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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2019-03-06 02:42:23 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-06 08:07:14 +0300
commitca215086b14b89a0e70fc211314944aa6ce50020 (patch)
tree449708804f52acf6386d3c7770ed723085e40df5 /Documentation/admin-guide
parent4d3467e171f8a8ef8f1dd205769cf2f21fbc8e1e (diff)
downloadlinux-ca215086b14b89a0e70fc211314944aa6ce50020.tar.xz
mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline
PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for pages inflated in virtio-balloon. Nowadays, it is only a marker that a page is part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline. We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for inflated pages or when onlining a section but keeping some pages offline (e.g. used right now by XEN and Hyper-V via set_online_page_callback()). We are going to expose this flag to dump tools like makedumpfile. But instead of exposing PG_balloon, let's generalize the concept of marking pages as logically offline, so it can be reused for other purposes later on. Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the guest to dump an unused page). We can then e.g. exclude such pages from dumps. We replace and reuse KPF_BALLOON (23), as this shouldn't really harm (and for now the semantics stay the same). In following patches, we will make use of this bit also in other balloon drivers. While at it, document PGTABLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text, per David] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pankaj gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
index 3f7bade2c231..340a5aee9b80 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ number of times a page is mapped.
20. NOPAGE
21. KSM
22. THP
- 23. BALLOON
+ 23. OFFLINE
24. ZERO_PAGE
25. IDLE
+ 26. PGTABLE
* ``/proc/kpagecgroup``. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
@@ -118,8 +119,8 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
22 - THP
contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
-23 - BALLOON
- balloon compaction page
+23 - OFFLINE
+ page is logically offline
24 - ZERO_PAGE
zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page
25 - IDLE
@@ -128,6 +129,8 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
Note that this flag may be stale in case the page was accessed via
a PTE. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first.
+26 - PGTABLE
+ page is in use as a page table
IO related page flags
---------------------