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2020-08-05virtio_balloon: correct tags for config space fieldsMichael S. Tsirkin
Tag config space fields as having little endian-ness. Note that balloon is special: LE even when using the legacy interface. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
2020-04-17virtio-balloon: Avoid using the word 'report' when referring to free page ↵Alexander Duyck
hinting It can be confusing to have multiple features within the same driver that are using the same verbage. As such this patch is creating a union of free_page_report_cmd_id with free_page_hint_cmd_id so that we can clean-up the userspace code a bit in terms of readability while maintaining the functionality of legacy code. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200415174318.13597.99753.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2020-04-07virtio-balloon: add support for providing free page reports to hostAlexander Duyck
Add support for the page reporting feature provided by virtio-balloon. Reporting differs from the regular balloon functionality in that is is much less durable than a standard memory balloon. Instead of creating a list of pages that cannot be accessed the pages are only inaccessible while they are being indicated to the virtio interface. Once the interface has acknowledged them they are placed back into their respective free lists and are once again accessible by the guest system. Unlike a standard balloon we don't inflate and deflate the pages. Instead we perform the reporting, and once the reporting is completed it is assumed that the page has been dropped from the guest and will be faulted back in the next time the page is accessed. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> Cc: wei qi <weiqi4@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211224657.29318.68624.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-10-24virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISONWei Wang
The VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is used to indicate if the guest is using page poisoning. Guest writes to the poison_val config field to tell host about the page poisoning value that is in use. Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2018-10-24virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINTWei Wang
Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT feature indicates the support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon. Currenlty, only free page blocks of MAX_ORDER - 1 are reported. They are obtained one by one from the mm free list via the regular allocation function. Host requests the guest to report free page hints by sending a new cmd id to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register. When the guest starts to report, it first sends a start cmd to host via the free page vq, which acks to host the cmd id received. When the guest finishes reporting free pages, a stop cmd is sent to host via the vq. Host may also send a stop cmd id to the guest to stop the reporting. VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMD_ID_STOP: Host sends this cmd to stop the guest reporting. VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMD_ID_DONE: Host sends this cmd to tell the guest that the reported pages are ready to be freed. Why does the guest free the reported pages when host tells it is ready to free? This is because freeing pages appears to be expensive for live migration. free_pages() dirties memory very quickly and makes the live migraion not converge in some cases. So it is good to delay the free_page operation when the migration is done, and host sends a command to guest about that. Why do we need the new VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMD_ID_DONE, instead of reusing VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMD_ID_STOP? This is because live migration is usually done in several rounds. At the end of each round, host needs to send a VIRTIO_BALLOON_CMD_ID_STOP cmd to the guest to stop (or say pause) the reporting. The guest resumes the reporting when it receives a new command id at the beginning of the next round. So we need a new cmd id to distinguish between "stop reporting" and "ready to free the reported pages". TODO: - Add a batch page allocation API to amortize the allocation overhead. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2018-04-24virtio_balloon: add array of stat namesMichael S. Tsirkin
Jason Wang points out that it's very hard for users to build an array of stat names. The naive thing is to use VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR but that breaks if we add more stats - as done e.g. recently by commit 6c64fe7f2 ("virtio_balloon: export hugetlb page allocation counts"). Let's add an array of reasonably readable names. Fixes: 6c64fe7f2 ("virtio_balloon: export hugetlb page allocation counts") Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Helman <jonathan.helman@oracle.com>
2018-04-10virtio_balloon: export hugetlb page allocation countsJonathan Helman
Export the number of successful and failed hugetlb page allocations via the virtio balloon driver. These 2 counts come directly from the vm_events HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC and HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Helman <jonathan.helman@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-01-31virtio_balloon: include disk/file caches memory statisticsTomáš Golembiovský
Add a new field VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES to virtio_balloon memory statistics protocol. The value represents all disk/file caches. In this case it corresponds to the sum of values Buffers+Cached+SwapCached from /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2016-03-17virtio_balloon: export 'available' memory to balloon statisticsIgor Redko
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo. It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated without pushing the guest system to swap. Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-01include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h: include linux/virtio_types.hMikko Rapeli
Fixes userspace compilation error: error: unknown type name ‘__virtio16’ __virtio16 tag; Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-04-15virtio_balloon: transitional interfaceMichael S. Tsirkin
Virtio 1.0 doesn't include a modern balloon device. But it's not a big change to support a transitional balloon device: this has the advantage of supporting existing drivers, transparently. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-01-21virtio_balloon: coding style fixesMichael S. Tsirkin
Most of our code has struct foo { } Fix two instances where balloon is inconsistent. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-11-11virtio_balloon: free some memory from balloon on OOMRaushaniya Maksudova
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>
2013-04-02virtio: do not export "u16" and "u64" to userspacePaul Bolle
virtio_balloon.h exports "u16" and "u64" to userspace. Use "__u16" and "__u64" instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>