Re: virtio balloon: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:45:29 +0100
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:50:42AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >  Hi all,
> > >
> > > with the recent kernel 3.19, I get a kernel warning when I start my
> > > KVM guest on s390 with virtio balloon enabled:
> > 
> > The deeper problem is that virtio_ccw_get_config just silently fails on
> > OOM.
> 
> Same problem with virtio_ccw_reset.
> But avoiding kmalloc calls in virtio_ccw_get_config isn't enough I think,
> it might still sleep.

It is probably a problem with all calls into the transport that assume
an implementation that cannot fail: If we have a channel I/O backing,
we need to be able to handle things not working.

The only case we need to care about for virtio is probably a -ENODEV
triggered by a hotunplug, though.

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