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2016-07-12Clean up ill-advised or unusual header guardsMarkus Armbruster
Cleaned up with scripts/clean-header-guards.pl. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
2016-02-06virtio: move allocation to virtqueue_pop/vring_popPaolo Bonzini
The return code of virtqueue_pop/vring_pop is unused except to check for errors or 0. We can thus easily move allocation inside the functions and just return a pointer to the VirtQueueElement. The advantage is that we will be able to allocate only the space that is needed for the actual size of the s/g list instead of the full VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE items. Currently VirtQueueElement takes about 48K of memory, and this kind of allocation puts a lot of stress on malloc. By cutting the size by two or three orders of magnitude, malloc can use much more efficient algorithms. The patch is pretty large, but changes to each device are testable more or less independently. Splitting it would mostly add churn. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2015-06-23balloon: add a feature bit to let Guest OS deflate balloon on oomDenis V. Lunev
Excessive virtio_balloon inflation can cause invocation of OOM-killer, when Linux is under severe memory pressure. Various mechanisms are responsible for correct virtio_balloon memory management. Nevertheless it is often the case that these control tools does not have enough time to react on fast changing memory load. As a result OS runs out of memory and invokes OOM-killer. The balancing of memory by use of the virtio balloon should not cause the termination of processes while there are pages in the balloon. Now there is no way for virtio balloon driver to free memory at the last moment before some process get killed by OOM-killer. This does not provide a security breach as balloon itself is running inside Guest OS and is working in the cooperation with the host. Thus some improvements from Guest side should be considered as normal. To solve the problem, introduce a virtio_balloon callback which is expected to be called from the oom notifier call chain in out_of_memory() function. If virtio balloon could release some memory, it will make the system return and retry the allocation that forced the out of memory killer to run. This behavior should be enabled if and only if appropriate feature bit is set on the device. It is off by default. This functionality was recently merged into vanilla Linux. commit 5a10b7dbf904bfe01bb9fcc6298f7df09eed77d5 Author: Raushaniya Maksudova <rmaksudova@parallels.com> Date: Mon Nov 10 09:36:29 2014 +1030 This patch adds respective control bits into QEMU. It introduces deflate-on-oom option for balloon device which does the trick. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> CC: Raushaniya Maksudova <rmaksudova@parallels.com> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2015-06-10virtio_balloon: header updateMichael S. Tsirkin
add modern header Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-02-26virtio-balloon: use standard headersMichael S. Tsirkin
Drop code duplicated from standard headers. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-15virtio: fix broken aliases.KONRAD Frederic
This fix the broken aliases, by renaming the devices. So: * virtio-blk => virtio-blk-device. * virtio-balloon => virtio-balloon-device. * virtio-scsi => virtio-scsi-device. All virtio-*-pci, virtio-*-s390, virtio-*-ccw didn't change. Signed-off-by: KONRAD Frederic <fred.konrad@greensocs.com> Message-id: 1365501888-14602-1-git-send-email-fred.konrad@greensocs.com Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-04-08hw: move headers to include/Paolo Bonzini
Many of these should be cleaned up with proper qdev-/QOM-ification. Right now there are many catch-all headers in include/hw/ARCH depending on cpu.h, and this makes it necessary to compile these files per-target. However, fixing this does not belong in these patches. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>