[PATCH v28 1/4] mm: support reporting free page blocks

[PATCH v28 1/4] mm: support reporting free page blocks

[Wei Wang]

This patch adds support to walk through the free page blocks in the
system and report them via a callback function. Some page blocks may
leave the free list after zone->lock is released, so it is the caller's
responsibility to either detect or prevent the use of such pages.

One use example of this patch is to accelerate live migration by skipping
the transfer of free pages reported from the guest. A popular method used
by the hypervisor to track which part of memory is written during live
migration is to write-protect all the guest memory. So, those pages that
are reported as free pages but are written after the report function
returns will be captured by the hypervisor, and they will be added to the
next round of memory transfer.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  6 ++++
 mm/page_alloc.c    | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 102 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 173d248..1c77d88 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1944,6 +1944,12 @@ extern void free_area_init_node(int nid, unsigned long * zones_size,
 		unsigned long zone_start_pfn, unsigned long *zholes_size);
 extern void free_initmem(void);
 
+extern int walk_free_mem_block(void *opaque,
+			       int min_order,
+			       int (*report_pfn_range)(void *opaque,
+						       unsigned long pfn,
+						       unsigned long num));
+
 /*
  * Free reserved pages within range [PAGE_ALIGN(start), end & PAGE_MASK)
  * into the buddy system. The freed pages will be poisoned with pattern
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c7dd9c8..995ff01 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4906,6 +4906,102 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter, nodemask_t *nodemask)
 	show_swap_cache_info();
 }
 
+/*
+ * Walk through a free page list and report the found pfn range via the
+ * callback.
+ *
+ * Return 0 if it completes the reporting. Otherwise, return the non-zero
+ * value returned from the callback.
+ */
+static int walk_free_page_list(void *opaque,
+			       struct zone *zone,
+			       int order,
+			       enum migratetype mt,
+			       int (*report_pfn_range)(void *,
+						       unsigned long,
+						       unsigned long))
+{
+	struct page *page;
+	struct list_head *list;
+	unsigned long pfn, flags;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+	list = &zone->free_area[order].free_list[mt];
+	list_for_each_entry(page, list, lru) {
+		pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+		ret = report_pfn_range(opaque, pfn, 1 << order);
+		if (ret)
+			break;
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * walk_free_mem_block - Walk through the free page blocks in the system
+ * @opaque: the context passed from the caller
+ * @min_order: the minimum order of free lists to check
+ * @report_pfn_range: the callback to report the pfn range of the free pages
+ *
+ * If the callback returns a non-zero value, stop iterating the list of free
+ * page blocks. Otherwise, continue to report.
+ *
+ * Please note that there are no locking guarantees for the callback and
+ * that the reported pfn range might be freed or disappear after the
+ * callback returns so the caller has to be very careful how it is used.
+ *
+ * The callback itself must not sleep or perform any operations which would
+ * require any memory allocations directly (not even GFP_NOWAIT/GFP_ATOMIC)
+ * or via any lock dependency. It is generally advisable to implement
+ * the callback as simple as possible and defer any heavy lifting to a
+ * different context.
+ *
+ * There is no guarantee that each free range will be reported only once
+ * during one walk_free_mem_block invocation.
+ *
+ * pfn_to_page on the given range is strongly discouraged and if there is
+ * an absolute need for that make sure to contact MM people to discuss
+ * potential problems.
+ *
+ * The function itself might sleep so it cannot be called from atomic
+ * contexts.
+ *
+ * In general low orders tend to be very volatile and so it makes more
+ * sense to query larger ones first for various optimizations which like
+ * ballooning etc... This will reduce the overhead as well.
+ *
+ * Return 0 if it completes the reporting. Otherwise, return the non-zero
+ * value returned from the callback.
+ */
+int walk_free_mem_block(void *opaque,
+			int min_order,
+			int (*report_pfn_range)(void *opaque,
+			unsigned long pfn,
+			unsigned long num))
+{
+	struct zone *zone;
+	int order;
+	enum migratetype mt;
+	int ret;
+
+	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
+		for (order = MAX_ORDER - 1; order >= min_order; order--) {
+			for (mt = 0; mt < MIGRATE_TYPES; mt++) {
+				ret = walk_free_page_list(opaque, zone,
+							  order, mt,
+							  report_pfn_range);
+				if (ret)
+					return ret;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(walk_free_mem_block);
+
 static void zoneref_set_zone(struct zone *zone, struct zoneref *zoneref)
 {
 	zoneref->zone = zone;
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCH v28 2/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT

[Wei Wang]

Negotiation of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT feature indicates the
support of reporting hints of guest free pages to host via virtio-balloon.

Host requests the guest to report free page hints by sending a new cmd
id to the guest via the free_page_report_cmd_id configuration register.

When the guest starts to report, the first element added to the free page
vq is the cmd id given by host. When the guest finishes the reporting
of all the free pages, VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_REPORT_STOP_ID is added
to the vq to tell host that the reporting is done. Host polls the free
page vq after sending the starting cmd id, so the guest doesn't need to
kick after filling an element to the vq.

Host may also requests the guest to stop the reporting in advance by
sending the stop cmd id to the guest via the configuration register.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |   4 +
 2 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index a1fb52c..39ecce3 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -51,9 +51,22 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(oom_pages, "pages to free on OOM");
 static struct vfsmount *balloon_mnt;
 #endif
 
+enum virtio_balloon_vq {
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_INFLATE,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_DEFLATE,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_STATS,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_FREE_PAGE,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_MAX
+};
+
 struct virtio_balloon {
 	struct virtio_device *vdev;
-	struct virtqueue *inflate_vq, *deflate_vq, *stats_vq;
+	struct virtqueue *inflate_vq, *deflate_vq, *stats_vq, *free_page_vq;
+
+	/* Balloon's own wq for cpu-intensive work items */
+	struct workqueue_struct *balloon_wq;
+	/* The free page reporting work item submitted to the balloon wq */
+	struct work_struct report_free_page_work;
 
 	/* The balloon servicing is delegated to a freezable workqueue. */
 	struct work_struct update_balloon_stats_work;
@@ -63,6 +76,11 @@ struct virtio_balloon {
 	spinlock_t stop_update_lock;
 	bool stop_update;
 
+	/* The new cmd id received from host */
+	uint32_t cmd_id_received;
+	/* The cmd id that is in use */
+	__virtio32 cmd_id_use;
+
 	/* Waiting for host to ack the pages we released. */
 	wait_queue_head_t acked;
 
@@ -316,17 +334,6 @@ static void stats_handle_request(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 	virtqueue_kick(vq);
 }
 
-static void virtballoon_changed(struct virtio_device *vdev)
-{
-	struct virtio_balloon *vb = vdev->priv;
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
-	if (!vb->stop_update)
-		queue_work(system_freezable_wq, &vb->update_balloon_size_work);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
-}
-
 static inline s64 towards_target(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 {
 	s64 target;
@@ -343,6 +350,34 @@ static inline s64 towards_target(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 	return target - vb->num_pages;
 }
 
+static void virtballoon_changed(struct virtio_device *vdev)
+{
+	struct virtio_balloon *vb = vdev->priv;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	s64 diff = towards_target(vb);
+
+	if (diff) {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
+		if (!vb->stop_update)
+			queue_work(system_freezable_wq,
+				   &vb->update_balloon_size_work);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
+	}
+
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) {
+		virtio_cread(vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
+			     free_page_report_cmd_id, &vb->cmd_id_received);
+		if (vb->cmd_id_received !=
+		    VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_REPORT_STOP_ID) {
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
+			if (!vb->stop_update)
+				queue_work(vb->balloon_wq,
+					   &vb->report_free_page_work);
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vb->stop_update_lock, flags);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 static void update_balloon_size(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 {
 	u32 actual = vb->num_pages;
@@ -417,42 +452,155 @@ static void update_balloon_size_func(struct work_struct *work)
 
 static int init_vqs(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
 {
-	struct virtqueue *vqs[3];
-	vq_callback_t *callbacks[] = { balloon_ack, balloon_ack, stats_request };
-	static const char * const names[] = { "inflate", "deflate", "stats" };
-	int err, nvqs;
+	struct virtqueue *vqs[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_MAX];
+	vq_callback_t *callbacks[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_MAX];
+	const char *names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_MAX];
+	struct scatterlist sg;
+	int ret;
 
 	/*
-	 * We expect two virtqueues: inflate and deflate, and
-	 * optionally stat.
+	 * Inflateq and deflateq are used unconditionally. The names[]
+	 * will be NULL if the related feature is not enabled, which will
+	 * cause no allocation for the corresponding virtqueue in find_vqs.
 	 */
-	nvqs = virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ) ? 3 : 2;
-	err = virtio_find_vqs(vb->vdev, nvqs, vqs, callbacks, names, NULL);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
+	callbacks[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_INFLATE] = balloon_ack;
+	names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_INFLATE] = "inflate";
+	callbacks[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_DEFLATE] = balloon_ack;
+	names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_DEFLATE] = "deflate";
+	names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_STATS] = NULL;
+	names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_FREE_PAGE] = NULL;
 
-	vb->inflate_vq = vqs[0];
-	vb->deflate_vq = vqs[1];
 	if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ)) {
-		struct scatterlist sg;
-		unsigned int num_stats;
-		vb->stats_vq = vqs[2];
+		names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_STATS] = "stats";
+		callbacks[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_STATS] = stats_request;
+	}
+
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) {
+		names[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_FREE_PAGE] = "free_page_vq";
+		callbacks[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_FREE_PAGE] = NULL;
+	}
+
+	ret = vb->vdev->config->find_vqs(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_MAX,
+					 vqs, callbacks, names, NULL, NULL);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
+	vb->inflate_vq = vqs[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_INFLATE];
+	vb->deflate_vq = vqs[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_DEFLATE];
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ)) {
+		vb->stats_vq = vqs[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_STATS];
 		/*
 		 * Prime this virtqueue with one buffer so the hypervisor can
 		 * use it to signal us later (it can't be broken yet!).
 		 */
-		num_stats = update_balloon_stats(vb);
-
-		sg_init_one(&sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats[0]) * num_stats);
-		if (virtqueue_add_outbuf(vb->stats_vq, &sg, 1, vb, GFP_KERNEL)
-		    < 0)
-			BUG();
+		sg_init_one(&sg, vb->stats, sizeof(vb->stats));
+		ret = virtqueue_add_outbuf(vb->stats_vq, &sg, 1, vb,
+					   GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (ret) {
+			dev_warn(&vb->vdev->dev, "%s: add stat_vq failed\n",
+				 __func__);
+			return ret;
+		}
 		virtqueue_kick(vb->stats_vq);
 	}
+
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT))
+		vb->free_page_vq = vqs[VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_FREE_PAGE];
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int add_one_sg(struct virtqueue *vq, unsigned long pfn, uint32_t len)
+{
+	struct scatterlist sg;
+	unsigned int unused;
+
+	sg_init_table(&sg, 1);
+	sg_set_page(&sg, pfn_to_page(pfn), len, 0);
+
+	/* Detach all the used buffers from the vq */
+	while (virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &unused))
+		;
+
+	/*
+	 * Since this is an optimization feature, losing a couple of free
+	 * pages to report isn't important. We simply return without adding
+	 * the page hint if the vq is full.
+	 * We are adding one entry each time, which essentially results in no
+	 * memory allocation, so the GFP_KERNEL flag below can be ignored.
+	 * Host works by polling the free page vq for hints after sending the
+	 * starting cmd id, so the driver doesn't need to kick after filling
+	 * the vq.
+	 * Lastly, there is always one entry reserved for the cmd id to use.
+	 */
+	if (vq->num_free > 1)
+		return virtqueue_add_inbuf(vq, &sg, 1, vq, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int virtio_balloon_send_free_pages(void *opaque, unsigned long pfn,
+					   unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+	struct virtio_balloon *vb = (struct virtio_balloon *)opaque;
+	uint32_t len = nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	/*
+	 * If a stop id or a new cmd id was just received from host, stop
+	 * the reporting, and return 1 to indicate an active stop.
+	 */
+	if (virtio32_to_cpu(vb->vdev, vb->cmd_id_use) != vb->cmd_id_received)
+		return 1;
+
+	return add_one_sg(vb->free_page_vq, pfn, len);
+}
+
+static int send_cmd_id(struct virtio_balloon *vb, uint32_t cmd_id)
+{
+	struct scatterlist sg;
+	struct virtqueue *vq = vb->free_page_vq;
+
+	vb->cmd_id_use = cpu_to_virtio32(vb->vdev, cmd_id);
+	sg_init_one(&sg, &vb->cmd_id_use, sizeof(vb->cmd_id_use));
+
+	return virtqueue_add_outbuf(vq, &sg, 1, vb, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+static void report_free_page_func(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct virtio_balloon *vb;
+	struct virtqueue *vq;
+	unsigned int unused;
+	int ret;
+
+	vb = container_of(work, struct virtio_balloon, report_free_page_work);
+	vq = vb->free_page_vq;
+
+	/* Start by sending the received cmd id to host with an outbuf */
+	ret = send_cmd_id(vb, vb->cmd_id_received);
+	if (unlikely(ret))
+		goto err;
+
+	ret = walk_free_mem_block(vb, 0, &virtio_balloon_send_free_pages);
+	if (unlikely(ret == -EIO))
+		goto err;
+
+	/* End by sending a stop id to host with an outbuf */
+	ret = send_cmd_id(vb, VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_REPORT_STOP_ID);
+	if (likely(!ret)) {
+		/*
+		 * Ending: make sure all the used buffers have been detached
+		 * from the vq.
+		 */
+		while (vq->num_free != virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq))
+			virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &unused);
+		return;
+	}
+err:
+	dev_err(&vb->vdev->dev, "%s: free page vq failure, ret=%d\n",
+		__func__, ret);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
 /*
  * virtballoon_migratepage - perform the balloon page migration on behalf of
@@ -566,18 +714,34 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	if (err)
 		goto out_free_vb;
 
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) {
+		/*
+		 * There is always one entry reserved for cmd id, so the ring
+		 * size needs to be at least two to report free page hints.
+		 */
+		if (virtqueue_get_vring_size(vb->free_page_vq) < 2)
+			goto out_free_vb;
+		vb->balloon_wq = alloc_workqueue("balloon-wq",
+					WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 0);
+		if (!vb->balloon_wq) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto out_del_vqs;
+		}
+		INIT_WORK(&vb->report_free_page_work, report_free_page_func);
+	}
+
 	vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
 	vb->nb.priority = VIRTBALLOON_OOM_NOTIFY_PRIORITY;
 	err = register_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
 	if (err < 0)
-		goto out_del_vqs;
+		goto out_del_balloon_wq;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
 	balloon_mnt = kern_mount(&balloon_fs);
 	if (IS_ERR(balloon_mnt)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(balloon_mnt);
 		unregister_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
-		goto out_del_vqs;
+		goto out_del_balloon_wq;
 	}
 
 	vb->vb_dev_info.migratepage = virtballoon_migratepage;
@@ -587,7 +751,7 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		kern_unmount(balloon_mnt);
 		unregister_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
 		vb->vb_dev_info.inode = NULL;
-		goto out_del_vqs;
+		goto out_del_balloon_wq;
 	}
 	vb->vb_dev_info.inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &balloon_aops;
 #endif
@@ -598,6 +762,9 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		virtballoon_changed(vdev);
 	return 0;
 
+out_del_balloon_wq:
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT))
+		destroy_workqueue(vb->balloon_wq);
 out_del_vqs:
 	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
 out_free_vb:
@@ -631,6 +798,11 @@ static void virtballoon_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	cancel_work_sync(&vb->update_balloon_size_work);
 	cancel_work_sync(&vb->update_balloon_stats_work);
 
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) {
+		cancel_work_sync(&vb->report_free_page_work);
+		destroy_workqueue(vb->balloon_wq);
+	}
+
 	remove_common(vb);
 #ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
 	if (vb->vb_dev_info.inode)
@@ -682,6 +854,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST,
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,
 };
 
 static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
index 343d7dd..0c654db 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
@@ -34,15 +34,19 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST	0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
 
 /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
 
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_FREE_PAGE_REPORT_STOP_ID		0
 struct virtio_balloon_config {
 	/* Number of pages host wants Guest to give up. */
 	__u32 num_pages;
 	/* Number of pages we've actually got in balloon. */
 	__u32 actual;
+	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
+	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
 };
 
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN  0   /* Amount of memory swapped in */
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCH v28 3/4] mm/page_poison: add a function to expose page poison val to kernel modules

[Wei Wang]

Move the PAGE_POISON value to page_poison.c and add a function to enable
callers from a kernel module to get the poison value if the page poisoning
feature is in use. This also avoids callers directly checking PAGE_POISON
regardless of whether the feature is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h     |  2 ++
 include/linux/poison.h |  7 -------
 mm/page_poison.c       | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 1c77d88..d95e5d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2469,11 +2469,13 @@ extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void);
 extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
 extern bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page);
+extern bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val);
 #else
 static inline bool page_poisoning_enabled(void) { return false; }
 static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages,
 					int enable) { }
 static inline bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page) { return false; }
+static inline bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val) { return false; };
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 15927eb..348bf67 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -30,13 +30,6 @@
  */
 #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
-/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
-#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
-#else
-#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
-#endif
-
 /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/
 
 #define TAIL_MAPPING	((void *) 0x400 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
index e83fd44..9a07973 100644
--- a/mm/page_poison.c
+++ b/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
 #include <linux/poison.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 
+/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
+#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
+#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
+#else
+#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
+#endif
+
 static bool want_page_poisoning __read_mostly;
 
 static int early_page_poison_param(char *buf)
@@ -30,6 +37,23 @@ bool page_poisoning_enabled(void)
 		debug_pagealloc_enabled()));
 }
 
+/**
+ * page_poison_val_get - get the page poison value if page poisoning is enabled
+ * @val: the caller's memory to get the page poison value
+ *
+ * Return true with @val stores the poison value if page poisoning is enabled.
+ * Otherwise, return false with @val unchanged.
+ */
+bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val)
+{
+	if (!page_poisoning_enabled())
+		return false;
+
+	*val = PAGE_POISON;
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_poison_val_get);
+
 static void poison_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	void *addr = kmap_atomic(page);
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCH v28 4/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON

[Wei Wang]

The VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is used to indicate if the
guest is using page poisoning. Guest writes to the poison_val config
field to tell host about the page poisoning value in use.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 13 +++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 39ecce3..9fa7fcf 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static struct file_system_type balloon_fs = {
 static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
 	struct virtio_balloon *vb;
+	__u32 poison_val;
 	int err;
 
 	if (!vdev->config->get) {
@@ -728,6 +729,12 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 			goto out_del_vqs;
 		}
 		INIT_WORK(&vb->report_free_page_work, report_free_page_func);
+		if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON)) {
+			page_poison_val_get((u8 *)&poison_val);
+			memset(&poison_val, poison_val, sizeof(poison_val));
+			virtio_cwrite(vb->vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
+				      poison_val, &poison_val);
+		}
 	}
 
 	vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
@@ -846,6 +853,11 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 static int virtballoon_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
+	uint8_t unused;
+
+	if (!page_poison_val_get(&unused))
+		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
+
 	__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -855,6 +867,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON,
 };
 
 static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
index 0c654db..3f97067 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
 
 /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
 	__u32 actual;
 	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
 	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
+	/* Stores PAGE_POISON if page poisoning is in use */
+	__u32 poison_val;
 };
 
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN  0   /* Amount of memory swapped in */
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH v28 3/4] mm/page_poison: add a function to expose page poison val to kernel modules

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:19PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> Move the PAGE_POISON value to page_poison.c and add a function to enable
> callers from a kernel module to get the poison value if the page poisoning
> feature is in use. This also avoids callers directly checking PAGE_POISON
> regardless of whether the feature is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h     |  2 ++
>  include/linux/poison.h |  7 -------
>  mm/page_poison.c       | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 1c77d88..d95e5d3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2469,11 +2469,13 @@ extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
>  extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void);
>  extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
>  extern bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page);
> +extern bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val);
>  #else
>  static inline bool page_poisoning_enabled(void) { return false; }
>  static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages,
>  					int enable) { }
>  static inline bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page) { return false; }
> +static inline bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val) { return false; };
>  #endif
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

Thinking more about it, page_poisoning_enabled already exists.
I would just add "u8 page_poison_val_get(void)" and don't add
a stub since compiler will drop the call with poisoning off.

> diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
> index 15927eb..348bf67 100644
> --- a/include/linux/poison.h
> +++ b/include/linux/poison.h
> @@ -30,13 +30,6 @@
>   */
>  #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
>  
> -/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
> -#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
> -#else
> -#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
> -#endif
> -
>  /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/
>  

I'd split this chunk out, this patchset is at v28 as it is.

>  #define TAIL_MAPPING	((void *) 0x400 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
> diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
> index e83fd44..9a07973 100644
> --- a/mm/page_poison.c
> +++ b/mm/page_poison.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
>  #include <linux/poison.h>
>  #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
>  
> +/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/

This file no longer exists.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
> +#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
> +#else
> +#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
> +#endif
> +
>  static bool want_page_poisoning __read_mostly;
>  
>  static int early_page_poison_param(char *buf)
> @@ -30,6 +37,23 @@ bool page_poisoning_enabled(void)
>  		debug_pagealloc_enabled()));
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * page_poison_val_get - get the page poison value if page poisoning is enabled
> + * @val: the caller's memory to get the page poison value
> + *
> + * Return true with @val stores the poison value if page poisoning is enabled.
> + * Otherwise, return false with @val unchanged.
> + */
> +bool page_poison_val_get(u8 *val)
> +{
> +	if (!page_poisoning_enabled())
> +		return false;
> +
> +	*val = PAGE_POISON;
> +	return true;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_poison_val_get);
> +
>  static void poison_page(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	void *addr = kmap_atomic(page);
> -- 
> 2.7.4

Re: [PATCH v28 4/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:20PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> The VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is used to indicate if the
> guest is using page poisoning. Guest writes to the poison_val config
> field to tell host about the page poisoning value in use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 13 +++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  3 +++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 39ecce3..9fa7fcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static struct file_system_type balloon_fs = {
>  static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
>  	struct virtio_balloon *vb;
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  	int err;
>  
>  	if (!vdev->config->get) {
> @@ -728,6 +729,12 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  			goto out_del_vqs;
>  		}
>  		INIT_WORK(&vb->report_free_page_work, report_free_page_func);
> +		if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON)) {
> +			page_poison_val_get((u8 *)&poison_val);
> +			memset(&poison_val, poison_val, sizeof(poison_val));

This will not DTRT on big-endian platforms.
Just use a local u8 variable.

> +			virtio_cwrite(vb->vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
> +				      poison_val, &poison_val);
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
> @@ -846,6 +853,11 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  
>  static int virtballoon_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
> +	uint8_t unused;
> +
> +	if (!page_poison_val_get(&unused))
> +		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
> +
>  	__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -855,6 +867,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,
> +	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON,
>  };
>  
>  static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> index 0c654db..3f97067 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
>  
>  /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> @@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
>  	__u32 actual;
>  	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
>  	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
> +	/* Stores PAGE_POISON if page poisoning is in use */
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  };
>  
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN  0   /* Amount of memory swapped in */
> -- 
> 2.7.4

Re: [PATCH v28 4/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:20PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> The VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON feature bit is used to indicate if the
> guest is using page poisoning. Guest writes to the poison_val config
> field to tell host about the page poisoning value in use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

I'd reorder this before 2/4 this way host can always rely
on the poison feature being supported if free page
tracking is supported.

> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 13 +++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  3 +++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 39ecce3..9fa7fcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static struct file_system_type balloon_fs = {
>  static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
>  	struct virtio_balloon *vb;
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  	int err;
>  
>  	if (!vdev->config->get) {
> @@ -728,6 +729,12 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  			goto out_del_vqs;
>  		}
>  		INIT_WORK(&vb->report_free_page_work, report_free_page_func);
> +		if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON)) {
> +			page_poison_val_get((u8 *)&poison_val);
> +			memset(&poison_val, poison_val, sizeof(poison_val));
> +			virtio_cwrite(vb->vdev, struct virtio_balloon_config,
> +				      poison_val, &poison_val);
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
> @@ -846,6 +853,11 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  
>  static int virtballoon_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
> +	uint8_t unused;
> +
> +	if (!page_poison_val_get(&unused))
> +		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
> +
>  	__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -855,6 +867,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
>  	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,
> +	VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON,
>  };
>  
>  static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> index 0c654db..3f97067 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ	1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
>  
>  /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> @@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
>  	__u32 actual;
>  	/* Free page report command id, readonly by guest */
>  	__u32 free_page_report_cmd_id;
> +	/* Stores PAGE_POISON if page poisoning is in use */
> +	__u32 poison_val;
>  };
>  
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN  0   /* Amount of memory swapped in */
> -- 
> 2.7.4

Re: [PATCH v28 0/4] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon
> Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT,  
> implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report
> hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live
> migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage:
> 
> Live migration needs to transfer the VM's memory from the source machine
> to the destination round by round. For the 1st round, all the VM's memory
> is transferred. From the 2nd round, only the pieces of memory that were
> written by the guest (after the 1st round) are transferred. One method
> that is popularly used by the hypervisor to track which part of memory is
> written is to write-protect all the guest memory.
> 
> This feature enables the optimization of the 1st round memory transfer -
> the hypervisor can skip the transfer of guest free pages in the 1st round.
> It is not concerned that the memory pages are used after they are given
> to the hypervisor as a hint of the free pages, because they will be
> tracked by the hypervisor and transferred in the next round if they are
> used and written.

At this point I think it's a good idea to focus on the qemu
side, that code is still not really ready yet.

> * Tests
> - Migration time improvement
> Result:
> Live migration time is reduced to 14% with this optimization.
> Details:
> Local live migration of 8GB idle guest, the legacy live migration takes
> ~1817ms. With this optimization, it takes ~254ms, which reduces the time
> to 14%.



> - Workload tests
> Results:
> Running this feature has no impact on the linux compilation workload
> running inside the guest.

I think you should try something memory intensive. Try asking
qemu migration guys for hints on a good test to run.


> Details:
> Set up a Ping-Pong local live migration, where the guest ceaselessy
> migrates between the source and destination. Linux compilation,
> i.e. make bzImage -j4, is performed during the Ping-Pong migration. The
> legacy case takes 5min14s to finish the compilation. With this
> optimization patched, it takes 5min12s.

How is migration time affected in this case?
 
> ChangeLog:
> v27->v28:
>     - mm/page_poison: Move PAGE_POISON to page_poison.c and add a function
>       to expose page poison val to kernel modules.
> v26->v27:
>     - add a new patch to expose page_poisoning_enabled to kernel modules
>     - virtio-balloon: set poison_val to 0xaaaaaaaa, instead of 0xaa
> v25->v26: virtio-balloon changes only
>     - remove kicking free page vq since the host now polls the vq after
>       initiating the reporting
>     - report_free_page_func: detach all the used buffers after sending
>       the stop cmd id. This avoids leaving the detaching burden (i.e.
>       overhead) to the next cmd id. Detaching here isn't considered
>       overhead since the stop cmd id has been sent, and host has already
>       moved formard.
> v24->v25:
>     - mm: change walk_free_mem_block to return 0 (instead of true) on
>           completing the report, and return a non-zero value from the
>           callabck, which stops the reporting.
>     - virtio-balloon:
>         - use enum instead of define for VIRTIO_BALLOON_VQ_INFLATE etc.
>         - avoid __virtio_clear_bit when bailing out;
>         - a new method to avoid reporting the some cmd id to host twice
>         - destroy_workqueue can cancel free page work when the feature is
>           negotiated;
>         - fail probe when the free page vq size is less than 2.
> v23->v24:
>     - change feature name VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ to
>       VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT
>     - kick when vq->num_free < half full, instead of "= half full"
>     - replace BUG_ON with bailing out
>     - check vb->balloon_wq in probe(), if null, bail out
>     - add a new feature bit for page poisoning
>     - solve the corner case that one cmd id being sent to host twice
> v22->v23:
>     - change to kick the device when the vq is half-way full;
>     - open-code batch_free_page_sg into add_one_sg;
>     - change cmd_id from "uint32_t" to "__virtio32";
>     - reserver one entry in the vq for the driver to send cmd_id, instead
>       of busywaiting for an available entry;
>     - add "stop_update" check before queue_work for prudence purpose for
>       now, will have a separate patch to discuss this flag check later;
>     - init_vqs: change to put some variables on stack to have simpler
>       implementation;
>     - add destroy_workqueue(vb->balloon_wq);
> 
> v21->v22:
>     - add_one_sg: some code and comment re-arrangement
>     - send_cmd_id: handle a cornercase
> 
> For previous ChangeLog, please reference
> https://lwn.net/Articles/743660/
> 
> Wei Wang (4):
>   mm: support reporting free page blocks
>   virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT
>   mm/page_poison: add a function to expose page poison val to kernel
>     modules
>   virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/mm.h                  |   8 ++
>  include/linux/poison.h              |   7 -
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |   7 +
>  mm/page_alloc.c                     |  96 ++++++++++++++
>  mm/page_poison.c                    |  24 ++++
>  6 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4

Re: [PATCH v28 0/4] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting

[Wei Wang]

On 02/09/2018 03:55 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
>
>> Details:
>> Set up a Ping-Pong local live migration, where the guest ceaselessy
>> migrates between the source and destination. Linux compilation,
>> i.e. make bzImage -j4, is performed during the Ping-Pong migration. The
>> legacy case takes 5min14s to finish the compilation. With this
>> optimization patched, it takes 5min12s.
> How is migration time affected in this case?


When the linux compilation workload runs, the migration time (both the 
legacy and this optimization case) varies as the compilation goes on. It 
seems not easy to give a static speedup number, some times the migration 
time is reduced to 33%, sometimes to 50%, it varies, and depends on how 
much free memory the system has at that moment. For example, at the 
later stage of the compilation, I can observe 5GB memory being used as 
page cache. But overall, I can observe obvious improvement of the 
migration time.


Best,
Wei

Re: [PATCH v28 0/4] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 03:55 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > Details:
> > > Set up a Ping-Pong local live migration, where the guest ceaselessy
> > > migrates between the source and destination. Linux compilation,
> > > i.e. make bzImage -j4, is performed during the Ping-Pong migration. The
> > > legacy case takes 5min14s to finish the compilation. With this
> > > optimization patched, it takes 5min12s.
> > How is migration time affected in this case?
> 
> 
> When the linux compilation workload runs, the migration time (both the
> legacy and this optimization case) varies as the compilation goes on. It
> seems not easy to give a static speedup number, some times the migration
> time is reduced to 33%, sometimes to 50%, it varies, and depends on how much
> free memory the system has at that moment. For example, at the later stage
> of the compilation, I can observe 5GB memory being used as page cache. But
> overall, I can observe obvious improvement of the migration time.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Wei

You can run multiple tests and give a best, worst and median numbers.

-- 
MST

Re: [PATCH v28 0/4] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting

[Wei Wang]

On 02/09/2018 11:14 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
>> On 02/09/2018 03:55 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>> Details:
>>>> Set up a Ping-Pong local live migration, where the guest ceaselessy
>>>> migrates between the source and destination. Linux compilation,
>>>> i.e. make bzImage -j4, is performed during the Ping-Pong migration. The
>>>> legacy case takes 5min14s to finish the compilation. With this
>>>> optimization patched, it takes 5min12s.
>>> How is migration time affected in this case?
>>
>> When the linux compilation workload runs, the migration time (both the
>> legacy and this optimization case) varies as the compilation goes on. It
>> seems not easy to give a static speedup number, some times the migration
>> time is reduced to 33%, sometimes to 50%, it varies, and depends on how much
>> free memory the system has at that moment. For example, at the later stage
>> of the compilation, I can observe 5GB memory being used as page cache. But
>> overall, I can observe obvious improvement of the migration time.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Wei
> You can run multiple tests and give a best, worst and median numbers.
>

Sorry for my late response (I was on leaves for some other 
responsibilities).

Here are some more numbers of the live migration time comparison while 
linux compilation is in progress (probably the average time is more 
relevant)

average: 52.4% reduction (optimization v.s. legacy = 1242ms v.s. 2611ms)
best: 69.1%
worst: 21.9%


Best,
Wei