30 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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If CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION=n balloon_page_insert() does not link pages
with balloon and doesn't set PagePrivate flag, as a result
balloon_page_dequeue() cannot get any pages because it thinks that all
of them are isolated. Without balloon compaction nobody can isolate
ballooned pages. It's safe to remove this check.Fixes: d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management").
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Reported-by: Matt Mullins
Cc: [3.17]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Oct, 2014
3 commits
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Always mark pages with PageBalloon even if balloon compaction is disabled
and expose this mark in /proc/kpageflags as KPF_BALLOON.Also this patch adds three counters into /proc/vmstat: "balloon_inflate",
"balloon_deflate" and "balloon_migrate". They accumulate balloon
activity. Current size of balloon is (balloon_inflate - balloon_deflate)
pages.All generic balloon code now gathered under option CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON.
It should be selected by ballooning driver which wants use this feature.
Currently virtio-balloon is the only user.Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Rafael Aquini
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Now ballooned pages are detected using PageBalloon(). Fake mapping is no
longer required. This patch links ballooned pages to balloon device using
field page->private instead of page->mapping. Also this patch embeds
balloon_dev_info directly into struct virtio_balloon.Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Rafael Aquini
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Sasha Levin reported KASAN splash inside isolate_migratepages_range().
Problem is in the function __is_movable_balloon_page() which tests
AS_BALLOON_MAP in page->mapping->flags. This function has no protection
against anonymous pages. As result it tried to check address space flags
inside struct anon_vma.Further investigation shows more problems in current implementation:
* Special branch in __unmap_and_move() never works:
balloon_page_movable() checks page flags and page_count. In
__unmap_and_move() page is locked, reference counter is elevated, thus
balloon_page_movable() always fails. As a result execution goes to the
normal migration path. virtballoon_migratepage() returns
MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS,
move_to_new_page() thinks this is an error code and assigns
newpage->mapping to NULL. Newly migrated page lose connectivity with
balloon an all ability for further migration.* lru_lock erroneously required in isolate_migratepages_range() for
isolation ballooned page. This function releases lru_lock periodically,
this makes migration mostly impossible for some pages.* balloon_page_dequeue have a tight race with balloon_page_isolate:
balloon_page_isolate could be executed in parallel with dequeue between
picking page from list and locking page_lock. Race is rare because they
use trylock_page() for locking.This patch fixes all of them.
Instead of fake mapping with special flag this patch uses special state of
page->_mapcount: PAGE_BALLOON_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -256. Buddy allocator uses
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -128 for similar purpose. Storing mark
directly in struct page makes everything safer and easier.PagePrivate is used to mark pages present in page list (i.e. not
isolated, like PageLRU for normal pages). It replaces special rules for
reference counter and makes balloon migration similar to migration of
normal pages. This flag is protected by page_lock together with link to
the balloon device.Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Reported-by: Sasha Levin
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/53E6CEAA.9020105@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael Aquini
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: [3.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
or whether ->index or ->mapping is required to be NULL.This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
places. It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
*specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
flag combination which was the problem.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to pr_alert]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
