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Igor Redko authored
commit d02bd27b upstream.

Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.

It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap.  This metric would be very
useful in VM orchestration software to improve memory management of
different VMs under overcommit.

This patch (of 2):

Factor out calculation of the available memory counter into a separate
exportable function, in order to be able to use it in other parts of the
kernel.

In particular, it appears a relevant metric to report to the hypervisor
via virtio-balloon statistics interface (in a followup patch).

Signed-off-by: default avatarIgor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16 as dependency of commit a1078e82
 "xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free"]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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