linux.git/mm/balloon_compaction.c, branch v5.3.2

mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings

2019-09-04T11:42:01+00:00

There is no reason to print warnings when balloon page allocation fails,
as they are expected and can be handled gracefully.  Since VMware
balloon now uses balloon-compaction infrastructure, and suppressed these
warnings before, it is also beneficial to suppress these warnings to
keep the same behavior that the balloon had before.

Cc: Jason Wang 
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand

balloon: fix up comments

2019-07-22T15:19:26+00:00

Lots of comments bitrotted. Fix them up.

Fixes: 418a3ab1e778 (mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces)
Reviewed-by: Wei Wang 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell 
Acked-by: Nadav Amit

mm/balloon_compaction: avoid duplicate page removal

2019-07-22T15:19:26+00:00

A #GP is reported in the guest when requesting balloon inflation via
virtio-balloon. The reason is that the virtio-balloon driver has
removed the page from its internal page list (via balloon_page_pop),
but balloon_page_enqueue_one also calls "list_del"  to do the removal.
This is necessary when it's used from balloon_page_enqueue_list, but
not from balloon_page_enqueue.

Move list_del to balloon_page_enqueue, and update comments accordingly.

Fixes: 418a3ab1e778 (mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces)
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

Merge 5.2-rc4 into char-misc-next

2019-06-09T07:11:21+00:00

We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces

2019-05-24T18:19:17+00:00

Introduce interfaces for ballooning enqueueing and dequeueing of a list
of pages. These interfaces reduce the overhead of storing and restoring
IRQs by batching the operations. In addition they do not panic if the
list of pages is empty.

Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard 
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM

2017-11-14T21:57:38+00:00

fill_balloon doing memory allocations under balloon_lock
can cause a deadlock when leak_balloon is called from
virtballoon_oom_notify and tries to take same lock.

To fix, split page allocation and enqueue and do allocations outside the lock.

Here's a detailed analysis of the deadlock by Tetsuo Handa:

In leak_balloon(), mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock) is called in order to
serialize against fill_balloon(). But in fill_balloon(),
alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER[_MOVABLE] | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY) is
called with vb->balloon_lock mutex held. Since GFP_HIGHUSER[_MOVABLE]
implies __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS, despite __GFP_NORETRY
is specified, this allocation attempt might indirectly depend on somebody
else's __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM memory allocation. And such indirect
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM memory allocation might call leak_balloon() via
virtballoon_oom_notify() via blocking_notifier_call_chain() callback via
out_of_memory() when it reached __alloc_pages_may_oom() and held oom_lock
mutex. Since vb->balloon_lock mutex is already held by fill_balloon(), it
will cause OOM lockup.

  Thread1                                       Thread2
    fill_balloon()
      takes a balloon_lock
      balloon_page_enqueue()
        alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE)
          direct reclaim (__GFP_FS context)       takes a fs lock
            waits for that fs lock                  alloc_page(GFP_NOFS)
                                                      __alloc_pages_may_oom()
                                                        takes the oom_lock
                                                        out_of_memory()
                                                          blocking_notifier_call_chain()
                                                            leak_balloon()
                                                              tries to take that balloon_lock and deadlocks

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Wei Wang 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

mm/migrate: new migrate mode MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY

2017-09-09T01:26:46+00:00

Introduce a new migration mode that allow to offload the copy to a device
DMA engine.  This changes the workflow of migration and not all
address_space migratepage callback can support this.

This is intended to be use by migrate_vma() which itself is use for thing
like HMM (see include/linux/hmm.h).

No additional per-filesystem migratepage testing is needed.  I disables
MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY in all problematic migratepage() callback and i
added comment in those to explain why (part of this patch).  The commit
message is unclear it should say that any callback that wish to support
this new mode need to be aware of the difference in the migration flow
from other mode.

Some of these callbacks do extra locking while copying (aio, zsmalloc,
balloon, ...) and for DMA to be effective you want to copy multiple
pages in one DMA operations.  But in the problematic case you can not
easily hold the extra lock accross multiple call to this callback.

Usual flow is:

For each page {
 1 - lock page
 2 - call migratepage() callback
 3 - (extra locking in some migratepage() callback)
 4 - migrate page state (freeze refcount, update page cache, buffer
     head, ...)
 5 - copy page
 6 - (unlock any extra lock of migratepage() callback)
 7 - return from migratepage() callback
 8 - unlock page
}

The new mode MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY:
 1 - lock multiple pages
For each page {
 2 - call migratepage() callback
 3 - abort in all problematic migratepage() callback
 4 - migrate page state (freeze refcount, update page cache, buffer
     head, ...)
} // finished all calls to migratepage() callback
 5 - DMA copy multiple pages
 6 - unlock all the pages

To support MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY in the problematic case we would need a
new callback migratepages() (for instance) that deals with multiple
pages in one transaction.

Because the problematic cases are not important for current usage I did
not wanted to complexify this patchset even more for no good reason.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-14-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: David Nellans 
Cc: Evgeny Baskakov 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mark Hairgrove 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Sherry Cheung 
Cc: Subhash Gutti 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/balloon_compaction.c: don't zero ballooned pages

2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00

Revert commit bb01b64cfab7 ("mm/balloon_compaction.c: enqueue zero page
to balloon device")'

Zeroing ballon pages is rather time consuming, especially when a lot of
pages are in flight. E.g. 7GB worth of ballooned memory takes 2.8s with
__GFP_ZERO while it takes ~491ms without it.

The original commit argued that zeroing will help ksmd to merge these
pages on the host but this argument is assuming that the host actually
marks balloon pages for ksm which is not universally true.  So we pay
performance penalty for something that even might not be used in the end
which is wrong.  The host can zero out pages on its own when there is a
need.

[mhocko@kernel.org: new changelog text]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501761557-9758-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com
Fixes: bb01b64cfab7 ("mm/balloon_compaction.c: enqueue zero page to balloon device")
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang 
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: zhenwei.pi 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/balloon_compaction.c: enqueue zero page to balloon device

2017-07-10T23:32:32+00:00

presently pages in the balloon device have random value, and these pages
will be scanned by ksmd on the host.  They usually cannot be merged.
Enqueue zero pages will resolve this problem.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498698637-26389-1-git-send-email-zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com
Signed-off-by: zhenwei.pi 
Cc: Gioh Kim 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Rafael Aquini 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds