From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gV2eL-0002ZQ-CI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:01:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gV2eH-0000ld-JS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:01:41 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:45804 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gV2eF-0000js-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:01:35 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098413.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id wB6MwYRE126980 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:01:32 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com (e34.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.152]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2p7cwa8fr0-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:01:31 -0500 Received: from localhost by e34.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 23:01:30 -0000 References: <20181205145131.28467-1-cohuck@redhat.com> From: Tony Krowiak Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 18:01:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181205145131.28467-1-cohuck@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <72ca111b-d1e8-2b18-9f3e-153a0a7a16d1@linux.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] vfio-ap: flag as compatible with balloon List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Cornelia Huck , Christian Borntraeger , Halil Pasic , Pierre Morel Cc: Alex Williamson , David Hildenbrand , qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 12/5/18 9:51 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > vfio-ap devices do not pin any pages in the host. Therefore, they > are belived to be compatible with memory ballooning. > > Flag them as compatible, so both vfio-ap and a balloon can be > used simultaneously. > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck > --- > > As briefly discussed on IRC. RFC as I do not have easy access to > hardware I can test this with. > > --- > hw/vfio/ap.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/hw/vfio/ap.c b/hw/vfio/ap.c > index 65de952f44..3bf48eed28 100644 > --- a/hw/vfio/ap.c > +++ b/hw/vfio/ap.c > @@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ static void vfio_ap_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp) > vapdev->vdev.name = g_strdup_printf("%s", mdevid); > vapdev->vdev.dev = dev; > > + /* > + * vfio-ap devices are believed to operate in a way compatible with > + * memory ballooning, as no pages are pinned in the host. > + * This needs to be set before vfio_get_device() for vfio common to > + * handle the balloon inhibitor. > + */ > + vapdev->vdev.balloon_allowed = true; > + > ret = vfio_get_device(vfio_group, mdevid, &vapdev->vdev, &local_err); > if (ret) { > goto out_get_dev_err; Tested-by: Tony Krowiak >