Re: [RFC 1/2] misc: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 21-08-17 13:43, Hans de Goede wrote:

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> I'm also thinking that under Linux since we never use userspace to
> alloc memory for the balloon, we don't need to involve userspace at
> all, the drivers interrupt handler could detect the event that the
> host wants to change the balloonsize itself and start a workqueue
> item which then asks for what the new size should be and do the
> adjustment all inside the kernel.  I think that will even lead to
> simpler code as we no longer need to track the balloon userspace
> owner and do reclaim when it dies.
>
> Typing this out I really see no reason to not do this inside the
> kernel, so I think I'm going to implement that right away / for
> the [RFC v2] I plan to post later today or tomorrow.

Done:

https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxguest/commit/2920882cb0ce9af11a843affc58d4a08ef47e16b

Regards,

Hans