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>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/xen/balloon.h b/include/xen/balloon.h
index a2b22f01a51d..4076ed72afbd 100644
--- a/include/xen/balloon.h
+++ b/include/xen/balloon.h
@@ -23,3 +23,13 @@ void balloon_set_new_target(unsigned long target);
 
 int alloc_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page** pages);
 void free_xenballooned_pages(int nr_pages, struct page** pages);
+
+struct sys_device;
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING
+extern int register_xen_selfballooning(struct sys_device *sysdev);
+#else
+static inline int register_xen_selfballooning(struct sys_device *sysdev)
+{
+        return -ENOSYS;
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/include/xen/tmem.h b/include/xen/tmem.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..82e2c83a32f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/xen/tmem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#ifndef _XEN_TMEM_H
+#define _XEN_TMEM_H
+/* defined in drivers/xen/tmem.c */
+extern int tmem_enabled;
+#endif /* _XEN_TMEM_H */