RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Notify the host of permanent hot-addfailures

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 12:53:00 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:08 PM
> To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: KY Srinivasan
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Notify the host of permanent hot-add failures
>
> If memory hot-add fails with the error -EEXIST, then this is a permanent
> failure. Notify the host this information, so the host will not attempt
> hot-add again. If the failure were a transient failure, host will attempt
> a hot-add after some delay.

Greg,

Please drop this patch; I am going to resend this as part of the earlier balloon driver patches I had sent.

Regards,

K. Y
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> index 71655b4..d2ed673 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> @@ -583,6 +583,16 @@ static void hv_mem_hot_add(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long size,
>
> if (ret) {
> pr_info("hot_add memory failed error is %d\n", ret);
> + if (ret == -EEXIST) {
> + /*
> + * This error indicates that the error
> + * is not a transient failure. This is the
> + * case where the guest's physical address map
> + * precludes hot adding memory. Stop all further
> + * memory hot-add.
> + */
> + do_hot_add = false;
> + }
> has->ha_end_pfn -= HA_CHUNK;
> has->covered_end_pfn -= processed_pfn;
> break;
> @@ -842,11 +852,14 @@ static void hot_add_req(struct work_struct *dummy)
> rg_sz = region_size;
> }
>
> - resp.page_count = process_hot_add(pg_start, pfn_cnt,
> - rg_start, rg_sz);
> + if (do_hot_add)
> + resp.page_count = process_hot_add(pg_start, pfn_cnt,
> + rg_start, rg_sz);
> #endif
> if (resp.page_count > 0)
> resp.result = 1;
> + else if (!do_hot_add)
> + resp.result = 1;
> else
> resp.result = 0;
>
> --
> 1.7.4.1
>
>


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