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-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mman.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c15
4 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 7d041cb6da26..2552d3e0a70f 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void selfballoon_process(struct work_struct *work)
if (xen_selfballooning_enabled) {
cur_pages = totalram_pages;
tgt_pages = cur_pages; /* default is no change */
- goal_pages = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) +
+ goal_pages = vm_memory_committed() +
totalreserve_pages +
MB2PAGES(selfballoon_reserved_mb);
#ifdef CONFIG_FRONTSWAP
diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index d09dde1e57fb..9aa863da287f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void);
+
static inline void vm_acct_memory(long pages)
{
percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2d942353d681..b064822be82e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
/*
+ * The global memory commitment made in the system can be a metric
+ * that can be used to drive ballooning decisions when Linux is hosted
+ * as a guest. On Hyper-V, the host implements a policy engine for dynamically
+ * balancing memory across competing virtual machines that are hosted.
+ * Several metrics drive this policy engine including the guest reported
+ * memory commitment.
+ */
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
+
+/*
* Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
* mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
* succeed and -ENOMEM implies there is not.
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 45131b41bcdb..79c3cac87afa 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -66,6 +66,21 @@ int heap_stack_gap = 0;
atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
+/*
+ * The global memory commitment made in the system can be a metric
+ * that can be used to drive ballooning decisions when Linux is hosted
+ * as a guest. On Hyper-V, the host implements a policy engine for dynamically
+ * balancing memory across competing virtual machines that are hosted.
+ * Several metrics drive this policy engine including the guest reported
+ * memory commitment.
+ */
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_physpages);