From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, vbabka@suse.cz Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, nitesh@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, david@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com, riel@surriel.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com, osalvador@suse.de Subject: [PATCH v15 7/7] mm: Add free page reporting documentation Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:23:04 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20191205162304.19548.33406.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20191205161928.19548.41654.stgit@localhost.localdomain> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Add documentation for free page reporting. Currently the only consumer is virtio-balloon, however it is possible that other drivers might make use of this so it is best to add a bit of documetation explaining at a high level how to use the API. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> --- Documentation/vm/free_page_reporting.rst | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/free_page_reporting.rst diff --git a/Documentation/vm/free_page_reporting.rst b/Documentation/vm/free_page_reporting.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..33f54a450a4a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/free_page_reporting.rst @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +.. _free_page_reporting: + +===================== +Free Page Reporting +===================== + +Free page reporting is an API by which a device can register to receive +lists of pages that are currently unused by the system. This is useful in +the case of virtualization where a guest is then able to use this data to +notify the hypervisor that it is no longer using certain pages in memory. + +For the driver, typically a balloon driver, to use of this functionality +it will allocate and initialize a page_reporting_dev_info structure. The +field within the structure it will populate is the "report" function +pointer used to process the scatterlist. It must also guarantee that it can +handle at least PAGE_REPORTING_CAPACITY worth of scatterlist entries per +call to the function. A call to page_reporting_register will register the +page reporting interface with the reporting framework assuming no other +page reporting devices are already registered. + +Once registered the page reporting API will begin reporting batches of +pages to the driver. The API will start reporting pages 2 seconds after +the interface is registered and will continue to do so 2 seconds after any +page of a sufficiently high order is freed. + +Pages reported will be stored in the scatterlist passed to the reporting +function with the final entry having the end bit set in entry nent - 1. +While pages are being processed by the report function they will not be +accessible to the allocator. Once the report function has been completed +the pages will be returned to the free area from which they were obtained. + +Prior to removing a driver that is making use of free page reporting it +is necessary to call page_reporting_unregister to have the +page_reporting_dev_info structure that is currently in use by free page +reporting removed. Doing this will prevent further reports from being +issued via the interface. If another driver or the same driver is +registered it is possible for it to resume where the previous driver had +left off in terms of reporting free pages. + +Alexander Duyck, Dec 04, 2019 +
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 16:23 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-12-05 16:22 [PATCH v15 0/7] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 1/7] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 2/7] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 3/7] mm: Add function __putback_isolated_page Alexander Duyck 2019-12-16 11:36 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-16 16:22 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-17 10:58 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-17 16:26 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-17 17:24 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-17 18:24 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-17 18:46 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-17 21:50 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 4/7] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck 2019-12-16 10:17 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-12-16 16:28 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-17 8:55 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-12-17 16:31 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-18 7:31 ` Mel Gorman 2019-12-16 11:44 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal 2019-12-16 16:10 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 5/7] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck 2019-12-13 7:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-12-05 16:22 ` [PATCH v15 6/7] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing free page reports to host Alexander Duyck 2019-12-13 7:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-12-13 16:35 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-15 9:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2019-12-13 10:15 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-13 16:37 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:23 ` Alexander Duyck [this message] 2019-12-05 16:24 ` [PATCH v15 QEMU 1/3] virtio-ballon: Implement support for page poison tracking feature Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:24 ` [PATCH v15 QEMU 2/3] virtio-balloon: Add bit to notify guest of unused page reporting Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:24 ` [PATCH v15 QEMU 3/3] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for " Alexander Duyck 2019-12-05 16:26 ` [PATCH v15 QEMU 4/3 RFC] memory: Add support for MADV_FREE as mechanism to lazy discard pages Alexander Duyck 2019-12-12 23:47 ` [PATCH v15 0/7] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting Alexander Duyck 2019-12-13 10:00 ` David Hildenbrand 2019-12-13 11:08 ` Mel Gorman 2019-12-13 16:59 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-13 16:46 ` Alexander Duyck 2019-12-16 12:21 ` David Hildenbrand
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