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Author SHA1 Message Date
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