This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-blkback: use balloon pages for persistent grants
to the 3.8-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:
xen-blkback-use-balloon-pages-for-persistent-grants.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 087ffecdaa1875cc683a7a5bc0695b3ebfce3bad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:12:09 +0100
Subject: xen-blkback: use balloon pages for persistent grants
From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 087ffecdaa1875cc683a7a5bc0695b3ebfce3bad upstream.
With current persistent grants implementation we are not freeing the
persistent grants after we disconnect the device. Since grant map
operations change the mfn of the allocated page, and we can no longer
pass it to __free_page without setting the mfn to a sane value, use
balloon grant pages instead, as the gntdev device does.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
#include <xen/xen.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
+#include <xen/balloon.h>
#include "common.h"
/*
@@ -239,6 +240,7 @@ static void free_persistent_gnts(struct
ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, pages,
segs_to_unmap);
BUG_ON(ret);
+ free_xenballooned_pages(segs_to_unmap, pages);
segs_to_unmap = 0;
}
@@ -527,8 +529,8 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_re
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!persistent_gnt)
return -ENOMEM;
- persistent_gnt->page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!persistent_gnt->page) {
+ if (alloc_xenballooned_pages(1, &persistent_gnt->page,
+ false)) {
kfree(persistent_gnt);
return -ENOMEM;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/xen-blkback-use-balloon-pages-for-persistent-grants.patch
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