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| author | Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-05-31 00:36:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2013-06-05 09:33:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 365c886860c4ba670d245e762b23987c912c129a (patch) | |
| tree | 81f59edf5ba5e4c944d5590a631bbd23419e2cd8 /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | |
| parent | f34d251d66ba263c077ed9d2bbd1874339a4c887 (diff) | |
| download | linux-365c886860c4ba670d245e762b23987c912c129a.tar.xz | |
KVM: MMU: reclaim the zapped-obsolete page first
As Marcelo pointed out that
| "(retention of large number of pages while zapping)
| can be fatal, it can lead to OOM and host crash"
We introduce a list, kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, to link all
the pages which are deleted from the mmu cache but not actually
freed. When page reclaiming is needed, we always zap this kind of
pages first.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 15e10f7..6402951 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -6832,6 +6832,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type) return -EINVAL; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.assigned_dev_head); /* Reserve bit 0 of irq_sources_bitmap for userspace irq source */ |