On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:44:22 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:54:20 +0200 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Konstantin Weitz <konstantin.weitz@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In a virtualized environment and given an appropriate interface the guest
> > can mark pages as unused while they are free (for the s390 implementation
> > see git commit 45e576b1c3d00206 "guest page hinting light"). For the host
> > the unused state is a property of the pte.
> >
> > This patch adds the primitive 'pte_unused' and code to the host swap out
> > handler so that pages marked as unused by all mappers are not swapped out
> > but discarded instead, thus saving one IO for swap out and potentially
> > another one for swap in.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> > @@ -193,6 +193,19 @@ static inline int pte_same(pte_t pte_a, pte_t pte_b)
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_UNUSED
> > +/*
> > + * Some architectures provide facilities to virtualization guests
> > + * so that they can flag allocated pages as unused. This allows the
> > + * host to transparently reclaim unused pages. This function returns
> > + * whether the pte's page is unused.
> > + */
> > +static inline int pte_unused(pte_t pte)
> > +{
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> > #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMD_SAME
> > #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > static inline int pmd_same(pmd_t pmd_a, pmd_t pmd_b)
> > diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> > index cd356df..2291f25 100644
> > --- a/mm/rmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> > @@ -1234,6 +1234,16 @@ int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > }
> > set_pte_at(mm, address, pte,
> > swp_entry_to_pte(make_hwpoison_entry(page)));
> > + } else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
> > + /*
> > + * The guest indicated that the page content is of no
> > + * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
> > + * will take care of the rest.
> > + */
> > + if (PageAnon(page))
> > + dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> > + else
> > + dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);
> > } else if (PageAnon(page)) {
> > swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
>
> Obviously harmless. Please include this in whatever tree carries
> "[PATCH 2/2] s390/kvm: support collaborative memory management".
Cool, thanks. This will go out via the KVM tree then.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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