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On 13/03/14 10:17, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Pulling out this one comment for the attention on the core Xen/Linux
> maintainers.
>
> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 21:48 +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> [...]
>> @@ -343,8 +347,26 @@ struct xenvif *xenvif_alloc(struct device *parent, domid_t domid,
>>   	vif->pending_prod = MAX_PENDING_REQS;
>>   	for (i = 0; i < MAX_PENDING_REQS; i++)
>>   		vif->pending_ring[i] = i;
>> -	for (i = 0; i < MAX_PENDING_REQS; i++)
>> -		vif->mmap_pages[i] = NULL;
>> +	spin_lock_init(&vif->callback_lock);
>> +	spin_lock_init(&vif->response_lock);
>> +	/* If ballooning is disabled, this will consume real memory, so you
>> +	 * better enable it. The long term solution would be to use just a
>> +	 * bunch of valid page descriptors, without dependency on ballooning
>> +	 */
>
> I wonder if we ought to enforce this via Kconfig? i.e. making
> CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND (or the individual backends) depend on BALLOON (or
> select?) or by making CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON non-optional etc.
I support this idea, but let's have other's views.
>
> IIRC David V was looking into a solution involving auto hotplugging a
> new region to use for this case, but then I guess
> CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG would equally need to be enabled.
Yes, if that happens in the near future, we shouldn't be bothered by the 
above right now.

>
>> +	err = alloc_xenballooned_pages(MAX_PENDING_REQS,
>> +				       vif->mmap_pages,
>> +				       false);
> [...]
>