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vmw_balloon: addressing bugs and issues

Nadav Amit lkml stable 3 versions – In review

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  1. v3 Latest7 patches 1 replyIn review
  2. v27 patches 10 repliesSuperseded
  3. v17 patches 4 repliesSuperseded

Patches in v3 No applies recorded yet

#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/7vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNsdrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+7 -60 replies
2/7vmw_balloon: do not use 2MB without batchingdrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+7 -10 replies
3/7vmw_balloon: VMCI_DOORBELL_SET does not check statusdrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+19 -180 replies
4/7vmw_balloon: fix VMCI use when balloon built into kerneldrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+8 -10 replies
5/7vmw_balloon: remove inflation rate limitingdrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+11 -810 replies
6/7vmw_balloon: update copyright messagedrivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c+2 -200 replies
7/7vmw_balloon: update maintainers listMAINTAINERS+1 -10 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

All 7 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchXavier Deguillard
1/7R-b
2/7R-b
3/7R-b
4/7R-b
5/7R-b
6/7R-b
7/7R-b

Trailers given in replies are filled; those carried in the patches from earlier versions are outlined with dashes.

Read the v3 thread

Cover letter [PATCH v3 0/7] vmw_balloon: addressing bugs and issues

All of these patches are intended for 4.18:

- Patches 1-5 are bug fixes.
- Patch 6 changes the GPL comment. It is actually required just to remove the maintainers list from the source file (since it has changed).
- Patch 7 is an update to the maintainer list.

This patch-set addresses minor issues and bugs in the VMware balloon driver. Patches 1-5 address bugs that were *not* reported by customers, but we would like to get them to 4.18 if possible.

Patches 1-4 are cc'd to stable. Patch 5 might be too big to be considered for stable.

We will send separately later a patch-set with new features to be set on top of this set, which will be intended for 4.19.

v2->v3: * Removing empty lines (Greg)
* Removing the GPL message entirely (Greg)

v1->v2: * Reordering patches to have bug fixes first (Greg)
* Fixing SPDX tag
* Cc'ing stable when appropriate

Nadav Amit (7):
vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNs
vmw_balloon: do not use 2MB without batching
vmw_balloon: VMCI_DOORBELL_SET does not check status
vmw_balloon: fix VMCI use when balloon built into kernel
vmw_balloon: remove inflation rate limiting
vmw_balloon: update copyright message
vmw_balloon: update maintainers list

 MAINTAINERS                |   2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 181 +++++++++++--------------------------
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
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