In case a ballooning action is cancelled the new kernel thread handling the ballooning might end up in a busy loop.

Fix that by handling the cancelled action gracefully.

While at it introduce a short wait for the BP_WAIT case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8480ed9c2bbd56 ("xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue") Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com --- drivers/xen/balloon.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c index 43ebfe36ac27..3a50f097ed3e 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c @@ -491,12 +491,12 @@ static enum bp_state decrease_reservation(unsigned long nr_pages, gfp_t gfp) }

/* - * Stop waiting if either state is not BP_EAGAIN and ballooning action is - * needed, or if the credit has changed while state is BP_EAGAIN. + * Stop waiting if either state is BP_DONE and ballooning action is + * needed, or if the credit has changed while state is not BP_DONE. */ static bool balloon_thread_cond(enum bp_state state, long credit) { - if (state != BP_EAGAIN) + if (state == BP_DONE) credit = 0;

return current_credit() != credit || kthread_should_stop(); @@ -516,10 +516,19 @@ static int balloon_thread(void *unused)

set_freezable(); for (;;) { - if (state == BP_EAGAIN) - timeout = balloon_stats.schedule_delay * HZ; - else + switch (state) { + case BP_DONE: + case BP_ECANCELED: timeout = 3600 * HZ; + break; + case BP_EAGAIN: + timeout = balloon_stats.schedule_delay * HZ; + break; + case BP_WAIT: + timeout = HZ; + break; + } + credit = current_credit();

wait_event_freezable_timeout(balloon_thread_wq,