Many workloads that allocate pages are not handling an interrupt at a
time. As allocation requests may be from IRQ context, it's necessary to
disable/enable IRQs for every page allocation. This cost is the bulk of
the free path but also a significant percentage of the allocation path.
This patch alters the locking and checks such that only irq-safe
allocation requests use the per-cpu allocator. All others acquire the
irq-safe zone->lock and allocate from the buddy allocator. It relies on
disabling preemption to safely access the per-cpu structures. It could
be slightly modified to avoid soft IRQs using it but it's not clear it's
worthwhile.
This modification may slow allocations from IRQ context slightly but the
main gain from the per-cpu allocator is that it scales better for
allocations from multiple contexts. There is an implicit assumption
that intensive allocations from IRQ contexts on multiple CPUs from a
single NUMA node are rare and that the fast majority of scaling issues
are encountered in !IRQ contexts such as page faulting. It's worth
noting that this patch is not required for a bulk page allocator but it
significantly reduces the overhead.
The following is results from a page allocator micro-benchmark. Only
order-0 is interesting as higher orders do not use the per-cpu allocator
4.10.0-rc2 4.10.0-rc2
vanilla irqsafe-v1r5
Amean alloc-odr0-1 287.15 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 23.73%)
Amean alloc-odr0-2 221.23 ( 0.00%) 183.23 ( 17.18%)
Amean alloc-odr0-4 187.00 ( 0.00%) 151.38 ( 19.05%)
Amean alloc-odr0-8 167.54 ( 0.00%) 132.77 ( 20.75%)
Amean alloc-odr0-16 156.00 ( 0.00%) 123.00 ( 21.15%)
Amean alloc-odr0-32 149.00 ( 0.00%) 118.31 ( 20.60%)
Amean alloc-odr0-64 138.77 ( 0.00%) 116.00 ( 16.41%)
Amean alloc-odr0-128 145.00 ( 0.00%) 118.00 ( 18.62%)
Amean alloc-odr0-256 136.15 ( 0.00%) 125.00 ( 8.19%)
Amean alloc-odr0-512 147.92 ( 0.00%) 121.77 ( 17.68%)
Amean alloc-odr0-1024 147.23 ( 0.00%) 126.15 ( 14.32%)
Amean alloc-odr0-2048 155.15 ( 0.00%) 129.92 ( 16.26%)
Amean alloc-odr0-4096 164.00 ( 0.00%) 136.77 ( 16.60%)
Amean alloc-odr0-8192 166.92 ( 0.00%) 138.08 ( 17.28%)
Amean alloc-odr0-16384 159.00 ( 0.00%) 138.00 ( 13.21%)
Amean free-odr0-1 165.00 ( 0.00%) 89.00 ( 46.06%)
Amean free-odr0-2 113.00 ( 0.00%) 63.00 ( 44.25%)
Amean free-odr0-4 99.00 ( 0.00%) 54.00 ( 45.45%)
Amean free-odr0-8 88.00 ( 0.00%) 47.38 ( 46.15%)
Amean free-odr0-16 83.00 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 44.58%)
Amean free-odr0-32 80.00 ( 0.00%) 44.38 ( 44.52%)
Amean free-odr0-64 72.62 ( 0.00%) 43.00 ( 40.78%)
Amean free-odr0-128 78.00 ( 0.00%) 42.00 ( 46.15%)
Amean free-odr0-256 80.46 ( 0.00%) 57.00 ( 29.16%)
Amean free-odr0-512 96.38 ( 0.00%) 64.69 ( 32.88%)
Amean free-odr0-1024 107.31 ( 0.00%) 72.54 ( 32.40%)
Amean free-odr0-2048 108.92 ( 0.00%) 78.08 ( 28.32%)
Amean free-odr0-4096 113.38 ( 0.00%) 82.23 ( 27.48%)
Amean free-odr0-8192 112.08 ( 0.00%) 82.85 ( 26.08%)
Amean free-odr0-16384 110.38 ( 0.00%) 81.92 ( 25.78%)
Amean total-odr0-1 452.15 ( 0.00%) 308.00 ( 31.88%)
Amean total-odr0-2 334.23 ( 0.00%) 246.23 ( 26.33%)
Amean total-odr0-4 286.00 ( 0.00%) 205.38 ( 28.19%)
Amean total-odr0-8 255.54 ( 0.00%) 180.15 ( 29.50%)
Amean total-odr0-16 239.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 29.29%)
Amean total-odr0-32 229.00 ( 0.00%) 162.69 ( 28.96%)
Amean total-odr0-64 211.38 ( 0.00%) 159.00 ( 24.78%)
Amean total-odr0-128 223.00 ( 0.00%) 160.00 ( 28.25%)
Amean total-odr0-256 216.62 ( 0.00%) 182.00 ( 15.98%)
Amean total-odr0-512 244.31 ( 0.00%) 186.46 ( 23.68%)
Amean total-odr0-1024 254.54 ( 0.00%) 198.69 ( 21.94%)
Amean total-odr0-2048 264.08 ( 0.00%) 208.00 ( 21.24%)
Amean total-odr0-4096 277.38 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 21.05%)
Amean total-odr0-8192 279.00 ( 0.00%) 220.92 ( 20.82%)
Amean total-odr0-16384 269.38 ( 0.00%) 219.92 ( 18.36%)
This is the alloc, free and total overhead of allocating order-0 pages
in batches of 1 page up to 16384 pages. Avoiding disabling/enabling
overhead massively reduces overhead. Alloc overhead is roughly reduced
by 14-20% in most cases. The free path is reduced by 26-46% and the
total reduction is significant.
Many users require zeroing of pages from the page allocator which is the
vast cost of allocation. Hence, the impact on a basic page faulting
benchmark is not that significant
4.10.0-rc2 4.10.0-rc2
vanilla irqsafe-v1r5
Hmean page_test 656632.98 ( 0.00%) 675536.13 ( 2.88%)
Hmean brk_test 3845502.67 ( 0.00%) 3867186.94 ( 0.56%)
Stddev page_test 10543.29 ( 0.00%) 4104.07 ( 61.07%)
Stddev brk_test 33472.36 ( 0.00%) 15538.39 ( 53.58%)
CoeffVar page_test 1.61 ( 0.00%) 0.61 ( 62.15%)
CoeffVar brk_test 0.87 ( 0.00%) 0.40 ( 53.84%)
Max page_test 666513.33 ( 0.00%) 678640.00 ( 1.82%)
Max brk_test 3882800.00 ( 0.00%) 3887008.66 ( 0.11%)
This is from aim9 and the most notable outcome is that fault variability
is reduced by the patch. The headline improvement is small as the
overall fault cost, zeroing, page table insertion etc dominate relative
to disabling/enabling IRQs in the per-cpu allocator.
Similarly, little benefit was seen on networking benchmarks both
localhost and between physical server/clients where other costs
dominate. It's possible that this will only be noticable on very high
speed networks.
Jesper Dangaard Brouer independently tested this with a separate
microbenchmark from
https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench
Micro-benchmarked with [1] page_bench02:
modprobe page_bench02 page_order=0 run_flags=$((2#010)) loops=$((10**8)); \
rmmod page_bench02 ; dmesg --notime | tail -n 4
Compared to baseline: 213 cycles(tsc) 53.417 ns
- against this : 184 cycles(tsc) 46.056 ns
- Saving : -29 cycles
- Very close to expected 27 cycles saving [see below [2]]
Micro benchmarking via time_bench_sample[3], we get the cost of these
operations:
time_bench: Type:for_loop Per elem: 0 cycles(tsc) 0.232 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock Per elem: 33 cycles(tsc) 8.334 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock_irqsave Per elem: 62 cycles(tsc) 15.607 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:irqsave_before_lock Per elem: 57 cycles(tsc) 14.344 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock_irq Per elem: 34 cycles(tsc) 8.560 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:simple_irq_disable_before_lock Per elem: 37 cycles(tsc) 9.289 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:local_BH_disable_enable Per elem: 19 cycles(tsc) 4.920 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:local_IRQ_disable_enable Per elem: 7 cycles(tsc) 1.864 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:local_irq_save_restore Per elem: 38 cycles(tsc) 9.665 ns (step:0)
[Mel's patch removes a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^] ^^^^^^^^^ expected saving - preempt cost
time_bench: Type:preempt_disable_enable Per elem: 11 cycles(tsc) 2.794 ns (step:0)
[adds a preempt ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^] ^^^^^^^^^ adds this cost
time_bench: Type:funcion_call_cost Per elem: 6 cycles(tsc) 1.689 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:func_ptr_call_cost Per elem: 11 cycles(tsc) 2.767 ns (step:0)
time_bench: Type:page_alloc_put Per elem: 211 cycles(tsc) 52.803 ns (step:0)
Thus, expected improvement is: 38-11 = 27 cycles.
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: s/preempt_enable_no_resched/preempt_enable/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208143128.25ahymqlyspjcixu@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dmitry has reported the following lockdep splat
lock_acquire+0x2a1/0x630 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3753
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:521 [inline]
mutex_lock_nested+0x24e/0xff0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:621
pcpu_alloc+0xbda/0x1280 mm/percpu.c:896
__alloc_percpu+0x24/0x30 mm/percpu.c:1075
smpcfd_prepare_cpu+0x73/0xd0 kernel/smp.c:44
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x254/0x1480 kernel/cpu.c:136
cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x81/0x2a0 kernel/cpu.c:493
_cpu_up+0x1e3/0x2a0 kernel/cpu.c:1057
do_cpu_up+0x73/0xa0 kernel/cpu.c:1087
cpu_up+0x18/0x20 kernel/cpu.c:1095
smp_init+0xe9/0xee kernel/smp.c:564
kernel_init_freeable+0x439/0x690 init/main.c:1010
kernel_init+0x13/0x180 init/main.c:941
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:433
cpu_hotplug_begin
cpu_hotplug.lock
pcpu_alloc
pcpu_alloc_mutex
get_online_cpus+0x62/0x90 kernel/cpu.c:248
drain_all_pages+0xf8/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:2385
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim mm/page_alloc.c:3440 [inline]
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x8fd/0x2370 mm/page_alloc.c:3778
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x8f5/0xc60 mm/page_alloc.c:3980
__alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:426 [inline]
__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:439 [inline]
alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:453 [inline]
pcpu_alloc_pages mm/percpu-vm.c:93 [inline]
pcpu_populate_chunk+0x1e1/0x900 mm/percpu-vm.c:282
pcpu_alloc+0xe01/0x1280 mm/percpu.c:998
__alloc_percpu_gfp+0x27/0x30 mm/percpu.c:1062
bpf_array_alloc_percpu kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:34 [inline]
array_map_alloc+0x532/0x710 kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:99
find_and_alloc_map kernel/bpf/syscall.c:34 [inline]
map_create kernel/bpf/syscall.c:188 [inline]
SYSC_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:870 [inline]
SyS_bpf+0xd64/0x2500 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:827
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
pcpu_alloc
pcpu_alloc_mutex
drain_all_pages
get_online_cpus
cpu_hotplug.lock
cpu_hotplug_begin+0x206/0x2e0 kernel/cpu.c:304
_cpu_up+0xca/0x2a0 kernel/cpu.c:1011
do_cpu_up+0x73/0xa0 kernel/cpu.c:1087
cpu_up+0x18/0x20 kernel/cpu.c:1095
smp_init+0xe9/0xee kernel/smp.c:564
kernel_init_freeable+0x439/0x690 init/main.c:1010
kernel_init+0x13/0x180 init/main.c:941
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:433
cpu_hotplug_begin
cpu_hotplug.lock
Pulling cpu hotplug locks inside the page allocator is just too
dangerous. Let's remove the dependency by dropping get_online_cpus()
from drain_all_pages. This is not so simple though because now we do
not have a protection against cpu hotplug which means 2 things:
- the work item might be executed on a different cpu in worker from
unbound pool so it doesn't run on pinned on the cpu
- we have to make sure that we do not race with page_alloc_cpu_dead
calling drain_pages_zone
Disabling preemption in drain_local_pages_wq will solve the first
problem drain_local_pages will determine its local CPU from the WQ
context which will be stable after that point, page_alloc_cpu_dead is
pinned to the CPU already. The later condition is achieved by disabling
IRQs in drain_pages_zone.
Fixes: mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170207201950.20482-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The per-cpu page allocator can be drained immediately via
drain_all_pages() which sends IPIs to every CPU. In the next patch, the
per-cpu allocator will only be used for interrupt-safe allocations which
prevents draining it from IPI context. This patch uses workqueues to
drain the per-cpu lists instead.
This is slower but no slowdown during intensive reclaim was measured and
the paths that use drain_all_pages() are not that sensitive to
performance. This is particularly true as the path would only be
triggered when reclaim is failing. It also makes a some sense to avoid
storming a machine with IPIs when it's under memory pressure. Arguably,
it should be further adjusted so that only one caller at a time is
draining pages but it's beyond the scope of the current patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alloc_pages_nodemask does a number of preperation steps that determine
what zones can be used for the allocation depending on a variety of
factors. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted multiple
order-0 pages has to do the preparation steps multiple times. This
patch structures __alloc_pages_nodemask such that it's relatively easy
to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a
bulk allocator", v5.
This series is motivated by a conversation led by Jesper Dangaard Brouer
at the last LSF/MM proposing a generic page pool for DMA-coherent pages.
Part of his motivation was due to the overhead of allocating multiple
order-0 that led some drivers to use high-order allocations and
splitting them. This is very slow in some cases.
The first two patches in this series restructure the page allocator such
that it is relatively easy to introduce an order-0 bulk page allocator.
A patch exists to do that and has been handed over to Jesper until an
in-kernel users is created. The third patch prevents the per-cpu
allocator being drained from IPI context as that can potentially corrupt
the list after patch four is merged. The final patch alters the per-cpu
alloctor to make it exclusive to !irq requests. This cuts
allocation/free overhead by roughly 30%.
Performance tests from both Jesper and me are included in the patch.
This patch (of 4):
buffered_rmqueue removes a page from a given zone and uses the per-cpu
list for order-0. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted
multiple order-0 pages has to disable/reenable interrupts multiple
times. This patch structures buffere_rmqueue such that it's relatively
easy to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional
change.
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: failed per-cpu refill may blow up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124112723.mshmgwq2ihxku2um@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We noticed a performance regression when moving hadoop workloads from
3.10 kernels to 4.0 and 4.6. This is accompanied by increased pageout
activity initiated by kswapd as well as frequent bursts of allocation
stalls and direct reclaim scans. Even lowering the dirty ratios to the
equivalent of less than 1% of memory would not eliminate the issue,
suggesting that dirty pages concentrate where the scanner is looking.
This can be traced back to recent efforts of thrash avoidance. Where
3.10 would not detect refaulting pages and continuously supply clean
cache to the inactive list, a thrashing workload on 4.0+ will detect and
activate refaulting pages right away, distilling used-once pages on the
inactive list much more effectively. This is by design, and it makes
sense for clean cache. But for the most part our workload's cache
faults are refaults and its use-once cache is from streaming writes. We
end up with most of the inactive list dirty, and we don't go after the
active cache as long as we have use-once pages around.
But waiting for writes to avoid reclaiming clean cache that *might*
refault is a bad trade-off. Even if the refaults happen, reads are
faster than writes. Before getting bogged down on writeback, reclaim
should first look at *all* cache in the system, even active cache.
To accomplish this, activate pages that are dirty or under writeback
when they reach the end of the inactive LRU. The pages are marked for
immediate reclaim, meaning they'll get moved back to the inactive LRU
tail as soon as they're written back and become reclaimable. But in the
meantime, by reducing the inactive list to only immediately reclaimable
pages, we allow the scanner to deactivate and refill the inactive list
with clean cache from the active list tail to guarantee forward
progress.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: update comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170202191957.22872-8-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dirty pages can easily reach the end of the LRU while there are still
clean pages to reclaim around. Don't let kswapd write them back just
because there are a lot of them. It costs more CPU to find the clean
pages, but that's almost certainly better than to disrupt writeback from
the flushers with LRU-order single-page writes from reclaim. And the
flushers have been woken up by that point, so we spend IO capacity on
flushing and CPU capacity on finding the clean cache.
Only start writing dirty pages if they have cycled around the LRU twice
now and STILL haven't been queued on the IO device. It's possible that
the dirty pages are so sparsely distributed across different bdis,
inodes, memory cgroups, that the flushers take forever to get to the
ones we want reclaimed. Once we see them twice on the LRU, we know
that's the quicker way to find them, so do LRU writeback.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Direct reclaim has been replaced by kswapd reclaim in pretty much all
common memory pressure situations, so this code most likely doesn't
accomplish the described effect anymore. The previous patch wakes up
flushers for all reclaimers when we encounter dirty pages at the tail
end of the LRU. Remove the crufty old direct reclaim invocation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Memory pressure can put dirty pages at the end of the LRU without
anybody running into dirty limits. Don't start writing individual pages
from kswapd while the flushers might be asleep.
Unlike the old direct reclaim flusher wakeup (removed in the next patch)
that flushes the number of pages just scanned, this patch wakes the
flushers for all outstanding dirty pages. That seemed to perform better
in a synthetic test that pushes dirty pages to the end of the LRU and
into reclaim, because we know LRU aging outstrips writeback already, and
this way we give younger dirty pages a headstart rather than wait until
reclaim runs into them as well. It also means less plugging and risk of
exhausting the struct request pool from reclaim.
There is a concern that this will cause temporary files that used to get
dirtied and truncated before writeback to now get written to disk under
memory pressure. If this turns out to be a real problem, we'll have to
revisit this and tame the reclaim flusher wakeups.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: mention dirty expiration as a condition]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126174739.GA30636@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: vmscan: fix kswapd writeback regression".
We noticed a regression on multiple hadoop workloads when moving from
3.10 to 4.0 and 4.6, which involves kswapd getting tangled up in page
writeout, causing direct reclaim herds that also don't make progress.
I tracked it down to the thrash avoidance efforts after 3.10 that make
the kernel better at keeping use-once cache and use-many cache sorted on
the inactive and active list, with more aggressive protection of the
active list as long as there is inactive cache. Unfortunately, our
workload's use-once cache is mostly from streaming writes. Waiting for
writes to avoid potential reloads in the future is not a good tradeoff.
These patches do the following:
1. Wake the flushers when kswapd sees a lump of dirty pages. It's
possible to be below the dirty background limit and still have cache
velocity push them through the LRU. So start a-flushin'.
2. Let kswapd only write pages that have been rotated twice. This makes
sure we really tried to get all the clean pages on the inactive list
before resorting to horrible LRU-order writeback.
3. Move rotating dirty pages off the inactive list. Instead of churning
or waiting on page writeback, we'll go after clean active cache. This
might lead to thrashing, but in this state memory demand outstrips IO
speed anyway, and reads are faster than writes.
Mel backported the series to 4.10-rc5 with one minor conflict and ran a
couple of tests on it. Mix of read/write random workload didn't show
anything interesting. Write-only database didn't show much difference
in performance but there were slight reductions in IO -- probably in the
noise.
simoop did show big differences although not as big as Mel expected.
This is Chris Mason's workload that similate the VM activity of hadoop.
Mel won't go through the full details but over the samples measured
during an hour it reported
4.10.0-rc5 4.10.0-rc5
vanilla johannes-v1r1
Amean p50-Read 21346531.56 ( 0.00%) 21697513.24 ( -1.64%)
Amean p95-Read 24700518.40 ( 0.00%) 25743268.98 ( -4.22%)
Amean p99-Read 27959842.13 ( 0.00%) 28963271.11 ( -3.59%)
Amean p50-Write 1138.04 ( 0.00%) 989.82 ( 13.02%)
Amean p95-Write 1106643.48 ( 0.00%) 12104.00 ( 98.91%)
Amean p99-Write 1569213.22 ( 0.00%) 36343.38 ( 97.68%)
Amean p50-Allocation 85159.82 ( 0.00%) 79120.70 ( 7.09%)
Amean p95-Allocation 204222.58 ( 0.00%) 129018.43 ( 36.82%)
Amean p99-Allocation 278070.04 ( 0.00%) 183354.43 ( 34.06%)
Amean final-p50-Read 21266432.00 ( 0.00%) 21921792.00 ( -3.08%)
Amean final-p95-Read 24870912.00 ( 0.00%) 26116096.00 ( -5.01%)
Amean final-p99-Read 28147712.00 ( 0.00%) 29523968.00 ( -4.89%)
Amean final-p50-Write 1130.00 ( 0.00%) 977.00 ( 13.54%)
Amean final-p95-Write 1033216.00 ( 0.00%) 2980.00 ( 99.71%)
Amean final-p99-Write 1517568.00 ( 0.00%) 32672.00 ( 97.85%)
Amean final-p50-Allocation 86656.00 ( 0.00%) 78464.00 ( 9.45%)
Amean final-p95-Allocation 211712.00 ( 0.00%) 116608.00 ( 44.92%)
Amean final-p99-Allocation 287232.00 ( 0.00%) 168704.00 ( 41.27%)
The latencies are actually completely horrific in comparison to 4.4 (and
4.10-rc5 is worse than 4.9 according to historical data for reasons Mel
hasn't analysed yet).
Still, 95% of write latency (p95-write) is halved by the series and
allocation latency is way down. Direct reclaim activity is one fifth of
what it was according to vmstats. Kswapd activity is higher but this is
not necessarily surprising. Kswapd efficiency is unchanged at 99% (99%
of pages scanned were reclaimed) but direct reclaim efficiency went from
77% to 99%
In the vanilla kernel, 627MB of data was written back from reclaim
context. With the series, no data was written back. With or without
the patch, pages are being immediately reclaimed after writeback
completes. However, with the patch, only 1/8th of the pages are
reclaimed like this.
This patch (of 5):
We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the
reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through
shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we
mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback.
Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty
pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess
up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a page is removed from a shared mapping, the uffd reader should be
notified, so that it won't attempt to handle #PF events for the removed
pages.
We can reuse the UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE because from the uffd monitor point
of view, the semantices of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) and
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) is exactly the same.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484814154-1557-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add madvise() event for
MADV_REMOVE request".
These patches add notification of madvise(MADV_REMOVE) event to
non-cooperative userfaultfd monitor.
The first pacth renames EVENT_MADVDONTNEED to EVENT_REMOVE along with
relevant functions and structures. Using _REMOVE instead of
_MADVDONTNEED describes the event semantics more clearly and I hope it's
not too late for such change in the ABI.
This patch (of 3):
The UFFD_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED purpose is to notify uffd monitor about
removal of certain range from address space tracked by userfaultfd.
Hence, UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE seems to better reflect the operation
semantics. Respectively, 'madv_dn' field of uffd_msg is renamed to
'remove' and the madvise_userfault_dontneed callback is renamed to
userfaultfd_remove.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484814154-1557-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide the name of each memblock type with struct memblock_type. This
allows to get rid of the function memblock_type_name() and duplicating
the type names in __memblock_dump_all().
The only memblock_type usage out of mm/memblock.c seems to be
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c. While at it, give it a name.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120123456.46508-4-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 70210ed950 ("mm/memblock: add physical memory list") the
memblock structure knows about a physical memory list.
The physical memory list should also be dumped if memblock_dump_all() is
called in case memblock_debug is switched on. This makes debugging a
bit easier.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120123456.46508-3-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 70210ed950 ("mm/memblock: add physical memory list") the
memblock structure knows about a physical memory list.
memblock_type_name() should return "physmem" instead of "unknown" if the
name of the physmem memblock_type is being asked for.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120123456.46508-2-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It has no modular callers.
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mem_hotplug_begin() assumes that it can set mem_hotplug.active_writer
and run the hotplug process without racing another thread. Validate
this assumption with a lockdep assertion.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148693886229.16345.1770484669403334689.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 82e7d3abec ("oom: print nodemask in the oom report") implicitly
sets the allocation nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed when there
is no effective mempolicy. cpuset_current_mems_allowed is only
effective when cpusets are enabled, which is also printed by
dump_header(), so setting the nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed is
redundant and prevents debugging issues where ac->nodemask is not set
properly in the page allocator.
This provides better debugging output since
cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed() is already provided.
[rientjes@google.com: newline per Hillf]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701200158300.88321@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701191454470.2381@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At present, Tying the first_num size to NCHUNKS_ORDER is confusing. the
number of chunks is completely unrelated to the number of buddies.
The patch limits the first_num to actual range of possible buddy indexes.
and that is more reasonable and obvious without functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476776569-29504-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no variable named flags in memblock_add() and
memblock_reserve() so remove it from the log messages.
This patch also cleans up the type casting for phys_addr_t by using %pa
to print them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484720165-25403-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Logic on whether we can reap pages from the VMA should match what we
have in madvise_dontneed(). In particular, we should skip, VM_PFNMAP
VMAs, but we don't now.
Let's just extract condition on which we can shoot down pagesi from a
VMA with MADV_DONTNEED into separate function and use it in both places.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's no users of zap_page_range() who wants non-NULL 'details'.
Let's drop it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
detail == NULL would give the same functionality as
.check_swap_entries==true.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The only user of ignore_dirty is oom-reaper. But it doesn't really use
it.
ignore_dirty only has effect on file pages mapped with dirty pte. But
oom-repear skips shared VMAs, so there's no way we can dirty file pte in
them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118122429.43661-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch "mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc print nodemask" implicitly sets
the allocation nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed when there is no
effective mempolicy. cpuset_current_mems_allowed is only effective when
cpusets are enabled, which is also printed by warn_alloc(), so setting
the nodemask to cpuset_current_mems_allowed is redundant and prevents
debugging issues where ac->nodemask is not set properly in the page
allocator.
This provides better debugging output since
cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed() is already provided.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701181347320.142399@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't override decisions to skip the oom killer
we are left with requests which require to loop inside the allocator
without invoking the oom killer (e.g. GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL used by fs
code) and so they might, in very unlikely situations, loop for ever -
e.g. other parallel request could starve them.
This patch tries to limit the likelihood of such a lockup by giving
these __GFP_NOFAIL requests a chance to move on by consuming a small
part of memory reserves. We are using ALLOC_HARDER which should be
enough to prevent from the starvation by regular allocation requests,
yet it shouldn't consume enough from the reserves to disrupt high
priority requests (ALLOC_HIGH).
While we are at it, let's introduce a helper __alloc_pages_cpuset_fallback
which enforces the cpusets but allows to fallback to ignore them if the
first attempt fails. __GFP_NOFAIL requests can be considered important
enough to allow cpuset runaway in order for the system to move on. It
is highly unlikely that any of these will be GFP_USER anyway.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161220134904.21023-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_may_oom makes sure to skip the OOM killer depending on the
allocation request. This includes lowmem requests, costly high order
requests and others. For a long time __GFP_NOFAIL acted as an override
for all those rules. This is not documented and it can be quite
surprising as well. E.g. GFP_NOFS requests are not invoking the OOM
killer but GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL does so if we try to convert some of
the existing open coded loops around allocator to nofail request (and we
have done that in the past) then such a change would have a non trivial
side effect which is far from obvious. Note that the primary motivation
for skipping the OOM killer is to prevent from pre-mature invocation.
The exception has been added by commit 82553a937f ("oom: invoke oom
killer for __GFP_NOFAIL"). The changelog points out that the oom killer
has to be invoked otherwise the request would be looping for ever. But
this argument is rather weak because the OOM killer doesn't really
guarantee a forward progress for those exceptional cases:
- it will hardly help to form costly order which in turn can result in
the system panic because of no oom killable task in the end - I believe
we certainly do not want to put the system down just because there is a
nasty driver asking for order-9 page with GFP_NOFAIL not realizing all
the consequences. It is much better this request would loop for ever
than the massive system disruption
- lowmem is also highly unlikely to be freed during OOM killer
- GFP_NOFS request could trigger while there is still a lot of memory
pinned by filesystems.
This patch simply removes the __GFP_NOFAIL special case in order to have a
more clear semantic without surprising side effects.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tetsuo Handa has pointed out that commit 0a0337e0d1 ("mm, oom: rework
oom detection") has subtly changed semantic for costly high order
requests with __GFP_NOFAIL and withtout __GFP_REPEAT and those can fail
right now. My code inspection didn't reveal any such users in the tree
but it is true that this might lead to unexpected allocation failures
and subsequent OOPs.
__alloc_pages_slowpath wrt. GFP_NOFAIL is hard to follow currently.
There are few special cases but we are lacking a catch all place to be
sure we will not miss any case where the non failing allocation might
fail. This patch reorganizes the code a bit and puts all those special
cases under nopage label which is the generic go-to-fail path. Non
failing allocations are retried or those that cannot retry like
non-sleeping allocation go to the failure point directly. This should
make the code flow much easier to follow and make it less error prone
for future changes.
While we are there we have to move the stall check up to catch
potentially looping non-failing allocations.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alloc_flags may-be-used-uninitalized]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161220134904.21023-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
show_mem() allows to filter out node specific data which is irrelevant
to the allocation request via SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES. The filtering is
done in skip_free_areas_node which skips all nodes which are not in the
mems_allowed of the current process. This works most of the time as
expected because the nodemask shouldn't be outside of the allocating
task but there are some exceptions. E.g. memory hotplug might want to
request allocations from outside of the allowed nodes (see
new_node_page).
Get rid of this hardcoded behavior and push the allocation mask down the
show_mem path and use it instead of cpuset_current_mems_allowed. NULL
nodemask is interpreted as cpuset_current_mems_allowed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117091543.25850-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
warn_alloc is currently used for to report an allocation failure or an
allocation stall. We print some details of the allocation request like
the gfp mask and the request order. We do not print the allocation
nodemask which is important when debugging the reason for the allocation
failure as well. We alreaddy print the nodemask in the OOM report.
Add nodemask to warn_alloc and print it in warn_alloc as well.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117091543.25850-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "show_mem updates", v2.
This is a mixture of one bug fix (patch 1), an enhancement (patch 2) and
cleanups (the rest of the series). First two patches should be really
straightforward. Patch 3 removes some arch specific show_mem
implementations because I think they are quite outdated and do not
really serve any useful purpose anymore. I think we should really
strive to have a consistent show_mem output regardless of the
architecture. If some architecture is really special and wants to dump
something additional we should do that via an arch specific hook.
The last patch adds nodemask parameter so that we do not rely on the
hardcoded mems_allowed of the current task when doing the node
filtering. I consider this more a cleanup than a fix because basically
all users use a nodemask which is a subset of mems_allowed. There is
only one call path in the memory hotplug which doesn't comply with this
but that is hardly something to worry about.
This patch (of 4):
Commit 599d0c954f ("mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node") has added per
numa node statistics to show_mem but it forgot to add
skip_free_areas_node to filter out nodes which are outside of the
allocating task numa policy. Add this check to not pollute the output
with the pointless information.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117091543.25850-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 91dcade47a.
inactive_reclaimable_pages shouldn't be needed anymore since that
get_scan_count is aware of the eligble zones ("mm, vmscan: consider
eligible zones in get_scan_count").
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpchxg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
get_scan_count() considers the whole node LRU size when
- doing SCAN_FILE due to many page cache inactive pages
- calculating the number of pages to scan
In both cases this might lead to unexpected behavior especially on 32b
systems where we can expect lowmem memory pressure very often.
A large highmem zone can easily distort SCAN_FILE heuristic because
there might be only few file pages from the eligible zones on the node
lru and we would still enforce file lru scanning which can lead to
trashing while we could still scan anonymous pages.
The later use of lruvec_lru_size can be problematic as well. Especially
when there are not many pages from the eligible zones. We would have to
skip over many pages to find anything to reclaim but shrink_node_memcg
would only reduce the remaining number to scan by SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at
maximum. Therefore we can end up going over a large LRU many times
without actually having chance to reclaim much if anything at all. The
closer we are out of memory on lowmem zone the worse the problem will
be.
Fix this by filtering out all the ineligible zones when calculating the
lru size for both paths and consider only sc->reclaim_idx zones.
The patch would need to be tweaked a bit to apply to 4.10 and older but
I will do that as soon as it hits the Linus tree in the next merge
window.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: b2e18757f2 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lruvec_lru_size returns the full size of the LRU list while we sometimes
need a value reduced only to eligible zones (e.g. for lowmem requests).
inactive_list_is_low is one such user. Later patches will add more of
them. Add a new parameter to lruvec_lru_size and allow it filter out
zones which are not eligible for the given context.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PGDEACTIVATE represents the number of pages moved from the active list
to the inactive list. At least this sounds like the original motivation
of the counter. move_active_pages_to_lru, however, counts pages which
got freed in the mean time as deactivated as well. This is a very rare
event and counting them as deactivation in itself is not harmful but it
makes the code more convoluted than necessary - we have to count both
all pages and those which are freed which is a bit confusing.
After this patch the PGDEACTIVATE should have a slightly more clear
semantic and only count those pages which are moved from the active to
the inactive list which is a plus.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170112211221.17636-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To make the code clearer, use rb_entry() instead of container_of() to
deal with rbtree.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/671275de093d93ddc7c6f77ddc0d357149691a39.1484306840.git.geliangtang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no thp defrag option that currently allows MADV_HUGEPAGE
regions to do direct compaction and reclaim while all other thp
allocations simply trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the background and
fail immediately.
The "defer" setting simply triggers background reclaim and compaction
for all regions, regardless of MADV_HUGEPAGE, which makes it unusable
for our userspace where MADV_HUGEPAGE is being used to indicate the
application is willing to wait for work for thp memory to be available.
The "madvise" setting will do direct compaction and reclaim for these
MADV_HUGEPAGE regions, but does not trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the
background for anybody else.
For reasonable usage, there needs to be a mesh between the two options.
This patch introduces a fifth mode, "defer+madvise", that will do direct
reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE regions and trigger background
reclaim and compaction for everybody else so that hugepages may be
available in the near future.
A proposal to allow direct reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE
regions as part of the "defer" mode, making it a very powerful setting
and avoids breaking userspace, was offered:
http://marc.info/?t=148236612700003
This additional mode is a compromise.
A second proposal to allow both "defer" and "madvise" to be selected at
the same time was also offered:
http://marc.info/?t=148357345300001.
This is possible, but there was a concern that it might break existing
userspaces the parse the output of the defrag mode, so the fifth option
was introduced instead.
This patch also cleans up the helper function for storing to "enabled"
and "defrag" since the former supports three modes while the latter
supports five and triple_flag_store() was getting unnecessarily messy.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701101614330.41805@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Because during swap off, a swap entry may have swap_map[] ==
SWAP_HAS_CACHE (for example, just allocated). If we return NULL in
__read_swap_cache_async(), the swap off will abort. So when swap slot
cache is disabled, (for swap off), we will wait for page to be put into
swap cache in such race condition. This should not be a problem for swap
slot cache, because swap slot cache should be drained after clearing
swap_slot_cache_enabled.
[ying.huang@intel.com: fix memory leak in __read_swap_cache_async()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/874lzt6znd.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e2c5f6abe8e6eb0797408897b1bba80938e9b9d.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
We add per cpu caches for swap slots that can be allocated and freed
quickly without the need to touch the swap info lock.
Two separate caches are maintained for swap slots allocated and swap
slots returned. This is to allow the swap slots to be returned to the
global pool in a batch so they will have a chance to be coaelesced with
other slots in a cluster. We do not reuse the slots that are returned
right away, as it may increase fragmentation of the slots.
The swap allocation cache is protected by a mutex as we may sleep when
searching for empty slots in cache. The swap free cache is protected by
a spin lock as we cannot sleep in the free path.
We refill the swap slots cache when we run out of slots, and we disable
the swap slots cache and drain the slots if the global number of slots
fall below a low watermark threshold. We re-enable the cache agian when
the slots available are above a high watermark.
[ying.huang@intel.com: use raw_cpu_ptr over this_cpu_ptr for swap slots access]
[tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com: add comments on locks in swap_slots.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118180327.GA24225@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/35de301a4eaa8daa2977de6e987f2c154385eb66.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
Add new functions that free unused swap slots in batches without the
need to reacquire swap info lock. This improves scalability and reduce
lock contention.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c25e0fcdfd237ec4ca7db91631d3b9f6ed23824e.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
Currently, the swap slots are allocated one page at a time, causing
contention to the swap_info lock protecting the swap partition on every
page being swapped.
This patch adds new functions get_swap_pages and scan_swap_map_slots to
request multiple swap slots at once. This will reduces the lock
contention on the swap_info lock. Also scan_swap_map_slots can operate
more efficiently as swap slots often occurs in clusters close to each
other on a swap device and it is quicker to allocate them together.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9fec2845544371f62c3763d43510045e33d286a6.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
We can avoid needlessly allocating page for swap slots that are not used
by anyone. No pages have to be read in for these slots.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0784b3f20b9bd3aa5552219624cb78dc4ae710c9.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
The patch is to improve the scalability of the swap out/in via using
fine grained locks for the swap cache. In current kernel, one address
space will be used for each swap device. And in the common
configuration, the number of the swap device is very small (one is
typical). This causes the heavy lock contention on the radix tree of
the address space if multiple tasks swap out/in concurrently.
But in fact, there is no dependency between pages in the swap cache. So
that, we can split the one shared address space for each swap device
into several address spaces to reduce the lock contention. In the
patch, the shared address space is split into 64MB trunks. 64MB is
chosen to balance the memory space usage and effect of lock contention
reduction.
The size of struct address_space on x86_64 architecture is 408B, so with
the patch, 6528B more memory will be used for every 1GB swap space on
x86_64 architecture.
One address space is still shared for the swap entries in the same 64M
trunks. To avoid lock contention for the first round of swap space
allocation, the order of the swap clusters in the initial free clusters
list is changed. The swap space distance between the consecutive swap
clusters in the free cluster list is at least 64M. After the first
round of allocation, the swap clusters are expected to be freed
randomly, so the lock contention should be reduced effectively.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/735bab895e64c930581ffb0a05b661e01da82bc5.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
This patch is to reduce the lock contention of swap_info_struct->lock
via using a more fine grained lock in swap_cluster_info for some swap
operations. swap_info_struct->lock is heavily contended if multiple
processes reclaim pages simultaneously. Because there is only one lock
for each swap device. While in common configuration, there is only one
or several swap devices in the system. The lock protects almost all
swap related operations.
In fact, many swap operations only access one element of
swap_info_struct->swap_map array. And there is no dependency between
different elements of swap_info_struct->swap_map. So a fine grained
lock can be used to allow parallel access to the different elements of
swap_info_struct->swap_map.
In this patch, a spinlock is added to swap_cluster_info to protect the
elements of swap_info_struct->swap_map in the swap cluster and the
fields of swap_cluster_info. This reduced locking contention for
swap_info_struct->swap_map access greatly.
Because of the added spinlock, the size of swap_cluster_info increases
from 4 bytes to 8 bytes on the 64 bit and 32 bit system. This will use
additional 4k RAM for every 1G swap space.
Because the size of swap_cluster_info is much smaller than the size of
the cache line (8 vs 64 on x86_64 architecture), there may be false
cache line sharing between spinlocks in swap_cluster_info. To avoid the
false sharing in the first round of the swap cluster allocation, the
order of the swap clusters in the free clusters list is changed. So
that, the swap_cluster_info sharing the same cache line will be placed
as far as possible. After the first round of allocation, the order of
the clusters in free clusters list is expected to be random. So the
false sharing should be not serious.
Compared with a previous implementation using bit_spin_lock, the
sequential swap out throughput improved about 3.2%. Test was done on a
Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM simulated PMEM
(persistent memory) device. To test the sequential swapping out, the
test case created 32 processes, which sequentially allocate and write to
the anonymous pages until the RAM and part of the swap device is used.
[ying.huang@intel.com: v5]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/878tqeuuic.fsf_-_@yhuang-dev.intel.com
[minchan@kernel.org: initialize spinlock for swap_cluster_info]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486434945-29753-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
[hughd@google.com: annotate nested locking for cluster lock]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1702161050540.21773@eggly.anvils
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dbb860bbd825b1aaba18988015e8963f263c3f0d.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
Patch series "mm/swap: Regular page swap optimizations", v5.
Times have changed. Coming generation of Solid state Block device
latencies are getting down to sub 100 usec, which is within an order of
magnitude of DRAM, and their performance is orders of magnitude higher
than the single- spindle rotational media we've swapped to historically.
This could benefit many usage scenearios. For example cloud providers
who overcommit their memory (as VM don't use all the memory
provisioned). Having a fast swap will allow them to be more aggressive
in memory overcommit and fit more VMs to a platform.
In our testing [see footnote], the median latency that the kernel adds
to a page fault is 15 usec, which comes quite close to the amount that
will be contributed by the underlying I/O devices.
The software latency comes mostly from contentions on the locks
protecting the radix tree of the swap cache and also the locks
protecting the individual swap devices. The lock contentions already
consumed 35% of cpu cycles in our test. In the very near future,
software latency will become the bottleneck to swap performnace as block
device I/O latency gets within the shouting distance of DRAM speed.
This patch set, reduced the median page fault latency from 15 usec to 4
usec (375% reduction) for DRAM based pmem block device.
This patch (of 9):
swap_info_get() is used not only in swap free code path but also in
page_swapcount(), etc. So the original kernel message in swap_info_get()
is not correct now. Fix it via replacing "swap_free" to "swap_info_get"
in the message.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b5f8bd6266f9da978c373f2384c8044df5e262c.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.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>
On 32-bit powerpc the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with
--bss-plt, or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:
[17] .sbss NOBITS 0002aff8 01aff8 000014 00 WA 0 0 4
[18] .plt NOBITS 0002b00c 01aff8 000084 00 WAX 0 0 4
[19] .bss NOBITS 0002b090 01aff8 0000a4 00 WA 0 0 4
Which results in an ELF load header:
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
LOAD 0x019c70 0x00029c70 0x00029c70 0x01388 0x014c4 RWE 0x10000
This is all correct, the load region containing the PLT is marked as
executable. Note that the PLT starts at 0002b00c but the file mapping
ends at 0002aff8, so the PLT falls in the 0 fill section described by
the load header, and after a page boundary.
Unfortunately the generic ELF loader ignores the X bit in the load
headers when it creates the 0 filled non-file backed mappings. It
assumes all of these mappings are RW BSS sections, which is not the case
for PPC.
gcc/ld has an option (--secure-plt) to not do this, this is said to
incur a small performance penalty.
Currently, to support 32-bit binaries with PLT in BSS kernel maps
*entire brk area* with executable rights for all binaries, even
--secure-plt ones.
Stop doing that.
Teach the ELF loader to check the X bit in the relevant load header and
create 0 filled anonymous mappings that are executable if the load
header requests that.
Test program showing the difference in /proc/$PID/maps:
int main() {
char buf[16*1024];
char *p = malloc(123); /* make "[heap]" mapping appear */
int fd = open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY);
int len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
write(1, buf, len);
printf("%p\n", p);
return 0;
}
Compiled using: gcc -mbss-plt -m32 -Os test.c -otest
Unpatched ppc64 kernel:
00100000-00120000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
0fe10000-0ffd0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffd0000-0ffe0000 r--p 001b0000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffe0000-0fff0000 rw-p 001c0000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10020000-10030000 rw-p 00010000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10690000-106c0000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
f7f70000-f7fa0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7fa0000-f7fb0000 r--p 00020000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7fb0000-f7fc0000 rw-p 00030000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
ffa90000-ffac0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
0x10690008
Patched ppc64 kernel:
00100000-00120000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
0fe10000-0ffd0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffd0000-0ffe0000 r--p 001b0000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffe0000-0fff0000 rw-p 001c0000 fd:00 67898094 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10020000-10030000 rw-p 00010000 fd:00 100674505 /home/user/test
10180000-101b0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
^^^^ this has changed
f7c60000-f7c90000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7c90000-f7ca0000 r--p 00020000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7ca0000-f7cb0000 rw-p 00030000 fd:00 67898089 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
ff860000-ff890000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
0x10180008
The patch was originally posted in 2012 by Jason Gunthorpe
and apparently ignored:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/138
Lightly run-tested.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215131950.23054-1-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To identify that pages of page table are allocated from bootmem
allocator, magic number sets to page->lru.next.
But page->lru list is initialized in reserve_bootmem_region(). So when
calling free_pagetable(), the function cannot find the magic number of
pages. And free_pagetable() frees the pages by free_reserved_page() not
put_page_bootmem().
But if the pages are allocated from bootmem allocator and used as page
table, the pages have private flag. So before freeing the pages, we
should clear the private flag by put_page_bootmem().
Before applying the commit 7bfec6f47b ("mm, page_alloc: check multiple
page fields with a single branch"), we could find the following visible
issue:
BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u1024:1
page:ffffea103cfd8040 count:0 mapcount:0 mappi
flags: 0x6fffff80000800(private)
page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
bad because of flags: 0x800(private)
<snip>
Call Trace:
[...] dump_stack+0x63/0x87
[...] bad_page+0x114/0x130
[...] free_pages_prepare+0x299/0x2d0
[...] free_hot_cold_page+0x31/0x150
[...] __free_pages+0x25/0x30
[...] free_pagetable+0x6f/0xb4
[...] remove_pagetable+0x379/0x7ff
[...] vmemmap_free+0x10/0x20
[...] sparse_remove_one_section+0x149/0x180
[...] __remove_pages+0x2e9/0x4f0
[...] arch_remove_memory+0x63/0xc0
[...] remove_memory+0x8c/0xc0
[...] acpi_memory_device_remove+0x79/0xa5
[...] acpi_bus_trim+0x5a/0x8d
[...] acpi_bus_trim+0x38/0x8d
[...] acpi_device_hotplug+0x1b7/0x418
[...] acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1e/0x29
[...] process_one_work+0x152/0x400
[...] worker_thread+0x125/0x4b0
[...] kthread+0xd8/0xf0
[...] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
And the issue still silently occurs.
Until freeing the pages of page table allocated from bootmem allocator,
the page->freelist is never used. So the patch sets magic number to
page->freelist instead of page->lru.next.
[isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com: fix merge issue]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/722b1cc4-93ac-dd8b-2be2-7a7e313b3b0b@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c29bd9f-5b67-02d0-18a3-8828e78bbb6f@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
free_map_bootmem() uses page->private directly to set
removing_section_nr argument. But to get page->private value,
page_private() has been prepared.
So free_map_bootmem() should use page_private() instead of
page->private.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1d34eaa5-a506-8b7a-6471-490c345deef8@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman
Michal Hocko
Johannes Weiner
Mike Rapoport
Heiko Carstens
Andrew Morton
Dan Williams
David Rientjes
Claudio Imbrenda
zhong jiang
Miles Chen
Kirill A. Shutemov
Geliang Tang
Huang Ying
Tim Chen
Denys Vlasenko
Yasuaki Ishimatsu