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virtio-balloon: return empty data when no stats are available

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If the guest hasn't updated the stats yet, instead of returning
an error, return '-1' for the stats and '0' as 'last-update'.

This lets applications ignore this without parsing the error message.

Related libvirt patch and discussion:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00460.html

Tested against current upstream libvirt - stat reporting works and
it no longer logs errors when the stats are queried on domain startup.
(Note: libvirt doesn't use the last-update field for anything yet)

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Ján Tomko 2014-05-21 11:03:47 +02:00 • committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
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@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ which will return a dictionary containing:
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:
@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ 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