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    util/mmap-alloc: Support RAM_NORESERVE via MAP_NORESERVE under Linux · d94e0bc9
    David Hildenbrand authored
    Let's support RAM_NORESERVE via MAP_NORESERVE on Linux. The flag has no
    effect on most shared mappings - except for hugetlbfs and anonymous memory.
    
    Linux man page:
      "MAP_NORESERVE: Do not reserve swap space for this mapping. When swap
      space is reserved, one has the guarantee that it is possible to modify
      the mapping. When swap space is not reserved one might get SIGSEGV
      upon a write if no physical memory is available. See also the discussion
      of the file /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc(5). In kernels before
      2.6, this flag had effect only for private writable mappings."
    
    Note that the "guarantee" part is wrong with memory overcommit in Linux.
    
    Also, in Linux hugetlbfs is treated differently - we configure reservation
    of huge pages from the pool, not reservation of swap space (huge pages
    cannot be swapped).
    
    The rough behavior is [1]:
    a) !Hugetlbfs:
    
      1) Without MAP_NORESERVE *or* with memory overcommit under Linux
         disabled ("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 2"), the following
         accounting/reservation happens:
          For a file backed map
           SHARED or READ-only - 0 cost (the file is the map not swap)
           PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
    
          For an anonymous or /dev/zero map
           SHARED   - size of mapping
           PRIVATE READ-only - 0 cost (but of little use)
           PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
    
      2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no accounting/reservation happens.
    
    b) Hugetlbfs:
    
      1) Without MAP_NORESERVE, huge pages are reserved.
    
      2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no huge pages are reserved.
    
    Note: With "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 0", we were already able
    to configure it for !hugetlbfs globally; this toggle now allows
    configuring it more fine-grained, not for the whole system.
    
    The target use case is virtio-mem, which dynamically exposes memory
    inside a large, sparse memory area to the VM.
    
    [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
    
    
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-10-david@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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    util/mmap-alloc: Support RAM_NORESERVE via MAP_NORESERVE under Linux
    David Hildenbrand authored
    Let's support RAM_NORESERVE via MAP_NORESERVE on Linux. The flag has no
    effect on most shared mappings - except for hugetlbfs and anonymous memory.
    
    Linux man page:
      "MAP_NORESERVE: Do not reserve swap space for this mapping. When swap
      space is reserved, one has the guarantee that it is possible to modify
      the mapping. When swap space is not reserved one might get SIGSEGV
      upon a write if no physical memory is available. See also the discussion
      of the file /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc(5). In kernels before
      2.6, this flag had effect only for private writable mappings."
    
    Note that the "guarantee" part is wrong with memory overcommit in Linux.
    
    Also, in Linux hugetlbfs is treated differently - we configure reservation
    of huge pages from the pool, not reservation of swap space (huge pages
    cannot be swapped).
    
    The rough behavior is [1]:
    a) !Hugetlbfs:
    
      1) Without MAP_NORESERVE *or* with memory overcommit under Linux
         disabled ("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 2"), the following
         accounting/reservation happens:
          For a file backed map
           SHARED or READ-only - 0 cost (the file is the map not swap)
           PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
    
          For an anonymous or /dev/zero map
           SHARED   - size of mapping
           PRIVATE READ-only - 0 cost (but of little use)
           PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
    
      2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no accounting/reservation happens.
    
    b) Hugetlbfs:
    
      1) Without MAP_NORESERVE, huge pages are reserved.
    
      2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no huge pages are reserved.
    
    Note: With "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 0", we were already able
    to configure it for !hugetlbfs globally; this toggle now allows
    configuring it more fine-grained, not for the whole system.
    
    The target use case is virtio-mem, which dynamically exposes memory
    inside a large, sparse memory area to the VM.
    
    [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
    
    
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-10-david@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>