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Message-Id: <20121115143442.fd3672b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:34:42 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: drivres/hv
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:22:06 +0000
KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 7:37 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan
> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; devel@...uxdriverproject.org
> > Subject: Re: drivres/hv
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:11:23PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > >
> > > Greg,
> > >
> > > Recently, I had re-sent a few patches. You have applied all the patches except
> > the balloon driver
> > > related patches. Should I resend the balloon driver patches. Let me know.
> >
> > I can't apply the balloon driver until you get an ack from the
> > maintainers of the code you were exporting the symbols from.
> >
> > Get that, and then resend them, as they are long gone from my "to-apply"
> > queue.
>
> Greg,
>
> Andrew has checked in my patch that exports the necessary function for Hyper-V
> balloon driver:
>
> commit bb2495a71b8499bdfe207738bc88ffa91ebe0b0a
> Author: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> Date: Thu Nov 15 13:37:59 2012 +1100
>
> I had sent the new balloon driver that used this new function a few days ago. Should I
> resend the balloon driver. Let me know.
I'll send this in to Linus later this week, to make life easier for
everyone. Or Greg can grab it.
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: mm: export a function to get vm committed memory
It will be useful to be able to access global memory commitment from
device drivers. On the Hyper-V platform, the host has a policy engine to
balance the available physical memory amongst all competing virtual
machines hosted on a given node. This policy engine is driven by a number
of metrics including the memory commitment reported by the guests. The
balloon driver for Linux on Hyper-V will use this function to retrieve
guest memory commitment. This function is also used in Xen self
ballooning code.
[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c | 2 +-
include/linux/mman.h | 2 ++
mm/mmap.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
mm/nommu.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory
+++ a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void selfballoon_process(struct w
if (xen_selfballooning_enabled) {
cur_pages = totalram_pages;
tgt_pages = cur_pages; /* default is no change */
- goal_pages = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) +
+ goal_pages = vm_memory_committed() +
totalreserve_pages +
MB2PAGES(selfballoon_reserved_mb);
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
diff -puN include/linux/mman.h~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory include/linux/mman.h
--- a/include/linux/mman.h~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory
+++ a/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void);
+
static inline void vm_acct_memory(long pages)
{
percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages);
diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly =
struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
/*
+ * The global memory commitment made in the system can be a metric
+ * that can be used to drive ballooning decisions when Linux is hosted
+ * as a guest. On Hyper-V, the host implements a policy engine for dynamically
+ * balancing memory across competing virtual machines that are hosted.
+ * Several metrics drive this policy engine including the guest reported
+ * memory commitment.
+ */
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
+
+/*
* Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
* mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
* succeed and -ENOMEM implies there is not.
diff -puN mm/nommu.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory mm/nommu.c
--- a/mm/nommu.c~mm-export-a-function-to-get-vm-committed-memory
+++ a/mm/nommu.c
@@ -66,6 +66,21 @@ int heap_stack_gap = 0;
atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
+/*
+ * The global memory commitment made in the system can be a metric
+ * that can be used to drive ballooning decisions when Linux is hosted
+ * as a guest. On Hyper-V, the host implements a policy engine for dynamically
+ * balancing memory across competing virtual machines that are hosted.
+ * Several metrics drive this policy engine including the guest reported
+ * memory commitment.
+ */
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_physpages);
_
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