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Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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