Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Improve balloon handling of pagesizes other than 4kiB

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:24:26PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> The virtio-balloon devices was never really thought out for cases
> other than 4kiB pagesize on both guest and host.  It works in some
> cases, but in others can be ineffectual or even cause guest memory
> corruption.
> 
> This series makes a handful of preliminary cleanups, then makes a
> change to safely, though not perfectly, handle cases with non 4kiB
> pagesizes.

BTW do you want to add an interface to specify the page size?
I can see either host or guest or both supporting that.

Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>


> David Gibson (5):
>   virtio-balloon: Remove unnecessary MADV_WILLNEED on deflate
>   virtio-balloon: Corrections to address verification
>   virtio-balloon: Rework ballon_page() interface
>   virtio-balloon: Use ram_block_discard_range() instead of raw madvise()
>   virtio-balloon: Safely handle BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE < host page size
> 
>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c         | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h |   3 +
>  2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1