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Subject: [PATCH RESEND v6 0/3] virtio-spec: Add documentation for recently added balloon features
I am resending this patch set with the hope of getting final reviews sorted
out as I had no feedback on v6. If there are no further comments to be made
I will create an issue and ask for inclusion of this patch set.
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].
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
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/
[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
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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 | 287 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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