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From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
	jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Make the balloon driver not unloadable
Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2013 14:16:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362780973-9837-4-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362780973-9837-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>

The balloon driver is stateful. For instance, it needs to keep track of pages
that have been ballooned out to properly post pressure reports. This state cannot
be re-constructed if the driver were to be unloaded and subsequently loaded.
Furthermore, as we support memory hot-add as part of this driver, this driver becomes
even more stateful and this state cannot be re-created. Make the balloon driver
unloadable to deal with this issue.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 13fda38..4743db9 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -1096,14 +1096,7 @@ static int __init init_balloon_drv(void)
 	return vmbus_driver_register(&balloon_drv);
 }
 
-static void exit_balloon_drv(void)
-{
-
-	vmbus_driver_unregister(&balloon_drv);
-}
-
 module_init(init_balloon_drv);
-module_exit(exit_balloon_drv);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Hyper-V Balloon");
 MODULE_VERSION(HV_DRV_VERSION);
-- 
1.7.4.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 22:15 [PATCH 0/6] Drivers: hv K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-08 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Do not request completion notification K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-08 22:16   ` [PATCH 2/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Execute balloon inflation in a separate context K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-08 22:16   ` [PATCH 3/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Execute hot-add code " K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-08 22:16   ` K. Y. Srinivasan [this message]
2013-03-08 22:16   ` [PATCH 5/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Implement hot-add functionality K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-12  2:54     ` KY Srinivasan
2013-03-12 16:07       ` gregkh
2013-03-12 16:14         ` KY Srinivasan
2013-03-08 22:16   ` [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Handle channel rescind message correctly K. Y. Srinivasan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-15 19:25 [PATCH 0/6] Drivers: hv K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-15 19:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Do not request completion notification K. Y. Srinivasan
2013-03-15 19:25   ` [PATCH 4/6] Drivers: hv: balloon: Make the balloon driver not unloadable K. Y. Srinivasan

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