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The tb_test_credit_alloc_all() function had a huge number of
KUNIT_ASSERT() statements, all of which (though the magic of many many
layers of inscrutable macros) ended up allocating and initializing
various test assertion structures on the stack.
Don't do that. The kernel stack isn't infinite, and we have compiler
warnings (now errors) for the case where a stack frame grows too large.
Like it did here, by not an inconsiderable margin:
drivers/thunderbolt/test.c: In function ‘tb_test_credit_alloc_all’:
drivers/thunderbolt/test.c:2367:1: error: the frame size of 4500 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
2367 | }
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Solve this similarly to the lib/test_scanf case: split out the tests
into several smaller functions, each just testing one particular tunnel
credit allocation.
This makes the i386 allyesconfig build work for me again.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It turns out that gcc has real trouble merging all the temporary
on-stack buffer allocation. So despite the fact that their lifetimes do
not overlap, gcc will allocate stack for all of them when they have
different types. Which they do in the number scanning test routines.
This is unfortunate in general, but with lots of test-cases in one
function, it becomes a real problem. gcc will allocate a huge stack
frame for no actual good reason.
We have tried to counteract this tendency of gcc not merging stack slots
(see "-fconserve-stack"), but that has limited effect (and should be on
by default these days, iirc).
So with all the debug options enabled on an i386 allmodconfig build, we
end up with overly big stack frames, and the resulting stack frame size
warnings (now errors):
lib/test_scanf.c: In function ‘numbers_list_field_width_val_width’:
lib/test_scanf.c:530:1: error: the frame size of 2088 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
530 | }
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lib/test_scanf.c: In function ‘numbers_list_field_width_typemax’:
lib/test_scanf.c:488:1: error: the frame size of 2568 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
488 | }
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lib/test_scanf.c: In function ‘numbers_list’:
lib/test_scanf.c:437:1: error: the frame size of 2088 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
437 | }
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In this particular case, the reasonably straightforward solution is to
just split out the test routines into multiple more targeted versions.
That way we don't have one huge stack, but several smaller ones, and
they aren't active all at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The variable 'package_size' is an unsigned long, and should be printed
out using '%lu', not '%zd' (that would be for a size_t).
Yes, on many architectures (including x86-64), 'size_t' is in fact the
same type as 'long', but that's a fairly random architecture definition,
and on some platforms 'size_t' is in fact 'int' rather than 'long'.
That is the case on traditional 32-bit x86. Yes, both types are the
exact same 32-bit size, and it would all print out perfectly correctly,
but '%zd' ends up still being wrong.
And we can't make 'package_size' be a 'size_t', because we get the
actual value using efivar_entry_get() that takes a pointer to an
'unsigned long'. So '%lu' it is.
This fixes two of the i386 allmodconfig build warnings (that is now an
error due to -Werror).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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... but make it a config option so that broken environments can disable
it when required.
We really should always have a clean build, and will disable specific
over-eager warnings as required, if we can't fix them. But while I
fairly religiously enforce that in my own tree, it doesn't get enforced
by various build robots that don't necessarily report warnings.
So this just makes '-Werror' a default compiler flag, but allows people
to disable it for their configuration if they have some particular
issues.
Occasionally, new compiler versions end up enabling new warnings, and it
can take a while before we have them fixed (or the warnings disabled if
that is what it takes), so the config option allows for that situation.
Hopefully this will mean that I get fewer pull requests that have new
warnings that were not noticed by various automation we have in place.
Knock wood.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fs/binfmt_aout.c: In function ‘load_aout_library’:
fs/binfmt_aout.c:311:27: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘;’ token
311 | MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE;
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fs/binfmt_aout.c:309:10: error: too few arguments to function ‘vm_mmap’
309 | error = vm_mmap(file, start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data,
| ^~~~~~~
In file included from fs/binfmt_aout.c:12:
include/linux/mm.h:2626:35: note: declared here
2626 | extern unsigned long __must_check vm_mmap(struct file *, unsigned long,
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Fix this by reverting the accidental replacement of a comma by a
semicolon.
Fixes: 42be8b42535183f8 ("binfmt: don't use MAP_DENYWRITE when loading shared libraries via uselib()")
Reported-by: noreply@ellerman.id.au
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Update maintainership for the uniform CD-ROM driver from Jens Axboe to
Phillip Potter in MAINTAINERS file, to reflect the attempt to pass on
maintainership of this driver to a different individual. Also remove
URL to site which is no longer active.
Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904174030.1103-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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syzbot is reporting circular locking problem at __loop_clr_fd() [1], for
commit a160c6159d4a0cf8 ("block: add an optional probe callback to
major_names") is calling the module's probe function with major_names_lock
held.
Fortunately, since commit 990e78116d38059c ("block: loop: fix deadlock
between open and remove") stopped holding loop_ctl_mutex in lo_open(),
current role of loop_ctl_mutex is to serialize access to loop_index_idr
and loop_add()/loop_remove(); in other words, management of id for IDR.
To avoid holding loop_ctl_mutex during whole add/remove operation, use
a bool flag to indicate whether the loop device is ready for use.
loop_unregister_transfer() which is called from cleanup_cryptoloop()
currently has possibility of use-after-free problem due to lack of
serialization between kfree() from loop_remove() from loop_control_remove()
and mutex_lock() from unregister_transfer_cb(). But since lo->lo_encryption
should be already NULL when this function is called due to module unload,
and commit 222013f9ac30b9ce ("cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning")
indicates that we will remove this function shortly, this patch updates
this function to emit warning instead of checking lo->lo_encryption.
Holding loop_ctl_mutex in loop_exit() is pointless, for all users must
close /dev/loop-control and /dev/loop$num (in order to drop module's
refcount to 0) before loop_exit() starts, and nobody can open
/dev/loop-control or /dev/loop$num afterwards.
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7bb10e8b62f83e4d445cdf4c13d69e407e629558 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+f61766d5763f9e7a118f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adb1e792-fc0e-ee81-7ea0-0906fc36419d@i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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It currently takes a long, and while that's normally OK, the io_uring
limit is an int. Internally in io_uring it's an int, but sometimes it's
passed as a long. That can yield confusing results where a completions
seems to generate a huge result:
ou-sqp-1297-1298 [001] ...1 788.056371: io_uring_complete: ring 000000000e98e046, user_data 0x0, result 4294967171, cflags 0
which is due to -ECANCELED being stored in an unsigned, and then passed
in as a long. Using the right int type, the trace looks correct:
iou-sqp-338-339 [002] ...1 15.633098: io_uring_complete: ring 00000000e0ac60cf, user_data 0x0, result -125, cflags 0
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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There is a usecase in Android that an app process's memory is swapped out
by process_madvise() with MADV_PAGEOUT, such as the memory is swapped to
zram or a backing device. When the process is scheduled to running, like
switch to foreground, multiple page faults may cause the app dropped
frames.
To reduce the problem, System Management Software can read-ahead memory
of the process immediately when the app switches to forground. Calling
process_madvise() with MADV_WILLNEED can meet this need.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804082010.12482-1-zhangkui@oppo.com
Signed-off-by: zhangkui <zhangkui@oppo.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The return value of pagetypeinfo_showfree and pagetypeinfo_showblockcount
are unused now. Remove them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715122911.15700-4-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We can replace the array_num * sizeof(array[0]) with sizeof(array) to
simplify the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715122911.15700-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Cleanup for vmstat".
This series contains cleanups to remove unneeded return value, correct
wrong comment and simplify the array size calculation. More details can
be found in the respective changelogs.
This patch (of 3):
Correct wrong fls(mem+1) to fls(mem)+1 and remove the duplicated comment
with quiet_vmstat().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715122911.15700-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715122911.15700-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit b239f7daf553 ("percpu: set PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE")
removed the parameter 'for_alloc', so remove this comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1630576043-21367-1-git-send-email-jingxiangfeng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since merged pages are copied every time they need to be modified, the
write access time is different between shared and non-shared pages. Add
ksm_cow_time() function which evaluates latency of these COW breaks.
First, 4000 pages are allocated and the time, required to modify 1 byte in
every other page, is measured. After this, the pages are merged into 2000
pairs and in each pair, 1 page is modified (i.e. they are decoupled) to
detect COW breaks. The time needed to break COW of merged pages is then
compared with performance of non-shared pages.
The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -C
The output:
Total size: 15 MiB
Not merged pages:
Total time: 0.002185489 s
Average speed: 3202.945 MiB/s
Merged pages:
Total time: 0.004386872 s
Average speed: 1595.670 MiB/s
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1d03ee0d1b341959d4b61672c6401d498bff5652.1629386192.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "add KSM performance tests", v3.
Extend KSM self tests with a performance benchmark. These tests are not
part of regular regression testing, as they are mainly intended to be used
by developers making changes to the memory management subsystem.
This patch (of 2):
Add ksm_merge_time() function to determine speed and time needed for
merging. The total spent time is shown in seconds while speed is in
MiB/s. User must specify the size of duplicated memory area (in MiB)
before running the test.
The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -P -s 100
The output:
Total size: 100 MiB
Total time: 0.201106786 s
Average speed: 497.248 MiB/s
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1629386192.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/318b946ac80cc9205c89d0962048378f7ce0705b.1629386192.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ksm_stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs is declared as int, but in
stable__node_chains_prune_millisecs_store(), it can store values up to
UINT_MAX. Change its type to unsigned int.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806111351.GA71845@asus
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add check_ksm_numa_merge() function to test that pages in different NUMA
nodes are being handled properly. First, two duplicate pages are
allocated in two separate NUMA nodes using the libnuma library. Since
there is one unique page in each node, with merge_across_nodes = 0, there
won't be any shared pages. If merge_across_nodes is set to 1, the pages
will be treated as usual duplicate pages and will be merged. If NUMA
config is not enabled or the number of NUMA nodes is less than two, then
the test is skipped. The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -N
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/071c17b5b04ebb0dfeba137acc495e5dd9d2a719.1626252248.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add check_ksm_zero_page_merge() function to test that empty pages are
being handled properly. For this, several zero pages are allocated and
merged using madvise. If use_zero_pages is enabled, the pages must be
shared with the special kernel zero pages; otherwise, they are merged as
usual duplicate pages. The test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -Z
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d0caab00d4bdccf5e3791cb95cf6dfd5eb85e45.1626252248.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add check_ksm_unmerge() function to verify that KSM is properly unmerging
shared pages. For this, two duplicate pages are merged first and then
their contents are modified. Since they are not identical anymore, the
pages must be unmerged and the number of merged pages has to be 0. The
test is run as follows: ./ksm_tests -U
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0f55420440d704d5b094275b4365aa1b2ad46b5.1626252248.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "add KSM selftests".
Introduce selftests to validate the functionality of KSM. The tests are
run on private anonymous pages. Since some KSM tunables are modified,
their starting values are saved and restored after testing. At the start,
run is set to 2 to ensure that only test pages will be merged (we assume
that no applications make madvise syscalls in the background). If KSM
config not enabled, all tests will be skipped.
This patch (of 4):
Add check_ksm_merge() function to check the basic merging feature of KSM.
First, some number of identical pages are allocated and the MADV_MERGEABLE
advice is given to merge these pages. Then, pages_shared and
pages_sharing values are compared with the expected numbers using
assert_ksm_pages_count() function. The number of pages can be changed
using -p option.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1626252248.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/90287685c13300972ea84de93d1f3f900373f9fe.1626252248.git.zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use the expected "Return:" format to prevent a kernel-doc warning.
mm/migrate.c:1157: warning: Excess function parameter 'returns' description in 'next_demotion_node'
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808203151.10632-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Split off from prev patch in the series that implements the syscall.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809185259.405936-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In modern systems it's not unusual to have a system component monitoring
memory conditions of the system and tasked with keeping system memory
pressure under control. One way to accomplish that is to kill
non-essential processes to free up memory for more important ones.
Examples of this are Facebook's OOM killer daemon called oomd and
Android's low memory killer daemon called lmkd.
For such system component it's important to be able to free memory quickly
and efficiently. Unfortunately the time process takes to free up its
memory after receiving a SIGKILL might vary based on the state of the
process (uninterruptible sleep), size and OPP level of the core the
process is running. A mechanism to free resources of the target process
in a more predictable way would improve system's ability to control its
memory pressure.
Introduce process_mrelease system call that releases memory of a dying
process from the context of the caller. This way the memory is freed in a
more controllable way with CPU affinity and priority of the caller. The
workload of freeing the memory will also be charged to the caller. The
operation is allowed only on a dying process.
After previous discussions [1, 2, 3] the decision was made [4] to
introduce a dedicated system call to cover this use case.
The API is as follows,
int process_mrelease(int pidfd, unsigned int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The process_mrelease() system call is used to free the memory of
an exiting process.
The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file
descriptor.
(See pidfd_open(2) for further information)
The flags argument is reserved for future use; currently, this
argument must be specified as 0.
RETURN VALUE
On success, process_mrelease() returns 0. On error, -1 is
returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EBADF pidfd is not a valid PID file descriptor.
EAGAIN Failed to release part of the address space.
EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal; see signal(7).
EINVAL flags is not 0.
EINVAL The memory of the task cannot be released because the
process is not exiting, the address space is shared
with another live process or there is a core dump in
progress.
ENOSYS This system call is not supported, for example, without
MMU support built into Linux.
ESRCH The target process does not exist (i.e., it has terminated
and been waited on).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190411014353.113252-3-surenb@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201113173448.1863419-1-surenb@google.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201124053943.1684874-3-surenb@google.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20201223075712.GA4719@lst.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809185259.405936-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are a lot of uses of memblock_find_in_range() along with
memblock_reserve() from the times memblock allocation APIs did not exist.
memblock_find_in_range() is the very core of memblock allocations, so any
future changes to its internal behaviour would mandate updates of all the
users outside memblock.
Replace the calls to memblock_find_in_range() with an equivalent calls to
memblock_phys_alloc() and memblock_phys_alloc_range() and make
memblock_find_in_range() private method of memblock.
This simplifies the callers, ensures that (unlikely) errors in
memblock_reserve() are handled and improves maintainability of
memblock_find_in_range().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210816122622.30279-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shtuemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> [ACPI]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr> [riscv]
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Obsoleted in_intrrupt() include task context with disabled BH, it's better
to use in_task() instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/984ee771-4834-21da-801f-c15c18ddf4d1@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As they all do the same thing: sanity check and save nodemask info, create
one mpol_new_nodemask() to reduce redundancy.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-6-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adds a new mode to the existing mempolicy modes, MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY.
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY will be adequately documented in the internal
admin-guide with this patch. Eventually, the man pages for mbind(2),
get_mempolicy(2), set_mempolicy(2) and numactl(8) will also have text
about this mode. Those shall contain the canonical reference.
NUMA systems continue to become more prevalent. New technologies like
PMEM make finer grain control over memory access patterns increasingly
desirable. MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY allows userspace to specify a set of nodes
that will be tried first when performing allocations. If those
allocations fail, all remaining nodes will be tried. It's a straight
forward API which solves many of the presumptive needs of system
administrators wanting to optimize workloads on such machines. The mode
will work either per VMA, or per thread.
[Michal Hocko: refine kernel doc for MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-13-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Implement the missing huge page allocation functionality while obeying the
preferred node semantics. This is similar to the implementation for
general page allocation, as it uses a fallback mechanism to try multiple
preferred nodes first, and then all other nodes.
To avoid adding too many "#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA" check, add a helper function
in mempolicy.h to check whether a mempolicy is MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiling issue when merging with other hugetlb patch]
[Thanks to 0day bot for catching the !CONFIG_NUMA compiling issue]
[mhocko@suse.com: suggest to remove the #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA check]
[ben.widawsky@intel.com: add helpers to avoid ifdefs]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-12-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809024430.GA46432@shbuild999.sh.intel.com
[nathan@kernel.org: initialize page to NULL in alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210810200632.3812797-1-nathan@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-12-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809024430.GA46432@shbuild999.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The semantics of MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY is similar to MPOL_PREFERRED, that it
will first try to allocate memory from the preferred node(s), and fallback
to all nodes in system when first try fails.
Add a dedicated function alloc_pages_preferred_many() for it just like for
'interleave' policy, which will be used by 2 general memoory allocation
APIs: alloc_pages() and alloc_pages_vma()
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-9-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Originally-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Introduce multi-preference mempolicy", v7.
This patch series introduces the concept of the MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
mempolicy. This mempolicy mode can be used with either the
set_mempolicy(2) or mbind(2) interfaces. Like the MPOL_PREFERRED
interface, it allows an application to set a preference for nodes which
will fulfil memory allocation requests. Unlike the MPOL_PREFERRED mode,
it takes a set of nodes. Like the MPOL_BIND interface, it works over a
set of nodes. Unlike MPOL_BIND, it will not cause a SIGSEGV or invoke the
OOM killer if those preferred nodes are not available.
Along with these patches are patches for libnuma, numactl, numademo, and
memhog. They still need some polish, but can be found here:
https://gitlab.com/bwidawsk/numactl/-/tree/prefer-many It allows new
usage: `numactl -P 0,3,4`
The goal of the new mode is to enable some use-cases when using tiered memory
usage models which I've lovingly named.
1a. The Hare - The interconnect is fast enough to meet bandwidth and
latency requirements allowing preference to be given to all nodes with
"fast" memory.
1b. The Indiscriminate Hare - An application knows it wants fast
memory (or perhaps slow memory), but doesn't care which node it runs
on. The application can prefer a set of nodes and then xpu bind to
the local node (cpu, accelerator, etc). This reverses the nodes are
chosen today where the kernel attempts to use local memory to the CPU
whenever possible. This will attempt to use the local accelerator to
the memory.
2. The Tortoise - The administrator (or the application itself) is
aware it only needs slow memory, and so can prefer that.
Much of this is almost achievable with the bind interface, but the bind
interface suffers from an inability to fallback to another set of nodes if
binding fails to all nodes in the nodemask.
Like MPOL_BIND a nodemask is given. Inherently this removes ordering from the
preference.
> /* Set first two nodes as preferred in an 8 node system. */
> const unsigned long nodes = 0x3
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY, &nodes, 8);
> /* Mimic interleave policy, but have fallback *.
> const unsigned long nodes = 0xaa
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY, &nodes, 8);
Some internal discussion took place around the interface. There are two
alternatives which we have discussed, plus one I stuck in:
1. Ordered list of nodes. Currently it's believed that the added
complexity is nod needed for expected usecases.
2. A flag for bind to allow falling back to other nodes. This
confuses the notion of binding and is less flexible than the current
solution.
3. Create flags or new modes that helps with some ordering. This
offers both a friendlier API as well as a solution for more customized
usage. It's unknown if it's worth the complexity to support this.
Here is sample code for how this might work:
> // Prefer specific nodes for some something wacky
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY, 0x17c, 1024);
>
> // Default
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY | MPOL_F_PREFER_ORDER_SOCKET, NULL, 0);
> // which is the same as
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0);
>
> // The Hare
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY | MPOL_F_PREFER_ORDER_TYPE, NULL, 0);
>
> // The Tortoise
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY | MPOL_F_PREFER_ORDER_TYPE_REV, NULL, 0);
>
> // Prefer the fast memory of the first two sockets
> set_mempolicy(MPOL_PREFER_MANY | MPOL_F_PREFER_ORDER_TYPE, -1, 2);
>
This patch (of 5):
The NUMA APIs currently allow passing in a "preferred node" as a single
bit set in a nodemask. If more than one bit it set, bits after the first
are ignored.
This single node is generally OK for location-based NUMA where memory
being allocated will eventually be operated on by a single CPU. However,
in systems with multiple memory types, folks want to target a *type* of
memory instead of a location. For instance, someone might want some
high-bandwidth memory but do not care about the CPU next to which it is
allocated. Or, they want a cheap, high capacity allocation and want to
target all NUMA nodes which have persistent memory in volatile mode. In
both of these cases, the application wants to target a *set* of nodes, but
does not want strict MPOL_BIND behavior as that could lead to OOM killer
or SIGSEGV.
So add MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy to support the multiple preferred nodes
requirement. This is not a pie-in-the-sky dream for an API. This was a
response to a specific ask of more than one group at Intel. Specifically:
1. There are existing libraries that target memory types such as
https://github.com/memkind/memkind. These are known to suffer from
SIGSEGV's when memory is low on targeted memory "kinds" that span more
than one node. The MCDRAM on a Xeon Phi in "Cluster on Die" mode is an
example of this.
2. Volatile-use persistent memory users want to have a memory policy
which is targeted at either "cheap and slow" (PMEM) or "expensive and
fast" (DRAM). However, they do not want to experience allocation
failures when the targeted type is unavailable.
3. Allocate-then-run. Generally, we let the process scheduler decide
on which physical CPU to run a task. That location provides a default
allocation policy, and memory availability is not generally considered
when placing tasks. For situations where memory is valuable and
constrained, some users want to allocate memory first, *then* allocate
close compute resources to the allocation. This is the reverse of the
normal (CPU) model. Accelerators such as GPUs that operate on
core-mm-managed memory are interested in this model.
A check is added in sanitize_mpol_flags() to not permit 'prefer_many'
policy to be used for now, and will be removed in later patch after all
implementations for 'prefer_many' are ready, as suggested by Michal Hocko.
[mhocko@kernel.org: suggest to refine policy_node/policy_nodemask handling]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-4-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Co-developed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>b
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The caller of mpol_misplaced() already use NUMA_NO_NODE to check whether
current page node is misplaced, thus using NUMA_NO_NODE in
mpol_misplaced() instead of magic number is more readable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1b77c0ce21183fa86f4db250b115cf5e27396528.1627558356.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages
based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness. Triggering the
compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is
not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system
usecases which may have few MB's of RAM. Enabling the proactive
compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such
systems.
Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting
a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by
using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). So, on systems where enabling
the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the
same from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say
app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be
launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare
the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from
userspace.
This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to
sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user.
[1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka figured out that when fragmentation score didn't go down
across the proactive compaction i.e. when no progress is made, next wake
up for proactive compaction is deferred for 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT,
i.e. 64 times, with each wakeup interval of
HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC(=500). In each of this wakeup, it just
decrement 'proactive_defer' counter and goes sleep i.e. it is getting
woken to just decrement a counter.
The same deferral time can also achieved by simply doing the
HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT thus unnecessary
wakeup of kcompact thread is avoided thus also removes the need of
'proactive_defer' thread counter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/88abfdb6-2c13-b5a6-5b46-742d12d1c910@suse.cz/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1626869599-25412-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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drop_slab_node() is called as part of echo 2>/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
operation. It iterates over all memcgs and calls shrink_slab() which in
turn iterates over all slab shrinkers. Freed objects are counted and as
long as the total number of freed objects from all memcgs and shrinkers is
higher than 10, drop_slab_node() loops for another full memcgs*shrinkers
iteration.
This arbitrary constant threshold of 10 can result in effectively an
infinite loop on a system with large number of memcgs and/or parallel
activity that allocates new objects. This has been reported previously by
Chunxin Zang [1] and recently by our customer.
The previous report [1] has resulted in commit 069c411de40a ("mm/vmscan:
fix infinite loop in drop_slab_node") which added a check for signals
allowing the user to terminate the command writing to drop_caches. At the
time it was also considered to make the threshold grow with each iteration
to guarantee termination, but such patch hasn't been formally proposed
yet.
This patch implements the dynamically growing threshold. At first
iteration it's enough to free one object to continue, and this threshold
effectively doubles with each iteration. Our customer's feedback was
positive.
There is always a risk that this change will result on some system in a
previously terminating drop_caches operation to terminate sooner and free
fewer objects. Ideally the semantics would guarantee freeing all freeable
objects that existed at the moment of starting the operation, while not
looping forever for newly allocated objects, but that's not feasible to
track. In the less ideal solution based on thresholds, arguably the
termination guarantee is more important than the exhaustiveness guarantee.
If there are reports of large regression wrt being exhaustive, we can
tune how fast the threshold grows.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200909152047.27905-1-zangchunxin@bytedance.com/T/#u
[vbabka@suse.cz: avoid undefined shift behaviour]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f034e6f-a753-550a-f374-e4e23899d3d5@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818152239.25502-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We could add 'else' to remove the somewhat odd check_pending label to make
code core succinct.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The return value of kswapd_run() is unused now. Clean it up.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-4-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The priority field of sc is used to control how many pages we should scan
at once while we always traverse the list to shrink the pages in these
functions. So these settings are unneeded and misleading.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Cleanups for vmscan", v2.
This series contains cleanups to remove unneeded return value, misleading
setting and so on. Also this remove the PageDirty check after MADV_FREE
pages are page_ref_freezed. More details can be found in the respective
changelogs.
This patch (of 4):
If the MADV_FREE pages are redirtied before they could be reclaimed, put
the pages back to anonymous LRU list by setting SwapBacked flag and the
pages will be reclaimed in normal swapout way. But as Yu Zhao pointed
out, "The page has only one reference left, which is from the isolation.
After the caller puts the page back on lru and drops the reference, the
page will be freed anyway. It doesn't matter which lru it goes." So we
don't bother checking PageDirty here.
[Yu Zhao's comment is also quoted in the code.]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210717065911.61497-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We can get memcg directly form vmpr instead of vmpr->memcg->css->memcg, so
add a new func helper vmpressure_to_memcg(). And no code will use
vmpressure_to_css(), so delete it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210630112146.455103-1-suhui@zeku.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <suhui@zeku.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some method is obviously needed to enable reclaim-based migration.
Just like traditional autonuma, there will be some workloads that will
benefit like workloads with more "static" configurations where hot pages
stay hot and cold pages stay cold. If pages come and go from the hot and
cold sets, the benefits of this approach will be more limited.
The benefits are truly workload-based and *not* hardware-based. We do not
believe that there is a viable threshold where certain hardware
configurations should have this mechanism enabled while others do not.
To be conservative, earlier work defaulted to disable reclaim- based
migration and did not include a mechanism to enable it. This proposes add
a new sysfs file
/sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
as a method to enable it.
We are open to any alternative that allows end users to enable this
mechanism or disable it if workload harm is detected (just like
traditional autonuma).
Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node that does
not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process. This could be
construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets. However, since this is an
opt-in mechanism, the assumption is that anyone enabling it is content to
relax the guarantees.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-10-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Global reclaim aims to reduce the amount of memory used on a given node or
set of nodes. Migrating pages to another node serves this purpose.
memcg reclaim is different. Its goal is to reduce the total memory
consumption of the entire memcg, across all nodes. Migration does not
assist memcg reclaim because it just moves page contents between nodes
rather than actually reducing memory consumption.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Reclaim anonymous pages if a migration path is available now that demotion
provides a non-swap recourse for reclaiming anon pages.
Note that this check is subtly different from the can_age_anon_pages()
checks. This mechanism checks whether a specific page in a specific
context can actually be reclaimed, given current swap space and cgroup
limits.
can_age_anon_pages() is a much simpler and more preliminary check which
just says whether there is a possibility of future reclaim.
[kbusch@kernel.org: v11]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-8-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-7-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-8-ying.huang@intel.com
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Anonymous pages are kept on their own LRU(s). These lists could
theoretically always be scanned and maintained. But, without swap, there
is currently nothing the kernel can *do* with the results of a scanned,
sorted LRU for anonymous pages.
A check for '!total_swap_pages' currently serves as a valid check as to
whether anonymous LRUs should be maintained. However, another method will
be added shortly: page demotion.
Abstract out the 'total_swap_pages' checks into a helper, give it a
logically significant name, and check for the possibility of page
demotion.
[dave.hansen@linux.intel.com: v11]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-7-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-6-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-7-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Account the number of demoted pages.
Add pgdemote_kswapd and pgdemote_direct VM counters showed in
/proc/vmstat.
[ daveh:
- __count_vm_events() a bit, and made them look at the THP
size directly rather than getting data from migrate_pages()
]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-6-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is mostly derived from a patch from Yang Shi:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1560468577-101178-10-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com/
Add code to the reclaim path (shrink_page_list()) to "demote" data to
another NUMA node instead of discarding the data. This always avoids the
cost of I/O needed to read the page back in and sometimes avoids the
writeout cost when the page is dirty.
A second pass through shrink_page_list() will be made if any demotions
fail. This essentially falls back to normal reclaim behavior in the case
that demotions fail. Previous versions of this patch may have simply
failed to reclaim pages which were eligible for demotion but were unable
to be demoted in practice.
For some cases, for example, MADV_PAGEOUT, the pages are always discarded
instead of demoted to follow the kernel API definition. Because
MADV_PAGEOUT is defined as freeing specified pages regardless in which
tier they are.
Note: This just adds the start of infrastructure for migration. It is
actually disabled next to the FIXME in migrate_demote_page_ok().
[dave.hansen@linux.intel.com: v11]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Under normal circumstances, migrate_pages() returns the number of pages
migrated. In error conditions, it returns an error code. When returning
an error code, there is no way to know how many pages were migrated or not
migrated.
Make migrate_pages() return how many pages are demoted successfully for
all cases, including when encountering errors. Page reclaim behavior will
depend on this in subsequent patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> [optional parameter]
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Reclaim-based migration is attempting to optimize data placement in memory
based on the system topology. If the system changes, so must the
migration ordering.
The implementation is conceptually simple and entirely unoptimized. On
any memory or CPU hotplug events, assume that a node was added or removed
and recalculate all migration targets. This ensures that the
node_demotion[] array is always ready to be used in case the new reclaim
mode is enabled.
This recalculation is far from optimal, most glaringly that it does not
even attempt to figure out the hotplug event would have some *actual*
effect on the demotion order. But, given the expected paucity of hotplug
events, this should be fine.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-2-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Migrate Pages in lieu of discard", v11.
We're starting to see systems with more and more kinds of memory such as
Intel's implementation of persistent memory.
Let's say you have a system with some DRAM and some persistent memory.
Today, once DRAM fills up, reclaim will start and some of the DRAM
contents will be thrown out. Allocations will, at some point, start
falling over to the slower persistent memory.
That has two nasty properties. First, the newer allocations can end up in
the slower persistent memory. Second, reclaimed data in DRAM are just
discarded even if there are gobs of space in persistent memory that could
be used.
This patchset implements a solution to these problems. At the end of the
reclaim process in shrink_page_list() just before the last page refcount
is dropped, the page is migrated to persistent memory instead of being
dropped.
While I've talked about a DRAM/PMEM pairing, this approach would function
in any environment where memory tiers exist.
This is not perfect. It "strands" pages in slower memory and never brings
them back to fast DRAM. Huang Ying has follow-on work which repurposes
NUMA balancing to promote hot pages back to DRAM.
This is also all based on an upstream mechanism that allows persistent
memory to be onlined and used as if it were volatile:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124231441.37A4A305@viggo.jf.intel.com
With that, the DRAM and PMEM in each socket will be represented as 2
separate NUMA nodes, with the CPUs sit in the DRAM node. So the
general inter-NUMA demotion mechanism introduced in the patchset can
migrate the cold DRAM pages to the PMEM node.
We have tested the patchset with the postgresql and pgbench. On a
2-socket server machine with DRAM and PMEM, the kernel with the patchset
can improve the score of pgbench up to 22.1% compared with that of the
DRAM only + disk case. This comes from the reduced disk read throughput
(which reduces up to 70.8%).
== Open Issues ==
* Memory policies and cpusets that, for instance, restrict allocations
to DRAM can be demoted to PMEM whenever they opt in to this
new mechanism. A cgroup-level API to opt-in or opt-out of
these migrations will likely be required as a follow-on.
* Could be more aggressive about where anon LRU scanning occurs
since it no longer necessarily involves I/O. get_scan_count()
for instance says: "If we have no swap space, do not bother
scanning anon pages"
This patch (of 9):
Prepare for the kernel to auto-migrate pages to other memory nodes with a
node migration table. This allows creating single migration target for
each NUMA node to enable the kernel to do NUMA page migrations instead of
simply discarding colder pages. A node with no target is a "terminal
node", so reclaim acts normally there. The migration target does not
fundamentally _need_ to be a single node, but this implementation starts
there to limit complexity.
When memory fills up on a node, memory contents can be automatically
migrated to another node. The biggest problems are knowing when to
migrate and to where the migration should be targeted.
The most straightforward way to generate the "to where" list would be to
follow the page allocator fallback lists. Those lists already tell us if
memory is full where to look next. It would also be logical to move
memory in that order.
But, the allocator fallback lists have a fatal flaw: most nodes appear in
all the lists. This would potentially lead to migration cycles (A->B,
B->A, A->B, ...).
Instead of using the allocator fallback lists directly, keep a separate
node migration ordering. But, reuse the same data used to generate page
allocator fallback in the first place: find_next_best_node().
This means that the firmware data used to populate node distances
essentially dictates the ordering for now. It should also be
architecture-neutral since all NUMA architectures have a working
find_next_best_node().
RCU is used to allow lock-less read of node_demotion[] and prevent
demotion cycles been observed. If multiple reads of node_demotion[] are
performed, a single rcu_read_lock() must be held over all reads to ensure
no cycles are observed. Details are as follows.
=== What does RCU provide? ===
Imagine a simple loop which walks down the demotion path looking
for the last node:
terminal_node = start_node;
while (node_demotion[terminal_node] != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
terminal_node = node_demotion[terminal_node];
}
The initial values are:
node_demotion[0] = 1;
node_demotion[1] = NUMA_NO_NODE;
and are updated to:
node_demotion[0] = NUMA_NO_NODE;
node_demotion[1] = 0;
What guarantees that the cycle is not observed:
node_demotion[0] = 1;
node_demotion[1] = 0;
and would loop forever?
With RCU, a rcu_read_lock/unlock() can be placed around the loop. Since
the write side does a synchronize_rcu(), the loop that observed the old
contents is known to be complete before the synchronize_rcu() has
completed.
RCU, combined with disable_all_migrate_targets(), ensures that the old
migration state is not visible by the time __set_migration_target_nodes()
is called.
=== What does READ_ONCE() provide? ===
READ_ONCE() forbids the compiler from merging or reordering successive
reads of node_demotion[]. This ensures that any updates are *eventually*
observed.
Consider the above loop again. The compiler could theoretically read the
entirety of node_demotion[] into local storage (registers) and never go
back to memory, and *permanently* observe bad values for node_demotion[].
Note: RCU does not provide any universal compiler-ordering
guarantees:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150921204327.GH4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
This code is unused for now. It will be called later in the
series.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-2-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When userfaultfd copy-ioctl fails since the PTE already exists, an -EEXIST
error is returned and the faulting thread is not woken. The current
userfaultfd test does not wake the faulting thread in such case. The
assumption is presumably that another thread set the PTE through copy/wp
ioctl and would wake the faulting thread or that alternatively the fault
handler would realize there is no need to "must_wait" and continue. This
is not necessarily true.
There is an assumption that the "must_wait" tests in handle_userfault()
are sufficient to provide definitive answer whether the offending PTE is
populated or not. However, userfaultfd_must_wait() test is lockless.
Consequently, concurrent calls to ptep_modify_prot_start(), for instance,
can clear the PTE and can cause userfaultfd_must_wait() to wrongly assume
it is not populated and a wait is needed.
There are therefore 3 options:
(1) Change the tests to wake on copy failure.
(2) Wake faulting thread unconditionally on zero/copy ioctls before
returning -EEXIST.
(3) Change the userfaultfd_must_wait() to hold locks.
This patch took the first approach, but the others are valid solutions
with different tradeoffs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808020724.1022515-4-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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