Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes for the new features that were added during this cycle.

  There are also two fixes for long-standing issues for which we have a
  solution: grant-table operations extra work that was not needed
  causing performance issues and the self balloon code was too
  aggressive causing OOMs.

  Details:
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the new FIFO events
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the SWIOTLB if compiled as 32-bit with 64-bit PCIe devices.
   - Grant table were doing needless M2P operations.
   - Ratchet down the self-balloon code so it won't OOM.
   - Fix misplaced kfree in Xen PVH error code paths"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages
  drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver
  xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping
  xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address
  xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t)
  arm/xen: Initialize event channels earlier

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 21e18c18c7a1..745ad79c1d8e 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static void frontswap_selfshrink(void)
 #endif /* CONFIG_FRONTSWAP */
 
 #define MB2PAGES(mb)	((mb) << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
+#define PAGES2MB(pages) ((pages) >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT))
 
 /*
  * Use current balloon size, the goal (vm_committed_as), and hysteresis
@@ -525,6 +526,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_xen_selfballooning);
 int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink)
 {
 	bool enable = false;
+	unsigned long reserve_pages;
 
 	if (!xen_domain())
 		return -ENODEV;
@@ -549,6 +551,26 @@ int xen_selfballoon_init(bool use_selfballooning, bool use_frontswap_selfshrink)
 	if (!enable)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * Give selfballoon_reserved_mb a default value(10% of total ram pages)
+	 * to make selfballoon not so aggressive.
+	 *
+	 * There are mainly two reasons:
+	 * 1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel
+	 *    space, like slab pages and memory used by device drivers.
+	 *
+	 * 2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast
+	 *    enough when the workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory.
+	 *
+	 * In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and
+	 * OOM killer may be triggered.
+	 * By reserving extra 10% of total ram pages, we can keep the system
+	 * much more reliably and response faster in some cases.
+	 */
+	if (!selfballoon_reserved_mb) {
+		reserve_pages = totalram_pages / 10;
+		selfballoon_reserved_mb = PAGES2MB(reserve_pages);
+	}
 	schedule_delayed_work(&selfballoon_worker, selfballoon_interval * HZ);
 
 	return 0;