Add virtio-balloon support

This adds a VirtIO based balloon driver.  It uses madvise() to actually balloon
the memory when possible.

Until 2.6.27, KVM forced memory pinning so we must disable ballooning unless the
kernel actually supports it when using KVM.  It's always safe when using TCG.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5874 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 39f826b..69ca46b 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -549,3 +549,15 @@ int kvm_vcpu_ioctl(CPUState *env, int type, ...)
 
     return ret;
 }
+
+int kvm_has_sync_mmu(void)
+{
+    KVMState *s = kvm_state;
+
+#ifdef KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU
+    if (kvm_ioctl(s, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU) > 0)
+        return 1;
+#endif
+
+    return 0;
+}