On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 02:41, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > From: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > The virtio-balloon always works in units of 4kiB (BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE), but > we can only actually discard memory in units of the host page size.
Hi -- Coverity points out an issue in this patch (CID 1399146): > + /* Hard case > + * > + * We've put a piece of a larger host page into the balloon - we > + * need to keep track until we have a whole host page to > + * discard > + */ > + warn_report_once( > +"Balloon used with backing page size > 4kiB, this may not be reliable"); > + > + subpages = rb_page_size / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE; > + > + if (balloon->pbp > + && (rb != balloon->pbp->rb > + || host_page_base != balloon->pbp->base)) { > + /* We've partially ballooned part of a host page, but now > + * we're trying to balloon part of a different one. Too hard, > + * give up on the old partial page */ > + free(balloon->pbp); > + balloon->pbp = NULL; > } > > - ram_block_discard_range(rb, ram_offset, rb_page_size); > - /* We ignore errors from ram_block_discard_range(), because it has > - * already reported them, and failing to discard a balloon page is > - * not fatal */ > + if (!balloon->pbp) { > + /* Starting on a new host page */ > + size_t bitlen = BITS_TO_LONGS(subpages) * sizeof(unsigned long); > + balloon->pbp = g_malloc0(sizeof(PartiallyBalloonedPage) + bitlen); We allocate balloon->pbp with g_malloc0() here... > + balloon->pbp->rb = rb; > + balloon->pbp->base = host_page_base; > + } > + > + bitmap_set(balloon->pbp->bitmap, > + (ram_offset - balloon->pbp->base) / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE, > + subpages); > + > + if (bitmap_full(balloon->pbp->bitmap, subpages)) { > + /* We've accumulated a full host page, we can actually discard > + * it now */ > + > + ram_block_discard_range(rb, balloon->pbp->base, rb_page_size); > + /* We ignore errors from ram_block_discard_range(), because it > + * has already reported them, and failing to discard a balloon > + * page is not fatal */ > + > + free(balloon->pbp); ...but we free it (here and elsewhere) with free(), not g_free(). thanks -- PMM