From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753220AbdLDFhe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:37:34 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:44302 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753102AbdLDFhc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:37:32 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,357,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="183648900" Message-ID: <5A24DF90.5070401@intel.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:39:28 +0800 From: Wei Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" CC: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mawilcox@microsoft.com, david@redhat.com, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net, aarcange@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, willy@infradead.org, liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu@aliyun.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 10/10] virtio-balloon: don't report free pages when page poisoning is enabled References: <1511963726-34070-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <1511963726-34070-11-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <20171201173951-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20171201173951-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/01/2017 11:49 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: >> The guest free pages should not be discarded by the live migration thread >> when page poisoning is enabled with PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY=n, because >> skipping the transfer of such poisoned free pages will trigger false >> positive when new pages are allocated and checked on the destination. >> This patch skips the reporting of free pages in the above case. >> >> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin >> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang >> Cc: Michal Hocko >> --- >> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 4 +++- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> index 035bd3a..6ac4cff 100644 >> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c >> @@ -652,7 +652,9 @@ static void report_free_page(struct work_struct *work) >> /* Start by sending the obtained cmd id to the host with an outbuf */ >> send_one_desc(vb, vb->free_page_vq, virt_to_phys(&vb->start_cmd_id), >> sizeof(uint32_t), false, true, false); >> - walk_free_mem_block(vb, 0, &virtio_balloon_send_free_pages); >> + if (!(page_poisoning_enabled() && >> + !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY))) >> + walk_free_mem_block(vb, 0, &virtio_balloon_send_free_pages); >> /* >> * End by sending the stop id to the host with an outbuf. Use the >> * non-batching mode here to trigger a kick after adding the stop id. > PAGE_POISONING_ZERO is actually OK. I think the 0-filled pages still need to be sent. If the host on the destination doesn't use PAGE_POISONING_ZERO, then the pages it offers to the guest on the destination may have non-0 values. > > But I really would prefer it that we still send pages to host, > otherwise debugging becomes much harder. > > And it does not have to be completely useless, even though > you can not discard them as they would be zero-filled then. > > How about a config field telling host what should be there in the free > pages? This way even though host can not discard them, host can send > them out without reading them, still a win. > > OK, but I think we would need two 32-bit config registers: __u32 page_poison_val; // stores the PAGE_POISON VALUE, but it couldn't indicate if page poisoning is in use __u32 special_features; // set bit 0 to indicate page poisoning is in use #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_SF_PAGE_POISON (1 << 0) Best, Wei