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authorDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>2010-06-04 14:14:52 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-07-05 11:22:41 -0700
commit387767af889d9465ce56bf72ee47c00dd37dad08 (patch)
tree8c2b612acaec083f070ef1e6e95a4504c583cbe8 /drivers
parent997e6f9cc4ccc93dc827fe6ea096f48df179c670 (diff)
vmware balloon: clamp number of collected non-balloonable pages
commit 55adaa495edc429be84399f83df80dfb7f36598b upstream. Limit number of accumulated non-balloonable pages during inflation cycle, otherwise there is a chance we will be spinning and growing the list forever. This happens during torture tests when balloon target changes while we are in the middle of inflation cycle and monitor starts refusing to lock pages (since they are not needed anymore). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Acked-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c
index e7161c4e3798..ad8fb090eaa9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
-MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.0-K");
+MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.1-k");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnVMware*:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("vmware_vmmemctl");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
/* Maximum number of page allocations without yielding processor */
#define VMW_BALLOON_YIELD_THRESHOLD 1024
+/* Maximum number of refused pages we accumulate during inflation cycle */
+#define VMW_BALLOON_MAX_REFUSED 16
/*
* Hypervisor communication port definitions.
@@ -183,6 +185,7 @@ struct vmballoon {
/* transient list of non-balloonable pages */
struct list_head refused_pages;
+ unsigned int n_refused_pages;
/* balloon size in pages */
unsigned int size;
@@ -428,14 +431,21 @@ static int vmballoon_reserve_page(struct vmballoon *b, bool can_sleep)
/* inform monitor */
locked = vmballoon_send_lock_page(b, page_to_pfn(page));
if (!locked) {
+ STATS_INC(b->stats.refused_alloc);
+
if (b->reset_required) {
__free_page(page);
return -EIO;
}
- /* place on list of non-balloonable pages, retry allocation */
+ /*
+ * Place page on the list of non-balloonable pages
+ * and retry allocation, unless we already accumulated
+ * too many of them, in which case take a breather.
+ */
list_add(&page->lru, &b->refused_pages);
- STATS_INC(b->stats.refused_alloc);
+ if (++b->n_refused_pages >= VMW_BALLOON_MAX_REFUSED)
+ return -EIO;
}
} while (!locked);
@@ -483,6 +493,8 @@ static void vmballoon_release_refused_pages(struct vmballoon *b)
__free_page(page);
STATS_INC(b->stats.refused_free);
}
+
+ b->n_refused_pages = 0;
}
/*