Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-balloon: Avoid using the word 'report' when referring to free page hinting

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 15.04.20 20:35, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> 
> It can be confusing to have multiple features within the same driver that
> are using the same verbage. As such this patch is creating a union of
> free_page_report_cmd_id with free_page_hint_cmd_id so that we can clean-up
> the userspace code a bit in terms of readability while maintaining the
> functionality of legacy code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     |    2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |   13 ++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 0ef16566c3f3..95d9c2f0a7be 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static u32 virtio_balloon_cmd_id_received(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
>  	if (test_and_clear_bit(VIRTIO_BALLOON_CONFIG_READ_CMD_ID,
>  			       &vb->config_read_bitmap))
>  		virtio_cread(vb->vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
> -			     free_page_report_cmd_id,
> +			     free_page_hint_cmd_id,
>  			     &vb->cmd_id_received_cache);
>  
>  	return vb->cmd_id_received_cache;
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> index 19974392d324..3ce64f72bd09 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST	0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
> -#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* Free page hinting VQ and config */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_REPORTING	5 /* Page reporting virtqueue */
>  
> @@ -48,8 +48,15 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
>  	__u32 num_pages;
>  	/* Number of pages we've actually got in balloon. */
>  	__u32 actual;
> -	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
> -	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
> +	/*
> +	 * Free page hint command id, readonly by guest.
> +	 * Was previously named free_page_report_cmd_id so we
> +	 * need to carry that name for legacy support.
> +	 */
> +	union {
> +		__u32 free_page_hint_cmd_id;
> +		__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;	/* deprecated */
> +	};
>  	/* Stores PAGE_POISON if page poisoning is in use */
>  	__u32 poison_val;
>  };
> 

Thanks Alex!

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb