The patch titled
Subject: vmw_balloon: mark inflated pages PG_offline
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vmw_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/vmw_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/vmw_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vmw_balloon: mark inflated pages PG_offline
Mark inflated and never onlined pages PG_offline, to tell the world that
the content is stale and should not be dumped.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-7-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c~vmw_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline
+++ a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -545,6 +545,36 @@ unsigned int vmballoon_page_order(enum v
}
/**
+ * vmballoon_mark_page_offline() - mark a page as offline
+ * @page: pointer for the page
+ * @page_size: the size of the page.
+ */
+static void
+vmballoon_mark_page_offline(struct page *page,
+ enum vmballoon_page_size_type page_size)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < 1ULL << vmballoon_page_order(page_size); i++)
+ __SetPageOffline(page + i);
+}
+
+/**
+ * vmballoon_mark_page_online() - mark a page as online
+ * @page: pointer for the page
+ * @page_size: the size of the page.
+ */
+static void
+vmballoon_mark_page_online(struct page *page,
+ enum vmballoon_page_size_type page_size)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < 1ULL << vmballoon_page_order(page_size); i++)
+ __ClearPageOffline(page + i);
+}
+
+/**
* vmballoon_page_in_frames() - returns the number of frames in a page.
* @page_size: the size of the page.
*
@@ -612,6 +642,7 @@ static int vmballoon_alloc_page_list(str
ctl->page_size);
if (page) {
+ vmballoon_mark_page_offline(page, ctl->page_size);
/* Success. Add the page to the list and continue. */
list_add(&page->lru, &ctl->pages);
continue;
@@ -850,6 +881,7 @@ static void vmballoon_release_page_list(
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, page_list, lru) {
list_del(&page->lru);
+ vmballoon_mark_page_online(page, page_size);
__free_pages(page, vmballoon_page_order(page_size));
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-balloon-update-comment-about-isolation-migration-compaction.patch
mm-convert-pg_balloon-to-pg_offline.patch
kexec-export-pg_offline-to-vmcoreinfo.patch
xen-balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
hv_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
vmw_balloon-mark-inflated-pages-pg_offline.patch
pm-hibernate-use-pfn_to_online_page.patch
pm-hibernate-exclude-all-pageoffline-pages.patch
