This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_balloon: Fix endless deflation and inflation on arm64
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
virtio_balloon-fix-endless-deflation-and-inflation-on-arm64.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 07622bd415639e9709579f400afd19e7e9866e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:10:07 +1000
Subject: virtio_balloon: Fix endless deflation and inflation on arm64
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 07622bd415639e9709579f400afd19e7e9866e5e upstream.
The deflation request to the target, which isn't unaligned to the
guest page size causes endless deflation and inflation actions. For
example, we receive the flooding QMP events for the changes on memory
balloon's size after a deflation request to the unaligned target is
sent for the ARM64 guest, where we have 64KB base page size.
/home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64 \
-accel kvm -machine virt,gic-version=host -cpu host \
-smp maxcpus=8,cpus=8,sockets=2,clusters=2,cores=2,threads=1 \
-m 1024M,slots=16,maxmem=64G \
-object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=512M \
-object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=512M \
-numa node,nodeid=0,memdev=mem0,cpus=0-3 \
-numa node,nodeid=1,memdev=mem1,cpus=4-7 \
: \
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pcie.10
{ "execute" : "balloon", "arguments": { "value" : 1073672192 } }
{"return": {}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272173, "microseconds": 88667}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272174, "microseconds": 89704}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272175, "microseconds": 90819}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272176, "microseconds": 91961}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272177, "microseconds": 93040}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272178, "microseconds": 94117}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272179, "microseconds": 95337}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272180, "microseconds": 96615}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272181, "microseconds": 97626}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272182, "microseconds": 98693}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272183, "microseconds": 99698}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272184, "microseconds": 100727}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272185, "microseconds": 90430}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272186, "microseconds": 102999}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}}
:
<The similar QMP events repeat>
Fix it by aligning the target up to the guest page size, 64KB in this
specific case. With this applied, no flooding QMP events are observed
and the memory balloon's size can be stablizied to 0x3ffe0000 soon
after the deflation request is sent.
{ "execute" : "balloon", "arguments": { "value" : 1073672192 } }
{"return": {}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693273328, "microseconds": 793075}, \
"event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}}
{ "execute" : "query-balloon" }
{"return": {"actual": 1073610752}}
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Zhenyu Zhang <zhenyzha@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20230831011007.1032822-1-gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -341,7 +341,11 @@ static inline s64 towards_target(struct
if (!virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1))
num_pages = le32_to_cpu((__force __le32)num_pages);
- target = num_pages;
+ /*
+ * Aligned up to guest page size to avoid inflating and deflating
+ * balloon endlessly.
+ */
+ target = ALIGN(num_pages, VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE);
return target - vb->num_pages;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gshan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/virtio_balloon-fix-endless-deflation-and-inflation-on-arm64.patch
