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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 10/16] xen/balloon: support ballooning in xenhost_t
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On 09.05.19 19:25, Ankur Arora wrote:
> Xen ballooning uses hollow struct pages (with the underlying GFNs being
> populated/unpopulated via hypercalls) which are used by the grant logic
> to map grants from other domains.
>
> This patch allows the default xenhost to provide an alternate ballooning
> allocation mechanism. This is expected to be useful for local xenhosts
> (type xenhost_r0) because unlike Xen, where there is an external
> hypervisor which can change the memory underneath a GFN, that is not
> possible when the hypervisor is running in the same address space
> as the entity doing the ballooning.
>
> Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c | 7 +++++++
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 8 ++++++++
> drivers/xen/balloon.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c | 2 ++
> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 6 +++---
> drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c | 4 ++--
> include/xen/balloon.h | 4 ++--
> include/xen/xenhost.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> index 5ef4d6ad920d..08becf574743 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
> #include <asm/tlb.h>
>
> #include <xen/interface/xen.h>
> +#include <xen/xenhost.h>
> #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
> #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
>
> @@ -583,12 +584,21 @@ static int add_ballooned_pages(int nr_pages)
> * @pages: pages returned
> * @return 0 on success, error otherwise
> */
> -int alloc_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
> +int alloc_xenballooned_pages(xenhost_t *xh, int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
> {
> int pgno = 0;
> struct page *page;
> int ret;
>
> + /*
> + * xenmem transactions for remote xenhost are disallowed.
> + */
> + if (xh->type == xenhost_r2)
> + return -EINVAL;

Why don't you set a dummy function returning -EINVAL into the xenhost_r2
structure instead?

> +
> + if (xh->ops->alloc_ballooned_pages)
> + return xh->ops->alloc_ballooned_pages(xh, nr_pages, pages);
> +

Please make alloc_xenballooned_pages() an inline wrapper and use the
current implmentaion as the default. This avoids another if ().

> mutex_lock(&balloon_mutex);
>
> balloon_stats.target_unpopulated += nr_pages;
> @@ -620,7 +630,7 @@ int alloc_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
> return 0;
> out_undo:
> mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex);
> - free_xenballooned_pages(pgno, pages);
> + free_xenballooned_pages(xh, pgno, pages);
> return ret;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_xenballooned_pages);
> @@ -630,10 +640,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_xenballooned_pages);
> * @nr_pages: Number of pages
> * @pages: pages to return
> */
> -void free_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
> +void free_xenballooned_pages(xenhost_t *xh, int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
> {
> int i;
>
> + if (xh->ops->free_ballooned_pages)
> + return xh->ops->free_ballooned_pages(xh, nr_pages, pages);
> +

Same again: please use an inline wrapper.


Juergen

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