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    xen/balloon: Bring alloc(free)_xenballooned_pages helpers back · 9dd060af
    Oleksandr Tyshchenko authored
    This patch rolls back some of the changes introduced by commit
    121f2fac "xen/balloon: rename alloc/free_xenballooned_pages"
    in order to make possible to still allocate xenballooned pages
    if CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC is enabled.
    
    On Arm the unpopulated pages will be allocated on top of extended
    regions provided by Xen via device-tree (the subsequent patches
    will add required bits to support unpopulated-alloc feature on Arm).
    The problem is that extended regions feature has been introduced
    into Xen quite recently (during 4.16 release cycle). So this
    effectively means that Linux must only use unpopulated-alloc on Arm
    if it is running on "new Xen" which advertises these regions.
    But, it will only be known after parsing the "hypervisor" node
    at boot time, so before doing that we cannot assume anything.
    
    In order to keep working if CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC is enabled
    and the extended regions are not advertised (Linux is running on
    "old Xen", etc) we need the fallback to alloc_xenballooned_pages().
    
    This way we wouldn't reduce the amount of memory usable (wasting
    RAM pages) for any of the external mappings anymore (and eliminate
    XSA-300) with "new Xen", but would be still functional ballooning
    out RAM pages with "old Xen".
    
    Also rename alloc(free)_xenballooned_pages to xen_alloc(free)_ballooned_pages
    and make xen_alloc(free)_unpopulated_pages static inline in xen.h
    if CONFIG_XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC is disabled.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1639080336-26573-4-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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