linux/include
Nico Pache 835de37603 meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2.

This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers.

Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by
the balloon drivers.  First add the accounting, then updates the balloon
drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this
counter.  The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the
balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages.  Other
balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually.

This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like
/proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting.

This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without
requiring different virtualization tooling.  Furthermore, this information
is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM.


This patch (of 4):

Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and
expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces.

[npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-21 22:03:13 -07:00
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acpi LoongArch changes for v6.14 2025-01-28 08:52:01 -08:00
asm-generic arch, mm: set max_mapnr when allocating memory map for FLATMEM 2025-03-17 22:06:52 -07:00
clocksource KVM/arm64 updates for 6.14 2025-01-28 09:01:36 -08:00
crypto
cxl
drm drm: Fix DSC BPP increment decoding 2025-02-13 10:20:30 +02:00
dt-bindings dt-bindings: clock: qcom: Add CAMCC clocks for QCS8300 2025-02-02 20:59:04 -06:00
hyperv
keys
kunit linux_kselftest-kunit-6.14-rc1 2025-01-22 12:32:39 -08:00
kvm
linux meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers 2025-03-21 22:03:13 -07:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net percpu: use TYPEOF_UNQUAL() in variable declarations 2025-03-16 22:05:53 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rv rv: Reset per-task monitors also for idle tasks 2025-01-23 12:16:04 -05:00
scsi Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
soc soc: driver updates for 6.14 2025-01-24 14:56:59 -08:00
sound ASoC: cs35l56: Prevent races when soft-resetting using SPI control 2025-02-25 15:06:58 +00:00
target
trace mm/page_alloc: add trace event for totalreserve_pages calculation 2025-03-17 22:07:03 -07:00
uapi Landlock fix for v6.14-rc5 2025-02-26 11:55:44 -08:00
ufs scsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths 2025-02-03 17:20:01 -05:00
vdso
video
xen