Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 4 authors, 2012-08-03

Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2012-07-18 22:46:12
Also in: lkml, virtualization

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:50:41 -0300
Rafael Aquini [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
This patch introduces the helper functions as well as the necessary changes
to teach compaction and migration bits how to cope with pages which are
part of a guest memory balloon, in order to make them movable by memory
compaction procedures.

...
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1629,5 +1629,20 @@ static inline unsigned int debug_guardpage_minorder(void) { return 0; }
 static inline bool page_is_guard(struct page *page) { return false; }
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC */
 
+#if (defined(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON) || \
+	defined(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON_MODULE)) && defined(CONFIG_COMPACTION)
+extern bool putback_balloon_page(struct page *);
+extern struct address_space *balloon_mapping;
+
+static inline bool is_balloon_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	return (page->mapping == balloon_mapping) ? true : false;
You can simply do

	return page->mapping == balloon_mapping;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool is_balloon_page(struct page *page)       { return false; }
+static inline bool isolate_balloon_page(struct page *page)  { return false; }
+static inline bool putback_balloon_page(struct page *page)  { return false; }
+#endif /* (VIRTIO_BALLOON || VIRTIO_BALLOON_MODULE) && COMPACTION */
This means that if CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=y and CONFIG_COMPACTION=n,
is_balloon_page() will always return NULL.  IOW, no pages are balloon
pages!  This is wrong.

I'm not sure what to do about this, apart from renaming the function to
is_compactible_balloon_page() or something similarly aawkward.


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