On 05/17/2018 04:26 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com>
A commit message would be useful.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com>
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> - page = alloc_page(gfp);
> - if (page == NULL) {
> - nr_pages = i;
> - state = BP_EAGAIN;
> - break;
> + if (ext_pages) {
> + page = ext_pages[i];
> + } else {
> + page = alloc_page(gfp);
> + if (page == NULL) {
> + nr_pages = i;
> + state = BP_EAGAIN;
> + break;
> + }
> }
> scrub_page(page);
> list_add(&page->lru, &pages);
> @@ -529,7 +565,7 @@ static enum bp_state decrease_reservation(unsigned long
> nr_pages, gfp_t gfp)
> i = 0;
> list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &pages, lru) {
> /* XENMEM_decrease_reservation requires a GFN */
> - frame_list[i++] = xen_page_to_gfn(page);
> + frames[i++] = xen_page_to_gfn(page);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
> /*
> @@ -552,18 +588,22 @@ static enum bp_state decrease_reservation(unsigned long
> nr_pages, gfp_t gfp)
> #endif
> list_del(&page->lru);
>
> - balloon_append(page);
> + if (!ext_pages)
> + balloon_append(page);
So what you are proposing is not really ballooning. You are just
piggybacking on existing interfaces, aren't you?
-boris
