o A key named last-update, which contains the last stats update
timestamp in seconds. Since this timestamp is generated by the host,
- a buggy guest can't influence its value
+ a buggy guest can't influence its value. The value is 0 if the guest
+ has not updated the stats (yet).
It's also important to note the following:
- Polling can be enabled even if the guest doesn't have stats support
or the balloon driver wasn't loaded in the guest. If this is the case
- and stats are queried, an error will be returned
+ and stats are queried, last-update will be 0.
- The polling timer is only re-armed when the guest responds to the
statistics request. This means that if a (buggy) guest doesn't ever
VirtIOBalloon *s = opaque;
int i;
- if (!s->stats_last_update) {
- error_setg(errp, "guest hasn't updated any stats yet");
- return;
- }
-
visit_start_struct(v, NULL, "guest-stats", name, 0, &err);
if (err) {
goto out;
s->dvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_handle_output);
s->svq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_receive_stats);
+ reset_stats(s);
+
register_savevm(dev, "virtio-balloon", -1, 1,
virtio_balloon_save, virtio_balloon_load, s);