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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 04:36:26 +0000
From:   Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To:     "lantianyu1986@...il.com" <lantianyu1986@...il.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "sashal@...nel.org" <sashal@...nel.org>
CC:     Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V4] x86/Hyper-V: Balloon up according to request page
 number

From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 7:49 PM
> 
> Current code has assumption that balloon request memory size aligns
> with 2MB. But actually Hyper-V doesn't guarantee such alignment. When
> balloon driver receives non-aligned balloon request, it produces warning
> and balloon up more memory than requested in order to keep 2MB alignment.
> Remove the warning and balloon up memory according to actual requested
> memory size.
> 
> Fixes: f6712238471a ("hv: hv_balloon: avoid memory leak on alloc_error of 2MB memory
> block")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>

Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>