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diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
index 56c6f79a5c5a..2543ef1ece17 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -1,27 +1,9 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* VMware Balloon driver.
*
- * Copyright (C) 2000-2014, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2000-2018, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- * Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License and no later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
- * NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
- * details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
- *
- * Maintained by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
- * Philip Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
- */
-
-/*
* This is VMware physical memory management driver for Linux. The driver
* acts like a "balloon" that can be inflated to reclaim physical pages by
* reserving them in the guest and invalidating them in the monitor,
@@ -55,25 +37,6 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("vmware_vmmemctl");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
/*
- * Various constants controlling rate of inflaint/deflating balloon,
- * measured in pages.
- */
-
-/*
- * Rates of memory allocaton when guest experiences memory pressure
- * (driver performs sleeping allocations).
- */
-#define VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_MIN 512U
-#define VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_MAX 2048U
-#define VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_INC 16U
-
-/*
- * When guest is under memory pressure, use a reduced page allocation
- * rate for next several cycles.
- */
-#define VMW_BALLOON_SLOW_CYCLES 4
-
-/*
* Use __GFP_HIGHMEM to allow pages from HIGHMEM zone. We don't
* allow wait (__GFP_RECLAIM) for NOSLEEP page allocations. Use
* __GFP_NOWARN, to suppress page allocation failure warnings.
@@ -284,12 +247,6 @@ struct vmballoon {
/* reset flag */
bool reset_required;
- /* adjustment rates (pages per second) */
- unsigned int rate_alloc;
-
- /* slowdown page allocations for next few cycles */
- unsigned int slow_allocation_cycles;
-
unsigned long capabilities;
struct vmballoon_batch_page *batch_page;
@@ -341,7 +298,13 @@ static bool vmballoon_send_start(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned long req_caps)
success = false;
}
- if (b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BATCHED_2M_CMDS)
+ /*
+ * 2MB pages are only supported with batching. If batching is for some
+ * reason disabled, do not use 2MB pages, since otherwise the legacy
+ * mechanism is used with 2MB pages, causing a failure.
+ */
+ if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BATCHED_2M_CMDS) &&
+ (b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BATCHED_CMDS))
b->supported_page_sizes = 2;
else
b->supported_page_sizes = 1;
@@ -450,7 +413,7 @@ static int vmballoon_send_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned long pfn,
pfn32 = (u32)pfn;
if (pfn32 != pfn)
- return -1;
+ return -EINVAL;
STATS_INC(b->stats.lock[false]);
@@ -460,7 +423,7 @@ static int vmballoon_send_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned long pfn,
pr_debug("%s - ppn %lx, hv returns %ld\n", __func__, pfn, status);
STATS_INC(b->stats.lock_fail[false]);
- return 1;
+ return -EIO;
}
static int vmballoon_send_batched_lock(struct vmballoon *b,
@@ -597,11 +560,12 @@ static int vmballoon_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned int num_pages,
locked = vmballoon_send_lock_page(b, page_to_pfn(page), &hv_status,
target);
- if (locked > 0) {
+ if (locked) {
STATS_INC(b->stats.refused_alloc[false]);
- if (hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_RESET ||
- hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_PPN_NOTNEEDED) {
+ if (locked == -EIO &&
+ (hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_RESET ||
+ hv_status == VMW_BALLOON_ERROR_PPN_NOTNEEDED)) {
vmballoon_free_page(page, false);
return -EIO;
}
@@ -617,7 +581,7 @@ static int vmballoon_lock_page(struct vmballoon *b, unsigned int num_pages,
} else {
vmballoon_free_page(page, false);
}
- return -EIO;
+ return locked;
}
/* track allocated page */
@@ -790,8 +754,6 @@ static void vmballoon_add_batched_page(struct vmballoon *b, int idx,
*/
static void vmballoon_inflate(struct vmballoon *b)
{
- unsigned rate;
- unsigned int allocations = 0;
unsigned int num_pages = 0;
int error = 0;
gfp_t flags = VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_NOSLEEP;
@@ -818,17 +780,9 @@ static void vmballoon_inflate(struct vmballoon *b)
* Start with no sleep allocation rate which may be higher
* than sleeping allocation rate.
*/
- if (b->slow_allocation_cycles) {
- rate = b->rate_alloc;
- is_2m_pages = false;
- } else {
- rate = UINT_MAX;
- is_2m_pages =
- b->supported_page_sizes == VMW_BALLOON_NUM_PAGE_SIZES;
- }
+ is_2m_pages = b->supported_page_sizes == VMW_BALLOON_NUM_PAGE_SIZES;
- pr_debug("%s - goal: %d, no-sleep rate: %u, sleep rate: %d\n",
- __func__, b->target - b->size, rate, b->rate_alloc);
+ pr_debug("%s - goal: %d", __func__, b->target - b->size);
while (!b->reset_required &&
b->size + num_pages * vmballoon_page_size(is_2m_pages)
@@ -861,31 +815,24 @@ static void vmballoon_inflate(struct vmballoon *b)
if (flags == VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_CANSLEEP) {
/*
* CANSLEEP page allocation failed, so guest
- * is under severe memory pressure. Quickly
- * decrease allocation rate.
+ * is under severe memory pressure. We just log
+ * the event, but do not stop the inflation
+ * due to its negative impact on performance.
*/
- b->rate_alloc = max(b->rate_alloc / 2,
- VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_MIN);
STATS_INC(b->stats.sleep_alloc_fail);
break;
}
/*
* NOSLEEP page allocation failed, so the guest is
- * under memory pressure. Let us slow down page
- * allocations for next few cycles so that the guest
- * gets out of memory pressure. Also, if we already
- * allocated b->rate_alloc pages, let's pause,
- * otherwise switch to sleeping allocations.
+ * under memory pressure. Slowing down page alloctions
+ * seems to be reasonable, but doing so might actually
+ * cause the hypervisor to throttle us down, resulting
+ * in degraded performance. We will count on the
+ * scheduler and standard memory management mechanisms
+ * for now.
*/
- b->slow_allocation_cycles = VMW_BALLOON_SLOW_CYCLES;
-
- if (allocations >= b->rate_alloc)
- break;
-
flags = VMW_PAGE_ALLOC_CANSLEEP;
- /* Lower rate for sleeping allocations. */
- rate = b->rate_alloc;
continue;
}
@@ -899,28 +846,11 @@ static void vmballoon_inflate(struct vmballoon *b)
}
cond_resched();
-
- if (allocations >= rate) {
- /* We allocated enough pages, let's take a break. */
- break;
- }
}
if (num_pages > 0)
b->ops->lock(b, num_pages, is_2m_pages, &b->target);
- /*
- * We reached our goal without failures so try increasing
- * allocation rate.
- */
- if (error == 0 && allocations >= b->rate_alloc) {
- unsigned int mult = allocations / b->rate_alloc;
-
- b->rate_alloc =
- min(b->rate_alloc + mult * VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_INC,
- VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_MAX);
- }
-
vmballoon_release_refused_pages(b, true);
vmballoon_release_refused_pages(b, false);
}
@@ -1029,29 +959,30 @@ static void vmballoon_vmci_cleanup(struct vmballoon *b)
*/
static int vmballoon_vmci_init(struct vmballoon *b)
{
- int error = 0;
+ unsigned long error, dummy;
- if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_SIGNALLED_WAKEUP_CMD) != 0) {
- error = vmci_doorbell_create(&b->vmci_doorbell,
- VMCI_FLAG_DELAYED_CB,
- VMCI_PRIVILEGE_FLAG_RESTRICTED,
- vmballoon_doorbell, b);
-
- if (error == VMCI_SUCCESS) {
- VMWARE_BALLOON_CMD(VMCI_DOORBELL_SET,
- b->vmci_doorbell.context,
- b->vmci_doorbell.resource, error);
- STATS_INC(b->stats.doorbell_set);
- }
- }
+ if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_SIGNALLED_WAKEUP_CMD) == 0)
+ return 0;
- if (error != 0) {
- vmballoon_vmci_cleanup(b);
+ error = vmci_doorbell_create(&b->vmci_doorbell, VMCI_FLAG_DELAYED_CB,
+ VMCI_PRIVILEGE_FLAG_RESTRICTED,
+ vmballoon_doorbell, b);
- return -EIO;
- }
+ if (error != VMCI_SUCCESS)
+ goto fail;
+
+ error = VMWARE_BALLOON_CMD(VMCI_DOORBELL_SET, b->vmci_doorbell.context,
+ b->vmci_doorbell.resource, dummy);
+
+ STATS_INC(b->stats.doorbell_set);
+
+ if (error != VMW_BALLOON_SUCCESS)
+ goto fail;
return 0;
+fail:
+ vmballoon_vmci_cleanup(b);
+ return -EIO;
}
/*
@@ -1114,9 +1045,6 @@ static void vmballoon_work(struct work_struct *work)
if (b->reset_required)
vmballoon_reset(b);
- if (b->slow_allocation_cycles > 0)
- b->slow_allocation_cycles--;
-
if (!b->reset_required && vmballoon_send_get_target(b, &target)) {
/* update target, adjust size */
b->target = target;
@@ -1160,11 +1088,6 @@ static int vmballoon_debug_show(struct seq_file *f, void *offset)
"current: %8d pages\n",
b->target, b->size);
- /* format rate info */
- seq_printf(f,
- "rateSleepAlloc: %8d pages/sec\n",
- b->rate_alloc);
-
seq_printf(f,
"\n"
"timer: %8u\n"
@@ -1271,9 +1194,6 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.page_sizes[is_2m_pages].refused_pages);
}
- /* initialize rates */
- balloon.rate_alloc = VMW_BALLOON_RATE_ALLOC_MAX;
-
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&balloon.dwork, vmballoon_work);
error = vmballoon_debugfs_init(&balloon);
@@ -1289,7 +1209,14 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
return 0;
}
-module_init(vmballoon_init);
+
+/*
+ * Using late_initcall() instead of module_init() allows the balloon to use the
+ * VMCI doorbell even when the balloon is built into the kernel. Otherwise the
+ * VMCI is probed only after the balloon is initialized. If the balloon is used
+ * as a module, late_initcall() is equivalent to module_init().
+ */
+late_initcall(vmballoon_init);
static void __exit vmballoon_exit(void)
{