virtio_balloon: introduce memory scan/reclaim info

Expose memory scan/reclaim information to the host side via virtio
balloon device.

Now we have a metric to analyze the memory performance:

y: counter increases
n: counter does not changes
h: the rate of counter change is high
l: the rate of counter change is low

OOM: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_OOM_KILL
STALL: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ALLOC_STALL
ASCAN: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SCAN_ASYNC
DSCAN: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SCAN_DIRECT
ARCLM: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_RECLAIM_ASYNC
DRCLM: VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_RECLAIM_DIRECT

- OOM[y], STALL[*], ASCAN[*], DSCAN[*], ARCLM[*], DRCLM[*]:
the guest runs under really critial memory pressure

- OOM[n], STALL[h], ASCAN[*], DSCAN[l], ARCLM[*], DRCLM[l]:
the memory allocation stalls due to cgroup, not the global memory
pressure.

- OOM[n], STALL[h], ASCAN[*], DSCAN[h], ARCLM[*], DRCLM[h]:
the memory allocation stalls due to global memory pressure. The
performance gets hurt a lot. A high ratio between DRCLM/DSCAN shows
quite effective memory reclaiming.

- OOM[n], STALL[h], ASCAN[*], DSCAN[h], ARCLM[*], DRCLM[l]:
the memory allocation stalls due to global memory pressure.
the ratio between DRCLM/DSCAN gets low, the guest OS is thrashing
heavily, the serious case leads poor performance and difficult
trouble shooting. Ex, sshd may block on memory allocation when
accepting new connections, a user can't login a VM by ssh command.

- OOM[n], STALL[n], ASCAN[h], DSCAN[n], ARCLM[l], DRCLM[n]:
the low ratio between ARCLM/ASCAN shows that the guest tries to
reclaim more memory, but it can't. Once more memory is required in
future, it will struggle to reclaim memory.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[e-mail]>

drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c

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 	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ALLOC_STALL, stall);
 
+	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ASYNC_SCAN,
+		    pages_to_bytes(events[PGSCAN_KSWAPD]));
+	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_DIRECT_SCAN,
+		    pages_to_bytes(events[PGSCAN_DIRECT]));
+	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ASYNC_RECLAIM,
+		    pages_to_bytes(events[PGSTEAL_KSWAPD]));
+	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_DIRECT_RECLAIM,
+		    pages_to_bytes(events[PGSTEAL_DIRECT]));
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 	update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGALLOC,
 		    events[HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC]);

include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h

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 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_HTLB_PGFAIL   9  /* Hugetlb page allocation failures */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_OOM_KILL      10 /* OOM killer invocations */
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ALLOC_STALL   11 /* Stall count of memory allocatoin */
-#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       12
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ASYNC_SCAN    12 /* Amount of memory scanned asynchronously */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_DIRECT_SCAN   13 /* Amount of memory scanned directly */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_ASYNC_RECLAIM 14 /* Amount of memory reclaimed asynchronously */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_DIRECT_RECLAIM 15 /* Amount of memory reclaimed directly */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR       16
 
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_WITH_PREFIX(VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix) { \
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "swap-in", \
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 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "hugetlb-allocations", \
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "hugetlb-failures", \
 	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "oom-kills", \
-	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "alloc-stalls" \
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "alloc-stalls", \
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "async-scans", \
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "direct-scans", \
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "async-reclaims", \
+	VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_prefix "direct-reclaims" \
 }
 
 #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NAMES_WITH_PREFIX("")