf might now run concurrently with virtqueue_kick. I audited both and this seems safe in practice but this is not guaranteed by the API. Additionally, a spurious interrupt might in theory make virtqueue_get_buf run in parallel with virtqueue_add_buf, which is racy. While we might try to protect against spurious callbacks it's easier to fix the driver: balloon seems to be the only one (mis)using the API like this, so let's just fix balloon. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed unused var)
* virtio: balloon: separate out common code between remove and freeze functionsAmit Shah2012-05-21
| | | | | | | | The remove and freeze functions have a lot of shared code; put it into a common function that gets called by both. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: balloon: drop restore_common()Amit Shah2012-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | restore_common() was used when there were different thaw and freeze PM callbacks implemented. We removed thaw in commit f38f8387cbdc4138a492ce9f2a5f04fd3cd3cf33. restore_common() can be removed and virtballoon_restore() can itself do the restore ops. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: balloon: let host know of updated balloon size before module removalAmit Shah2012-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When the balloon module is removed, we deflate the balloon, reclaiming all the pages that were given to the host. However, we don't update the config values for the new balloon size, resulting in the host showing outdated balloon values. The size update is done after each leak and fill operation, only the module removal case was left out. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* virtio_balloon: fix handling of PAGE_SIZE != 4kMichael S. Tsirkin2012-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As reported by David Gibson, current code handles PAGE_SIZE != 4k completely wrong which can lead to guest memory corruption errors: - page_to_balloon_pfn is wrong: e.g. on system with 64K page size it gives the same pfn value for 16 different pages. - we also need to convert back to linux pfns when we free. - for each linux page we need to tell host about multiple balloon pages, but code only adds one pfn to the array. This patch fixes all that, tested with a 64k ppc64 kernel. Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* virtio_balloon: Fix endian bugDavid Gibson2012-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although virtio config space fields are usually in guest-native endian, the spec for the virtio balloon device explicitly states that both fields in its config space are little-endian. However, the current virtio_balloon driver does not have a suitable endian swap for the 'num_pages' field, although it does have one for the 'actual' field. This patch corrects the bug, adding sparse annotation while we're at it. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* virtio: drop thaw PM operationAmit Shah2012-03-30
| | | | | | | The thaw operation was used by the balloon driver, but after the last commit there's no reason to have separate thaw and restore callbacks. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
* virtio: balloon: Allow stats update after restore from S4Amit Shah2012-03-30
| | | | | | | | | There's no reason stats update after restore can't work. If a host requested for stats, and before servicing the request, the guest entered S4, upon restore, the stats request can still be processed and sent off to the host. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
* virtio: balloon: leak / fill balloon across S4Amit Shah2012-02-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit e562966dbaf49e7804097cd991e5d3a8934fc148 added support for S4 to the balloon driver. The freeze function did nothing to free the pages, since reclaiming the pages from the host to immediately give them back (if S4 was successful) seemed wasteful. Also, if S4 wasn't successful, the guest would have to re-fill the balloon. On restore, the pages were supposed to be marked freed and the free page counters were incremented to reflect the balloon was totally deflated. However, this wasn't done right. The pages that were earlier taken away from the guest during a balloon inflation operation were just shown as used pages after a successful restore from S4. Just a fancy way of leaking lots of memory. Instead of trying that, just leak the balloon on freeze and fill it on restore/thaw paths. This works properly now. The optimisation to not leak can be added later on after a bit of refactoring of the code. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: balloon: Add freeze, restore handlers to support S4Amit Shah2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Handling balloon hibernate / restore is tricky. If the balloon was inflated before going into the hibernation state, upon resume, the host will not have any memory of that. Any pages that were passed on to the host earlier would most likely be invalid, and the host will have to re-balloon to the previous value to get in the pre-hibernate state. So the only sane thing for the guest to do here is to discard all the pages that were put in the balloon. When to discard the pages is the next question. One solution is to deflate the balloon just before writing the image to the disk (in the freeze() PM callback). However, asking for pages from the host just to discard them immediately after seems wasteful of resources. Hence, it makes sense to do this by just fudging our counters soon after wakeup. This means we don't deflate the balloon before sleep, and also don't put unnecessary pressure on the host. This also helps in the thaw case: if the freeze fails for whatever reason, the balloon should continue to remain in the inflated state. This was tested by issuing 'swapoff -a' and trying to go into the S4 state. That fails, and the balloon stays inflated, as expected. Both the host and the guest are happy. Finally, in the restore() callback, we empty the list of pages that were previously given off to the host, add the appropriate number of pages to the totalram_pages counter, reset the num_pages counter to 0, and all is fine. As a last step, delete the vqs on the freeze callback to prepare for hibernation, and re-create them in the restore and thaw callbacks to resume normal operation. The kthread doesn't race with any operations here, since it's frozen before the freeze() call and is thawed after the thaw() and restore() callbacks, so we're safe with that. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: balloon: Move vq initialization into separate functionAmit Shah2012-01-12
| | | | | | | The probe and PM restore functions will share this code. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_bufRusty Russell2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | Remove wrapper functions. This makes the allocation type explicit in all callers; I used GPF_KERNEL where it seemed obvious, left it at GFP_ATOMIC otherwise. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* virtio-balloon: Trivial cleanupsSasha Levin2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | Trivial changes to remove forgotten junk, format comments, and correct names. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: Add module.h to drivers/virtio users.Paul Gortmaker2011-10-31
| | | | | | | | Up to now, the module.h header was as hard to keep out as sunlight. But we are cleaning that up. Fix the virtio users who simply expect module.h to be there in every C file. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* virtio balloon: kill tell-host-first logicDave Hansen2011-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The virtio balloon driver has a VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature bit. Whenever the bit is set, the guest kernel must always tell the host before we free pages back to the allocator. Without this feature, we might free a page (and have another user touch it) while the hypervisor is unprepared for it. But, if the bit is _not_ set, we are under no obligation to reverse the order; we're under no obligation to do _anything_. As of now, qemu-kvm defines the bit, but doesn't set it. This patch makes the "tell host first" logic the only case. This should make everybody happy, and reduce the amount of untested or untestable code in the kernel. This _also_ means that we don't have to preserve a pfn list after the pages are freed, which should let us get rid of some temporary storage (vb->pfns) eventually. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio_balloon: use virtqueue_xxx wrappersMichael S. Tsirkin2010-05-19
| | | | | | | Switch virtio_balloon to new virtqueue_xxx wrappers. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: Fix GFP flags passed from the virtio balloon driverBalbir Singh2010-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The virtio balloon driver can dig into the reservation pools of the OS to satisfy a balloon request. This is not advisable and other balloon drivers (drivers/xen/balloon.c) avoid this as well. The patch also adds changes to avoid printing a warning if allocation fails, since we retry after sometime anyway. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* virtio: fix balloon without VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQRusty Russell2010-02-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When running under qemu-kvm-0.11.0: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 56e58955 ... Process vballoon (pid: 1297, ti=c7976000 task=c70a6ca0 task.ti=c7 ... Call Trace: [<c88253a3>] ? balloon+0x1b3/0x440 [virtio_balloon] [<c041c2d7>] ? schedule+0x327/0x9d0 [<c88251f0>] ? balloon+0x0/0x440 [virtio_balloon] [<c014a2d4>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80 [<c014a260>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80 [<c0103b36>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x30 need_stats_update should be zero-initialized. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
* virtio: Fix scheduling while atomic in virtio_balloon statsAdam Litke2010-02-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a fix for my earlier patch: "virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)". I discovered that all_vm_events() can sleep and therefore stats collection cannot be done in interrupt context. One solution is to handle the interrupt by noting that stats need to be collected and waking the existing vballoon kthread which will complete the work via stats_handle_request(). Rusty, is this a saner way of doing business? There is one issue that I would like a broader opinion on. In stats_request, I update vb->need_stats_update and then wake up the kthread. The kthread uses vb->need_stats_update as a condition variable. Do I need a memory barrier between the update and wake_up to ensure that my kthread sees the correct value? My testing suggests that it is not needed but I would like some confirmation from the experts. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)Adam Litke2010-02-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Changes since V3: - Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host - Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes - Minor coding style updates Changes since V2: - Increase stat field size to 64 bits - Report all sizes in kb (not pages) - Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion Changes since V1: - Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current method employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a host daemon at a specified time interval. The host daemon aggregates this information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of host memory pressure. This approach is effective but overly complex since a daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with the host. A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor. This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and reporting to the virtio balloon driver. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)
* virtio: fix section mismatch warningsJeff Mahoney2010-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures to be suffixed with _driver. WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove() WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove() Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.textUwe Kleine-König2009-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | The function virtballoon_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define it using __devexit. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.hChristian Borntraeger2009-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rusty, commit 3ca4f5ca73057a617f9444a91022d7127041970a virtio: add virtio IDs file moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h does not include virtio_ids.h. This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C files into the header files, making the header files compatible with the old ones. In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace. CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: add virtio IDs fileFernando Luis Vazquez Cao2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: make add_buf return capacity remainingRusty Russell2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity remains for buffers. It's necessarily fuzzy, since VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors in one, *if* we can kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
* virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operationsMichael S. Tsirkin2009-06-12
| | | | | | | | | This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations, and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI needs to know the total number of vectors upfront. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ lguest/9p compile fixes)
* virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.Rusty Russell2009-06-12
| | | | | | | | | Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change. Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: fix suspend when using virtio_balloonMarcelo Tosatti2009-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | Break out of wait_event_interruptible() if freezing has been requested, in the vballoon thread. Without this change vballoon refuses to stop and the system can't suspend. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* virtio: avoid implicit use of Linux page size in balloon interfaceHollis Blanchard2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | Make the balloon interface always use 4K pages, and convert Linux pfns if necessary. This patch assumes that Linux's PAGE_SHIFT will never be less than 12. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (modified)
* virtio_balloon: fix towards_target when deflating balloonAnthony Liguori2008-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both v and vb->num_pages are u32 and unsigned int respectively. If v is less than vb->num_pages (and it is, when deflating the balloon), the result is a very large 32-bit number. Since we're returning a s64, instead of getting the same negative number we desire, we get a very large positive number. This handles the case where v < vb->num_pages and ensures we get a small, negative, s64 as the result. Rusty: please push this for 2.6.27-rc4. It's probably appropriate for the stable tree too as it will cause an unexpected OOM when ballooning. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (simplified)
* virtio: explicit advertisement of driver featuresRusty Russell2008-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns. There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I didn't notice when it was violated. So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio core. The intersection of device and driver features are presented in a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device. Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a straight-forward little-endian array of bytes. Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they really have to. API changes: - dev->config->feature() no longer gets and acks a feature. - drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field - use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: change config to guest endian.Rusty Russell2008-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed some flaws in the API, in particular how easy it is to break big endian machines. The virtio config space was originally chosen to be little-endian, because we thought the config might be part of the PCI config space for virtio_pci. It's actually a separate mmio region, so that argument holds little water; as only x86 is currently using the virtio mechanism, we can change this (but must do so now, before the impending s390 merge). API changes: - __virtio_config_val() just becomes a striaght vdev->config_get() call. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: handle > 2 billion page balloon targetsRusty Russell2008-03-17
| | | | | | | | If the host asks for a huge target towards_target() can overflow, and we up oops as we try to release more pages than we have. The simple fix is to use a 64-bit value. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* virtio: add missing #include <linux/delay.h>Johann Felix Soden2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Include linux/delay.h to fix compiler error: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'fill_balloon': drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c:98: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep' Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* virtio: balloon driverRusty Russell2008-02-04
After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt. The device configuration tells the driver how much memory it should take from the guest (ie. balloon size). The guest feeds the page numbers it has taken via one virtqueue. A second virtqueue feeds the page numbers the driver wants back: if the device has the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST bit, then this queue is compulsory, otherwise it's advisory (and the guest can simply fault the pages back in). This driver can be enhanced later to deflate the balloon via a shrinker, oom callback or we could even go for a complete set of in-guest regulators. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>