linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] hv_balloon: fixes for num_pages

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Message-ID: <87zi76v8d6.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:30:13 +0100
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     Alex Ng <alexng@...rosoft.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] hv_balloon: fixes for num_pages_onlined accounting and misc improvements

Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com> writes:

> While doing routing code review I noticed that commit 6df8d9aaf3af
> ("Drivers: hv: balloon: Correctly update onlined page count") introduced
> an issue with num_pages_onlined accounting on memory offlining. Deeper look
> showed that the accounting was always buggy. This is fixed in PATCH3.
> PATCHes 1 and 2 are preparatory cleanups, PATCH4 adds a tracepoint to
> post_status so it's now possible to see what's being sent to the host and
> where the data comes from.
>

K. Y., Alex,

did you have a chance to take a look?

Thanks,

-- 
  Vitaly