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| author | Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-03-17 14:19:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-01-23 08:18:35 +0100 |
| commit | 8e03351be73e095f6562ee22629b7b91a3f11453 (patch) | |
| tree | e827ae06bc644f4301ae4b3314da113e18b1afd6 /include | |
| parent | 03a630fc2e5c7964ffc124dd4f094edb5722af3c (diff) | |
mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function
commit d02bd27bd33dd7e8d22594cd568b81be0cb584cd upstream.
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.
It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap. This metric would be very
useful in VM orchestration software to improve memory management of
different VMs under overcommit.
This patch (of 2):
Factor out calculation of the available memory counter into a separate
exportable function, in order to be able to use it in other parts of the
kernel.
In particular, it appears a relevant metric to report to the hypervisor
via virtio-balloon statistics interface (in a followup patch).
Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4 as dependency of commit a1078e821b60
"xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free"]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index ed653ba47c46..15f81b2b87ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1802,6 +1802,7 @@ extern int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(void); extern void mem_init(void); extern void __init mmap_init(void); extern void show_mem(unsigned int flags); +extern long si_mem_available(void); extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val); extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid); |