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From: Yuvraj Sakshith <yuvraj.sakshith@oss.qualcomm.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow order zero pages in page reporting
Date: Mon,  2 Mar 2026 03:17:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302111757.2191056-1-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().

Changes in v1:
- Introduce PAGE_REPORTING_DEFAULT_ORDER macro (initially set to 0).
- Make use of new macro in drivers (hv_balloon and virtio-balloon)
	working with page reporting.
- Change PAGE_REPORTING_DEFAULT_ORDER to -1 as zero is a valid
	page order that can be requested.

Changes in v2:
- Better naming. Replace PAGE_REPORTING_DEFAULT_ORDER with
	PAGE_REPORTING_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED. This takes care of
	the situation where page reporting order is not specified
	in the commandline.
- Minor commit message changes.

Yuvraj Sakshith (4):
  mm/page_reporting: add PAGE_REPORTING_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED
  virtio_balloon: set unspecified page reporting order
  hv_balloon: set unspecified page reporting order
  mm/page_reporting: change PAGE_REPORTING_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED to -1

 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c         | 2 +-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++
 include/linux/page_reporting.h  | 1 +
 mm/page_reporting.c             | 7 ++++---
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.34.1



             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-02 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-02 11:17 Yuvraj Sakshith [this message]
2026-03-02 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/page_reporting: add PAGE_REPORTING_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED Yuvraj Sakshith
2026-03-02 14:57   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-02 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] virtio_balloon: set unspecified page reporting order Yuvraj Sakshith
2026-03-02 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] hv_balloon: " Yuvraj Sakshith
2026-03-02 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/page_reporting: change PAGE_REPORTING_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED to -1 Yuvraj Sakshith

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