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Message-ID: <20180208212414-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:25:10 +0200
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
Cc:     virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, mhocko@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, liliang.opensource@...il.com,
        yang.zhang.wz@...il.com, quan.xu0@...il.com, nilal@...hat.com,
        riel@...hat.com, huangzhichao@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v28 4/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:20PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> The VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is used to indicate if the
> guest is using page poisoning. Guest writes to the poison_val config
> field to tell host about the page poisoning value in use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 13 +++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  3 +++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 39ecce3..9fa7fcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static struct file_system_type balloon_fs = {
>  static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
>  	struct virtio_balloon *vb;
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  	int err;
>  
>  	if (!vdev->config->get) {
> @@ -728,6 +729,12 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  			goto out_del_vqs;
>  		}
>  		INIT_WORK(&vb->report_free_page_work, report_free_page_func);
> +		if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON)) {
> +			page_poison_val_get((u8 *)&poison_val);
> +			memset(&poison_val, poison_val, sizeof(poison_val));

This will not DTRT on big-endian platforms.
Just use a local u8 variable.

> +			virtio_cwrite(vb->vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
> +				      poison_val, &poison_val);
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
> @@ -846,6 +853,11 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  
>  static int virtballoon_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
> +	uint8_t unused;
> +
> +	if (!page_poison_val_get(&unused))
> +		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
> +
>  	__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -855,6 +867,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,
> +	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON,
>  };
>  
>  static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> index 0c654db..3f97067 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
>  
>  /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> @@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
>  	__u32 actual;
>  	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
>  	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
> +	/* Stores PAGE_POISON if page poisoning is in use */
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  };
>  
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN  0   /* Amount of memory swapped in */
> -- 
> 2.7.4