From 703fc13a3f6615e29ce3eb862275d7b58a5d03ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vitaly Kuznetsov Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:56:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] xen_balloon: support memory auto onlining policy Add support for the newly added kernel memory auto onlining policy to Xen ballon driver. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Suggested-by: Daniel Kiper Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper Acked-by: David Vrabel Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Daniel Kiper Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Tang Chen Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Xishi Qiu Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Igor Mammedov Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/xen/Kconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- drivers/xen/balloon.c | 11 ++++++++++- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig index 73708acce3ca..979a8317204f 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -37,23 +37,30 @@ config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG Memory could be hotplugged in following steps: - 1) dom0: xl mem-max + 1) target domain: ensure that memory auto online policy is in + effect by checking /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks + file (should be 'online'). + + 2) control domain: xl mem-max where is >= requested memory size, - 2) dom0: xl mem-set + 3) control domain: xl mem-set where is requested memory size; alternatively memory could be added by writing proper value to /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or - /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU, + /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on the + target domain. - 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \ - [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done + Alternatively, if memory auto onlining was not requested at step 1 + the newly added memory can be manually onlined in the target domain + by doing the following: - Memory could be onlined automatically on domU by adding following line to udev rules: + for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \ + [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done - SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'" + or by adding the following line to udev rules: - In that case step 3 should be omitted. + SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'" config XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_LIMIT int "Hotplugged memory limit (in GiB) for a PV guest" diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c index e6058debd01b..7c8a2cf16f58 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c @@ -338,7 +338,16 @@ static enum bp_state reserve_additional_memory(void) } #endif - rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, false); + /* + * add_memory_resource() will call online_pages() which in its turn + * will call xen_online_page() callback causing deadlock if we don't + * release balloon_mutex here. Unlocking here is safe because the + * callers drop the mutex before trying again. + */ + mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex); + rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, memhp_auto_online); + mutex_lock(&balloon_mutex); + if (rc) { pr_warn("Cannot add additional memory (%i)\n", rc); goto err; -- 2.30.2