Let's support RAM_NORESERVE via MAP_NORESERVE on Linux. The flag has no
effect on most shared mappings - except for hugetlbfs and anonymous memory.
Linux man page:
"MAP_NORESERVE: Do not reserve swap space for this mapping. When swap
space is reserved, one has the guarantee that it is possible to modify
the mapping. When swap space is not reserved one might get SIGSEGV
upon a write if no physical memory is available. See also the discussion
of the file /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc(5). In kernels before
2.6, this flag had effect only for private writable mappings."
Note that the "guarantee" part is wrong with memory overcommit in Linux.
Also, in Linux hugetlbfs is treated differently - we configure reservation
of huge pages from the pool, not reservation of swap space (huge pages
cannot be swapped).
The rough behavior is [1]:
a) !Hugetlbfs:
1) Without MAP_NORESERVE *or* with memory overcommit under Linux
disabled ("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 2"), the following
accounting/reservation happens:
For a file backed map
SHARED or READ-only - 0 cost (the file is the map not swap)
PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
For an anonymous or /dev/zero map
SHARED - size of mapping
PRIVATE READ-only - 0 cost (but of little use)
PRIVATE WRITABLE - size of mapping per instance
2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no accounting/reservation happens.
b) Hugetlbfs:
1) Without MAP_NORESERVE, huge pages are reserved.
2) With MAP_NORESERVE, no huge pages are reserved.
Note: With "/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory == 0", we were already able
to configure it for !hugetlbfs globally; this toggle now allows
configuring it more fine-grained, not for the whole system.
The target use case is virtio-mem, which dynamically exposes memory
inside a large, sparse memory area to the VM.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> for memory backend and machine core
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210510114328.21835-10-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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