mm: export a function to get vm committed memory

It will be useful to be able to access global memory commitment from
device drivers.  On the Hyper-V platform, the host has a policy engine to
balance the available physical memory amongst all competing virtual
machines hosted on a given node.  This policy engine is driven by a number
of metrics including the memory commitment reported by the guests.  The
balloon driver for Linux on Hyper-V will use this function to retrieve
guest memory commitment.  This function is also used in Xen self
ballooning code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2d942353d681..b064822be82e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
 struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 /*
+ * The global memory commitment made in the system can be a metric
+ * that can be used to drive ballooning decisions when Linux is hosted
+ * as a guest. On Hyper-V, the host implements a policy engine for dynamically
+ * balancing memory across competing virtual machines that are hosted.
+ * Several metrics drive this policy engine including the guest reported
+ * memory commitment.
+ */
+unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void)
+{
+	return percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
+
+/*
  * Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
  * mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
  * succeed and -ENOMEM implies there is not.