[PATCH] VMware Balloon: clamp number of collected non-balloonable pages

[Dmitry Torokhov]

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).

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Andrew,

Please consider forwarding this to Linus in your next batch of patches
for 2.6.35.

Thanks!

 drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.c
index e7161c4..ad8fb09 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;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.6.6.1

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