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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200424164239.10723.58352.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.139.110.61; envelope-from=david@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/26 23:32:35 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 205.139.110.61 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 24.04.20 18:50, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This series provides an asynchronous means of reporting free guest pages > to QEMU through virtio-balloon so that the memory associated with those > pages can be discarded and reused by other processes and/or guests on the > host. Using this it is possible to avoid unnecessary I/O to disk and > greatly improve performance in the case of memory overcommit on the host. > > As a part of enabling this feature it was necessary to implement the page > poison reporting feature which had been added to the kernel, but was not > available in QEMU. This patch set adds it as a new device property > "page-poison" which is enabled by default, and adds support for migrating > the reported value. > > I originally submitted this patch series back on February 11th 2020[1], > but at that time I was focused primarily on the kernel portion of this > patch set. However as of April 7th those patches are now included in > Linus's kernel tree[2] and so I am submitting the QEMU pieces for > inclusion. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200211224416.29318.44077.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ > [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc > > Changes from v17: > Fixed typo in patch 1 title > Addressed white-space issues reported via checkpatch > Added braces {} for two if statements to match expected coding style > > Changes from v18: > Updated patches 2 and 3 based on input from dhildenb > Added comment to patch 2 describing what keeps us from reporting a bad page > Added patch to address issue with ROM devices being directly writable > > Changes from v19: > Added std-headers change to match changes pushed for linux kernel headers > Added patch to remove "report" from page hinting code paths > Updated comment to better explain why we disable hints w/ page poisoning > Removed code that was modifying config size for poison vs hinting > Dropped x-page-poison property > Added code to bounds check the reported region vs the RAM block > Dropped patch for ROM devices as that was already pulled in by Paolo > > Changes from v20: > Rearranged patches to push Linux header sync patches to front > Removed association between free page hinting and VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON > Added code to enable VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON if page reporting is enabled > Fixed possible resource leak if poison or qemu_balloon_is_inhibited return true > > Changes from v21: > Added ack for patch 3 > Rewrote patch description for page poison reporting feature > Made page-poison independent property and set to enabled by default > Added logic to migrate poison_val > Added several comments in code to better explain features > Switched free-page-reporting property to disabled by default Except one minor nit, looks good to me. We'll have to take care of compat handling regarding patch #4 as soon as we have 5.0 compat machines in place. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb