[PATCH v1 0/3] virtio-balloon: Fixes + switch back to OOM handler

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 11:34:37 EST


Two fixes for issues I stumbled over while working on patch #3.

Switch back to the good ol' OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM
as the switch to the shrinker introduce some undesired side effects. Keep
the shrinker in place to handle VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT.
Lengthy discussion under [1].

I tested with QEMU and "deflate-on-oom=on". Works as expected. Did not
test the shrinker for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, as it is
hard to trigger (only when migrating a VM, and even then, it might not
trigger).

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-virtualization/msg40863.html

David Hildenbrand (3):
virtio-balloon: Fix memory leak when unloading while hinting is in
progress
virtio_balloon: Fix memory leaks on errors in virtballoon_probe()
virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for
VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM

drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 124 +++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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