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07b0403d 10/01/2010 04:20 pm Eduardo Habkost

disable guest-provided stats on "info balloon" command

The addition of memory stats reporting to the virtio balloon causes
the 'info balloon' command to become asynchronous. This is a regression
because in some cases it can hang the user monitor.

This is an alternative to Adam Litke's patch. Adam's patch disabled the...

e78815a5 09/25/2010 02:26 pm Andreas Färber

Introduce qemu_madvise()

vl.c has a Sun-specific hack to supply a prototype for madvise(),
but the call site has apparently moved to arch_init.c.

Haiku doesn't implement madvise() in favor of posix_madvise().
OpenBSD and Solaris 10 don't implement posix_madvise() but madvise()....

0be71e32 07/06/2010 06:36 pm Alex Williamson

savevm: Add DeviceState param

When available, we'd like to be able to access the DeviceState
when registering a savevm. For buses with a get_dev_path()
function, this will allow us to create more unique savevm
id strings.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <>...

fa6111f2 04/28/2010 04:58 pm Amit Shah

iov: Add iov_to_buf and iov_size helpers

iov_to_buf() puts the buffer contents in the iov in a linearized buffer.

iov_size() gets the length of the contents in the iov.

The iov_to_buf() function is the memcpy_to_iovec() function that was
used in virtio-ballon.c....

bd12ff9d 03/27/2010 02:53 pm Adam Litke

balloon: Fix overflow when reporting actual memory size

Beginning with its introduction, the virtio balloon has had an overflow error
that causes 'info balloon' to misreport the actual memory size when the balloon
itself becomes larger than 4G. Use a cast when converting dev->actual from...

6d0ee850 03/17/2010 05:42 pm Adam Litke

balloon: Do not save VM state wrt asynchronous virtio operations

When working with the VM state (for loadvm/savevm and migration), it is not
valid to load and store pointers since the validity of those pointers cannot be
assured in the new qemu address space. Therefore, virtio_balloon_save() and...

625a5bef 01/27/2010 01:08 am Adam Litke

virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver

When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for
guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information
that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current method...

8172539d 01/11/2010 09:40 pm Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio: add features as qdev properties

Add feature bits as properties to virtio. This makes it possible to e.g. define
machine without indirect buffer support, which is required for 0.10
compatibility, or without hardware checksum support, which is required for 0.11...

c227f099 10/02/2009 12:12 am Anthony Liguori

Revert "Get rid of _t suffix"

In the very least, a change like this requires discussion on the list.

The naming convention is goofy and it causes a massive merge problem. Something
like this must be presented on the list first so people can provide input...

99a0949b 10/01/2009 09:45 pm malc

Get rid of _t suffix

Some not so obvious bits, slirp and Xen were left alone for the time
being.

Signed-off-by: malc <>

53c25cea 05/18/2009 08:26 pm Paul Brook

Separate virtio PCI code

Split the PCI host bindings from the VRing transport implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <>

2d72c572 05/15/2009 12:35 am Paul Brook

Virtio-balloon qdev conversion

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <>

cf21e106 05/15/2009 12:35 am Paul Brook

Virtio-net qdev conversion

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <>

5c130f65 04/10/2009 05:29 pm pbrook

Yet more phys_ram_base elimination.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7067 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

173a543b 02/01/2009 09:26 pm blueswir1

Add and use #defines for PCI device classes

This patch adds and uses #defines for PCI device classes and subclases,
using a new pci_config_set_class() function, similar to the recently
added pci_config_set_vendor_id() and pci_config_set_device_id().

Change since v1: fixed compilation of hw/sun4u.c...

99b3718e 01/26/2009 05:22 pm aliguori

Use the default subsystem vendor ID for virtio devices (Mark McLoughlin)

A subsystem vendor ID of zero isn't allowed, so we use our
default ID.

Gerd points out that although the PCI subsystem vendor ID is
treated by the guest as the virtio vendor ID:

/* we use the subsystem vendor/device id as the virtio vendor/device...
9b32d5a5 12/11/2008 11:20 pm aliguori

pci: virtio: use pci id defines (Gerd Hoffman)

Use the defines added by the previous patch in the virtio drivers.
Also remove the pointless vendor and device args from the
virtio_blk_init() function.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>...

bd322087 12/04/2008 10:33 pm aliguori

Add virtio-balloon support

This adds a VirtIO based balloon driver. It uses madvise() to actually balloon
the memory when possible.

Until 2.6.27, KVM forced memory pinning so we must disable ballooning unless the
kernel actually supports it when using KVM. It's always safe when using TCG....