Re: [Xen-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix dom0 maximum memory setting

[Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/02/2017 10:31 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> When the libxl driver is initialized, it creates a virDomainDef
> object for dom0 and adds it to the list of domains. Total memory
> for dom0 was being set from the max_memkb field of libxl_dominfo
> struct retrieved from libxl, but this field can be set to
> LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT (~0ULL) if dom0 maximum memory has not been
> explicitly set by the user.
> 
> This patch adds some simple parsing of the Xen commandline,
> looking for a dom0_mem parameter that also specifies a 'max' value.
> If not specified, dom0 maximum memory is effectively all physical
> host memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c   | 75 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.h   |  3 ++
>  src/libxl/libxl_driver.c |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> index b5186f2..bfe0e92 100644
> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include "virlog.h"
>  #include "virerror.h"
> +#include "c-ctype.h"
>  #include "datatypes.h"
>  #include "virconf.h"
>  #include "virfile.h"
> @@ -1530,6 +1531,80 @@ int libxlDriverConfigLoadFile(libxlDriverConfigPtr cfg,
>  
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * dom0's maximum memory can be controled by the user with the 'dom0_mem' Xen
> + * command line parameter. E.g. to set dom0's initial memory to 4G and max
> + * memory to 8G: dom0_mem=4G,max:8G
> + *
> + * If not constrained by the user, dom0 can effectively use all host memory.
> + * This function returns the configured maximum memory for dom0 in kilobytes,
> + * either the user-specified value or total physical memory as a default.
> + */
> +unsigned long long
> +libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf(libxlDriverConfigPtr cfg)
> +{
> +    char **cmd_tokens = NULL;
> +    char **mem_tokens = NULL;
> +    size_t i;
> +    size_t j;
> +    unsigned long long ret;
> +    libxl_physinfo physinfo;
> +
> +    if (cfg->verInfo->commandline == NULL ||
> +        !(cmd_tokens = virStringSplit(cfg->verInfo->commandline, " ", 0)))
> +        goto physmem;
> +
> +    for (i = 0; cmd_tokens[i] != NULL; i++) {
> +        if (!STRPREFIX(cmd_tokens[i], "dom0_mem="))
> +            continue;
> +
> +        if (!(mem_tokens = virStringSplit(cmd_tokens[i], ",", 0)))
> +            break;
> +        for (j = 0; mem_tokens[j] != NULL; j++) {
> +            if (STRPREFIX(mem_tokens[j], "max:")) {
> +                char *p = mem_tokens[j] + 4;
> +                unsigned long long multiplier = 1;
> +
> +                while (c_isdigit(*p))
> +                    p++;
> +                if (virStrToLong_ull(mem_tokens[j] + 4, &p, 10, &ret) < 0)
> +                    break;
> +                if (*p) {
> +                    switch (*p) {
> +                    case 'k':
> +                    case 'K':
> +                        multiplier = 1024;
> +                        break;
> +                    case 'm':
> +                    case 'M':
> +                        multiplier = 1024 * 1024;
> +                        break;
> +                    case 'g':
> +                    case 'G':
> +                        multiplier = 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
> +                        break;
> +                    }
> +                }
> +                ret = (ret * multiplier) / 1024;
> +                goto cleanup;
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> + physmem:
> +    /* No 'max' specified in dom0_mem, so dom0 can use all physical memory */
> +    libxl_physinfo_init(&physinfo);
> +    libxl_get_physinfo(cfg->ctx, &physinfo);
Despite being an unlikely event, libxl_get_physinfo can fail here - I think you
need to check the return value here.

> +    ret = (physinfo.total_pages * cfg->verInfo->pagesize) / 1024;
> +    libxl_physinfo_dispose(&physinfo);
> +
> + cleanup:
> +    virStringListFree(cmd_tokens);
> +    virStringListFree(mem_tokens);
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
> +
>  #ifdef LIBXL_HAVE_DEVICE_CHANNEL
>  static int
>  libxlPrepareChannel(virDomainChrDefPtr channel,
> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.h b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.h
> index 69d7885..c4ddbfe 100644
> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.h
> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.h
> @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ libxlDriverNodeGetInfo(libxlDriverPrivatePtr driver,
>  int libxlDriverConfigLoadFile(libxlDriverConfigPtr cfg,
>                                const char *filename);
>  
> +unsigned long long
> +libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf(libxlDriverConfigPtr cfg);
> +
>  int
>  libxlMakeDisk(virDomainDiskDefPtr l_dev, libxl_device_disk *x_dev);
>  int
> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> index 921cc93..e54b3b7 100644
> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ libxlAddDom0(libxlDriverPrivatePtr driver)
>      if (virDomainDefSetVcpus(vm->def, d_info.vcpu_online) < 0)
>          goto cleanup;
>      vm->def->mem.cur_balloon = d_info.current_memkb;
> -    virDomainDefSetMemoryTotal(vm->def, d_info.max_memkb);
> +    virDomainDefSetMemoryTotal(vm->def, libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf(cfg));

And perhaps checking here too on whether "libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf(cfg) < 
0" ?

>  
>      ret = 0;
>  
> 

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