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[174.93.89.182]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v75sm4944965qkb.14.2021.02.18.14.59.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:59:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:59:04 -0500 From: Peter Xu To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Michal Hocko , Oscar Salvador , Matthew Wilcox , Andrea Arcangeli , Minchan Kim , Jann Horn , Jason Gunthorpe , Dave Hansen , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Vlastimil Babka , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Thomas Bogendoerfer , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE to prefault/prealloc memory Message-ID: <20210218225904.GB6669@xz-x1> References: <20210217154844.12392-1-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210217154844.12392-1-david@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Hi, David, On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 04:48:44PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also > sometimes involving MADV_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/ > discard memory inside such a sparse memory region. Example users are > hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar > technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators. In addition, we want > to fail in a nice way if populating does not succeed because we are out of > backend memory (which can happen easily with file-based mappings, > especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs). Could you explain a bit more on how do you plan to use this new interface for the virtio-balloon scenario? Meanwhile, here you seemed to be talking about file-backed mem, however later it sounds more like for anonymous, so I'm slightly confused. Thanks, -- Peter Xu