Drivers: hv: balloon: Permit Linux to specify hot-add alignment requirements
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:36:11 +0000 (07:36 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:53:12 +0000 (08:53 -0700)
Some Windows hosts permit the guest to specify memory hot-add alignment
requirements (if any). Linux currently requires a 128MB alignment on memory
segments that can be hot-added. Specify this alignment requirement to the
host.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c

index d522526..2250bf5 100644 (file)
@@ -117,7 +117,14 @@ union dm_caps {
        struct {
                __u64 balloon:1;
                __u64 hot_add:1;
-               __u64 reservedz:62;
+               /*
+                * To support guests that may have alignment
+                * limitations on hot-add, the guest can specify
+                * its alignment requirements; a value of n
+                * represents an alignment of 2^n in mega bytes.
+                */
+               __u64 hot_add_alignment:4;
+               __u64 reservedz:58;
        } cap_bits;
        __u64 caps;
 } __packed;
@@ -774,7 +781,7 @@ static unsigned long process_hot_add(unsigned long pg_start,
         * If the host has specified a hot-add range; deal with it first.
         */
 
-       if ((rg_size != 0) && (!dm_device.host_specified_ha_region)) {
+       if (rg_size != 0) {
                ha_region = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hv_hotadd_state), GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!ha_region)
                        return 0;
@@ -1367,6 +1374,12 @@ static int balloon_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
        cap_msg.caps.cap_bits.hot_add = 1;
 
        /*
+        * Specify our alignment requirements as it relates
+        * memory hot-add. Specify 128MB alignment.
+        */
+       cap_msg.caps.cap_bits.hot_add_alignment = 7;
+
+       /*
         * Currently the host does not use these
         * values and we set them to what is done in the
         * Windows driver.