History log of /linux-master/drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# b0f2f82c 03-Feb-2024 Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>

xen: balloon: make balloon_subsys const

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
move the balloon_subsys variable to be a constant structure as well,
placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203-bus_cleanup-xen-v1-2-c2f5fe89ed95@marliere.net
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 20600617 26-May-2021 YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>

xen: Use DEVICE_ATTR_*() macro

Use DEVICE_ATTR_*() helper instead of plain DEVICE_ATTR(),
which makes the code a bit shorter and easier to read.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526141019.13752-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# eda4eabf 17-Jan-2020 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

xen/balloon: Support xend-based toolstack take two

Commit 3aa6c19d2f38be ("xen/balloon: Support xend-based toolstack")
tried to fix a regression with running on rather ancient Xen versions.
Unfortunately the fix was based on the assumption that xend would
just use another Xenstore node, but in reality only some downstream
versions of xend are doing that. The upstream xend does not write
that Xenstore node at all, so the problem must be fixed in another
way.

The easiest way to achieve that is to fall back to the behavior
before commit 96edd61dcf4436 ("xen/balloon: don't online new memory
initially") in case the static memory maximum can't be read.

This is achieved by setting static_max to the current number of
memory pages known by the system resulting in target_diff becoming
zero.

Fixes: 3aa6c19d2f38be ("xen/balloon: Support xend-based toolstack")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.13
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


# 814bbf49 14-Jul-2019 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

xen: remove tmem driver

The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13).

The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 1d988ed4 14-Feb-2019 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

x86/xen: dont add memory above max allowed allocation

Don't allow memory to be added above the allowed maximum allocation
limit set by Xen.

Trying to do so would result in cases like the following:

[ 584.559652] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 584.564897] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at ../arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c:129 xen_alloc_pte+0x1c7/0x390()
[ 584.575151] Modules linked in:
[ 584.578643] Supported: Yes
[ 584.581750] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.120-92.70-default #1
[ 584.590000] Hardware name: Cisco Systems Inc UCSC-C460-M4/UCSC-C460-M4, BIOS C460M4.4.0.1b.0.0629181419 06/29/2018
[ 584.601862] 0000000000000000 ffffffff813175a0 0000000000000000 ffffffff8184777c
[ 584.610200] ffffffff8107f4e1 ffff880487eb7000 ffff8801862b79c0 ffff88048608d290
[ 584.618537] 0000000000487eb7 ffffea0000000201 ffffffff81009de7 ffffffff81068561
[ 584.626876] Call Trace:
[ 584.629699] [<ffffffff81019ad9>] dump_trace+0x59/0x340
[ 584.635645] [<ffffffff81019eaa>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xea/0x170
[ 584.642391] [<ffffffff8101ac51>] show_stack+0x21/0x40
[ 584.648238] [<ffffffff813175a0>] dump_stack+0x5c/0x7c
[ 584.654085] [<ffffffff8107f4e1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
[ 584.660932] [<ffffffff81009de7>] xen_alloc_pte+0x1c7/0x390
[ 584.667289] [<ffffffff810647f0>] pmd_populate_kernel.constprop.6+0x40/0x80
[ 584.675241] [<ffffffff815ecfe8>] phys_pmd_init+0x210/0x255
[ 584.681587] [<ffffffff815ed207>] phys_pud_init+0x1da/0x247
[ 584.687931] [<ffffffff815edb3b>] kernel_physical_mapping_init+0xf5/0x1d4
[ 584.695682] [<ffffffff815e9bdd>] init_memory_mapping+0x18d/0x380
[ 584.702631] [<ffffffff81064699>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xf0

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 3aa6c19d 07-Oct-2018 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

xen/balloon: Support xend-based toolstack

Xend-based toolstacks don't have static-max entry in xenstore. The
equivalent node for those toolstacks is memory_static_max.

Fixes: 5266b8e4445c (xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest)
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.13
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 197ecb38 07-Sep-2018 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>

xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages

Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
(from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
returned to Xen.

Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
kicks in).
Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
switch.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


# 3596924a 08-Aug-2018 Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>

xen/balloon: fix balloon initialization for PVH Dom0

The current balloon code tries to calculate a delta factor for the
balloon target when running in HVM mode in order to account for memory
used by the firmware.

This workaround for memory accounting doesn't work properly on a PVH
Dom0, that has a static-max value different from the target value even
at startup. Note that this is not a problem for DomUs because guests are
started with a static-max value that matches the amount of RAM in the
memory map.

Fix this by forcefully setting target_diff for Dom0, regardless of
it's mode.

Reported-by: Gabriel Bercarug <bercarug@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


# 5266b8e4 26-Oct-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

xen: fix booting ballooned down hvm guest

Commit 96edd61dcf44362d3ef0bed1a5361e0ac7886a63 ("xen/balloon: don't
online new memory initially") introduced a regression when booting a
HVM domain with memory less than mem-max: instead of ballooning down
immediately the system would try to use the memory up to mem-max
resulting in Xen crashing the domain.

For HVM domains the current size will be reflected in Xenstore node
memory/static-max instead of memory/target.

Additionally we have to trigger the ballooning process at once.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.13
Fixes: 96edd61dcf44362d3ef0bed1a5361e0ac7886a63 ("xen/balloon: don't
online new memory initially")

Reported-by: Simon Gaiser <hw42@ipsumj.de>
Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


# 96edd61d 10-Jul-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

xen/balloon: don't online new memory initially

When setting up the Xenstore watch for the memory target size the new
watch will fire at once. Don't try to reach the configured target size
by onlining new memory in this case, as the current memory size will
be smaller in almost all cases due to e.g. BIOS reserved pages.

Onlining new memory will lead to more problems e.g. undesired conflicts
with NVMe devices meant to be operated as block devices.

Instead remember the difference between target size and current size
when the watch fires for the first time and apply it to any further
size changes, too.

In order to avoid races between balloon.c and xen-balloon.c init calls
do the xen-balloon.c initialization from balloon.c.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


# 5584ea25 09-Feb-2017 Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

xen: modify xenstore watch event interface

Today a Xenstore watch event is delivered via a callback function
declared as:

void (*callback)(struct xenbus_watch *,
const char **vec, unsigned int len);

As all watch events only ever come with two parameters (path and token)
changing the prototype to:

void (*callback)(struct xenbus_watch *,
const char *path, const char *token);

is the natural thing to do.

Apply this change and adapt all users.

Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: roger.pau@citrix.com
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com
Cc: paul.durrant@citrix.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


# 106eaa8e 21-Feb-2016 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

drivers/xen: make [xen-]ballon explicitly non-modular

The Makefile / Kconfig currently controlling compilation here is:

obj-y += grant-table.o features.o balloon.o manage.o preempt.o time.o
[...]
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON) += xen-balloon.o

...with:

drivers/xen/Kconfig:config XEN_BALLOON
drivers/xen/Kconfig: bool "Xen memory balloon driver"

...meaning that they currently are not being built as modules by anyone.

Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.

In doing so we uncover two implict includes that were obtained
by module.h having such a wide include scope itself:

In file included from drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c:41:0:
include/xen/balloon.h:26:51: warning: ‘struct page’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int alloc_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
^
include/xen/balloon.h: In function ‘register_xen_selfballooning’:
include/xen/balloon.h:35:10: error: ‘ENOSYS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
return -ENOSYS;
^

This is fixed by adding mm-types.h and errno.h to the list.

We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tags since all that information
is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>


# b6a473a7 05-Feb-2015 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

xen: balloon: Use static attribute groups for sysfs entries

Instead of manual calls of device_create_file(), device_remove_file()
and sysfs_create_group(), assign static attribute groups to the device
to register. This simplifies the code and avoids possible races.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>


# 283c0972 28-Jun-2013 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

xen: Convert printks to pr_<level>

Convert printks to pr_<level> (excludes printk(KERN_DEBUG...)
to be more consistent throughout the xen subsystem.

Add pr_fmt with KBUILD_MODNAME or "xen:" KBUILD_MODNAME
Coalesce formats and add missing word spaces
Add missing newlines
Align arguments and reflow to 80 columns
Remove DRV_NAME from formats as pr_fmt adds the same content

This does change some of the prefixes of these messages
but it also does make them more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# ead1d014 13-Mar-2012 Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>

xen: constify all instances of "struct attribute_group"

The functions these get passed to have been taking pointers to const
since at least 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# 8ea11f7f 12-Jan-2012 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

xen/balloon: Move the registration from device to subsystem.

With git commit 070680218379e15c1901f4bf21b98e3cbf12b527
"xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem" we would
end up with the attributes being put in:

/sys/devices/xen_memory0/target_kb
instead of
/sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb

Making the tools inable to deflate the kernel to make more space
for launching another guest and printing:
Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Suggested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# 07068021 14-Dec-2011 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# 6b71c52e 28-Jul-2011 Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

xen: use static initializers in xen-balloon.c

There is no need to use dynamic initializaion, it just confuses the reader.
Switch to static initializers like its used in other files.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
[v2: Rebased on v3.0]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


# a50777c7 08-Jul-2011 Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>

xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking

This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory
("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap. Both
use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization.
Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal
value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean
page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where
Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine.
Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap,
driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when
in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs.

More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c.

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

[v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap]
[v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments]
[v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap]
[v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls]
[v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits]
[v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1]
[v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes]
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>


# 803eb047 14-Mar-2011 Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>

xen-balloon: Move core balloon functionality out of module

The basic functionality of ballooning pages is useful for Xen drivers in
general. Rather than require a dependency on the balloon module, split
the functionality that is reused into the core. The balloon module is
still required to follow ballooning requests from xenstore or to view
balloon statistics in sysfs.

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>