[QEMU PATCH] KVM: Support for page hinting

From: Nitesh Narayan Lal
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 13:08:44 EST

Enables QEMU to call madvise on the pages which are reported
by the guest kernel.

Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
hw/virtio/trace-events | 1 +
hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h | 2 +-
include/qemu/osdep.h | 7 ++
.../standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/trace-events b/hw/virtio/trace-events
index 07bcbe9e85..015565785c 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/trace-events
+++ b/hw/virtio/trace-events
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ virtio_balloon_handle_output(const char *name, uint64_t gpa) "section name: %s g
virtio_balloon_get_config(uint32_t num_pages, uint32_t actual) "num_pages: %d actual: %d"
virtio_balloon_set_config(uint32_t actual, uint32_t oldactual) "actual: %d oldactual: %d"
virtio_balloon_to_target(uint64_t target, uint32_t num_pages) "balloon target: 0x%"PRIx64" num_pages: %d"
+virtio_balloon_hinting_request(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int num_pages) "Guest page hinting request: %lu size: %d"
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index a12677d4d5..cbb630279c 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@

#define BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE (1 << VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT)

+struct guest_pages {
+ uint64_t phys_addr;
+ uint32_t len;
+};
+
+void page_hinting_request(uint64_t addr, uint32_t len);
+
static void balloon_page(void *addr, int deflate)
{
if (!qemu_balloon_is_inhibited()) {
@@ -207,6 +214,80 @@ static void balloon_stats_set_poll_interval(Object *obj, Visitor *v,
balloon_stats_change_timer(s, 0);
}

+static void *gpa2hva(MemoryRegion **p_mr, hwaddr addr, Error **errp)
+{
+ MemoryRegionSection mrs = memory_region_find(get_system_memory(),
+ addr, 1);
+
+ if (!mrs.mr) {
+ error_setg(errp, "No memory is mapped at address 0x%" HWADDR_PRIx, addr);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ if (!memory_region_is_ram(mrs.mr) && !memory_region_is_romd(mrs.mr)) {
+ error_setg(errp, "Memory at address 0x%" HWADDR_PRIx "is not RAM", addr);
+ memory_region_unref(mrs.mr);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ *p_mr = mrs.mr;
+ return qemu_map_ram_ptr(mrs.mr->ram_block, mrs.offset_within_region);
+}
+
+void page_hinting_request(uint64_t addr, uint32_t len)
+{
+ Error *local_err = NULL;
+ MemoryRegion *mr = NULL;
+ int ret = 0;
+ struct guest_pages *guest_obj;
+ int i = 0;
+ void *hvaddr_to_free;
+ uint64_t gpaddr_to_free;
+ void * temp_addr = gpa2hva(&mr, addr, &local_err);
+
+ if (local_err) {
+ error_report_err(local_err);
+ return;
+ }
+ guest_obj = temp_addr;
+ while (i < len) {
+ gpaddr_to_free = guest_obj[i].phys_addr;
+ trace_virtio_balloon_hinting_request(gpaddr_to_free,guest_obj[i].len);
+ hvaddr_to_free = gpa2hva(&mr, gpaddr_to_free, &local_err);
+ if (local_err) {
+ error_report_err(local_err);
+ return;
+ }
+ ret = qemu_madvise((void *)hvaddr_to_free, guest_obj[i].len, QEMU_MADV_FREE);
+ if (ret == -1)
+ printf("\n%d:%s Error: Madvise failed with error:%d\n", __LINE__, __func__, ret);
+ i++;
+ }
+}
+
+static void virtio_balloon_page_hinting(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
+{
+ VirtQueueElement *elem = NULL;
+ uint64_t temp_addr;
+ uint32_t temp_len;
+ size_t size, t_size = 0;
+
+ elem = virtqueue_pop(vq, sizeof(VirtQueueElement));
+ if (!elem) {
+ printf("\npop error\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ size = iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, 0, &temp_addr, sizeof(temp_addr));
+ t_size += size;
+ size = iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, 8, &temp_len, sizeof(temp_len));
+ t_size += size;
+ if (!qemu_balloon_is_inhibited())
+ page_hinting_request(temp_addr, temp_len);
+ virtqueue_push(vq, elem, t_size);
+ virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
+ g_free(elem);
+}
+
static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
{
VirtIOBalloon *s = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
@@ -376,6 +457,7 @@ static uint64_t virtio_balloon_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint64_t f,
VirtIOBalloon *dev = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
f |= dev->host_features;
virtio_add_feature(&f, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ);
+ virtio_add_feature(&f, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING);
return f;
}

@@ -445,6 +527,7 @@ static void virtio_balloon_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
s->ivq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_handle_output);
s->dvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_handle_output);
s->svq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_receive_stats);
+ s->hvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_page_hinting);

reset_stats(s);
}
@@ -488,6 +571,8 @@ static void virtio_balloon_instance_init(Object *obj)

object_property_add(obj, "guest-stats", "guest statistics",
balloon_stats_get_all, NULL, NULL, s, NULL);
+ object_property_add(obj, "guest-page-hinting", "guest page hinting",
+ NULL, NULL, NULL, s, NULL);

object_property_add(obj, "guest-stats-polling-interval", "int",
balloon_stats_get_poll_interval,
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
index e0df3528c8..774498a6ca 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ typedef struct virtio_balloon_stat_modern {

typedef struct VirtIOBalloon {
VirtIODevice parent_obj;
- VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq;
+ VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq, *hvq;
uint32_t num_pages;
uint32_t actual;
uint64_t stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR];
diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
index 840af09cb0..4d632933a9 100644
--- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
+++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
@@ -360,6 +360,11 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
#else
#define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
#endif
+#ifdef MADV_FREE
+#define QEMU_MADV_FREE MADV_FREE
+#else
+#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
+#endif

#elif defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MADVISE)

@@ -373,6 +378,7 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
#define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
#define QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
#define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
+#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID

#else /* no-op */

@@ -386,6 +392,7 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
#define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
#define QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
#define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
+#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID

#endif

diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
index 4dbb7dc6c0..f50c0d95ea 100644
--- a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
+++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST 0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ 1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM 2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING 5 /* Page hinting virtqueue */

/* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
--
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