linux-kernel - [PATCH] xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far

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Date:	Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:58:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
To:	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: [PATCH] xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far

[PATCH] xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far

The balloon driver's "current_pages" is very different from
totalram_pages.  Self-ballooning needs to be driven by
the latter.  Also, Committed_AS doesn't account for pages
used by the kernel so enforce a floor for when there
are little or no user-space threads using memory.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 6ea852e..e3e48f1 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -195,14 +195,13 @@ __setup("selfballooning", xen_selfballooning_setup);
  */
 static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	unsigned long cur_pages, goal_pages, tgt_pages;
+	unsigned long cur_pages, goal_pages, tgt_pages, floor_pages;
 	bool reset_timer = false;
 
 	if (xen_selfballooning_enabled) {
-		cur_pages = balloon_stats.current_pages;
+		cur_pages = totalram_pages;
 		tgt_pages = cur_pages; /* default is no change */
-		goal_pages = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) +
-			balloon_stats.current_pages - totalram_pages;
+		goal_pages = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
 		/* allow space for frontswap pages to be repatriated */
 		if (frontswap_selfshrinking && frontswap_enabled)
@@ -217,7 +216,13 @@ static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work)
 				((goal_pages - cur_pages) /
 				  selfballoon_uphysteresis);
 		/* else if cur_pages == goal_pages, no change */
-		balloon_set_new_target(tgt_pages);
+		floor_pages = totalreserve_pages +
+				(roundup_pow_of_two(max_pfn) >> 5);
+		/* don't balloon too far, lest OOMs occur... */
+		if (tgt_pages < floor_pages)
+			tgt_pages = floor_pages;
+		balloon_set_new_target(tgt_pages +
+			balloon_stats.current_pages - totalram_pages);
 		reset_timer = true;
 	}
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
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