The XEN balloon driver - in contrast to other balloon drivers - allows
to map some inflated pages to user space. Such pages are allocated via
alloc_xenballooned_pages() and freed via free_xenballooned_pages().
The pfn space of these allocated pages is used to map other things
by the hypervisor using hypercalls.
Pages marked with PG_offline must never be mapped to user space (as
this page type uses the mapcount field of struct pages).
So what we can do is, clear/set PG_offline when allocating/freeing an
inflated pages. This way, most inflated pages can be excluded by
dumping tools and the "reused for other purpose" balloon pages are
correctly not marked as PG_offline.
Fixes: 77c4adf6a6df (xen/balloon: mark inflated pages PG_offline)
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index 39b229f9e256..751d32f41f26 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ int alloc_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
while (pgno < nr_pages) {
page = balloon_retrieve(true);
if (page) {
+ __ClearPageOffline(page);
pages[pgno++] = page;
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
/*
@@ -646,6 +647,7 @@ void free_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
if (pages[i])
+ __SetPageOffline(pages[i]);
balloon_append(pages[i]);
}
--
2.17.2
