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Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 09:35:21AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>> I would say reverting probably makes sense. I'm not sure there is muc= h >>>>> value to having a shrinker running deflation when you are actively tr= ying >>>>> to increase the balloon. It would make more sense to wait until you a= re >>>>> actually about to start hitting oom. >>>> >>>> I think the shrinker makes sense for free page hinting feature >>>> (everything on free_page_list). >>>> >>>> So instead of only reverting, I think we should split it up and always >>>> register the shrinker for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT and the OOM >>>> notifier (as before) for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST. >> >> s/VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST/VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM/ >> >> :) >=20 > Well VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST is also broken by shrinker > with VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT as that code adds buffers > but does not wait for them to be used even with VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TEL= L_HOST. > We never noticed because QEMU does not advertize > VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST. So, I am trying to understand how the code is intended to work, but I am afraid I am missing something (or to rephrase: I think I found a BUG :) = and there is lack of proper documentation about this feature). a) We allocate pages and add them to the list as long as we are told to do = so. We send these pages to the host one by one. b) We free all pages once we get a STOP signal. Until then, we keep pages a= llocated. c) When called via the shrinker, we want to free pages from the list, even though the hypervisor did not notify us to do so. Issue 1: When we unload the balloon driver in the guest in an unlucky event= , we won't free the pages. We are missing something like (if I am not wrong): diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloo= n.c index b1d2068fa2bd..e2b0925e1e83 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -929,6 +929,10 @@ static void remove_common(struct virtio_balloon *vb) leak_balloon(vb, vb->num_pages); update_balloon_size(vb); =20 + /* There might be free pages that are being reported: release them.= */ + if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) + return_free_pages_to_mm(vb, ULONG_MAX); + /* Now we reset the device so we can clean up the queues. */ vb->vdev->config->reset(vb->vdev); =20 Issue 2: When called via the shrinker, (but also to fix Issue 1), it could = be that we do have VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST. I assume this means (-ENOCLUE) that we have to wait until the hypervisor notifies us via the ST= OP? Or for which event do we have to wait? Because there is no way to *tell host* = here that we want to reuse a page. The hypervisor will *tell us* when we can reu= se pages. For the shrinker it is simple: Don't use the shrinker with VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST :) . But to fix Issue 1, we *would* have to= wait until we get a STOP signal. That is not really possible because it might take an infinite amount of time. Michael, any clue on which event we have to wait with VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST? IMHO, I don't think VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST applies to VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT = and we'd better document that. It introduces complexity with no clear benefit. --=20 Thanks, David / dhildenb