We had a lot of trouble agreeing on a fix, but apparently there's finally a consensus.
The following changes since commit 39dae59d66acd86d1de24294bd2f343fd5e7a625: Linux 4.14-rc8 (2017-11-05 13:05:14 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git tags/for_linus for you to fetch changes up to 823b45b4f154384941d57e124ed726847e293b36: virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM (2017-11-07 17:24:59 +0200) ---------------------------------------------------------------- virtio: bugfix Fixes a deadlock encountered with the virtio balloon. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Tsirkin (1): virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- mm/balloon_compaction.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------ 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)