mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

3 files changed, 319 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index a3f8dddaaab..e6651c5de14 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
 	default "4"
 
 #
+# support for memory balloon compaction
+config BALLOON_COMPACTION
+	bool "Allow for balloon memory compaction/migration"
+	def_bool y
+	depends on COMPACTION && VIRTIO_BALLOON
+	help
+	  Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce
+	  significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be
+	  used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated
+	  with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used
+	  by the guest workload. Allowing the compaction & migration for memory
+	  pages enlisted as being part of memory balloon devices avoids the
+	  scenario aforementioned and helps improving memory defragmentation.
+
+#
 # support for memory compaction
 config COMPACTION
 	bool "Allow for memory compaction"
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 6b025f80af3..3a4628751f8 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ obj-y			:= filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
 			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o shmem.o \
 			   util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
 			   mm_init.o mmu_context.o percpu.o slab_common.o \
-			   compaction.o interval_tree.o $(mmu-y)
+			   compaction.o balloon_compaction.o \
+			   interval_tree.o $(mmu-y)
 
 obj-y += init-mm.o
 
diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..07dbc8ec46c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
@@ -0,0 +1,302 @@
+/*
+ * mm/balloon_compaction.c
+ *
+ * Common interface for making balloon pages movable by compaction.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012, Red Hat, Inc.  Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
+ */
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
+
+/*
+ * balloon_devinfo_alloc - allocates a balloon device information descriptor.
+ * @balloon_dev_descriptor: pointer to reference the balloon device which
+ *                          this struct balloon_dev_info will be servicing.
+ *
+ * Driver must call it to properly allocate and initialize an instance of
+ * struct balloon_dev_info which will be used to reference a balloon device
+ * as well as to keep track of the balloon device page list.
+ */
+struct balloon_dev_info *balloon_devinfo_alloc(void *balloon_dev_descriptor)
+{
+	struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info;
+	b_dev_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*b_dev_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!b_dev_info)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	b_dev_info->balloon_device = balloon_dev_descriptor;
+	b_dev_info->mapping = NULL;
+	b_dev_info->isolated_pages = 0;
+	spin_lock_init(&b_dev_info->pages_lock);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&b_dev_info->pages);
+
+	return b_dev_info;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_devinfo_alloc);
+
+/*
+ * balloon_page_enqueue - allocates a new page and inserts it into the balloon
+ *			  page list.
+ * @b_dev_info: balloon device decriptor where we will insert a new page to
+ *
+ * Driver must call it to properly allocate a new enlisted balloon page
+ * before definetively removing it from the guest system.
+ * This function returns the page address for the recently enqueued page or
+ * NULL in the case we fail to allocate a new page this turn.
+ */
+struct page *balloon_page_enqueue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct page *page = alloc_page(balloon_mapping_gfp_mask() |
+					__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Block others from accessing the 'page' when we get around to
+	 * establishing additional references. We should be the only one
+	 * holding a reference to the 'page' at this point.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(!trylock_page(page));
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+	balloon_page_insert(page, b_dev_info->mapping, &b_dev_info->pages);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+	unlock_page(page);
+	return page;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_page_enqueue);
+
+/*
+ * balloon_page_dequeue - removes a page from balloon's page list and returns
+ *			  the its address to allow the driver release the page.
+ * @b_dev_info: balloon device decriptor where we will grab a page from.
+ *
+ * Driver must call it to properly de-allocate a previous enlisted balloon page
+ * before definetively releasing it back to the guest system.
+ * This function returns the page address for the recently dequeued page or
+ * NULL in the case we find balloon's page list temporarily empty due to
+ * compaction isolated pages.
+ */
+struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info)
+{
+	struct page *page, *tmp;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	bool dequeued_page;
+
+	dequeued_page = false;
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &b_dev_info->pages, lru) {
+		/*
+		 * Block others from accessing the 'page' while we get around
+		 * establishing additional references and preparing the 'page'
+		 * to be released by the balloon driver.
+		 */
+		if (trylock_page(page)) {
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+			/*
+			 * Raise the page refcount here to prevent any wrong
+			 * attempt to isolate this page, in case of coliding
+			 * with balloon_page_isolate() just after we release
+			 * the page lock.
+			 *
+			 * balloon_page_free() will take care of dropping
+			 * this extra refcount later.
+			 */
+			get_page(page);
+			balloon_page_delete(page);
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+			unlock_page(page);
+			dequeued_page = true;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!dequeued_page) {
+		/*
+		 * If we are unable to dequeue a balloon page because the page
+		 * list is empty and there is no isolated pages, then something
+		 * went out of track and some balloon pages are lost.
+		 * BUG() here, otherwise the balloon driver may get stuck into
+		 * an infinite loop while attempting to release all its pages.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+		if (unlikely(list_empty(&b_dev_info->pages) &&
+			     !b_dev_info->isolated_pages))
+			BUG();
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+		page = NULL;
+	}
+	return page;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_page_dequeue);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
+/*
+ * balloon_mapping_alloc - allocates a special ->mapping for ballooned pages.
+ * @b_dev_info: holds the balloon device information descriptor.
+ * @a_ops: balloon_mapping address_space_operations descriptor.
+ *
+ * Driver must call it to properly allocate and initialize an instance of
+ * struct address_space which will be used as the special page->mapping for
+ * balloon device enlisted page instances.
+ */
+struct address_space *balloon_mapping_alloc(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info,
+				const struct address_space_operations *a_ops)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+
+	mapping = kmalloc(sizeof(*mapping), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!mapping)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	/*
+	 * Give a clean 'zeroed' status to all elements of this special
+	 * balloon page->mapping struct address_space instance.
+	 */
+	address_space_init_once(mapping);
+
+	/*
+	 * Set mapping->flags appropriately, to allow balloon pages
+	 * ->mapping identification.
+	 */
+	mapping_set_balloon(mapping);
+	mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, balloon_mapping_gfp_mask());
+
+	/* balloon's page->mapping->a_ops callback descriptor */
+	mapping->a_ops = a_ops;
+
+	/*
+	 * Establish a pointer reference back to the balloon device descriptor
+	 * this particular page->mapping will be servicing.
+	 * This is used by compaction / migration procedures to identify and
+	 * access the balloon device pageset while isolating / migrating pages.
+	 *
+	 * As some balloon drivers can register multiple balloon devices
+	 * for a single guest, this also helps compaction / migration to
+	 * properly deal with multiple balloon pagesets, when required.
+	 */
+	mapping->private_data = b_dev_info;
+	b_dev_info->mapping = mapping;
+
+	return mapping;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balloon_mapping_alloc);
+
+static inline void __isolate_balloon_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info = page->mapping->private_data;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+	list_del(&page->lru);
+	b_dev_info->isolated_pages++;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+}
+
+static inline void __putback_balloon_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info = page->mapping->private_data;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+	list_add(&page->lru, &b_dev_info->pages);
+	b_dev_info->isolated_pages--;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
+}
+
+static inline int __migrate_balloon_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+		struct page *newpage, struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
+{
+	return page->mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
+}
+
+/* __isolate_lru_page() counterpart for a ballooned page */
+bool balloon_page_isolate(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Avoid burning cycles with pages that are yet under __free_pages(),
+	 * or just got freed under us.
+	 *
+	 * In case we 'win' a race for a balloon page being freed under us and
+	 * raise its refcount preventing __free_pages() from doing its job
+	 * the put_page() at the end of this block will take care of
+	 * release this page, thus avoiding a nasty leakage.
+	 */
+	if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
+		/*
+		 * As balloon pages are not isolated from LRU lists, concurrent
+		 * compaction threads can race against page migration functions
+		 * as well as race against the balloon driver releasing a page.
+		 *
+		 * In order to avoid having an already isolated balloon page
+		 * being (wrongly) re-isolated while it is under migration,
+		 * or to avoid attempting to isolate pages being released by
+		 * the balloon driver, lets be sure we have the page lock
+		 * before proceeding with the balloon page isolation steps.
+		 */
+		if (likely(trylock_page(page))) {
+			/*
+			 * A ballooned page, by default, has just one refcount.
+			 * Prevent concurrent compaction threads from isolating
+			 * an already isolated balloon page by refcount check.
+			 */
+			if (__is_movable_balloon_page(page) &&
+			    page_count(page) == 2) {
+				__isolate_balloon_page(page);
+				unlock_page(page);
+				return true;
+			}
+			unlock_page(page);
+		}
+		put_page(page);
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
+/* putback_lru_page() counterpart for a ballooned page */
+void balloon_page_putback(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * 'lock_page()' stabilizes the page and prevents races against
+	 * concurrent isolation threads attempting to re-isolate it.
+	 */
+	lock_page(page);
+
+	if (__is_movable_balloon_page(page)) {
+		__putback_balloon_page(page);
+		/* drop the extra ref count taken for page isolation */
+		put_page(page);
+	} else {
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		dump_page(page);
+	}
+	unlock_page(page);
+}
+
+/* move_to_new_page() counterpart for a ballooned page */
+int balloon_page_migrate(struct page *newpage,
+			 struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+	int rc = -EAGAIN;
+
+	/*
+	 * Block others from accessing the 'newpage' when we get around to
+	 * establishing additional references. We should be the only one
+	 * holding a reference to the 'newpage' at this point.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(!trylock_page(newpage));
+
+	if (WARN_ON(!__is_movable_balloon_page(page))) {
+		dump_page(page);
+		unlock_page(newpage);
+		return rc;
+	}
+
+	mapping = page->mapping;
+	if (mapping)
+		rc = __migrate_balloon_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
+
+	unlock_page(newpage);
+	return rc;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION */