xen/balloon: use hotplugged pages for foreign mappings etc.
alloc_xenballooned_pages() is used to get ballooned pages to back
foreign mappings etc. Instead of having to balloon out real pages,
use (if supported) hotplugged memory.
This makes more memory available to the guest and reduces
fragmentation in the p2m.
This is only enabled if the xen.balloon.hotplug_unpopulated sysctl is
set to 1. This sysctl defaults to 0 in case the udev rules to
automatically online hotplugged memory do not exist.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
---
v3:
- Add xen.balloon.hotplug_unpopulated sysctl to enable use of hotplug
for unpopulated pages.
diff --git a/include/xen/balloon.h b/include/xen/balloon.h
index 83efdeb..d1767df 100644
--- a/include/xen/balloon.h
+++ b/include/xen/balloon.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
/* We aim for 'current allocation' == 'target allocation'. */
unsigned long current_pages;
unsigned long target_pages;
+ unsigned long target_unpopulated;
/* Number of pages in high- and low-memory balloons. */
unsigned long balloon_low;
unsigned long balloon_high;