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Subject: [PATCH v8 0/3] virtio-spec: Add documentation for recently added balloon features


This patch set is meant to add documentation for balloon features that have
been recently added to the Linux kernel[1,2] and that were recently added
to QEMU[3].

Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/84

Changes since RFC:
Incorporated suggestions from Cornelia Huck
Fixed a few additional spelling errors

Changes since v1:
Incorporated additional suggestions from Cornelia Huck
Dropped documentation referring to free page reporting from page poison patch

Changes since v2:
Rewrote multiple statements based on input from David Hildenbrand
  Dropped use of balloon and deflate from page hinting description
  Dropped use of free page reporting from page poison description
  Cleaned up several spots that didn't match RFC2119 style comments
  Added conformance links.
  Various other clean-ups.
Updated balloon command IDs based on input from Cornelia Huck

Changes since v3:
Reordered patches to place free page hinting at end of patch set
  Moved contents out of patch to poison and free page reporting patches
  Updated patch description to document some known issues with feature
Further clean-ups based on input from David Hildenbrand

Changes since v4:
Further clean-ups for page hinting based on input from David Hildenbrand

Changes since v5:
Reverted patcher order changes from v3 placing hinting as first patch
Addressed comments and added Reviewed-by from Cornelia Huck
Addressed further items I found in free page hinting
  Added requirement that output buffers be 4 bytes in size
  Replaced reference to descriptor with buffer
  Replaced references to free_page_hint_vq with free_page_vq

Changes since v6:
Fixed line that was left over from a merge conflict
Added Reviewed-by from David Hildenbrand
Created issue and added "Fixes" to cover page

Changes since v7:
Removed comments from patch 1 describing issues that we fixed or addressed
Added Acked-by for patch 1 from Cornelia Huck

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc
[3]: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/202004/msg00180.html

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Alexander Duyck (3):
      content: Document balloon feature free page hints
      content: Document balloon feature page poison
      content: Document balloon feature free page reporting


 conformance.tex |    6 +
 content.tex     |  286 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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