Re: [PATCH] S390: Enhance memballoon handling for virtio-s390

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On 01/11/2013 08:30 AM, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> The way in that memory balloon suppression was handled for S390
> is flawed for a number or reasons.
> 1. Just preventing the default balloon to be created in the case
>    of VIR_ARCH_S390[X] is not sufficient. An explicit memballoon
>    element in the guest definition will still be honored, resulting
>    both in a -balloon option and the allocation of a PCI bus address,
>    neither being supported.
> 2. Prohibiting balloon for S390 altogether at a domain_conf level
>    is no good solution either as there's work in progress on the QEMU
>    side to implement a virtio-balloon device, although in
>    conjunction with a new machine type. Suppressing the balloon
>    should therefore be done at the QEMU driver level depending
>    on the present capabilities.
> 
> Therefore we remove the conditional suppression of the default
> balloon in domain_conf.c.
> Further, we are claiming the memballoon device for virtio-s390
> during device address assignment to prevent it from being considered
> as a PCI device.
> Finally, we suppress the generation of the balloon command line option
> if this is a virtio-s390 machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/conf/domain_conf.c  |    4 +---
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

> @@ -6956,6 +6960,9 @@ qemuBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
>       * NB: Earlier we declared that VirtIO balloon will always be in
>       * slot 0x3 on bus 0x0
>       */
> +    if (qemuCapsGet(caps, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_S390) && (def->memballoon))

Spurious ().

> +        def->memballoon->model = VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_NONE;
> +
>      if ((def->memballoon) &&

But you were just copying from a bad example.

>          (def->memballoon->model != VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_NONE)) {
>          if (def->memballoon->model != VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_VIRTIO) {
> 

ACK and pushed.

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