On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:44:55 -0700
Alexander Duyck <> wrote:
> This patch set is meant to add documentation for balloon features that have
> been recently added to the Linux kernel[1,2] and that were recently added
> to QEMU[3].
>
> Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/84
>
> Changes since RFC:
> Incorporated suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> Fixed a few additional spelling errors
>
> Changes since v1:
> Incorporated additional suggestions from Cornelia Huck
> Dropped documentation referring to free page reporting from page poison patch
>
> Changes since v2:
> Rewrote multiple statements based on input from David Hildenbrand
> Dropped use of balloon and deflate from page hinting description
> Dropped use of free page reporting from page poison description
> Cleaned up several spots that didn't match RFC2119 style comments
> Added conformance links.
> Various other clean-ups.
> Updated balloon command IDs based on input from Cornelia Huck
>
> Changes since v3:
> Reordered patches to place free page hinting at end of patch set
> Moved contents out of patch to poison and free page reporting patches
> Updated patch description to document some known issues with feature
> Further clean-ups based on input from David Hildenbrand
>
> Changes since v4:
> Further clean-ups for page hinting based on input from David Hildenbrand
>
> Changes since v5:
> Reverted patcher order changes from v3 placing hinting as first patch
> Addressed comments and added Reviewed-by from Cornelia Huck
> Addressed further items I found in free page hinting
> Added requirement that output buffers be 4 bytes in size
> Replaced reference to descriptor with buffer
> Replaced references to free_page_hint_vq with free_page_vq
>
> Changes since v6:
> Fixed line that was left over from a merge conflict
> Added Reviewed-by from David Hildenbrand
> Created issue and added "Fixes" to cover page
>
> Changes since v7:
> Removed comments from patch 1 describing issues that we fixed or addressed
> Added Acked-by for patch 1 from Cornelia Huck
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc
> [3]: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/202004/msg00180.html
>
> ---
>
> Alexander Duyck (3):
> content: Document balloon feature free page hints
> content: Document balloon feature page poison
> content: Document balloon feature free page reporting
>
>
> conformance.tex | 6 +
> content.tex | 286 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --
>
I think this is good to vote on now.
