The virtio balloon driver can dig into the reservation pools
of the OS to satisfy a balloon request. This is not advisable
and other balloon drivers (drivers/xen/balloon.c) avoid this
as well. The patch also adds changes to avoid printing a warning
if allocation fails, since we retry after sometime anyway.
To: kvm <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 369f2ee..f8ffe8c 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ static void fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
for (vb->num_pfns = 0; vb->num_pfns < num; vb->num_pfns++) {
- struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_NORETRY);
+ struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_NORETRY |
+ __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!page) {
if (printk_ratelimit())
dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &vb->vdev->dev,
--
1.6.6.1
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