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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.
This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, and __devexit
from these drivers.
Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull virtio update from Rusty Russell:
"Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for
Latinoware 2012.
There's a slightly non-trivial merge in virtio-net, as we cleaned up
the virtio add_buf interface while DaveM accepted the mq virtio-net
patches."
* tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (27 commits)
virtio_console: Add support for remoteproc serial
virtio_console: Merge struct buffer_token into struct port_buffer
virtio: add drv_to_virtio to make code clearly
virtio: use dev_to_virtio wrapper in virtio
virtio-mmio: Fix irq parsing in command line parameter
virtio_console: Free buffers from out-queue upon close
virtio: Convert dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to dev_<level>(
virtio_console: Use kmalloc instead of kzalloc
virtio_console: Free buffer if splice fails
virtio: tools: make it clear that virtqueue_add_buf() no longer returns > 0
virtio: scsi: make it clear that virtqueue_add_buf() no longer returns > 0
virtio: rpmsg: make it clear that virtqueue_add_buf() no longer returns > 0
virtio: net: make it clear that virtqueue_add_buf() no longer returns > 0
virtio: console: make it clear that virtqueue_add_buf() no longer returns > 0
virtio: make virtqueue_add_buf() returning 0 on success, not capacity.
virtio: console: don't rely on virtqueue_add_buf() returning capacity.
virtio_net: don't rely on virtqueue_add_buf() returning capacity.
virtio-net: remove unused skb_vnet_hdr->num_sg field
virtio-net: correct capacity math on ring full
virtio: move queue_index and num_free fields into core struct virtqueue.
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dev_<level> calls take less code than dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL>
and reducing object size is good.
Convert if (printk_ratelimit()) dev_printk to dev_<level>_ratelimited.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.
Besides making balloon pages movable at allocation time and introducing
the necessary primitives to perform balloon page migration/compaction,
this patch also introduces the following locking scheme, in order to
enhance the syncronization methods for accessing elements of struct
virtio_balloon, thus providing protection against concurrent access
introduced by parallel memory migration threads.
- balloon_lock (mutex) : synchronizes the access demand to elements of
struct virtio_balloon and its queue operations;
[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix missing unlock on error in fill_balloon()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid having multiple return points in fill_balloon()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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)
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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When running under qemu-kvm-0.11.0:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 56e58955
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Process vballoon (pid: 1297, ti=c7976000 task=c70a6ca0 task.ti=c7
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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>
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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>
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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)
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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)
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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>
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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
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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)
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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)
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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