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Commit c04e9894 authored by Demi Marie Obenour's avatar Demi Marie Obenour Committed by Juergen Gross
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xen: speed up grant-table reclaim



When a grant entry is still in use by the remote domain, Linux must put
it on a deferred list.  Normally, this list is very short, because
the PV network and block protocols expect the backend to unmap the grant
first.  However, Qubes OS's GUI protocol is subject to the constraints
of the X Window System, and as such winds up with the frontend unmapping
the window first.  As a result, the list can grow very large, resulting
in a massive memory leak and eventual VM freeze.

To partially solve this problem, make the number of entries that the VM
will attempt to free at each iteration tunable.  The default is still
10, but it can be overridden via a module parameter.

This is Cc: stable because (when combined with appropriate userspace
changes) it fixes a severe performance and stability problem for Qubes
OS users.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDemi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726165354.1252-1-demi@invisiblethingslab.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
parent 58f6259b
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