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Amit Shah c877bab507 virtio: balloon: separate out common code between remove and freeze functions
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>
2012-05-22 12:16:11 +09:30
Amit Shah c45b4166d9 virtio: balloon: drop restore_common()
restore_common() was used when there were different thaw and freeze PM
callbacks implemented.  We removed thaw in commit
f38f8387cb.

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>
2012-05-22 12:16:11 +09:30
Amit Shah b8ae0eb320 virtio: balloon: let host know of updated balloon size before module removal
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outdated balloon values.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>
2012-05-17 12:14:34 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 3ccc9372ed virtio_balloon: fix handling of PAGE_SIZE != 4k
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>
2012-04-15 11:51:06 +03:00
David Gibson 1a87228f5f virtio_balloon: Fix endian bug
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>
2012-04-15 11:51:05 +03:00
Amit Shah f38f8387cb virtio: drop thaw PM operation
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>
2012-03-31 08:09:50 +05:30
Amit Shah e47d854e57 virtio: balloon: Allow stats update after restore from S4
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>
2012-03-31 08:09:50 +05:30
Amit Shah 4eb05d562e virtio: balloon: leak / fill balloon across S4
commit e562966dba 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>
2012-03-01 09:28:41 +10:30
Amit Shah e562966dba virtio: balloon: Add freeze, restore handlers to support S4
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>
2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
Amit Shah be91c33dd1 virtio: balloon: Move vq initialization into separate function
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>
2012-01-12 15:44:46 +10:30
Rusty Russell f96fde41f7 virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf
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>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
Sasha Levin 1e214a5c1a virtio-balloon: Trivial cleanups
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>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
Paul Gortmaker b5a2c4f199 virtio: Add module.h to drivers/virtio users.
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>
2011-10-31 19:32:14 -04:00
Dave Hansen bf50e69f63 virtio balloon: kill tell-host-first logic
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>
2011-05-30 11:14:13 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin 946cfe0e05 virtio_balloon: use virtqueue_xxx wrappers
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>
2010-05-19 22:15:41 +09:30
Balbir Singh 61fb06cc8e virtio: Fix GFP flags passed from the virtio balloon driver
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>
2010-04-22 07:34:05 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking 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>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Rusty Russell 169c246a30 virtio: fix balloon without VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ
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>
2010-02-24 14:22:17 +10:30
Adam Litke 1f34c71afe virtio: Fix scheduling while atomic in virtio_balloon stats
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>
2010-02-24 14:22:14 +10:30
Adam Litke 9564e138b1 virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)
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)
2010-02-24 14:22:08 +10:30
Jeff Mahoney d817cd5255 virtio: fix section mismatch warnings
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>
2010-01-16 12:15:39 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König 1e65175c2c move virtballoon_remove to .devexit.text
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>
2009-10-22 16:39:31 +10:30
Christian Borntraeger e95646c3ec virtio: let header files include virtio_ids.h
Rusty,

commit 3ca4f5ca73
    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>
2009-10-22 16:39:28 +10:30
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao 3ca4f5ca73 virtio: add virtio IDs file
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>
2009-09-23 22:26:32 +09:30
Rusty Russell 3c1b27d504 virtio: make add_buf return capacity remaining
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>
2009-09-23 22:26:31 +09:30
Michael S. Tsirkin d2a7ddda9f virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations
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)
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell 9499f5e7ed virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
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>
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Marcelo Tosatti 84a139a985 virtio: fix suspend when using virtio_balloon
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
2009-04-19 23:14:01 +09:30
Hollis Blanchard 1b4aa2faec virtio: avoid implicit use of Linux page size in balloon interface
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)
2008-12-30 09:26:04 +10:30
Anthony Liguori 532a6086e3 virtio_balloon: fix towards_target when deflating balloon
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)
2008-08-26 00:19:25 +10:00
Rusty Russell c45a6816c1 virtio: explicit advertisement of driver features
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>
2008-05-02 21:50:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell 72e61eb40b virtio: change config to guest endian.
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>
2008-05-02 21:50:50 +10:00
Rusty Russell bdc1681cdf virtio: handle > 2 billion page balloon targets
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>
2008-03-17 22:58:19 +11:00
Johann Felix Soden 6659a0f0bb virtio: add missing #include <linux/delay.h>
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>
2008-02-06 10:41:21 -08:00
Rusty Russell 6b35e40767 virtio: balloon driver
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>
2008-02-04 23:50:13 +11:00