kernel-fxtec-pro1x/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
Rafael Aquini 18468d93e5 mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
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 <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00

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/*
* include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
*
* Common interface definitions for making balloon pages movable by compaction.
*
* Despite being perfectly possible to perform ballooned pages migration, they
* make a special corner case to compaction scans because balloon pages are not
* enlisted at any LRU list like the other pages we do compact / migrate.
*
* As the page isolation scanning step a compaction thread does is a lockless
* procedure (from a page standpoint), it might bring some racy situations while
* performing balloon page compaction. In order to sort out these racy scenarios
* and safely perform balloon's page compaction and migration we must, always,
* ensure following these three simple rules:
*
* i. when updating a balloon's page ->mapping element, strictly do it under
* the following lock order, independently of the far superior
* locking scheme (lru_lock, balloon_lock):
* +-page_lock(page);
* +--spin_lock_irq(&b_dev_info->pages_lock);
* ... page->mapping updates here ...
*
* ii. before isolating or dequeueing a balloon page from the balloon device
* pages list, the page reference counter must be raised by one and the
* extra refcount must be dropped when the page is enqueued back into
* the balloon device page list, thus a balloon page keeps its reference
* counter raised only while it is under our special handling;
*
* iii. after the lockless scan step have selected a potential balloon page for
* isolation, re-test the page->mapping flags and the page ref counter
* under the proper page lock, to ensure isolating a valid balloon page
* (not yet isolated, nor under release procedure)
*
* The functions provided by this interface are placed to help on coping with
* the aforementioned balloon page corner case, as well as to ensure the simple
* set of exposed rules are satisfied while we are dealing with balloon pages
* compaction / migration.
*
* Copyright (C) 2012, Red Hat, Inc. Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_BALLOON_COMPACTION_H
#define _LINUX_BALLOON_COMPACTION_H
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/page-flags.h>
#include <linux/migrate.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
/*
* Balloon device information descriptor.
* This struct is used to allow the common balloon compaction interface
* procedures to find the proper balloon device holding memory pages they'll
* have to cope for page compaction / migration, as well as it serves the
* balloon driver as a page book-keeper for its registered balloon devices.
*/
struct balloon_dev_info {
void *balloon_device; /* balloon device descriptor */
struct address_space *mapping; /* balloon special page->mapping */
unsigned long isolated_pages; /* # of isolated pages for migration */
spinlock_t pages_lock; /* Protection to pages list */
struct list_head pages; /* Pages enqueued & handled to Host */
};
extern struct page *balloon_page_enqueue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info);
extern struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info);
extern struct balloon_dev_info *balloon_devinfo_alloc(
void *balloon_dev_descriptor);
static inline void balloon_devinfo_free(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info)
{
kfree(b_dev_info);
}
/*
* balloon_page_free - release a balloon page back to the page free lists
* @page: ballooned page to be set free
*
* This function must be used to properly set free an isolated/dequeued balloon
* page at the end of a sucessful page migration, or at the balloon driver's
* page release procedure.
*/
static inline void balloon_page_free(struct page *page)
{
/*
* Balloon pages always get an extra refcount before being isolated
* and before being dequeued to help on sorting out fortuite colisions
* between a thread attempting to isolate and another thread attempting
* to release the very same balloon page.
*
* Before we handle the page back to Buddy, lets drop its extra refcnt.
*/
put_page(page);
__free_page(page);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
extern bool balloon_page_isolate(struct page *page);
extern void balloon_page_putback(struct page *page);
extern int balloon_page_migrate(struct page *newpage,
struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode);
extern struct address_space
*balloon_mapping_alloc(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
const struct address_space_operations *a_ops);
static inline void balloon_mapping_free(struct address_space *balloon_mapping)
{
kfree(balloon_mapping);
}
/*
* page_flags_cleared - helper to perform balloon @page ->flags tests.
*
* As balloon pages are obtained from buddy and we do not play with page->flags
* at driver level (exception made when we get the page lock for compaction),
* we can safely identify a ballooned page by checking if the
* PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP page->flags are all cleared. This approach also
* helps us skip ballooned pages that are locked for compaction or release, thus
* mitigating their racy check at balloon_page_movable()
*/
static inline bool page_flags_cleared(struct page *page)
{
return !(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP);
}
/*
* __is_movable_balloon_page - helper to perform @page mapping->flags tests
*/
static inline bool __is_movable_balloon_page(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
return mapping_balloon(mapping);
}
/*
* balloon_page_movable - test page->mapping->flags to identify balloon pages
* that can be moved by compaction/migration.
*
* This function is used at core compaction's page isolation scheme, therefore
* most pages exposed to it are not enlisted as balloon pages and so, to avoid
* undesired side effects like racing against __free_pages(), we cannot afford
* holding the page locked while testing page->mapping->flags here.
*
* As we might return false positives in the case of a balloon page being just
* released under us, the page->mapping->flags need to be re-tested later,
* under the proper page lock, at the functions that will be coping with the
* balloon page case.
*/
static inline bool balloon_page_movable(struct page *page)
{
/*
* Before dereferencing and testing mapping->flags, let's make sure
* this is not a page that uses ->mapping in a different way
*/
if (page_flags_cleared(page) && !page_mapped(page) &&
page_count(page) == 1)
return __is_movable_balloon_page(page);
return false;
}
/*
* balloon_page_insert - insert a page into the balloon's page list and make
* the page->mapping assignment accordingly.
* @page : page to be assigned as a 'balloon page'
* @mapping : allocated special 'balloon_mapping'
* @head : balloon's device page list head
*
* Caller must ensure the page is locked and the spin_lock protecting balloon
* pages list is held before inserting a page into the balloon device.
*/
static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct page *page,
struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *head)
{
page->mapping = mapping;
list_add(&page->lru, head);
}
/*
* balloon_page_delete - delete a page from balloon's page list and clear
* the page->mapping assignement accordingly.
* @page : page to be released from balloon's page list
*
* Caller must ensure the page is locked and the spin_lock protecting balloon
* pages list is held before deleting a page from the balloon device.
*/
static inline void balloon_page_delete(struct page *page)
{
page->mapping = NULL;
list_del(&page->lru);
}
/*
* balloon_page_device - get the b_dev_info descriptor for the balloon device
* that enqueues the given page.
*/
static inline struct balloon_dev_info *balloon_page_device(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
if (likely(mapping))
return mapping->private_data;
return NULL;
}
static inline gfp_t balloon_mapping_gfp_mask(void)
{
return GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE;
}
static inline bool balloon_compaction_check(void)
{
return true;
}
#else /* !CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION */
static inline void *balloon_mapping_alloc(void *balloon_device,
const struct address_space_operations *a_ops)
{
return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
}
static inline void balloon_mapping_free(struct address_space *balloon_mapping)
{
return;
}
static inline void balloon_page_insert(struct page *page,
struct address_space *mapping,
struct list_head *head)
{
list_add(&page->lru, head);
}
static inline void balloon_page_delete(struct page *page)
{
list_del(&page->lru);
}
static inline bool balloon_page_movable(struct page *page)
{
return false;
}
static inline bool balloon_page_isolate(struct page *page)
{
return false;
}
static inline void balloon_page_putback(struct page *page)
{
return;
}
static inline int balloon_page_migrate(struct page *newpage,
struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
{
return 0;
}
static inline gfp_t balloon_mapping_gfp_mask(void)
{
return GFP_HIGHUSER;
}
static inline bool balloon_compaction_check(void)
{
return false;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION */
#endif /* _LINUX_BALLOON_COMPACTION_H */