1. 14 9月, 2018 1 次提交
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      xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages · 197ecb38
      Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 提交于
      Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
      in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
      started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
      pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
      weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
      (from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
      this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
      returned to Xen.
      
      Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
      scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
      Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
      initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
      secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
      kicks in).
      Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
      enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
      switch.
      Signed-off-by: NMarek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
      197ecb38
  2. 27 7月, 2018 1 次提交