From 18468d93e53b037e1a04ec58398eab763d054064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafael Aquini Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:02:38 -0800 Subject: mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups] [rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/migrate.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/migrate.h') diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index a4e886d17f8..ce42847ed35 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -11,8 +11,18 @@ typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **); * Return values from addresss_space_operations.migratepage(): * - negative errno on page migration failure; * - zero on page migration success; + * + * The balloon page migration introduces this special case where a 'distinct' + * return code is used to flag a successful page migration to unmap_and_move(). + * This approach is necessary because page migration can race against balloon + * deflation procedure, and for such case we could introduce a nasty page leak + * if a successfully migrated balloon page gets released concurrently with + * migration's unmap_and_move() wrap-up steps. */ #define MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS 0 +#define MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS 1 /* special ret code for balloon page + * sucessful migration case. + */ #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2