4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Gavin Shan gshan@redhat.com
commit 07622bd415639e9709579f400afd19e7e9866e5e upstream.
The deflation request to the target, which isn't unaligned to the guest page size causes endless deflation and inflation actions. For example, we receive the flooding QMP events for the changes on memory balloon's size after a deflation request to the unaligned target is sent for the ARM64 guest, where we have 64KB base page size.
/home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64 \ -accel kvm -machine virt,gic-version=host -cpu host \ -smp maxcpus=8,cpus=8,sockets=2,clusters=2,cores=2,threads=1 \ -m 1024M,slots=16,maxmem=64G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=512M \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=512M \ -numa node,nodeid=0,memdev=mem0,cpus=0-3 \ -numa node,nodeid=1,memdev=mem1,cpus=4-7 \ : \ -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pcie.10
{ "execute" : "balloon", "arguments": { "value" : 1073672192 } } {"return": {}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272173, "microseconds": 88667}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272174, "microseconds": 89704}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272175, "microseconds": 90819}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272176, "microseconds": 91961}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272177, "microseconds": 93040}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272178, "microseconds": 94117}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272179, "microseconds": 95337}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272180, "microseconds": 96615}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272181, "microseconds": 97626}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272182, "microseconds": 98693}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272183, "microseconds": 99698}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272184, "microseconds": 100727}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272185, "microseconds": 90430}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693272186, "microseconds": 102999}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073676288}} : <The similar QMP events repeat>
Fix it by aligning the target up to the guest page size, 64KB in this specific case. With this applied, no flooding QMP events are observed and the memory balloon's size can be stablizied to 0x3ffe0000 soon after the deflation request is sent.
{ "execute" : "balloon", "arguments": { "value" : 1073672192 } } {"return": {}} {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1693273328, "microseconds": 793075}, \ "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE", "data": {"actual": 1073610752}} { "execute" : "query-balloon" } {"return": {"actual": 1073610752}}
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan gshan@redhat.com Tested-by: Zhenyu Zhang zhenyzha@redhat.com Message-Id: 20230831011007.1032822-1-gshan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -341,7 +341,11 @@ static inline s64 towards_target(struct if (!virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) num_pages = le32_to_cpu((__force __le32)num_pages);
- target = num_pages; + /* + * Aligned up to guest page size to avoid inflating and deflating + * balloon endlessly. + */ + target = ALIGN(num_pages, VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE); return target - vb->num_pages; }