mm: export a function to get vm committed memory
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:34:42 +0000 (14:34 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:41:22 +0000 (15:41 -0800)
commit997071bcb34005f42e0fe5bc7930e895b070f251
tree7cc8056370e1c77314fdf0b3fd72bcc69743f24c
parentd892de8d3fb1e807de561289cfb1fed42950440a
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>
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
include/linux/mman.h
mm/mmap.c
mm/nommu.c