[PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Do not post pressure status if interrupted

K. Y. Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Fri Jul 12 13:56:15 UTC 2013


When we are posting pressure status, we may get interrupted and handle
the un-balloon operation. In this case just don't post the status as we
know the pressure status is stale.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Cc: Stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index bfc7be2..4abaccf 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -972,6 +972,14 @@ static void post_status(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm)
 				dm->num_pages_ballooned +
 				compute_balloon_floor();
 
+	/*
+	 * If our transaction ID is no longer current, just don't
+	 * send the status. This can happen if we were interrupted
+	 * after we picked our transaction ID.
+	 */
+	if (status.hdr.trans_id != atomic_read(&trans_id))
+		return;
+
 	vmbus_sendpacket(dm->dev->channel, &status,
 				sizeof(struct dm_status),
 				(unsigned long)NULL,
-- 
1.7.4.1



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