Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation

Greg KH
2019-01-08T07:10:34Z

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:50:03PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> virtio-ccw has deadlock issues with reading the config space inside the
> interrupt context, so we tweak the virtballoon_changed implementation
> by moving the config read operations into the related workqueue contexts.
> The config_read_bitmap is used as a flag to the workqueue callbacks
> about the related config fields that need to be read.
>
> The cmd_id_received is also renamed to cmd_id_received_cache, and
> the value should be obtained via virtio_balloon_cmd_id_received.
>
> Fixes: 86a559787e6f ("virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT")
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>

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