On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:57:50PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <>
>
> The original wording was a bit unclear and could have been misinterpreted
> as indicating that VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_HINT was read-only instead of
> the field free_page_hint_cmd_id. To clarify that break it up into two
> sentences making it clear that the field is only available if the feature
> is negotiated, and that the field is read-only.
>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>
> ---
> content.tex | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index 21e0cee903b0..9c39831acc15 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -5206,8 +5206,8 @@ \subsection{Device configuration layout}\label{sec:Device Types / Memory Balloon
> \field{num_pages} and \field{actual} are always available.
>
> \field{free_page_hint_cmd_id} is available if
> - VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT has been negotiated and is read-only by
> - the driver.
> + VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT has been negotiated. The field is
> + read-only by the driver.
> \field{poison_val} is available if VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON has been
> negotiated.
>
>
