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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>xen: tmem: enable Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Magenheimer</name>
<email>dan.magenheimer@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2013-04-30T22:27:00+00:00</published>
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Allow Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module.  Xen self-ballooning
and frontswap-selfshrinking are now also "lazily" initialized when the
Xen tmem shim is loaded as a module, unless explicitly disabled by
module parameters.

Note runtime dependency disallows loading if cleancache/frontswap lazy
initialization patches are not present.

If built-in (not built as a module), the original mechanism of enabling
via a kernel boot parameter is retained, but this should be considered
deprecated.

Note that module unload is explicitly not yet supported.

[v1: Removed the [CLEANCACHE|FRONTSWAP]_HAS_LAZY_INIT ifdef]
[v2: Squashed the xen/tmem: Remove the subsys call patch in]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build (disable_frontswap_selfshrinking undeclared)]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;lliubbo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andor Daam &lt;andor.daam@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Schmaus &lt;fschmaus@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Hengelein &lt;ilendir@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Allow Xen tmem shim to be built/loaded as a module.  Xen self-ballooning
and frontswap-selfshrinking are now also "lazily" initialized when the
Xen tmem shim is loaded as a module, unless explicitly disabled by
module parameters.

Note runtime dependency disallows loading if cleancache/frontswap lazy
initialization patches are not present.

If built-in (not built as a module), the original mechanism of enabling
via a kernel boot parameter is retained, but this should be considered
deprecated.

Note that module unload is explicitly not yet supported.

[v1: Removed the [CLEANCACHE|FRONTSWAP]_HAS_LAZY_INIT ifdef]
[v2: Squashed the xen/tmem: Remove the subsys call patch in]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build (disable_frontswap_selfshrinking undeclared)]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;lliubbo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andor Daam &lt;andor.daam@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Schmaus &lt;fschmaus@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Hengelein &lt;ilendir@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/tmem: cleanup</title>
<updated>2012-03-20T19:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-03T15:09:04+00:00</published>
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Use 'bool' for boolean variables. Do proper section placement.
Eliminate an unnecessary export.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Use 'bool' for boolean variables. Do proper section placement.
Eliminate an unnecessary export.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking</title>
<updated>2011-07-08T18:26:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Magenheimer</name>
<email>dan.magenheimer@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-08T18:26:21+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory
("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap.  Both
use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization.
Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal
value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean
page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where
Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine.
Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap,
driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when
in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs.

More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;

[v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap]
[v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments]
[v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap]
[v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls]
[v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits]
[v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1]
[v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes]
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xensource.com&gt;
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This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory
("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap.  Both
use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization.
Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal
value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean
page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where
Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine.
Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap,
driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when
in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs.

More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;

[v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap]
[v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments]
[v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap]
[v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls]
[v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits]
[v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1]
[v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes]
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;xen-devel@lists.xensource.com&gt;
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