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authorRaushaniya Maksudova <rmaksudova@parallels.com>2014-11-10 09:36:29 +1030
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-11-11 17:09:58 +1030
commit5a10b7dbf904bfe01bb9fcc6298f7df09eed77d5 (patch)
treecd8f823828105f03c4ae7149217f827f3d82c39d /drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
parent1fd9c67203af91977bf3b964ff3744cf74fc6f3f (diff)
virtio_balloon: free some memory from balloon on OOM
Excessive virtio_balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, when Linux is under severe memory pressure. Various mechanisms are responsible for correct virtio_balloon memory management. Nevertheless it is often the case that these control tools does not have enough time to react on fast changing memory load. As a result OS runs out of memory and invokes OOM-killer. The balancing of memory by use of the virtio balloon should not cause the termination of processes while there are pages in the balloon. Now there is no way for virtio balloon driver to free some memory at the last moment before some process will be get killed by OOM-killer. This does not provide a security breach as balloon itself is running inside guest OS and is working in the cooperation with the host. Thus some improvements from guest side should be considered as normal. To solve the problem, introduce a virtio_balloon callback which is expected to be called from the oom notifier call chain in out_of_memory() function. If virtio balloon could release some memory, it will make the system to return and retry the allocation that forced the out of memory killer to run. Allocate virtio feature bit for this: it is not set by default, the the guest will not deflate virtio balloon on OOM without explicit permission from host. Signed-off-by: Raushaniya Maksudova <rmaksudova@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c52
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index ff71fdcf3345..50c5f42d7a9f 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
+#include <linux/oom.h>
/*
* Balloon device works in 4K page units. So each page is pointed to by
@@ -36,6 +37,12 @@
*/
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE (unsigned)(PAGE_SIZE >> VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT)
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX 256
+#define OOM_VBALLOON_DEFAULT_PAGES 256
+#define VIRTBALLOON_OOM_NOTIFY_PRIORITY 80
+
+static int oom_pages = OOM_VBALLOON_DEFAULT_PAGES;
+module_param(oom_pages, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(oom_pages, "pages to free on OOM");
struct virtio_balloon
{
@@ -71,6 +78,9 @@ struct virtio_balloon
/* Memory statistics */
int need_stats_update;
struct virtio_balloon_stat stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR];
+
+ /* To register callback in oom notifier call chain */
+ struct notifier_block nb;
};
static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
@@ -290,6 +300,38 @@ static void update_balloon_size(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
&actual);
}
+/*
+ * virtballoon_oom_notify - release pages when system is under severe
+ * memory pressure (called from out_of_memory())
+ * @self : notifier block struct
+ * @dummy: not used
+ * @parm : returned - number of freed pages
+ *
+ * The balancing of memory by use of the virtio balloon should not cause
+ * the termination of processes while there are pages in the balloon.
+ * If virtio balloon manages to release some memory, it will make the
+ * system return and retry the allocation that forced the OOM killer
+ * to run.
+ */
+static int virtballoon_oom_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
+ unsigned long dummy, void *parm)
+{
+ struct virtio_balloon *vb;
+ unsigned long *freed;
+ unsigned num_freed_pages;
+
+ vb = container_of(self, struct virtio_balloon, nb);
+ if (!virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM))
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+
+ freed = parm;
+ num_freed_pages = leak_balloon(vb, oom_pages);
+ update_balloon_size(vb);
+ *freed += num_freed_pages;
+
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
static int balloon(void *_vballoon)
{
struct virtio_balloon *vb = _vballoon;
@@ -446,6 +488,12 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (err)
goto out_free_vb;
+ vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
+ vb->nb.priority = VIRTBALLOON_OOM_NOTIFY_PRIORITY;
+ err = register_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto out_oom_notify;
+
vb->thread = kthread_run(balloon, vb, "vballoon");
if (IS_ERR(vb->thread)) {
err = PTR_ERR(vb->thread);
@@ -455,6 +503,8 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
return 0;
out_del_vqs:
+ unregister_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
+out_oom_notify:
vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
out_free_vb:
kfree(vb);
@@ -479,6 +529,7 @@ static void virtballoon_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
struct virtio_balloon *vb = vdev->priv;
+ unregister_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
kthread_stop(vb->thread);
remove_common(vb);
kfree(vb);
@@ -518,6 +569,7 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
static unsigned int features[] = {
VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST,
VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
+ VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
};
static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {