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    x86/hyperv: Implement hv_is_hibernation_supported() · b96f8653
    Dexuan Cui authored
    The API will be used by the hv_balloon and hv_vmbus drivers.
    
    Balloon up/down and hot-add of memory must not be active if the user
    wants the Linux VM to support hibernation, because they are incompatible
    with hibernation according to Hyper-V team, e.g. upon suspend the
    balloon VSP doesn't save any info about the ballooned-out pages (if any);
    so, after Linux resumes, Linux balloon VSC expects that the VSP will
    return the pages if Linux is under memory pressure, but the VSP will
    never do that, since the VSP thinks it never stole the pages from the VM.
    
    So, if the user wants Linux VM to support hibernation, Linux must forbid
    balloon up/down and hot-add, and the only functionality of the balloon VSC
    driver is reporting the VM's memory pressure to the host.
    
    Ideally, when Linux detects that the user wants it to support hibernation,
    the balloon VSC should tell the VSP that it does not support ballooning
    and hot-add. However, the current version of the VSP requires the VSC
    should support these capabilities, otherwise the capability negotiation
    fails and the VSC can not load at all, so with the later changes to the
    VSC driver, Linux VM still reports to the VSP that the VSC supports these
    capabilities, but the VSC ignores the VSP's requests of balloon up/down
    and hot add, and reports an error to the VSP, when applicable. BTW, in
    the future the balloon VSP driver will allow the VSC to not support the
    capabilities of balloon up/down and hot add.
    
    The ACPI S4 state is not a must for hibernation to work, because Linux is
    able to hibernate as long as the system can shut down. However in practice
    we decide to artificially use the presence of the virtual ACPI S4 state as
    an indicator of the user's intent of using hibernation, because Linux VM
    must find a way to know if the user wants to use the hibernation feature
    or not.
    
    By default, Hyper-V does not enable the virtual ACPI S4 state; on recent
    Hyper-V hosts (e.g. RS5, 19H1), the administrator is able to enable the
    state for a VM by WMI commands.
    
    Once all the vmbus and VSC patches for the hibernation feature are
    accepted, an extra patch will be submitted to forbid hibernation if the
    virtual ACPI S4 state is absent, i.e. hv_is_hibernation_supported() is
    false.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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