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Author SHA1 Message Date
Juergen Gross d99bb72a30 x86/xen: remove 32-bit pv leftovers
There are some remaining 32-bit pv-guest support leftovers in the Xen
hypercall interface. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028081221.2475-2-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2021-11-02 08:03:43 -05:00
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 197ecb3802 xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages
Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
(from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
returned to Xen.

Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
kicks in).
Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
switch.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2018-09-14 08:51:10 -04:00
Oleksandr Andrushchenko ae4c51a50c xen/balloon: Share common memory reservation routines
Memory {increase|decrease}_reservation and VA mappings update/reset
code used in balloon driver can be made common, so other drivers can
also re-use the same functionality without open-coding.
Create a dedicated file for the shared code and export corresponding
symbols for other kernel modules.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2018-07-26 23:05:13 -04:00