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Mel Gorman 71baba4b92 mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep.  The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake.  As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags.  This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Philip P. Moltmann 48e3d668b7 VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI
Get notified immediately when a balloon target is set, instead of waiting for
up to one second.

The up-to 1 second gap could be long enough to cause swapping inside of the
VM that receives the VM.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Siva Sankar Reddy B <sankars@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann d7568c130d VMware balloon: Treat init like reset
Unify the behavior of the first start of the balloon and a reset. Also on
unload, declare that the balloon driver does not have any capabilities
anymore.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann 365bd7ef7e VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
2m ballooning significantly reduces the hypervisor side (and guest side)
overhead of ballooning and unballooning.

hypervisor only:
      balloon  unballoon
4 KB  2 GB/s   2.6 GB/s
2 MB  54 GB/s  767 GB/s

Use 2 MB pages as the hypervisor is alwys 64bit and 2 MB is the smallest
supported super-page size.

The code has to run on older versions of ESX and old balloon drivers run on
newer version of ESX. Hence match the capabilities with the host before 2m
page ballooning could be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann 33d268ed00 VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in non-sleep mode.
When VMware's hypervisor requests a VM to reclaim memory this is preferrably done
via ballooning. If the balloon driver does not return memory fast enough, more
drastic methods, such as hypervisor-level swapping are needed. These other methods
cause performance issues, e.g. hypervisor-level swapping requires the hypervisor to
swap in a page syncronously while the virtual CPU is blocked.

Hence it is in the interest of the VM to balloon memory as fast as possible. The
problem with doing this is that the VM might end up doing nothing else than
ballooning and the user might notice that the VM is stalled, esp. when the VM has
only a single virtual CPU.

This is less of a problem if the VM and the hypervisor perform balloon operations
faster. Also the balloon driver yields regularly, hence on a single virtual CPU
the Linux scheduler should be able to properly time-slice between ballooning and
other tasks.

Testing Done: quickly ballooned a lot of pages while wathing if there are any
perceived hickups (periods of non-responsiveness) in the execution of the
linux VM. No such hickups were seen.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann b36e89da86 VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.
This helps with debugging vmw_balloon behavior, as it is clear what
functionality is enabled.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Xavier Deguillard 4670de4d7f VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock.
Instead of waiting for the next GET_TARGET command, we can react faster
by exploiting the fact that each hypervisor call also returns the
balloon target.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Xavier Deguillard f220a80f0c VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon.
Introduce a new capability to the driver that allow sending 512 pages in
one hypervisor call. This reduce the cost of the driver when reclaiming
memory.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Xavier Deguillard eb79100fe6 VMware balloon: Add support for balloon capabilities.
In order to extend the balloon protocol, the hypervisor and the guest
driver need to agree on a set of supported functionality to use.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-08-05 13:17:53 -07:00
Xavier Deguillard ef0f8f1129 VMware balloon: partially inline vmballoon_reserve_page.
This split the function in two: the allocation part is inlined into the
inflate function and the lock part is kept into his own function.

This change is needed in order to be able to allocate more than one page
before doing the hypervisor call.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-08-05 13:17:23 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 73b35d07ee MAINTAINERS: add entry for VMware Balloon driver
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-20 11:47:33 -07:00
Jan-Simon Möller e83736c802 misc: vmw_balloon: Remove braces to fix build for clang.
Based on a patch from: PaX Team <pageexec at freemail.hu> in a mailing
list message at:
	http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20120507/142707.html

Clang chokes on the notation "inl (%dx)" but works for "inl %dx"; GNU as accepts both forms.

CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-27 21:51:21 -07:00
Danny Kukawka 3e5ba466d5 vmw_balloon: fix for a -Wuninitialized warning
Fix for a -Wuninitialized compiler warning. Changed return value of
vmballoon_send_lock_page() from bool to int to be able to distinguish
between the error cases to avoid uninitialized use of hv_status in
vmballoon_reserve_page()

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-02-02 16:28:13 -08:00
Rakib Mullick 2ca02df6b0 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment
Fix typo in code comment.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:03 -07:00
Rakib Mullick 6d994a7e42 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop
In vmballoon_reserve_page(), flags has been passed from the callee
function (vmballoon_inflate here).  So, we can determine can_sleep outside
the loop.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:03 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov beda94da38 Vmware balloon: switch to using sysem-wide freezable workqueue
With the arrival of concurrency-managed workqueues there is no need for
our driver to use dedicated workqueue; system-wide one should suffice just
fine.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout & grammar]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
Tejun Heo 58a69cb47e workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'.  The former is the more prominent one.  The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places.  Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 17:48:59 +01:00
Dmitry Torokhov d27a0c06ec VMware balloon: stop locking pages when hypervisor tells us enough
When hypervisor decides to decrease target balloon size while the balloon
driver tries to lock pages hypervisor may respond with
VMW_BALLOON_PPN_NOTNEEDED.  Use this data and immediately stop reserving
pages and wait for the next update cycle to fetch new target instead of
continuing trying to lock pages until size of refused list grows above
VMW_BALLOON_MAX_REFUSED (16) pages.

As a result the driver stops bothering the hypervisor with its attempts to
lock more pages that are not needed anymore.  Most likely next order from
hypervisor will be to reduce ballon size anyway.

It is a small optimization.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
Dmitry Torokhov d544b7a40a vmware balloon: rename module
In an effort to minimize customer confusion we want to unify naming
convention for VMware-provided kernel modules.  This change renames the
balloon driver from vmware_ballon to vmw_balloon.

We expect to follow this naming convention (vmw_<module_name>) for all
modules that are part of mainline kernel and/or being distributed by
VMware, with the sole exception of vmxnet3 driver (since the name of
mainline driver happens to match with the name used in VMware Tools).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-22 17:22:38 -07:00