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/******************************************************************************
* Xen selfballoon driver (and optional frontswap self-shrinking driver)
*
* Copyright (c) 2009-2011, Dan Magenheimer, Oracle Corp.
*
* This code complements the cleancache and frontswap patchsets to optimize
* support for Xen Transcendent Memory ("tmem"). The policy it implements
* is rudimentary and will likely improve over time, but it does work well
* enough today.
*
* Two functionalities are implemented here which both use "control theory"
* (feedback) to optimize memory utilization. In a virtualized environment
* such as Xen, RAM is often a scarce resource and we would like to ensure
* that each of a possibly large number of virtual machines is using RAM
* efficiently, i.e. using as little as possible when under light load
* and obtaining as much as possible when memory demands are high.
* Since RAM needs vary highly dynamically and sometimes dramatically,
* "hysteresis" is used, that is, memory target is determined not just
* on current data but also on past data stored in the system.
*
* "Selfballooning" creates memory pressure by managing the Xen balloon
* driver to decrease and increase available kernel memory, driven
* largely by the target value of "Committed_AS" (see /proc/meminfo).
* Since Committed_AS does not account for clean mapped pages (i.e. pages
* in RAM that are identical to pages on disk), selfballooning has the
* affect of pushing less frequently used clean pagecache pages out of
* kernel RAM and, presumably using cleancache, into Xen tmem where
* Xen can more efficiently optimize RAM utilization for such pages.
*
* When kernel memory demand unexpectedly increases faster than Xen, via
* the selfballoon driver, is able to (or chooses to) provide usable RAM,
* the kernel may invoke swapping. In most cases, frontswap is able
* to absorb this swapping into Xen tmem. However, due to the fact
* that the kernel swap subsystem assumes swapping occurs to a disk,
* swapped pages may sit on the disk for a very long time; even if
* the kernel knows the page will never be used again. This is because
* the disk space costs very little and can be overwritten when
* necessary. When such stale pages are in frontswap, however, they
* are taking up valuable real estate. "Frontswap selfshrinking" works
* to resolve this: When frontswap activity is otherwise stable
* and the guest kernel is not under memory pressure, the "frontswap
* selfshrinking" accounts for this by providing pressure to remove some
* pages from frontswap and return them to kernel memory.
*
* For both "selfballooning" and "frontswap-selfshrinking", a worker
* thread is used and sysfs tunables are provided to adjust the frequency
* and rate of adjustments to achieve the goal, as well as to disable one
* or both functions independently.
*
* While some argue that this functionality can and should be implemented
* in userspace, it has been observed that bad things happen (e.g. OOMs).
*
* System configuration note: Selfballooning should not be enabled on
* systems without a sufficiently large swap device configured; for best
* results, it is recommended that total swap be increased by the size
* of the guest memory. Note, that selfballooning should be disabled by default
* if frontswap is not configured. Similarly selfballooning should be enabled
* by default if frontswap is configured and can be disabled with the
* "tmem.selfballooning=0" kernel boot option. Finally, when frontswap is
* configured, frontswap-selfshrinking can be disabled with the
* "tmem.selfshrink=0" kernel boot option.
*
* Selfballooning is disallowed in domain0 and force-disabled.
*
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <xen/balloon.h>
#include <xen/tmem.h>
#include <xen/xen.h>
/* Enable/disable with sysfs. */
static int xen_selfballooning_enabled __read_mostly;
/*
* Controls rate at which memory target (this iteration) approaches
* ultimate goal when memory need is increasing (up-hysteresis) or
* decreasing (down-hysteresis). Higher values of hysteresis cause
* slower increases/decreases. The default values for the various
* parameters were deemed reasonable by experimentation, may be
* workload-dependent, and can all be adjusted via sysfs.
*/
static unsigned int selfballoon_downhysteresis __read_mostly = 8;
static unsigned int selfballoon_uphysteresis __read_mostly = 1;
/* In HZ, controls frequency of worker invocation. */
static unsigned int selfballoon_interval __read_mostly = 5;
/*
* Minimum usable RAM in MB for selfballooning target for balloon.
* If non-zero, it is added to totalreserve_pages and self-ballooning
* will not balloon below the sum. If zero, a piecewise linear function
* is calculated as a minimum and added to totalreserve_pages. Note that
* setting this value indiscriminately may cause OOMs and crashes.
*/
static unsigned int selfballoon_min_usable_mb;
/*
* Amount of RAM in MB to add to the target number of pages.
* Can be used to reserve some more room for caches and the like.
*/
static unsigned int selfballoon_reserved_mb;
static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work);
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(selfballoon_worker, selfballoon_process);
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
#include <linux/frontswap.h>
/* Enable/disable with sysfs. */
static bool frontswap_selfshrinking __read_mostly;
/*
* The default values for the following parameters were deemed reasonable
* by experimentation, may be workload-dependent, and can all be
* adjusted via sysfs.
*/
/* Control rate for frontswap shrinking. Higher hysteresis is slower. */
static unsigned int frontswap_hysteresis __read_mostly = 20;
/*
* Number of selfballoon worker invocations to wait before observing that
* frontswap selfshrinking should commence. Note that selfshrinking does
* not use a separate worker thread.
*/
static unsigned int frontswap_inertia __read_mostly = 3;
/* Countdown to next invocation of frontswap_shrink() */
static unsigned long frontswap_inertia_counter;
/*
* Invoked by the selfballoon worker thread, uses current number of pages
* in frontswap (frontswap_curr_pages()), previous status, and control
* values (hysteresis and inertia) to determine if frontswap should be
* shrunk and what the new frontswap size should be. Note that
* frontswap_shrink is essentially a partial swapoff that immediately
* transfers pages from the "swap device" (frontswap) back into kernel
* RAM; despite the name, frontswap "shrinking" is very different from
* the "shrinker" interface used by the kernel MM subsystem to reclaim
* memory.
*/
static void frontswap_selfshrink(void)
{
static unsigned long cur_frontswap_pages;
static unsigned long last_frontswap_pages;
static unsigned long tgt_frontswap_pages;
last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages;
cur_frontswap_pages = frontswap_curr_pages();
if (!cur_frontswap_pages ||
(cur_frontswap_pages > last_frontswap_pages)) {
frontswap_inertia_counter = frontswap_inertia;
return;
}
if (frontswap_inertia_counter && --frontswap_inertia_counter)
return;
if (cur_frontswap_pages <= frontswap_hysteresis)
tgt_frontswap_pages = 0;
else
tgt_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages -
(cur_frontswap_pages / frontswap_hysteresis);
frontswap_shrink(tgt_frontswap_pages);
frontswap_inertia_counter = frontswap_inertia;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_FRONTSWAP */
#define MB2PAGES(mb) ((mb) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
#define PAGES2MB(pages) ((pages) >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
/*
* Use current balloon size, the goal (vm_committed_as), and hysteresis
* parameters to set a new target balloon size
*/
static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work)
{
unsigned long cur_pages, goal_pages, tgt_pages, floor_pages;
unsigned long useful_pages;
bool reset_timer = false;
if (xen_selfballooning_enabled) {
cur_pages = totalram_pages;
tgt_pages = cur_pages; /* default is no change */
goal_pages = vm_memory_committed() +
totalreserve_pages +
MB2PAGES(selfballoon_reserved_mb);
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
/* allow space for frontswap pages to be repatriated */
if (frontswap_selfshrinking && frontswap_enabled)
goal_pages += frontswap_curr_pages();
#endif
if (cur_pages > goal_pages)
tgt_pages = cur_pages -
((cur_pages - goal_pages) /
selfballoon_downhysteresis);
else if (cur_pages < goal_pages)
tgt_pages = cur_pages +
((goal_pages - cur_pages) /
selfballoon_uphysteresis);
/* else if cur_pages == goal_pages, no change */
useful_pages = max_pfn - totalreserve_pages;
if (selfballoon_min_usable_mb != 0)
floor_pages = totalreserve_pages +
MB2PAGES(selfballoon_min_usable_mb);
/* piecewise linear function ending in ~3% slope */
else if (useful_pages < MB2PAGES(16))
floor_pages = max_pfn; /* not worth ballooning */
else if (useful_pages < MB2PAGES(64))
floor_pages = totalreserve_pages + MB2PAGES(16) +
((useful_pages - MB2PAGES(16)) >> 1);
else if (useful_pages < MB2PAGES(512))
floor_pages = totalreserve_pages + MB2PAGES(40) +
((useful_pages - MB2PAGES(40)) >> 3);
else /* useful_pages >= MB2PAGES(512) */
floor_pages = totalreserve_pages + MB2PAGES(99) +
((useful_pages - MB2PAGES(99)) >> 5);
if (tgt_pages < floor_pages)
tgt_pages = floor_pages;
balloon_set_new_target(tgt_pages +
balloon_stats.current_pages - totalram_pages);
reset_timer = true;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
if (frontswap_selfshrinking && frontswap_enabled) {
frontswap_selfshrink();
reset_timer = true;
}
#endif
if (reset_timer)
schedule_delayed_work(&selfballoon_worker,
selfballoon_interval * HZ);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
#include <linux/capability.h>
#define SELFBALLOON_SHOW(name, format, args...) \
static ssize_t show_##name(struct device *dev, \
struct device_attribute *attr, \
char *buf) \
{ \
return sprintf(buf, format, ##args); \
}
SELFBALLOON_SHOW(selfballooning, "%d\n", xen_selfballooning_enabled);
static ssize_t store_selfballooning(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf,
size_t count)
{
bool was_enabled = xen_selfballooning_enabled;
unsigned long tmp;
int err;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &tmp);
if (err)
return err;
if ((tmp != 0) && (tmp != 1))
return -EINVAL;
xen_selfballooning_enabled = !!tmp;
if (!was_enabled && xen_selfballooning_enabled)
schedule_delayed_work(&selfballoon_worker,
selfballoon_interval * HZ);
return count;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(selfballooning, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
show_selfballooning, store_selfballooning);
SELFBALLOON_SHOW(selfballoon_interval, "%d\n", selfballoon_interval);
static ssize_t store_selfballoon_interval(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf,
size_t count)
{
unsigned
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