RE: [PATCH V4] x86/Hyper-V: Balloon up according to request page number

From: Michael Kelley
Date: Mon Jan 20 2020 - 23:36:38 EST


From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 7:49 PM
>
> Current code has assumption that balloon request memory size aligns
> with 2MB. But actually Hyper-V doesn't guarantee such alignment. When
> balloon driver receives non-aligned balloon request, it produces warning
> and balloon up more memory than requested in order to keep 2MB alignment.
> Remove the warning and balloon up memory according to actual requested
> memory size.
>
> Fixes: f6712238471a ("hv: hv_balloon: avoid memory leak on alloc_error of 2MB memory
> block")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>