Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_balloon: export hugetlb page allocation counts

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On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:10:57AM -0700, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/13/2018 06:44 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:01:11PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 2018年04月12日 08:24, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 04/10/2018 08:12 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2018年04月10日 05:11, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On 03/22/2018 07:38 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On 2018年03月22日 11:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:52:18AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On 2018年03月20日 12:26, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 19, 2018, at 7:31 PM, Jason
> > > > > > > > > > > Wang<jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > On 2018年03月20日 06:14, Jonathan Helman wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > Export the number of successful and failed hugetlb page
> > > > > > > > > > > > allocations via the virtio balloon driver. These 2 counts
> > > > > > > > > > > > come directly from the vm_events HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC and
> > > > > > > > > > > > HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL.
> > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Helman<jonathan.helman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > > > > > >     drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 6 ++++++
> > > > > > > > > > > >     include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 4 +++-
> > > > > > > > > > > >     2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git
> > > > > > > > > > > > a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > index dfe5684..6b237e3 100644
> > > > > > > > > > > > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > > > > > > > > > > > @@ -272,6 +272,12 @@ static unsigned int
> > > > > > > > > > > > update_balloon_stats(struct
> > > > > > > > > > > > virtio_balloon *vb)
> > > > > > > > > > > > pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPOUT]));
> > > > > > > > > > > >         update_stat(vb, idx++,
> > > > > > > > > > > > VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT,
> > > > > > > > > > > > events[PGMAJFAULT]);
> > > > > > > > > > > >         update_stat(vb, idx++,
> > > > > > > > > > > > VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT,
> > > > > > > > > > > > events[PGFAULT]);
> > > > > > > > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> > > > > > > > > > > > +    update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC,
> > > > > > > > > > > > +            events[HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC]);
> > > > > > > > > > > > +    update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL,
> > > > > > > > > > > > +            events[HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL]);
> > > > > > > > > > > > +#endif
> > > > > > > > > > > >     #endif
> > > > > > > > > > > >         update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE,
> > > > > > > > > > > >                     pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
> > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git
> > > > > > > > > > > > a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > > > > > > > b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > > > > > > > index 4e8b830..40297a3 100644
> > > > > > > > > > > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > > > > > > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> > > > > > > > > > > > @@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ struct virtio_balloon_config {
> > > > > > > > > > > >     #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT   5
> > > > > > > > > > > > /* Total amount of memory */
> > > > > > > > > > > >     #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL    6
> > > > > > > > > > > > /* Available memory as in /proc */
> > > > > > > > > > > >     #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES   7   /* Disk caches */
> > > > > > > > > > > > -#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       8
> > > > > > > > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC
> > > > > > > > > > > > 8  /* Hugetlb page allocations */
> > > > > > > > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL
> > > > > > > > > > > > 9  /* Hugetlb page allocation failures
> > > > > > > > > > > > */
> > > > > > > > > > > > +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       10
> > > > > > > > > > > >       /*
> > > > > > > > > > > >      * Memory statistics structure.
> > > > > > > > > > > Not for this patch, but it looks to me that
> > > > > > > > > > > exporting such nr through uapi is fragile.
> > > > > > > > > > Sorry, can you explain what you mean here?
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Jon
> > > > > > > > > Spec said "Within an output buffer submitted to the
> > > > > > > > > statsq, the device MUST
> > > > > > > > > ignore entries with tag values that it does not
> > > > > > > > > recognize". So exporting
> > > > > > > > > VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR seems useless and device
> > > > > > > > > implementation can not depend
> > > > > > > > > on such number in uapi.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > > Suggestions? I don't like to break build for people ...
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Didn't have a good idea. But maybe we should keep
> > > > > > > VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR unchanged, and add a comment here.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think Jason's comment is for a future patch. Didn't see this
> > > > > > patch get applied, so wondering if it could be.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Jon
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Jon:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Have you tested new driver with old qemu?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, this testing scenario looks good. Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > > Jon
> > > 
> > > Hi Jon:
> > > 
> > > I mean e.g compiling qemu with new linux headers. E.g current qemu has:
> > > 
> > > static const char *balloon_stat_names[] = {
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN] = "stat-swap-in",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT] = "stat-swap-out",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT] = "stat-major-faults",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT] = "stat-minor-faults",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE] = "stat-free-memory",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT] = "stat-total-memory",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL] = "stat-available-memory",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES] = "stat-disk-caches",
> > >     [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR] = NULL
> > > };
> > > 
> > > I'm afraid it will be broken if VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR is 10.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > 
> > Well it is handy for sizing arrays and this isn't the first time we did
> > this:
> > 
> > commit 4d32029b8ddb7be4d1699c6d8e1675ff5476d149
> > Author: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Sun Nov 12 13:05:38 2017 +0100
> > 
> >      virtio_balloon: include disk/file caches memory statistics
> > 
> > commit 5057dcd0f1aaad57e07e728ba20a99e205c6b9de
> > Author: Igor Redko <redkoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Mar 17 14:19:08 2016 -0700
> > 
> >      virtio_balloon: export 'available' memory to balloon statistics
> > 
> > how about we give QEMU a hand and just put the list of names in
> > the header?
> > 
> > I posted a patch like that, pls review.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, maybe I'm missing something. We have an internal copy of the header
> file in qemu under include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h, which
> hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c includes (through including
> hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h). I thought qemu would use internal header files
> so that it could be compiled on any Linux kernel version. So when would we
> ever have the issue Jason is discussing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon

Whenever we update the headers.

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