Re: [PATCH 1/1] update balloon size in balloon "probe"

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On 09/26/2016 10:16 AM, Konstantin Neumoin wrote:
On 09/23/2016 09:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:47:57PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
From: Konstantin Neumoin <kneumoin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch
     Commit 3d2a3774c1b046f548ebea0391a602fd5685a307
     Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
     Date:   Tue Mar 10 11:55:08 2015 +1030
     virtio-balloon: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING
has added a regression. Original code with wait_event_interruptible
checked the condition before start waiting and started balloon operations
if necessary.
I don't get it, sorry.

+               add_wait_queue(&vb->config_change, &wait);
+               for (;;) {
+                       if ((diff = towards_target(vb)) != 0 ||
+                           vb->need_stats_update ||
+                           kthread_should_stop() ||
+                           freezing(current))
+                               break;
+ wait_woken(&wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
+               }
+               remove_wait_queue(&vb->config_change, &wait);

Seems to check the condition before waiting.

The issue is more likely with this patch:

    commit fad7b7b27b6a168ca8ebc84482043886f837b89d
    Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
    Date:   Mon Jan 25 17:38:05 2016 +0100

        virtio_balloon: Use a workqueue instead of "vballoon" kthread
yes, you are right, sorry, commit message is incorrect.


Right now balloon is not inflated if ballon target is set before the
driver is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Neumoin <kneumoin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 4e7003d..0a6c10f 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -577,6 +577,10 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
        virtio_device_ready(vdev);
  +    if (towards_target(vb))
+        virtballoon_changed(vdev);
+    update_balloon_size(vb);
+
      return 0;
    out_del_vqs:

I know we have same thing on restore, but it seems bogus
there as well:
         if (towards_target(vb))
                 virtballoon_changed(vdev);
         update_balloon_size(vb);

makes no sense because virtballoon_changed merely queues
the work.
in virtballoon_probe we just init work items, but if we have a target - num_pages != 0
we will catch it only after virtballoon_changed will be called, isn't it?

So, I believe, on probe, we have to do the same thing as on restore: check towards_target(vb)
and call virtballoon_changed(vdev) if necessary.


Also we could try inflate the balloon once(by fill_balloon()) on probe and it leads to config change, but we will not receive this notification because of config change pending will be enabled after
drv->prob() in virtio_dev_probe.
--
2.7.4



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