Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/3] balloon: Allow nested inhibits

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 04:47:37PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> A simple true/false internal state does not allow multiple users.  Fix
> this within the existing interface by converting to a counter, so long
> as the counter is elevated, ballooning is inhibited.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  balloon.c |    7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/balloon.c b/balloon.c
> index 6bf0a9681377..2a6a7e1a22a0 100644
> --- a/balloon.c
> +++ b/balloon.c
> @@ -37,16 +37,17 @@
>  static QEMUBalloonEvent *balloon_event_fn;
>  static QEMUBalloonStatus *balloon_stat_fn;
>  static void *balloon_opaque;
> -static bool balloon_inhibited;
> +static int balloon_inhibited;
>  
>  bool qemu_balloon_is_inhibited(void)
>  {
> -    return balloon_inhibited;
> +    return balloon_inhibited > 0;
>  }
>  
>  void qemu_balloon_inhibit(bool state)
>  {
> -    balloon_inhibited = state;
> +    balloon_inhibited += (state ? 1 : -1);
> +    assert(balloon_inhibited >= 0);

Better do it atomically?

>  }
>  
>  static bool have_balloon(Error **errp)
> 
> 

Regards,

-- 
Peter Xu



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