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| author | Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> | 2020-04-07 05:05:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-07 19:43:39 +0200 |
| commit | b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc (patch) | |
| tree | 50fa46cdfe7d051a1ab538f4ea6d4418496c9902 /drivers/virtio/Kconfig | |
| parent | virtio-balloon: pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting (diff) | |
| download | linux-b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc.tar.xz linux-b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc.zip | |
virtio-balloon: add support for providing free page reports to host
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig index 078615cf2afc..4b2dd8259ff5 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ config VIRTIO_BALLOON tristate "Virtio balloon driver" depends on VIRTIO select MEMORY_BALLOON + select PAGE_REPORTING ---help--- This driver supports increasing and decreasing the amount of memory within a KVM guest. |