The virtio balloon driver has a VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST
feature bit. Whenever the bit is set, we must always tell the
host before we free pages back to the allocator. Without this
we might free a page (and have another user touch it) while the
hypervisor is unprepared for it.
But, if the bit is _not_ set, we are under no obligation to
reverse the order. Furthermore, all modern qemus set this bit.
So, the "tell second" code is completely unused and untestable.
Quoting Anthony: "untested code is broken code".
This _also_ means that we don't have to preserve a pfn list
after the pages are freed, which should let us get rid of some
temporary storage (vb->pfns) eventually.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
linux-2.6.git-dave/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c~kill-tell-host-first-logic drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
--- linux-2.6.git/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c~kill-tell-host-first-logic 2011-04-07 10:23:12.016343374 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c 2011-04-07 10:23:12.024343370 -0700
@@ -40,9 +40,6 @@ struct virtio_balloon
/* Waiting for host to ack the pages we released. */
struct completion acked;
- /* Do we have to tell Host *before* we reuse pages? */
- bool tell_host_first;
-
/* The pages we've told the Host we're not using. */
unsigned int num_pages;
struct list_head pages;
@@ -151,13 +148,14 @@ static void leak_balloon(struct virtio_b
vb->num_pages--;
}
- if (vb->tell_host_first) {
- tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
- release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
- } else {
- release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
- tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
- }
+
+ /*
+ * Note that if
+ * virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST);
+ * is true, we *have* to do it in this order
+ */
+ tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
+ release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
}
static inline void update_stat(struct virtio_balloon *vb, int idx,
@@ -325,9 +323,6 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virt
goto out_del_vqs;
}
- vb->tell_host_first
- = virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST);
-
return 0;
out_del_vqs:
_
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