From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOHhq-0005RH-RY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:36:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOHhm-0000lI-HE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:36:50 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:6594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOHhm-0000i2-6m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:36:46 -0500 Message-ID: <5A2E27F5.2010703@intel.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:38:45 +0800 From: Wei Wang MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1511963726-34070-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <1511963726-34070-11-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <20171201173951-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20171201173951-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v18 10/10] virtio-balloon: don't report free pages when page poisoning is enabled List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mawilcox@microsoft.com, david@redhat.com, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net, aarcange@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, willy@infradead.org, liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu@aliyun.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com On 12/01/2017 11:49 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: >> The guest free pages should not be discarded by the live migration thread >> when page poisoning is enabled with PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY=n, because >> skipping the transfer of such poisoned free pages will trigger false >> positive when new pages are allocated and checked on the destination. >> This patch skips the reporting of free pages in the above case. >> >> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin >> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang >> Cc: Michal Hocko >> --- >> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 4 +++- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> index 035bd3a..6ac4cff 100644 >> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> @@ -652,7 +652,9 @@ static void report_free_page(struct work_struct *work) >> /* Start by sending the obtained cmd id to the host with an outbuf */ >> send_one_desc(vb, vb->free_page_vq, virt_to_phys(&vb->start_cmd_id), >> sizeof(uint32_t), false, true, false); >> - walk_free_mem_block(vb, 0, &virtio_balloon_send_free_pages); >> + if (!(page_poisoning_enabled() && >> + !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY))) >> + walk_free_mem_block(vb, 0, &virtio_balloon_send_free_pages); >> /* >> * End by sending the stop id to the host with an outbuf. Use the >> * non-batching mode here to trigger a kick after adding the stop id. > PAGE_POISONING_ZERO is actually OK. > > But I really would prefer it that we still send pages to host, > otherwise debugging becomes much harder. > > And it does not have to be completely useless, even though > you can not discard them as they would be zero-filled then. > > How about a config field telling host what should be there in the free > pages? This way even though host can not discard them, host can send > them out without reading them, still a win. > > Since this poison value comes with the free page reporting feature, how about sending the poison value via the free_page_vq, along with the cmd id in the outbuf? That is, use the following interface: struct virtio_balloon_free_page_vq_hdr { bool page_poisoning; __virtio32 poison_value; __virtio32 cmd_id; } We need "bool page_poisoning" because "poison_value=0" doesn't tell whether page poising is in use by the guest. PAGE_POISONING_ZERO sets "page_poisoning=true, poisoning_value=0", and the host will send the 0-filled pages to the destination (if not sending 0-filled pages, the destination host would offer non-zero pages to the guest) The host can discard free pages only when "page_poisoning=false". Best, Wei