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[16/36] vfio-ap: flag as compatible with balloon

Message ID 20190723170104.4327-17-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State New
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Series Patch Round-up for stable 3.1.1, freeze on 2019-07-29 | expand

Commit Message

Michael Roth July 23, 2019, 5 p.m. UTC 
From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>

vfio-ap devices do not pin any pages in the host. Therefore, they
are compatible with memory ballooning.

Flag them as compatible, so both vfio-ap and a balloon can be
used simultaneously.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1883e8fc8005e9ef452890a075bae98e8c432968)
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 hw/vfio/ap.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/hw/vfio/ap.c b/hw/vfio/ap.c
index 65de952f44..0a25f5e096 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/ap.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/ap.c
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@  static void vfio_ap_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     vapdev->vdev.name = g_strdup_printf("%s", mdevid);
     vapdev->vdev.dev = dev;
 
+    /*
+     * vfio-ap devices operate in a way compatible with
+     * memory ballooning, as no pages are pinned in the host.
+     * This needs to be set before vfio_get_device() for vfio common to
+     * handle the balloon inhibitor.
+     */
+    vapdev->vdev.balloon_allowed = true;
+
     ret = vfio_get_device(vfio_group, mdevid, &vapdev->vdev, &local_err);
     if (ret) {
         goto out_get_dev_err;