Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Partial workaround for buggy guest virtio-balloon driver

2012-11-08 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:11:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > David Gibson writes: > > > Linux kernel commits 1a87228f5f1d316002c7c161316f5524592be766 > > "virtio_balloon: Fix endian bug" and > > 3ccc9372ed0fab33d20f10be3c1efd5776ff5913 "virtio_balloon: fix handling > > of PAGE_SIZE != 4k" f

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Partial workaround for buggy guest virtio-balloon driver

2012-11-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
David Gibson writes: > Linux kernel commits 1a87228f5f1d316002c7c161316f5524592be766 > "virtio_balloon: Fix endian bug" and > 3ccc9372ed0fab33d20f10be3c1efd5776ff5913 "virtio_balloon: fix handling > of PAGE_SIZE != 4k" fixed two serious bugs in their (guest side) > handling of the virtio balloon.

[Qemu-devel] RFC: Partial workaround for buggy guest virtio-balloon driver

2012-11-07 Thread David Gibson
Linux kernel commits 1a87228f5f1d316002c7c161316f5524592be766 "virtio_balloon: Fix endian bug" and 3ccc9372ed0fab33d20f10be3c1efd5776ff5913 "virtio_balloon: fix handling of PAGE_SIZE != 4k" fixed two serious bugs in their (guest side) handling of the virtio balloon. In practice, these bugs only af