virtio_balloon: export 'available' memory to balloon statistics
authorIgor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:19:08 +0000 (14:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:09:34 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.

It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap.

Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h

index 0c3691f46575b9e82039b27d7e452075699f9514..f2b77dea8d3c16ed7bf41223cf78978cbcfc2d1f 100644 (file)
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
 #include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 /*
  * Balloon device works in 4K page units.  So each page is pointed to by
@@ -229,10 +230,13 @@ static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
        unsigned long events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
        struct sysinfo i;
        int idx = 0;
+       long available;
 
        all_vm_events(events);
        si_meminfo(&i);
 
+       available = si_mem_available();
+
        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN,
                                pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPIN]));
        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT,
@@ -243,6 +247,8 @@ static void update_balloon_stats(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
                                pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
        update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT,
                                pages_to_bytes(i.totalram));
+       update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL,
+                               pages_to_bytes(available));
 }
 
 /*
index d7f1cbc3766c799ac514e4ab2710cb5cbb22a0c0..343d7ddefe04580f96023d7df5e2d84ea5399d1e 100644 (file)
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT   3   /* Number of minor faults */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE  4   /* Total amount of free memory */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT   5   /* Total amount of memory */
-#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       6
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL    6   /* Available memory as in /proc */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       7
 
 /*
  * Memory statistics structure.