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2012-01-12xen/balloon: Move the registration from device to subsystem.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
With git commit 070680218379e15c1901f4bf21b98e3cbf12b527 "xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem" we would end up with the attributes being put in: /sys/devices/xen_memory0/target_kb instead of /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb Making the tools inable to deflate the kernel to make more space for launching another guest and printing: Error: Failed to query current memory allocation of dom0 Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Suggested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-12-14xen-balloon: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystemKay Sievers
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>
2011-07-29xen: use static initializers in xen-balloon.cOlaf Hering
There is no need to use dynamic initializaion, it just confuses the reader. Switch to static initializers like its used in other files. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> [v2: Rebased on v3.0] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-07-08xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinkingDan Magenheimer
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>
2011-03-16xen-balloon: Move core balloon functionality out of moduleDaniel De Graaf
The basic functionality of ballooning pages is useful for Xen drivers in general. Rather than require a dependency on the balloon module, split the functionality that is reused into the core. The balloon module is still required to follow ballooning requests from xenstore or to view balloon statistics in sysfs. Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>