use of shrinker in virtio balloon free page hinting

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 07:20:57 EST


Wei, others,

ATM virtio_balloon_shrinker_scan will only get registered
when deflate on oom feature bit is set.

Not sure whether that's intentional. Assuming it is:

virtio_balloon_shrinker_scan will try to locate and free
pages that are processed by host.
The above seems broken in several ways:
- count ignores the free page list completely
- if free pages are being reported, pages freed
by shrinker will just get re-allocated again

I was unable to make this part of code behave in any reasonable
way - was shrinker usage tested? What's a good way to test that?

Thanks!

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