[PATCH v2 QEMU] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for "bubble hinting"

[Alexander Duyck]

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add support for what I am referring to as "bubble hinting". Basically the
idea is to function very similar to how the balloon works in that we
basically end up madvising the page as not being used. However we don't
really need to bother with any deflate type logic since the page will be
faulted back into the guest when it is read or written to.

This is meant to be a simplification of the existing balloon interface
to use for providing hints to what memory needs to be freed. I am assuming
this is safe to do as the deflate logic does not actually appear to do very
much other than tracking what subpages have been released and which ones
haven't.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c                      |   40 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h              |    2 +
 include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index 2112874055fb..70c0004c0f88 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -328,6 +328,39 @@ static void balloon_stats_set_poll_interval(Object *obj, Visitor *v,
     balloon_stats_change_timer(s, 0);
 }
 
+static void virtio_bubble_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
+{
+    VirtQueueElement *elem;
+
+    while ((elem = virtqueue_pop(vq, sizeof(VirtQueueElement)))) {
+    	unsigned int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < elem->in_num; i++) {
+            void *addr = elem->in_sg[i].iov_base;
+            size_t size = elem->in_sg[i].iov_len;
+            ram_addr_t ram_offset;
+            size_t rb_page_size;
+            RAMBlock *rb;
+
+            if (qemu_balloon_is_inhibited())
+                continue;
+
+            rb = qemu_ram_block_from_host(addr, false, &ram_offset);
+            rb_page_size = qemu_ram_pagesize(rb);
+
+            /* For now we will simply ignore unaligned memory regions */
+            if ((ram_offset | size) & (rb_page_size - 1))
+                continue;
+
+            ram_block_discard_range(rb, ram_offset, size);
+        }
+
+        virtqueue_push(vq, elem, 0);
+        virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
+        g_free(elem);
+    }
+}
+
 static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
 {
     VirtIOBalloon *s = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
@@ -782,6 +815,11 @@ static void virtio_balloon_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     s->svq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_receive_stats);
 
     if (virtio_has_feature(s->host_features,
+                           VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING)) {
+        s->hvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_bubble_handle_output);
+    }
+
+    if (virtio_has_feature(s->host_features,
                            VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT)) {
         s->free_page_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE,
                                            virtio_balloon_handle_free_page_vq);
@@ -897,6 +935,8 @@ static Property virtio_balloon_properties[] = {
                     VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM, false),
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("free-page-hint", VirtIOBalloon, host_features,
                     VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, false),
+    DEFINE_PROP_BIT("guest-page-hinting", VirtIOBalloon, host_features,
+                    VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_LINK("iothread", VirtIOBalloon, iothread, TYPE_IOTHREAD,
                      IOThread *),
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
index 1afafb12f6bc..a58b24fdf29d 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ enum virtio_balloon_free_page_report_status {
 
 typedef struct VirtIOBalloon {
     VirtIODevice parent_obj;
-    VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq, *free_page_vq;
+    VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq, *free_page_vq, *hvq;
     uint32_t free_page_report_status;
     uint32_t num_pages;
     uint32_t actual;
diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
index 9375ca2a70de..f9e3e8256261 100644
--- a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
+++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM	2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT	3 /* VQ to report free pages */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON	4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING	5 /* Page hinting virtqueue */
 
 /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12