From: Yuvraj Sakshith <yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mst@redhat.com, david@kernel.org
Cc: vbabka@suse.cz, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
jackmanb@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, ziy@nvidia.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com, eperezma@redhat.com,
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haiyangz@microsoft.com, wei.liu@kernel.org, decui@microsoft.com,
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Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Allow order zero pages in page reporting
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:01:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260226070125.3732265-1-yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
Today, page reporting sets page_reporting_order in two ways:
(1) page_reporting.page_reporting_order cmdline parameter
(2) Driver can pass order while registering itself.
In both cases, order zero is ignored by free page reporting
because it is used to set page_reporting_order to a default
value, like MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
In some cases we might want page_reporting_order to be zero.
For instance, when virtio-balloon runs inside a guest with
tiny memory (say, 16MB), it might not be able to find a order 1 page
(or in the worst case order MAX_PAGE_ORDER page) after some uptime.
Page reporting should be able to return order zero pages back for
optimal memory relinquishment.
This patch changes the default fallback value from '0' to '-1' in
all possible clients of free page reporting (hv_balloon and
virtio-balloon) together with allowing '0' as a valid order in
page_reporting_register().
Yuvraj Sakshith (3):
mm/page_reporting: Allow zero page_reporting_order
hv_balloon: Change default page reporting order
virtio_balloon: Set pr_dev.order to new default
drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 2 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
mm/page_reporting.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 7:01 Yuvraj Sakshith [this message]
2026-02-26 7:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/page_reporting: Allow zero page_reporting_order Yuvraj Sakshith
2026-02-26 7:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] hv_balloon: Change default page reporting order Yuvraj Sakshith
2026-02-26 7:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio_balloon: Set pr_dev.order to new default Yuvraj Sakshith
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