The patch for the kernel part is in linux-next already:
commit
ac88e7c908b920866e529862f2b2f0129b254ab2
Author: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu Feb 18 09:23:01 2016 +1100
virtio_balloon: export 'available' memory to balloon statistics
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT] = "stat-minor-faults",
[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE] = "stat-free-memory",
[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT] = "stat-total-memory",
+ [VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL] = "stat-available-memory",
[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR] = NULL
};
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT 3 /* Number of minor faults */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE 4 /* Total amount of free memory */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT 5 /* Total amount of memory */
-#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR 6
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL 6 /* Amount of available memory in guest */
+#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR 7
/*
* Memory statistics structure.