linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] virtio-balloon: tweak config

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20190103102612.0226e6dc.cohuck@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Jan 2019 10:26:12 +0100
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...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,
        mst@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        dgilbert@...hat.com, pasic@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed

On Thu,  3 Jan 2019 13:31:00 +0800
Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com> wrote:

> Since virtio-ccw doesn't work with accessing to the config registers
> inside an interrupt context, this patch series avoids that issue by
> moving the config register accesses to the related workqueue contexts.
> 
> Wei Wang (2):
>   virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation
>   virtio-balloon: improve update_balloon_size_func
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 

A quick test (various 'balloon <num>' in the QEMU monitor) with a
virtio-balloon-ccw device seems to work fine here.