linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 5/6] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting

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Date:   Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:05:10 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/6] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out
 of free page hinting

On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 13:58 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:53:05AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Currently the page poisoning setting wasn't being enabled unless free page
> > hinting was enabled. However we will need the page poisoning tracking logic
> > as well for unused page reporting. As such pull it out and make it a
> > separate bit of config in the probe function.
> > 
> > In addition we can actually wrap the code in a check for NO_SANITY. If we
> > don't care what is actually in the page we can just default to 0 and leave
> > it there.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> I think this one can go in directly. Do you want me to merge it now?

That sounds good to me.

Do you know if you can also pull in QEMU 1/3 into QEMU as well since the
feature wasn't pulled into QEMU originally?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190918175342.23606.12400.stgit@localhost.localdomain/

Thanks.

- Alex