linux-kernel - [PULL] vhost, virtio: last minute fixes

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Message-ID: <20190906094103-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:41:03 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jasowang@...hat.com, jiangkidd@...mail.com, linyunsheng@...wei.com,
        mst@...hat.com, namit@...are.com, tiwei.bie@...el.com
Subject: [PULL] vhost, virtio: last minute fixes

Hope this can still make it.
I was not sure about virtio-net change but it seems that it prevents
livelocks for some people.

The following changes since commit 089cf7f6ecb266b6a4164919a2e69bd2f938374a:

  Linux 5.3-rc7 (2019-09-02 09:57:40 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git tags/for_linus

for you to fetch changes up to 02fa5d7b17a761f53ef1eedfc254e1f33bd226b0:

  mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings (2019-09-04 07:42:01 -0400)

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virtio, vhost, balloon: bugfixes

A couple of last minute bugfixes. And a revert of a failed attempt at
metadata access optimization - we'll try again in the next cycle.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

----------------------------------------------------------------
? jiang (1):
      virtio-net: lower min ring num_free for efficiency

Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
      Revert "vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address"

Nadav Amit (1):
      mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings

Tiwei Bie (2):
      vhost/test: fix build for vhost test
      vhost/test: fix build for vhost test

Yunsheng Lin (1):
      vhost: Remove unnecessary variable

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   2 +-
 drivers/vhost/test.c     |  13 +-
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c    | 520 +----------------------------------------------
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h    |  41 ----
 mm/balloon_compaction.c  |   3 +-
 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 562 deletions(-)