On 09.04.20 16:41, Alexander Duyck wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:36 AM David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> On 09.04.20 00:55, Alexander Duyck wrote: >>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@linux.intel.com> >>> >>> Add support for the page reporting feature provided by virtio-balloon. >>> Reporting differs from the regular balloon functionality in that is is >>> much less durable than a standard memory balloon. Instead of creating a >>> list of pages that cannot be accessed the pages are only inaccessible >>> while they are being indicated to the virtio interface. Once the >>> interface has acknowledged them they are placed back into their respective >>> free lists and are once again accessible by the guest system. >>> >>> Unlike a standard balloon we don't inflate and deflate the pages. Instead >>> we perform the reporting, and once the reporting is completed it is >>> assumed that the page has been dropped from the guest and will be faulted >>> back in the next time the page is accessed. >>> >>> This patch is a subset of the UAPI patch that was submitted for the Linux >>> kernel. The original patch can be found at: >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224657.29318.68624.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ >> >> You don't need all these comments. > > Sorry about that. Those are basically the same comments from the > original upstream patch. I just wasn't aware of the process so I just > copied that over and added the comment/link to the original patch.
No worries, it just felt like "oh, he spent a lot of time writing this, but after all it wasn't necessary" :) -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
