hostmem: Wire up RAM_NORESERVE via "reserve" property

Let's provide a way to control the use of RAM_NORESERVE via memory
backends using the "reserve" property which defaults to true (old
behavior).

Only Linux currently supports clearing the flag (and support is checked at
runtime, depending on the setting of "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory").
Windows and other POSIX systems will bail out with "reserve=false".

The target use case is virtio-mem, which dynamically exposes memory
inside a large, sparse memory area to the VM. This essentially allows
avoiding to set "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 0") when using
virtio-mem and also supporting hugetlbfs in the future.

As really only Linux implements RAM_NORESERVE right now, let's expose
the property only with CONFIG_LINUX. Setting the property to "false"
will then only fail in corner cases -- for example on very old kernels
or when memory overcommit was completely disabled by the admin.

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-11-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/backends/hostmem-file.c b/backends/hostmem-file.c
index 9b1b9f0a56043dc5788826c16fb9519f9fdf8370..cd038024fae3c056cc2f01e4654c2e962bb0336c 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/hostmem-file.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem-file.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ file_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp)
                object_get_typename(OBJECT(backend)));
 #else
     HostMemoryBackendFile *fb = MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE(backend);
+    uint32_t ram_flags;
     gchar *name;
 
     if (!backend->size) {
@@ -51,11 +52,11 @@ file_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp)
     }
 
     name = host_memory_backend_get_name(backend);
-    memory_region_init_ram_from_file(&backend->mr, OBJECT(backend),
-                                     name,
-                                     backend->size, fb->align,
-                                     (backend->share ? RAM_SHARED : 0) |
-                                     (fb->is_pmem ? RAM_PMEM : 0),
+    ram_flags = backend->share ? RAM_SHARED : 0;
+    ram_flags |= backend->reserve ? 0 : RAM_NORESERVE;
+    ram_flags |= fb->is_pmem ? RAM_PMEM : 0;
+    memory_region_init_ram_from_file(&backend->mr, OBJECT(backend), name,
+                                     backend->size, fb->align, ram_flags,
                                      fb->mem_path, fb->readonly, errp);
     g_free(name);
 #endif

diff --git a/backends/hostmem-memfd.c b/backends/hostmem-memfd.c
index 3076da146d9af59ca4f9a2f348db4f49e8a95124..3fc85c3db81bb71176cdfe65dbf0643e1504355b 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/hostmem-memfd.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem-memfd.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ memfd_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp)
 
     name = host_memory_backend_get_name(backend);
     ram_flags = backend->share ? RAM_SHARED : 0;
+    ram_flags |= backend->reserve ? 0 : RAM_NORESERVE;
     memory_region_init_ram_from_fd(&backend->mr, OBJECT(backend), name,
                                    backend->size, ram_flags, fd, 0, errp);
     g_free(name);

diff --git a/backends/hostmem-ram.c b/backends/hostmem-ram.c
index 741e7010628958f51683d2d627429f5a25d13749..b8e55cdbd0f89078b01bb1575416173ce909526b 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/hostmem-ram.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem-ram.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ ram_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp)
 
     name = host_memory_backend_get_name(backend);
     ram_flags = backend->share ? RAM_SHARED : 0;
+    ram_flags |= backend->reserve ? 0 : RAM_NORESERVE;
     memory_region_init_ram_flags_nomigrate(&backend->mr, OBJECT(backend), name,
                                            backend->size, ram_flags, errp);
     g_free(name);

diff --git a/backends/hostmem.c b/backends/hostmem.c
index aab3de84083e79ce09a3d207162c2fd8584e8ae3..4c05862ed5a89059f1dbca8b9285692a413dfa36 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/hostmem.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem.c
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ static void host_memory_backend_set_prealloc(Object *obj, bool value,
     Error *local_err = NULL;
     HostMemoryBackend *backend = MEMORY_BACKEND(obj);
 
+    if (!backend->reserve && value) {
+        error_setg(errp, "'prealloc=on' and 'reserve=off' are incompatible");
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (!host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend)) {
         backend->prealloc = value;
         return;
@@ -267,6 +272,7 @@ static void host_memory_backend_init(Object *obj)
     /* TODO: convert access to globals to compat properties */
     backend->merge = machine_mem_merge(machine);
     backend->dump = machine_dump_guest_core(machine);
+    backend->reserve = true;
     backend->prealloc_threads = 1;
 }
 
@@ -425,6 +431,30 @@ static void host_memory_backend_set_share(Object *o, bool value, Error **errp)
     backend->share = value;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
+static bool host_memory_backend_get_reserve(Object *o, Error **errp)
+{
+    HostMemoryBackend *backend = MEMORY_BACKEND(o);
+
+    return backend->reserve;
+}
+
+static void host_memory_backend_set_reserve(Object *o, bool value, Error **errp)
+{
+    HostMemoryBackend *backend = MEMORY_BACKEND(o);
+
+    if (host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend)) {
+        error_setg(errp, "cannot change property value");
+        return;
+    }
+    if (backend->prealloc && !value) {
+        error_setg(errp, "'prealloc=on' and 'reserve=off' are incompatible");
+        return;
+    }
+    backend->reserve = value;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_LINUX */
+
 static bool
 host_memory_backend_get_use_canonical_path(Object *obj, Error **errp)
 {
@@ -493,6 +523,12 @@ host_memory_backend_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
         host_memory_backend_get_share, host_memory_backend_set_share);
     object_class_property_set_description(oc, "share",
         "Mark the memory as private to QEMU or shared");
+#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
+    object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "reserve",
+        host_memory_backend_get_reserve, host_memory_backend_set_reserve);
+    object_class_property_set_description(oc, "reserve",
+        "Reserve swap space (or huge pages) if applicable");
+#endif /* CONFIG_LINUX */
     /*
      * Do not delete/rename option. This option must be considered stable
      * (as if it didn't have the 'x-' prefix including deprecation period) as

diff --git a/include/sysemu/hostmem.h b/include/sysemu/hostmem.h
index df5644723a39523a1a193a828909cfe148bcc1fc..9ff5c16963f0bf2ad6386646caa6945d92764c99 100644 (file)
--- a/include/sysemu/hostmem.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/hostmem.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct HostMemoryBackend {
     /* protected */
     uint64_t size;
     bool merge, dump, use_canonical_path;
-    bool prealloc, is_mapped, share;
+    bool prealloc, is_mapped, share, reserve;
     uint32_t prealloc_threads;
     DECLARE_BITMAP(host_nodes, MAX_NODES + 1);
     HostMemPolicy policy;

diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json
index f7ef30f940c31334327ccbb427ddb5a6efbd8221..652be317b8b5d76d88f3b61a701800f27ac29a41 100644 (file)
--- a/qapi/qom.json
+++ b/qapi/qom.json
@@ -545,6 +545,9 @@
 # @share: if false, the memory is private to QEMU; if true, it is shared
 #         (default: false)
 #
+# @reserve: if true, reserve swap space (or huge pages) if applicable
+#           (default: true) (since 6.1)
+#
 # @size: size of the memory region in bytes
 #
 # @x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id: if true, the canoncial path is used
@@ -556,6 +559,12 @@
 #                                        false generally, but true for machine
 #                                        types <= 4.0)
 #
+# Note: prealloc=true and reserve=false cannot be set at the same time. With
+#       reserve=true, the behavior depends on the operating system: for example,
+#       Linux will not reserve swap space for shared file mappings --
+#       "not applicable". In contrast, reserve=false will bail out if it cannot
+#       be configured accordingly.
+#
 # Since: 2.1
 ##
 { 'struct': 'MemoryBackendProperties',
@@ -566,6 +575,7 @@
             '*prealloc': 'bool',
             '*prealloc-threads': 'uint32',
             '*share': 'bool',
+            '*reserve': 'bool',
             'size': 'size',
             '*x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id': 'bool' } }