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Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva 039937308e xen: selfballoon: remove unnecessary static in frontswap_selfshrink()
Remove unnecessary static on local variables last_frontswap_pages and
tgt_frontswap_pages. Such variables are initialized before being used,
on every execution path throughout the function. The statics have no
benefit and, removing them reduce the code size.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@

static T x@p;
...
x = <+...x...+>

@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@

-static
 T x@p;
 ... when != x
     when strict
?x = e;

You can see a significant difference in the code size after executing
the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   5633	   3452	    384	   9469	   24fd	drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.o

after:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   5576	   3308	    256	   9140	   23b4	drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.o

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-07-27 19:55:41 +02:00
Vlastimil Babka 8ea1d2a198 mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key
I have noticed that frontswap.h first declares "frontswap_enabled" as
extern bool variable, and then overrides it with "#define
frontswap_enabled (1)" for CONFIG_FRONTSWAP=Y or (0) when disabled.  The
bool variable isn't actually instantiated anywhere.

This all looks like an unfinished attempt to make frontswap_enabled
reflect whether a backend is instantiated.  But in the current state,
all frontswap hooks call unconditionally into frontswap.c just to check
if frontswap_ops is non-NULL.  This should at least be checked inline,
but we can further eliminate the overhead when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is
enabled and no backend registered, using a static key that is initially
disabled, and gets enabled only upon first backend registration.

Thus, checks for "frontswap_enabled" are replaced with
"frontswap_enabled()" wrapping the static key check.  There are two
exceptions:

- xen's selfballoon_process() was testing frontswap_enabled in code guarded
  by #ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP, which was effectively always true when reachable.
  The patch just removes this check. Using frontswap_enabled() does not sound
  correct here, as this can be true even without xen's own backend being
  registered.

- in SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon), change the check to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)
  as it seems the bitmap allocation cannot currently be postponed until a
  backend is registered. This means that frontswap will still have some
  memory overhead by being configured, but without a backend.

After the patch, we can expect that some functions in frontswap.c are
called only when frontswap_ops is non-NULL.  Change the checks there to
VM_BUG_ONs.  While at it, convert other BUG_ONs to VM_BUG_ONs as
frontswap has been stable for some time.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463152235-9717-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker 59aa56bf2a xen: audit usages of module.h ; remove unnecessary instances
Code that uses no modular facilities whatsoever should not be
sourcing module.h at all, since that header drags in a bunch
of other headers with it.

Similarly, code that is not explicitly using modular facilities
like module_init() but only is declaring module_param setup
variables should be using moduleparam.h and not the larger
module.h file for that.

In making this change, we also uncover an implicit use of BUG()
in inline fcns within arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h so
we explicitly source <linux/bug.h> for that file now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2016-03-21 15:13:32 +00:00
Bob Liu d4c7abdff7 drivers:xen-selfballoon:reset 'frontswap_inertia_counter' after frontswap_shrink
When I looked at this issue https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158, I found that
frontswap_selfshrink() doesn't work as expected sometimes.
Pages are continuously added to frontswap and gotten back soon. It's a waste of
cpu time and increases the memory pressue of Guest OS.

Take an example.
First time in frontswap_selfshrink():
1. last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages = 0
2. cur_frontswap_pages  = frontswap_curr_pages() = 100

When 'frontswap_inertia_counter' decreased to 0:
1. last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages = 100
2. cur_frontswap_pages = frontswap_curr_pages() = 100
3. call frontswap_shrink() and let's assumption that 10 pages are gotten back
   from frontswap.
4. now frontswap_curr_pages() is 90.

If then memory is not enough in Guest OS and 9 more pages(smaller than gotten
back) added to frontswap.
Now frontswap_curr_pages() is 99 and we don't expect to get back more pages from
frontswap because geust os is under memory pressure.

But next time in frontswap_selfshrink():
1. last_frontswap_pages is set to the old value of cur_frontswap_pages(still
   100)
2. cur_frontswap_pages(99) is still smaller than last_frontswap_pages.
3. call frontswap_shrink() and continue to get back pages from frontswap!!

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-02-28 15:26:12 -05:00
Bob Liu bc1b0df59e drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver
Current xen-selfballoon driver is too aggressive which may cause OOM be
triggered more often. Eg. this bug reported by James:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158

There are two mainly reasons:
1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel space, like
slab pages and pages used by device drivers.

2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast enough when the
workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory.

In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and OOM may
be triggered.

The fix is make xen-selfballoon driver not that aggressive by adding extra 10%
of total ram pages to goal_page.
It's more valuable to keep the guest system reliable and response faster than
balloon out these 10% pages to XEN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-01-31 09:48:43 -05:00
Jingoo Han d3dbd93db5 xen: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because
strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be
used.

Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-08-09 10:59:01 -04:00
Joe Perches 283c0972d5 xen: Convert printks to pr_<level>
Convert printks to pr_<level> (excludes printk(KERN_DEBUG...)
to be more consistent throughout the xen subsystem.

Add pr_fmt with KBUILD_MODNAME or "xen:" KBUILD_MODNAME
Coalesce formats and add missing word spaces
Add missing newlines
Align arguments and reflow to 80 columns
Remove DRV_NAME from formats as pr_fmt adds the same content

This does change some of the prefixes of these messages
but it also does make them more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-06-28 11:19:58 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 37d46e152e xen/tmem: Don't use self[ballooning|shrinking] if frontswap is off.
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and
more pages in the swap disk without any purpose.

The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking
is when frontswap is being utilized.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15 10:27:50 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ed4f346a00 xen/tmem: Remove the usage of '[no|]selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballooning' bool instead.
As the 'tmem' driver is the one that actually sets whether
it will use it (or not) so might as well make tmem responsible
for this knob.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15 10:27:49 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 54598d1b03 xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.
As the 'tmem' driver is the one that actually sets whether
it will use it or not so might as well make tmem responsible
for this knob.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-05-15 10:27:48 -04:00
Dan Magenheimer 10a7a07713 xen: tmem: enable Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module
Allow Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module.  Xen self-ballooning
and frontswap-selfshrinking are now also "lazily" initialized when the
Xen tmem shim is loaded as a module, unless explicitly disabled by
module parameters.

Note runtime dependency disallows loading if cleancache/frontswap lazy
initialization patches are not present.

If built-in (not built as a module), the original mechanism of enabling
via a kernel boot parameter is retained, but this should be considered
deprecated.

Note that module unload is explicitly not yet supported.

[v1: Removed the [CLEANCACHE|FRONTSWAP]_HAS_LAZY_INIT ifdef]
[v2: Squashed the xen/tmem: Remove the subsys call patch in]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build (disable_frontswap_selfshrinking undeclared)]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com>
Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:01 -07:00
K. Y. Srinivasan 997071bcb3 mm: export a function to get vm committed memory
It will be useful to be able to access global memory commitment from
device drivers.  On the Hyper-V platform, the host has a policy engine to
balance the available physical memory amongst all competing virtual
machines hosted on a given node.  This policy engine is driven by a number
of metrics including the memory commitment reported by the guests.  The
balloon driver for Linux on Hyper-V will use this function to retrieve
guest memory commitment.  This function is also used in Xen self
ballooning code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-15 15:41:22 -08:00
Jana Saout d79d5959a0 xen: Add selfballoning memory reservation tunable.
Currently, the memory target in the Xen selfballooning driver is mainly
driven by the value of "Committed_AS".  However, there are cases in
which it is desirable to assign additional memory to be available for
the kernel, e.g. for local caches (which are not covered by cleancache),
e.g. dcache and inode caches.

This adds an additional tunable in the selfballooning driver (accessible
via sysfs) which allows the user to specify an additional constant
amount of memory to be reserved by the selfballoning driver for the
local domain.

Signed-off-by: Jana Saout <jana@saout.de>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-05-21 10:52:53 -04:00
Jan Beulich ead1d01425 xen: constify all instances of "struct attribute_group"
The functions these get passed to have been taking pointers to const
since at least 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-03-14 12:34:19 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman cb0c05c5fa xen: fix build breakage in xen-selfballoon.c caused by sysdev conversion
This adds the needed include file for xen-selfballoon.c to fix the build
error reported by Stephen Rothwell.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-15 11:07:02 -08:00
Kay Sievers 0706802183 xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-14 15:32:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 31018acd4c Merge branches 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' and 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/p2m/debugfs: Make type_name more obvious.
  xen/p2m/debugfs: Fix potential pointer exception.
  xen/enlighten: Fix compile warnings and set cx to known value.
  xen/xenbus: Remove the unnecessary check.
  xen/irq: If we fail during msi_capability_init return proper error code.
  xen/events: Don't check the info for NULL as it is already done.
  xen/events: BUG() when we can't allocate our event->irq array.

* 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
  xen/gntdev: Fix sleep-inside-spinlock
  xen: modify kernel mappings corresponding to granted pages
  xen: add an "highmem" parameter to alloc_xenballooned_pages
  xen/p2m: Use SetPagePrivate and its friends for M2P overrides.
  xen/p2m: Make debug/xen/mmu/p2m visible again.
  Revert "xen/debug: WARN_ON when identity PFN has no _PAGE_IOMAP flag set."
2011-10-25 09:17:47 +02:00
Dan Magenheimer 38a1ed4f03 xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
The balloon driver's "current_pages" is very different from
totalram_pages.  Self-ballooning needs to be driven by
the latter.  Also, Committed_AS doesn't account for pages
used by the kernel so:
1) Add totalreserve_pages to Committed_AS for the normal target.
2) Enforce a floor for when there are little or no user-space threads
   using memory (e.g. single-user mode) to avoid OOMs.  The floor
   function includes a "min_usable_mb" tuneable in case we discover
   later that the floor function is still too aggressive in some
   workloads, though likely it will not be needed.

Changes since version 4:
- change floor calculation so that it is not as aggressive; this version
  uses a piecewise linear function similar to minimum_target in the 2.6.18
  balloon driver, but modified to add to totalreserve_pages instead of
  subtract from max_pfn, the 2.6.18 version causes OOMs on recent kernels
  because the kernel has expanded over time
- change safety_margin to min_usable_mb and comment on its use
- since committed_as does NOT include kernel space (and other reserved
  pages), totalreserve_pages is now added to committed_as.  The result is
  less aggressive self-ballooning, but theoretically more appropriate.
Changes since version 3:
- missing include causes compile problem when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is disabled
- add comments after includes
Changes since version 2:
- missing include causes compile problem only on 32-bit
Changes since version 1:
- tuneable safety margin added

[v5: avi.miller@oracle.com: still too aggressive, seeing some OOMs]
[v4: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix compile when CONFIG_FRONTSWAP is disabled]
[v3: guru.anbalagane@oracle.com: fix 32-bit compile]
[v2: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: make safety margin tuneable]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
[v1: Altered description and added an extra include]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-14 12:36:08 -04:00
Randy Dunlap 4fec0e0bde xen: self-balloon needs module.h
Fix build errors (found when CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled):

  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'MODULE_LICENSE'
  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-16 07:23:34 -07:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0642d2edc8 xen/balloon: Fix compile errors - missing header files.
With a specific enough .config file compile errors show
for missing workqueue declarations.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-07-26 13:29:06 -04:00
Dan Magenheimer a50777c791 xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking
This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory
("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap.  Both
use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization.
Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal
value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean
page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where
Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine.
Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap,
driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when
in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs.

More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>

[v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap]
[v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments]
[v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap]
[v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls]
[v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits]
[v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1]
[v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes]
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00