[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 63/74] xen/shim: modify shim_mem parameter behaviour

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

shim_mem will now account for both the memory used by the hypervisor
loaded in memory and the free memory slack given to the shim for
runtime usage.

From experimental testing it seems like the total amount of MiB used
by the shim (giving it ~1MB of free memory for runtime) is:

memory/113 + 20

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown | 13 +++++++------
 xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c           | 14 +++-----------
 xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c              | 30 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown 
b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
index 9f51710a46..68ec52b5c2 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -1461,16 +1461,17 @@ constructed into a plain unprivileged PV domain.
 ### shim\_mem (x86)
 > `= List of ( min:<size> | max:<size> | <size> )`
 
-Set the amount of memory that xen-shim reserves for itself. Only has effect
-if pv-shim mode is enabled.
+Set the amount of memory that xen-shim uses. Only has effect if pv-shim mode is
+enabled. Note that this value accounts for the memory used by the shim itself
+plus the free memory slack given to the shim for runtime allocations.
 
 * `min:<size>` specifies the minimum amount of memory. Ignored if greater
-   than max. Default: 10M.
-* `max:<size>` specifies the maximum amount of memory. Default: 128M.
+   than max.
+* `max:<size>` specifies the maximum amount of memory.
 * `<size>` specifies the exact amount of memory. Overrides both min and max.
 
-By default, 1/16th of total HVM container's memory is reserved for xen-shim
-with minimum amount being 10MB and maximum amount 128MB.
+By default, the amount of free memory slack given to the shim for runtime usage
+is 1MB.
 
 ### rcu-idle-timer-period-ms
 > `= <integer>`
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c b/xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c
index 1b0b89fdeb..30347bcc67 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/dom0_build.c
@@ -290,17 +290,9 @@ unsigned long __init dom0_compute_nr_pages(
          * for things like DMA buffers. This reservation is clamped to a
          * maximum of 128MB.
          */
-        if ( nr_pages == 0 )
-        {
-            uint64_t rsvd = min(avail / 16, 128UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT));
-            if ( pv_shim )
-            {
-                rsvd = pv_shim_mem(avail);
-                printk("Reserved %lu pages for xen-shim\n", rsvd);
-
-            }
-            nr_pages = -rsvd;
-        }
+        if ( !nr_pages )
+            nr_pages = -(pv_shim ? pv_shim_mem(avail)
+                                 : min(avail / 16, 128UL << (20 - 
PAGE_SHIFT)));
 
         /* Negative specification means "all memory - specified amount". */
         if ( (long)nr_pages  < 0 ) nr_pages  += avail;
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
index eb34467833..120c3b55b0 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ boolean_param("pv-shim", pv_shim);
 #endif
 
 /*
- * By default, 1/16th of total HVM container's memory is reserved for xen-shim
- * with minimum amount being 10MB and maximum amount 128MB. Some users may wish
- * to tune this constants for better memory utilization. This can be achieved
+ * By default give the shim 1MB of free memory slack. Some users may wish to
+ * tune this constants for better memory utilization. This can be achieved
  * using the following xen-shim's command line option:
  *
  * shim_mem=[min:<min_amt>,][max:<max_amt>,][<amt>]
@@ -55,8 +54,8 @@ boolean_param("pv-shim", pv_shim);
  *            (overrides both min and max)
  */
 static uint64_t __initdata shim_nrpages;
-static uint64_t __initdata shim_min_nrpages = 10UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
-static uint64_t __initdata shim_max_nrpages = 128UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
+static uint64_t __initdata shim_min_nrpages;
+static uint64_t __initdata shim_max_nrpages;
 
 static int __init parse_shim_mem(const char *s)
 {
@@ -75,15 +74,24 @@ custom_param("shim_mem", parse_shim_mem);
 
 uint64_t pv_shim_mem(uint64_t avail)
 {
-    uint64_t rsvd = min(avail / 16, shim_max_nrpages);
+    if ( !shim_nrpages )
+    {
+        shim_nrpages = max(shim_min_nrpages,
+                           total_pages - avail + (1UL << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)));
+        if ( shim_max_nrpages )
+            shim_max_nrpages = min(shim_nrpages, shim_max_nrpages);
+    }
+
+    if ( total_pages - avail > shim_nrpages )
+        panic("pages used by shim > shim_nrpages (%#lx > %#lx)",
+              total_pages - avail, shim_nrpages);
 
-    if ( shim_nrpages )
-        return shim_nrpages;
+    shim_nrpages -= total_pages - avail;
 
-    if ( shim_min_nrpages <= shim_max_nrpages )
-        rsvd = max(rsvd, shim_min_nrpages);
+    printk("shim used pages %#lx reserving %#lx free pages\n",
+           total_pages - avail, shim_nrpages);
 
-    return rsvd;
+    return shim_nrpages;
 }
 
 static unsigned int nr_grant_list;
-- 
2.11.0


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