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authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>2012-11-14 01:09:02 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-11-15 15:42:09 -0800
commit9aa8b50b2b3d3a70728438a15a0fdd03a6794a84 (patch)
tree8300bea35ccd9fb2f815e53df022b6bbbbc85767 /drivers/hv/Kconfig
parent997071bcb34005f42e0fe5bc7930e895b070f251 (diff)
downloadlinux-9aa8b50b2b3d3a70728438a15a0fdd03a6794a84.tar.gz
Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver
Add the basic balloon driver. Windows hosts dynamically manage the guest
memory allocation via a combination memory hot add and ballooning. Memory
hot add is used to grow the guest memory upto the maximum memory that can be
allocatted to the guest. Ballooning is used to both shrink as well as expand
up to the max memory. Supporting hot add needs additional support from the
host. We will support hot add when this support is available. For now,
by setting the VM startup memory to the VM  max memory, we can use
ballooning alone to dynamically manage memory allocation amongst
competing guests on a given host.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/hv/Kconfig b/drivers/hv/Kconfig
index 70f5dde1cc52..b38ef6d8d049 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/hv/Kconfig
@@ -13,4 +13,10 @@ config HYPERV_UTILS
 	help
 	  Select this option to enable the Hyper-V Utilities.
 
+config HYPERV_BALLOON
+	tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V Balloon driver"
+	depends on HYPERV
+	help
+	  Select this option to enable Hyper-V Balloon driver.
+
 endmenu