Re: [RFC 1/2] virtio_balloon: move balloon_lock mutex to callers

From: Rafael Aquini
Date: Thu May 09 2013 - 17:03:24 EST


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:53:48AM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> This commit moves the balloon_lock mutex out of the fill_balloon()
> and leak_balloon() functions to their callers.
>
> The reason for this change is that the next commit will introduce
> a shrinker callback for the balloon driver, which will also call
> leak_balloon() but will require different locking semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index bd3ae32..9d5fe2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ static void fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> /* We can only do one array worth at a time. */
> num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
>
> - mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> for (vb->num_pfns = 0; vb->num_pfns < num;
> vb->num_pfns += VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE) {
> struct page *page = balloon_page_enqueue(vb_dev_info);
> @@ -154,7 +153,6 @@ static void fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> /* Did we get any? */
> if (vb->num_pfns != 0)
> tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
> - mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> }
>
> static void release_pages_by_pfn(const u32 pfns[], unsigned int num)
> @@ -176,7 +174,6 @@ static void leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> /* We can only do one array worth at a time. */
> num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
>
> - mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> for (vb->num_pfns = 0; vb->num_pfns < num;
> vb->num_pfns += VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE) {
> page = balloon_page_dequeue(vb_dev_info);
> @@ -192,7 +189,6 @@ static void leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> * is true, we *have* to do it in this order
> */
> tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> - mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
> }
>
> @@ -305,11 +301,13 @@ static int balloon(void *_vballoon)
> || freezing(current));
> if (vb->need_stats_update)
> stats_handle_request(vb);
> + mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> if (diff > 0)
> fill_balloon(vb, diff);
> else if (diff < 0)
> leak_balloon(vb, -diff);
> update_balloon_size(vb);
> + mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> }
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -490,9 +488,11 @@ out:
> static void remove_common(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
> {
> /* There might be pages left in the balloon: free them. */
> + mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> while (vb->num_pages)
> leak_balloon(vb, vb->num_pages);
> update_balloon_size(vb);
> + mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);

I think you will need to introduce the same change as above to virtballoon_restore()


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