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Dmitry Torokhov 453dc65931 VMware Balloon driver ... This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon. We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity) expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with virtio. There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like to get this driver upstream. We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have "upstream first" requirement. The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		15 years ago
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c2port	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
cb710	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
eeprom	init dynamic bin_attribute structures	15 years ago
hdpuftrs	hdpuftrs: fix build	17 years ago
ibmasm	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
iwmc3200top	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
sgi-gru	sgi-gru: use for_each_set_bit()	15 years ago
sgi-xp	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
Kconfig	VMware Balloon driver	15 years ago
Makefile	VMware Balloon driver	15 years ago
ad525x_dpot.c	ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers	15 years ago
atmel-ssc.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
atmel_pwm.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
atmel_tclib.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
cs5535-mfgpt.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
ds1682.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
enclosure.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
ep93xx_pwm.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
hpilo.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
hpilo.h	hpilo: add locking comment	15 years ago
ics932s401.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
ioc4.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
isl29003.c	isl29003: fix resume functionality	16 years ago
kgdbts.c	kgdbts,sh: Add in breakpoint pc offset for superh	15 years ago
lkdtm.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
phantom.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
ti_dac7512.c	drivers/misc: add driver for Texas Instruments DAC7512	15 years ago
tifm_7xx1.c	dma-mapping: replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)	16 years ago
tifm_core.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	15 years ago
tsl2550.c	tsl2550: Move from i2c/chips to misc	15 years ago
vmware_balloon.c	VMware Balloon driver	15 years ago