Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] virtio_balloon: virtio 1 support

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:57:35PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Virtio 1.0 doesn't include a modern balloon device.  At some point we'll likely
> define an incompatible interface with a different ID and different
> semantics.  But for now, it's not a big effort to support a transitional
> balloon device: this has the advantage of supporting existing drivers,
> transparently, as well as transports that don't allow mixing virtio 0 and
> virtio 1 devices. And balloon is an easy device to test, so it's also useful
> for people to test virtio core handling of transitional devices.
> 
> The only interface issue is with the stats buffer, which has misaligned
> fields. We could leave it as is, but this sets a bad precedent that
> others might copy by mistake.
> 
> As we need to change stats code to do byteswaps for virtio 1.0, it seems easy
> to fix by prepending a 6 byte reserved field.  I also had to change config
> structure field types from __le32 to __u32 to match other devices. This means
> we need a couple of __force tags for legacy path but that seems minor.

Rusty, what are your thoughts here?
How about merging this for 4.1?


> changes from v2:
> 	fix up stats endian-ness
> Changes from v1:
> 	correctly handle config space endian-ness
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin (6):
>   virtio_balloon: transitional interface
>   virtio: balloon might not be a legacy device
>   virtio_ccw: support non-legacy balloon devices
>   virtio_mmio: support non-legacy balloon devices
>   virtio_pci: support non-legacy balloon devices
>   virtio: drop virtio_device_is_legacy_only
> 
>  include/linux/virtio.h              |  2 --
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 11 +++++++++--
>  drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c       | 10 +++-------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio.c             |  6 ------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c        |  8 --------
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c  |  3 ---
>  7 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> MST