On 3/14/25 7:06 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:37:54 -0600 Nico Pache <npa...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and
>> expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
>> @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>> show_val_kb(m, "Unaccepted: ",
>> global_zone_page_state(NR_UNACCEPTED));
>> #endif
>> + show_val_kb(m, "Balloon: ",
>> + global_node_page_state(NR_BALLOON_PAGES));
>
> Please update Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst for this.
@Andrew
Can you please squash the following?
>From b1b379a32752e64c60b5e3b6365c93db8e1daf9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nico Pache <npa...@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:07:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: document Balloon Meminfo entry
Add a Balloon entry to the Meminfo documention.
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npa...@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 09f0aed5a08b..2868bb74f76e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -1060,6 +1060,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
FilePmdMapped: 0 kB
CmaTotal: 0 kB
CmaFree: 0 kB
+ Balloon: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
@@ -1228,6 +1229,8 @@ CmaTotal
Memory reserved for the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA)
CmaFree
Free remaining memory in the CMA reserves
+Balloon
+ Memory returned to Host by VM Balloon Drivers
HugePages_Total, HugePages_Free, HugePages_Rsvd, HugePages_Surp, Hugepagesize,
Hugetlb
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
DirectMap4k, DirectMap2M, DirectMap1G
--
2.48.1
>
