15 Oct, 2019
1 commit
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Florian and Dave reported [1] a NULL pointer dereference in
__reset_isolation_pfn(). While the exact cause is unclear, staring at
the code revealed two bugs, which might be related.One bug is that if zone starts in the middle of pageblock, block_page
might correspond to different pfn than block_pfn, and then the
pfn_valid_within() checks will check different pfn's than those accessed
via struct page. This might result in acessing an unitialized page in
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE configs.The other bug is that end_page refers to the first page of next
pageblock and not last page of current pageblock. The online and valid
check is then wrong and with sections, the while (page < end_page) loop
might wander off actual struct page arrays.[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/87o8z1fvqu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191008152915.24704-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 6b0868c820ff ("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock skip hints")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reported-by: Florian Weimer
Reported-by: Dave Chinner
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Sep, 2019
3 commits
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Like commit 40cacbcb3240 ("mm, compaction: remove unnecessary zone
parameter in some instances"), remove unnecessary zone parameter.No functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806151616.21107-1-lpf.vector@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pengfei Li
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
total_{migrate,free}_scanned will be added to COMPACTMIGRATE_SCANNED and
COMPACTFREE_SCANNED in compact_zone(). We should clear them before
scanning a new zone. In the proc triggered compaction, we forgot clearing
them.[laoar.shao@gmail.com: introduce a helper compact_zone_counters_init()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563869295-25748-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: expand compact_zone_counters_init() into its single callsite, per mhocko]
[vbabka@suse.cz: squash compact_zone() list_head init as well]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fb6f7da-f776-9e42-22f8-bbb79b030b98@suse.cz
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kcompactd_do_work(): avoid unnecessary initialization of cc.zone]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563789275-9639-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Fixes: 7f354a548d1c ("mm, compaction: add vmstats for kcompactd work")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Yafang Shao
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Replace 1 << compound_order(page) with compound_nr(page). Minor
improvements in readability.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721104612.19120-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Aug, 2019
1 commit
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"howaboutsynergy" reported via kernel buzilla number 204165 that
compact_zone_order was consuming 100% CPU during a stress test for
prolonged periods of time. Specifically the following command, which
should exit in 10 seconds, was taking an excessive time to finish while
the CPU was pegged at 100%.stress -m 220 --vm-bytes 1000000000 --timeout 10
Tracing indicated a pattern as follows
stress-3923 [007] 519.106208: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106212: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106216: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106219: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106223: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106227: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106231: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106235: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106238: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0
stress-3923 [007] 519.106242: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0Note that compaction is entered in rapid succession while scanning and
isolating nothing. The problem is that when a task that is compacting
receives a fatal signal, it retries indefinitely instead of exiting
while making no progress as a fatal signal is pending.It's not easy to trigger this condition although enabling zswap helps on
the basis that the timing is altered. A very small window has to be hit
for the problem to occur (signal delivered while compacting and
isolating a PFN for migration that is not aligned to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX).This was reproduced locally -- 16G single socket system, 8G swap, 30%
zswap configured, vm-bytes 22000000000 using Colin Kings stress-ng
implementation from github running in a loop until the problem hits).
Tracing recorded the problem occurring almost 200K times in a short
window. With this patch, the problem hit 4 times but the task existed
normally instead of consuming CPU.This problem has existed for some time but it was made worse by commit
cf66f0700c8f ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to reschedule as
contention"). Before that commit, if the same condition was hit then
locks would be quickly contended and compaction would exit that way.Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204165
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190718085708.GE24383@techsingularity.net
Fixes: cf66f0700c8f ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to reschedule as contention")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: [5.1+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Jun, 2019
1 commit
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When we have holes in a normal memory zone, we could endup having
cached_migrate_pfns which may not necessarily be valid, under heavy memory
pressure with swapping enabled ( via __reset_isolation_suitable(),
triggered by kswapd).Later if we fail to find a page via fast_isolate_freepages(), we may end
up using the migrate_pfn we started the search with, as valid page. This
could lead to accessing NULL pointer derefernces like below, due to an
invalid mem_section pointer.Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [47/1825]
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000004
Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 0000000082f94ae9
[0000000000000008] pgd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
...
CPU: 10 PID: 6080 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 510-rc1+ #6
Hardware name: AmpereComputing(R) OSPREY EV-883832-X3-0001/OSPREY, BIOS 4819 09/25/2018
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
lr : compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
[...]
Process qemu-system-aar (pid: 6080, stack limit = 0x0000000095070da5)
Call trace:
set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
migrate_pages+0x1a4/0xbb0
compact_zone+0x750/0xde8
compact_zone_order+0xd8/0x118
try_to_compact_pages+0xb4/0x290
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x84/0x1e0
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5e0/0xe18
alloc_pages_vma+0x1cc/0x210
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x108/0x7c8
__handle_mm_fault+0xdd4/0x1190
handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x1c0
__get_user_pages+0x198/0x3c0
get_user_pages_unlocked+0xb4/0x1d8
__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x12c/0x3b8
gfn_to_pfn_prot+0x4c/0x60
kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x4b0/0xcd8
handle_exit+0x140/0x1b8
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x260/0x768
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x490/0x898
do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x898
ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38
el0_svc_common+0x74/0x118
el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
el0_svc+0x8/0xc
Code: f8607840 f100001f 8b011401 9a801020 (f9400400)
---[ end trace af6a35219325a9b6 ]---The issue was reported on an arm64 server with 128GB with holes in the
zone (e.g, [32GB@4GB, 96GB@544GB]), with a swap device enabled, while
running 100 KVM guest instances.This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that the page belongs to a valid
PFN when we fallback to using the lower limit of the scan range upon
failure in fast_isolate_freepages().Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1558711908-15688-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Fixes: 5a811889de10f1eb ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target")
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Marc Zyngier
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2019
1 commit
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syzbot reported the following error from a tree with a head commit of
baf76f0c58ae ("slip: make slhc_free() silently accept an error pointer")BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0003348000
#PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
PGD 12c3f9067 P4D 12c3f9067 PUD 12c3f8067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 28916 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.1.0-rc6+ #89
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:constant_test_bit arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:314 [inline]
RIP: 0010:PageCompound include/linux/page-flags.h:186 [inline]
RIP: 0010:isolate_freepages_block+0x1c0/0xd40 mm/compaction.c:579
Code: 01 d8 ff 4d 85 ed 0f 84 ef 07 00 00 e8 29 00 d8 ff 4c 89 e0 83 85 38 ff
ff ff 01 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 38 00 0f 85 31 0a 00 00 8b 2c 24 31 ff 49
c1 ed 10 41 83 e5 01 44 89 ee e8 3a 01 d8 ff
RSP: 0018:ffff88802b31eab8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 1ffffd4000669000 RBX: 00000000000cd200 RCX: ffffc9000a235000
RDX: 000000000001ca5e RSI: ffffffff81988cc7 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88802b31ebd8 R08: ffff88805af700c0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea0003348000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88802b31f030 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 00007f61648dc700(0000) GS:ffff8880ae900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffea0003348000 CR3: 0000000037c64000 CR4: 00000000001426e0
Call Trace:
fast_isolate_around mm/compaction.c:1243 [inline]
fast_isolate_freepages mm/compaction.c:1418 [inline]
isolate_freepages mm/compaction.c:1438 [inline]
compaction_alloc+0x1aee/0x22e0 mm/compaction.c:1550There is no reproducer and it is difficult to hit -- 1 crash every few
days. The issue is very similar to the fix in commit 6b0868c820ff
("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock
skip hints"). When isolating free pages around a target pageblock, the
boundary handling is off by one and can stray into the next pageblock.
Triggering the syzbot error requires that the end of pageblock is section
or zone aligned, and that the next section is unpopulated.A more subtle consequence of the bug is that pageblocks were being
improperly used as migration targets which potentially hurts fragmentation
avoidance in the long-term one page at a time.A debugging patch revealed that it's definitely possible to stray outside
of a pageblock which is not intended. While syzbot cannot be used to
verify this patch, it was confirmed that the debugging warning no longer
triggers with this patch applied. It has also been confirmed that the THP
allocation stress tests are not degraded by this patch.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510182124.GI18914@techsingularity.net
Fixes: e332f741a8dd ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reported-by: syzbot+d84c80f9fe26a0f7a734@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: # v5.1+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 May, 2019
2 commits
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In preparation for runtime randomization of the zone lists, take all
(well, most of) the list_*() functions in the buddy allocator and put
them in helper functions. Provide a common control point for injecting
additional behavior when freeing pages.[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix buddy list helpers]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155033679702.1773410.13041474192173212653.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[vbabka@suse.cz: remove del_page_from_free_area() migratetype parameter]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4672701b-6775-6efd-0797-b6242591419e@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899812264.3165233.5219320056406926223.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Keith Busch
Cc: Robert Elliott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In a low-memory situation, cc->fast_search_fail can keep increasing as it
is unable to find an available page to isolate in
fast_isolate_freepages(). As the result, it could trigger an error below,
so just compare with the maximum bits can be shifted first.UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in mm/compaction.c:1160:30
shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long'
CPU: 131 PID: 1308 Comm: kcompactd1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G
W L 5.0.0+ #17
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x450
show_stack+0x20/0x2c
dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x7e8/0x8c4
compaction_alloc+0x2344/0x2484
unmap_and_move+0xdc/0x1dbc
migrate_pages+0x274/0x1310
compact_zone+0x26ec/0x43bc
kcompactd+0x15b8/0x1a24
kthread+0x374/0x390
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code cleanup]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320203338.53367-1-cai@lca.pw
Fixes: 70b44595eafe ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration source")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Apr, 2019
2 commits
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Running LTP oom01 in a tight loop or memory stress testing put the system
in a low-memory situation could triggers random memory corruption like
page flag corruption below due to in fast_isolate_freepages(), if
isolation fails, next_search_order() does not abort the search immediately
could lead to improper accesses.UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ./include/linux/mm.h:1195:50
index 7 is out of range for type 'zone [5]'
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x62/0x9a
ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x7f
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x14d/0x192
__isolate_free_page+0x52c/0x600
compaction_alloc+0x886/0x25f0
unmap_and_move+0x37/0x1e70
migrate_pages+0x2ca/0xb20
compact_zone+0x19cb/0x3620
kcompactd_do_work+0x2df/0x680
kcompactd+0x1d8/0x6c0
kthread+0x32c/0x3f0
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:3124!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI
RIP: 0010:__isolate_free_page+0x464/0x600
RSP: 0000:ffff888b9e1af848 EFLAGS: 00010007
RAX: 0000000030000000 RBX: ffff888c39fcf0f8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 1ffff111873f9e25 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffed1173c35ef6
RBP: ffff888b9e1af898 R08: fffffbfff4fc2461 R09: fffffbfff4fc2460
R10: fffffbfff4fc2460 R11: ffffffffa7e12303 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000007
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888ba8e80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc7abc00000 CR3: 0000000752416004 CR4: 00000000001606a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
compaction_alloc+0x886/0x25f0
unmap_and_move+0x37/0x1e70
migrate_pages+0x2ca/0xb20
compact_zone+0x19cb/0x3620
kcompactd_do_work+0x2df/0x680
kcompactd+0x1d8/0x6c0
kthread+0x32c/0x3f0
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320192648.52499-1-cai@lca.pw
Fixes: dbe2d4e4f12e ("mm, compaction: round-robin the order while searching the free lists for a target")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Daniel Jordan
Cc: Mikhail Gavrilov
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Pavel Tatashin
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman -
Mikhail Gavrilo reported the following bug being triggered in a Fedora
kernel based on 5.1-rc1 but it is relevant to a vanilla kernel.kernel: page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1021!
kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 116 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0-0.rc1.git1.3.fc31.x86_64 #1
kernel: Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING, BIOS 1201 12/07/2018
kernel: RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x244/0x2b0
kernel: Code: fe 06 e8 0f 8e fc ff 44 0f b6 4c 24 04 48 85 c0 0f 85 dc fe ff ff e9 68 fe ff ff 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c 4c 89 ff e8 0c 75 00 00 0b 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c e8 fe 74 00 00 0f 0b 48 89 fa 41 b8 01
kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff9e2d03f0fde8 EFLAGS: 00010246
kernel: RAX: 0000000000000034 RBX: 000000000081f380 RCX: ffff8cffbddd6c20
kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffff8cffbddd6c20
kernel: RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000009898b94613 R09: 0000000000000000
kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000100000
kernel: R13: 0000000000100000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffca7de07ce000
kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8cffbdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
kernel: CR2: 00007fc1670e9000 CR3: 00000007f5276000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: __reset_isolation_suitable+0x62/0x120
kernel: reset_isolation_suitable+0x3b/0x40
kernel: kswapd+0x147/0x540
kernel: ? finish_wait+0x90/0x90
kernel: kthread+0x108/0x140
kernel: ? balance_pgdat+0x560/0x560
kernel: ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
kernel: ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50He bisected it down to e332f741a8dd ("mm, compaction: be selective about
what pageblocks to clear skip hints"). The problem is that the patch in
question was sloppy with respect to the handling of zone boundaries. In
some instances, it was possible for PFNs outside of a zone to be examined
and if those were not properly initialised or poisoned then it would
trigger the VM_BUG_ON. This patch corrects the zone boundary issues when
resetting pageblock skip hints and Mikhail reported that the bug did not
trigger after 30 hours of testing.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327085424.GL3189@techsingularity.net
Fixes: e332f741a8dd ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints")
Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov
Cc: Daniel Jordan
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
06 Mar, 2019
21 commits
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too_many_isolated() in mm/compaction.c looks only at node state, so it
makes more sense to change argument to pgdat instead of zone.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190228083329.31892-3-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: William Kucharski
Cc: John Hubbard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We have common pattern to access lru_lock from a page pointer:
zone_lru_lock(page_zone(page))Which is silly, because it unfolds to this:
&NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_zones[page_zonenum(page)]->zone_pgdat->lru_lock
while we can simply do
&NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->lru_lockRemove zone_lru_lock() function, since it's only complicate things. Use
'page_pgdat(page)->lru_lock' pattern instead.[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: a slightly better version of __split_huge_page()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190301121651.7741-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190228083329.31892-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: William Kucharski
Cc: John Hubbard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Compaction is inherently race-prone as a suitable page freed during
compaction can be allocated by any parallel task. This patch uses a
capture_control structure to isolate a page immediately when it is freed
by a direct compactor in the slow path of the page allocator. The
intent is to avoid redundant scanning.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 2582.11 ( 0.00%) 2563.68 ( 0.71%)
Amean fault-both-5 4500.26 ( 0.00%) 4233.52 ( 5.93%)
Amean fault-both-7 5819.53 ( 0.00%) 6333.65 ( -8.83%)
Amean fault-both-12 9321.18 ( 0.00%) 9759.38 ( -4.70%)
Amean fault-both-18 9782.76 ( 0.00%) 10338.76 ( -5.68%)
Amean fault-both-24 15272.81 ( 0.00%) 13379.55 * 12.40%*
Amean fault-both-30 15121.34 ( 0.00%) 16158.25 ( -6.86%)
Amean fault-both-32 18466.67 ( 0.00%) 18971.21 ( -2.73%)Latency is only moderately affected but the devil is in the details. A
closer examination indicates that base page fault latency is reduced but
latency of huge pages is increased as it takes creater care to succeed.
Part of the "problem" is that allocation success rates are close to 100%
even when under pressure and compaction gets harder5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19
Percentage huge-3 96.70 ( 0.00%) 98.23 ( 1.58%)
Percentage huge-5 96.99 ( 0.00%) 95.30 ( -1.75%)
Percentage huge-7 94.19 ( 0.00%) 97.24 ( 3.24%)
Percentage huge-12 94.95 ( 0.00%) 97.35 ( 2.53%)
Percentage huge-18 96.74 ( 0.00%) 97.30 ( 0.58%)
Percentage huge-24 97.07 ( 0.00%) 97.55 ( 0.50%)
Percentage huge-30 95.69 ( 0.00%) 98.50 ( 2.95%)
Percentage huge-32 96.70 ( 0.00%) 99.27 ( 2.65%)And scan rates are reduced as expected by 6% for the migration scanner
and 29% for the free scanner indicating that there is less redundant
work.Compaction migrate scanned 20815362 19573286
Compaction free scanned 16352612 11510663[mgorman@techsingularity.net: remove redundant check]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201143853.GH9565@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-23-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pageblock hints are cleared when compaction restarts or kswapd makes
enough progress that it can sleep but it's over-eager in that the bit is
cleared for migration sources with no LRU pages and migration targets
with no free pages. As pageblock skip hint flushes are relatively rare
and out-of-band with respect to kswapd, this patch makes a few more
expensive checks to see if it's appropriate to even clear the bit.
Every pageblock that is not cleared will avoid 512 pages being scanned
unnecessarily on x86-64.The impact is variable with different workloads showing small
differences in latency, success rates and scan rates. This is expected
as clearing the hints is not that common but doing a small amount of
work out-of-band to avoid a large amount of work in-band later is
generally a good thing.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-22-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
[cai@lca.pw: no stuck in __reset_isolation_pfn()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190206034732.75687-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Once fast searching finishes, there is a possibility that the linear
scanner is scanning full blocks found by the fast scanner earlier. This
patch uses an adaptive stride to sample pageblocks for free pages. The
more consecutive full pageblocks encountered, the larger the stride
until a pageblock with free pages is found. The scanners might meet
slightly sooner but it is an acceptable risk given that the search of
the free lists may still encounter the pages and adjust the cached PFN
of the free scanner accordingly.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 2752.37 ( 0.00%) 2729.95 ( 0.81%)
Amean fault-both-5 4341.69 ( 0.00%) 4397.80 ( -1.29%)
Amean fault-both-7 6308.75 ( 0.00%) 6097.61 ( 3.35%)
Amean fault-both-12 10241.81 ( 0.00%) 9407.15 ( 8.15%)
Amean fault-both-18 13736.09 ( 0.00%) 10857.63 * 20.96%*
Amean fault-both-24 16853.95 ( 0.00%) 13323.24 * 20.95%*
Amean fault-both-30 15862.61 ( 0.00%) 17345.44 ( -9.35%)
Amean fault-both-32 18450.85 ( 0.00%) 16892.00 ( 8.45%)The latency is mildly improved offseting some overhead from earlier
patches that are prerequisites for the rest of the series. However, a
major impact is on the free scan rate with an 82% reduction.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17
Compaction migrate scanned 21607271 20116887
Compaction free scanned 95336406 16668703It's also the first time in the series where the number of pages scanned
by the migration scanner is greater than the free scanner due to the
increased search efficiency.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-21-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
As compaction proceeds and creates high-order blocks, the free list
search gets less efficient as the larger blocks are used as compaction
targets. Eventually, the larger blocks will be behind the migration
scanner for partially migrated pageblocks and the search fails. This
patch round-robins what orders are searched so that larger blocks can be
ignored and find smaller blocks that can be used as migration targets.The overall impact was small on 1-socket but it avoids corner cases
where the migration/free scanners meet prematurely or situations where
many of the pageblocks encountered by the free scanner are almost full
instead of being properly packed. Previous testing had indicated that
without this patch there were occasional large spikes in the free
scanner without this patch.[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-20-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The fast isolation of free pages allows the cached PFN of the free
scanner to advance faster than necessary depending on the contents of
the free list. The key is that fast_isolate_freepages() can update
zone->compact_cached_free_pfn via isolate_freepages_block(). When the
fast search fails, the linear scan can start from a point that has
skipped valid migration targets, particularly pageblocks with just
low-order free pages. This can cause the migration source/target
scanners to meet prematurely causing a reset.This patch starts by avoiding an update of the pageblock skip
information and cached PFN from isolate_freepages_block() and puts the
responsibility of updating that information in the callers. The fast
scanner will update the cached PFN if and only if it finds a block that
is higher than the existing cached PFN and sets the skip if the
pageblock is full or nearly full. The linear scanner will update
skipped information and the cached PFN only when a block is completely
scanned. The total impact is that the free scanner advances more slowly
as it is primarily driven by the linear scanner instead of the fast
search.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
noresched-v3r17 slowfree-v3r17
Amean fault-both-3 2965.68 ( 0.00%) 3036.75 ( -2.40%)
Amean fault-both-5 3995.90 ( 0.00%) 4522.24 * -13.17%*
Amean fault-both-7 5842.12 ( 0.00%) 6365.35 ( -8.96%)
Amean fault-both-12 9550.87 ( 0.00%) 10340.93 ( -8.27%)
Amean fault-both-18 13304.72 ( 0.00%) 14732.46 ( -10.73%)
Amean fault-both-24 14618.59 ( 0.00%) 16288.96 ( -11.43%)
Amean fault-both-30 16650.96 ( 0.00%) 16346.21 ( 1.83%)
Amean fault-both-32 17145.15 ( 0.00%) 19317.49 ( -12.67%)The impact to latency is higher than the last version but it appears to
be due to a slight increase in the free scan rates which is a potential
side-effect of the patch. However, this is necessary for later patches
that are more careful about how pageblocks are treated as earlier
iterations of those patches hit corner cases where the restarts were
punishing and very visible.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-19-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Scanning on large machines can take a considerable length of time and
eventually need to be rescheduled. This is treated as an abort event
but that's not appropriate as the attempt is likely to be retried after
making numerous checks and taking another cycle through the page
allocator. This patch will check the need to reschedule if necessary
but continue the scanning.The main benefit is reduced scanning when compaction is taking a long
time or the machine is over-saturated. It also avoids an unnecessary
exit of compaction that ends up being retried by the page allocator in
the outer loop.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
synccached-v3r16 noresched-v3r17
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 2958.27 ( 0.00%) 2965.68 ( -0.25%)
Amean fault-both-5 4091.90 ( 0.00%) 3995.90 ( 2.35%)
Amean fault-both-7 5803.05 ( 0.00%) 5842.12 ( -0.67%)
Amean fault-both-12 9481.06 ( 0.00%) 9550.87 ( -0.74%)
Amean fault-both-18 14141.51 ( 0.00%) 13304.72 ( 5.92%)
Amean fault-both-24 16438.00 ( 0.00%) 14618.59 ( 11.07%)
Amean fault-both-30 17531.72 ( 0.00%) 16650.96 ( 5.02%)
Amean fault-both-32 17101.96 ( 0.00%) 17145.15 ( -0.25%)Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-18-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With incremental changes, compact_should_abort no longer makes any
documented sense. Rename to compact_check_resched and update the
associated comments. There is no benefit other than reducing redundant
code and making the intent slightly clearer. It could potentially be
merged with earlier patches but it just makes the review slightly
harder.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-17-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Migrate has separate cached PFNs for ASYNC and SYNC* migration on the
basis that some migrations will fail in ASYNC mode. However, if the
cached PFNs match at the start of scanning and pageblocks are skipped
due to having no isolation candidates, then the sync state does not
matter. This patch keeps matching cached PFNs in sync until a pageblock
with isolation candidates is found.The actual benefit is marginal given that the sync scanner following the
async scanner will often skip a number of pageblocks but it's useless
work. Any benefit depends heavily on whether the scanners restarted
recently.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-16-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When scanning for sources or targets, PageCompound is checked for huge
pages as they can be skipped quickly but it happens relatively late
after a lot of setup and checking. This patch short-cuts the check to
make it earlier. It might still change when the lock is acquired but
this has less overhead overall. The free scanner advances but the
migration scanner does not. Typically the free scanner encounters more
movable blocks that change state over the lifetime of the system and
also tends to scan more aggressively as it's actively filling its
portion of the physical address space with data. This could change in
the future but for the moment, this worked better in practice and
incurred fewer scan restarts.The impact on latency and allocation success rates is marginal but the
free scan rates are reduced by 15% and system CPU usage is reduced by
3.3%. The 2-socket results are not materially different.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-15-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Async migration aborts on spinlock contention but contention can be high
when there are multiple compaction attempts and kswapd is active. The
consequence is that the migration scanners move forward uselessly while
still contending on locks for longer while leaving suitable migration
sources behind.This patch will acquire the lock but track when contention occurs. When
it does, the current pageblock will finish as compaction may succeed for
that block and then abort. This will have a variable impact on latency
as in some cases useless scanning is avoided (reduces latency) but a
lock will be contended (increase latency) or a single contended
pageblock is scanned that would otherwise have been skipped (increase
latency).5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 3002.07 ( 0.00%) 3153.17 ( -5.03%)
Amean fault-both-5 4684.47 ( 0.00%) 4280.52 ( 8.62%)
Amean fault-both-7 6815.54 ( 0.00%) 5811.50 * 14.73%*
Amean fault-both-12 10864.02 ( 0.00%) 9276.85 ( 14.61%)
Amean fault-both-18 12247.52 ( 0.00%) 11032.67 ( 9.92%)
Amean fault-both-24 15683.99 ( 0.00%) 14285.70 ( 8.92%)
Amean fault-both-30 18620.02 ( 0.00%) 16293.76 * 12.49%*
Amean fault-both-32 19250.28 ( 0.00%) 16721.02 * 13.14%*5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16
Percentage huge-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Percentage huge-3 95.00 ( 0.00%) 96.82 ( 1.92%)
Percentage huge-5 94.22 ( 0.00%) 95.40 ( 1.26%)
Percentage huge-7 92.35 ( 0.00%) 95.92 ( 3.86%)
Percentage huge-12 91.90 ( 0.00%) 96.73 ( 5.25%)
Percentage huge-18 89.58 ( 0.00%) 96.77 ( 8.03%)
Percentage huge-24 90.03 ( 0.00%) 96.05 ( 6.69%)
Percentage huge-30 89.14 ( 0.00%) 96.81 ( 8.60%)
Percentage huge-32 90.58 ( 0.00%) 97.41 ( 7.54%)There is a variable impact that is mostly good on latency while allocation
success rates are slightly higher. System CPU usage is reduced by about
10% but scan rate impact is mixedCompaction migrate scanned 27997659.00 20148867
Compaction free scanned 120782791.00 118324914Migration scan rates are reduced 28% which is expected as a pageblock is
used by the async scanner instead of skipped. The impact on the free
scanner is known to be variable. Overall the primary justification for
this patch is that completing scanning of a pageblock is very important
for later patches.[yuehaibing@huawei.com: fix unused variable warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-14-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: YueHaibing
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pageblocks are marked for skip when no pages are isolated after a scan.
However, it's possible to hit corner cases where the migration scanner
gets stuck near the boundary between the source and target scanner. Due
to pages being migrated in blocks of COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, pages that are
migrated can be reallocated before the pageblock is complete. The
pageblock is not necessarily skipped so it can be rescanned multiple
times. Similarly, a pageblock with some dirty/writeback pages may fail
to migrate and be rescanned until writeback completes which is wasteful.This patch tracks if a pageblock is being rescanned. If so, then the
entire pageblock will be migrated as one operation. This narrows the
race window during which pages can be reallocated during migration.
Secondly, if there are pages that cannot be isolated then the pageblock
will still be fully scanned and marked for skipping. On the second
rescan, the pageblock skip is set and the migration scanner makes
progress.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
findfree-v3r16 norescan-v3r16
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 3200.68 ( 0.00%) 3002.07 ( 6.21%)
Amean fault-both-5 4847.75 ( 0.00%) 4684.47 ( 3.37%)
Amean fault-both-7 6658.92 ( 0.00%) 6815.54 ( -2.35%)
Amean fault-both-12 11077.62 ( 0.00%) 10864.02 ( 1.93%)
Amean fault-both-18 12403.97 ( 0.00%) 12247.52 ( 1.26%)
Amean fault-both-24 15607.10 ( 0.00%) 15683.99 ( -0.49%)
Amean fault-both-30 18752.27 ( 0.00%) 18620.02 ( 0.71%)
Amean fault-both-32 21207.54 ( 0.00%) 19250.28 * 9.23%*5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
findfree-v3r16 norescan-v3r16
Percentage huge-3 96.86 ( 0.00%) 95.00 ( -1.91%)
Percentage huge-5 93.72 ( 0.00%) 94.22 ( 0.53%)
Percentage huge-7 94.31 ( 0.00%) 92.35 ( -2.08%)
Percentage huge-12 92.66 ( 0.00%) 91.90 ( -0.82%)
Percentage huge-18 91.51 ( 0.00%) 89.58 ( -2.11%)
Percentage huge-24 90.50 ( 0.00%) 90.03 ( -0.52%)
Percentage huge-30 91.57 ( 0.00%) 89.14 ( -2.65%)
Percentage huge-32 91.00 ( 0.00%) 90.58 ( -0.46%)Negligible difference but this was likely a case when the specific
corner case was not hit. A previous run of the same patch based on an
earlier iteration of the series showed large differences where migration
rates could be halved when the corner case was hit.The specific corner case where migration scan rates go through the roof
was due to a dirty/writeback pageblock located at the boundary of the
migration/free scanner did not happen in this case. When it does
happen, the scan rates multipled by massive margins.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-13-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Similar to the migration scanner, this patch uses the free lists to
quickly locate a migration target. The search is different in that
lower orders will be searched for a suitable high PFN if necessary but
the search is still bound. This is justified on the grounds that the
free scanner typically scans linearly much more than the migration
scanner.If a free page is found, it is isolated and compaction continues if
enough pages were isolated. For SYNC* scanning, the full pageblock is
scanned for any remaining free pages so that is can be marked for
skipping in the near future.1-socket thpfioscale
5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
isolmig-v3r15 findfree-v3r16
Amean fault-both-3 3024.41 ( 0.00%) 3200.68 ( -5.83%)
Amean fault-both-5 4749.30 ( 0.00%) 4847.75 ( -2.07%)
Amean fault-both-7 6454.95 ( 0.00%) 6658.92 ( -3.16%)
Amean fault-both-12 10324.83 ( 0.00%) 11077.62 ( -7.29%)
Amean fault-both-18 12896.82 ( 0.00%) 12403.97 ( 3.82%)
Amean fault-both-24 13470.60 ( 0.00%) 15607.10 * -15.86%*
Amean fault-both-30 17143.99 ( 0.00%) 18752.27 ( -9.38%)
Amean fault-both-32 17743.91 ( 0.00%) 21207.54 * -19.52%*The impact on latency is variable but the search is optimistic and
sensitive to the exact system state. Success rates are similar but the
major impact is to the rate of scanning5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
isolmig-v3r15 findfree-v3r16
Compaction migrate scanned 25646769 29507205
Compaction free scanned 201558184 100359571The free scan rates are reduced by 50%. The 2-socket reductions for the
free scanner are more dramatic which is a likely reflection that the
machine has more memory.[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning]
[vbabka@suse.cz: correct number of pages scanned for lower orders]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-12-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Due to either a fast search of the free list or a linear scan, it is
possible for multiple compaction instances to pick the same pageblock
for migration. This is lucky for one scanner and increased scanning for
all the others. It also allows a race between requests on which first
allocates the resulting free block.This patch tests and updates the pageblock skip for the migration
scanner carefully. When isolating a block, it will check and skip if
the block is already in use. Once the zone lock is acquired, it will be
rechecked so that only one scanner can set the pageblock skip for
exclusive use. Any scanner contending will continue with a linear scan.
The skip bit is still set if no pages can be isolated in a range. While
this may result in redundant scanning, it avoids unnecessarily acquiring
the zone lock when there are no suitable migration sources.1-socket thpscale
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 3390.40 ( 0.00%) 3024.41 ( 10.80%)
Amean fault-both-5 5082.28 ( 0.00%) 4749.30 ( 6.55%)
Amean fault-both-7 7012.51 ( 0.00%) 6454.95 ( 7.95%)
Amean fault-both-12 11346.63 ( 0.00%) 10324.83 ( 9.01%)
Amean fault-both-18 15324.19 ( 0.00%) 12896.82 * 15.84%*
Amean fault-both-24 16088.50 ( 0.00%) 13470.60 * 16.27%*
Amean fault-both-30 18723.42 ( 0.00%) 17143.99 ( 8.44%)
Amean fault-both-32 18612.01 ( 0.00%) 17743.91 ( 4.66%)5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
findmig-v3r15 isolmig-v3r15
Percentage huge-3 89.83 ( 0.00%) 92.96 ( 3.48%)
Percentage huge-5 91.96 ( 0.00%) 93.26 ( 1.41%)
Percentage huge-7 92.85 ( 0.00%) 93.63 ( 0.84%)
Percentage huge-12 92.74 ( 0.00%) 92.80 ( 0.07%)
Percentage huge-18 91.71 ( 0.00%) 91.62 ( -0.10%)
Percentage huge-24 92.13 ( 0.00%) 91.50 ( -0.69%)
Percentage huge-30 93.79 ( 0.00%) 92.73 ( -1.13%)
Percentage huge-32 91.27 ( 0.00%) 91.94 ( 0.74%)This shows a reasonable reduction in latency as multiple compaction
scanners do not operate on the same blocks with a similar allocation
success rate.Compaction migrate scanned 41093126 25646769
Migration scan rates are reduced by 38%.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-11-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The migration scanner is a linear scan of a zone with a potentiall large
search space. Furthermore, many pageblocks are unusable such as those
filled with reserved pages or partially filled with pages that cannot
migrate. These still get scanned in the common case of allocating a THP
and the cost accumulates.The patch uses a partial search of the free lists to locate a migration
source candidate that is marked as MOVABLE when allocating a THP. It
prefers picking a block with a larger number of free pages already on
the basis that there are fewer pages to migrate to free the entire
block. The lowest PFN found during searches is tracked as the basis of
the start for the linear search after the first search of the free list
fails. After the search, the free list is shuffled so that the next
search will not encounter the same page. If the search fails then the
subsequent searches will be shorter and the linear scanner is used.If this search fails, or if the request is for a small or
unmovable/reclaimable allocation then the linear scanner is still used.
It is somewhat pointless to use the list search in those cases. Small
free pages must be used for the search and there is no guarantee that
movable pages are located within that block that are contiguous.5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
noboost-v3r10 findmig-v3r15
Amean fault-both-3 3771.41 ( 0.00%) 3390.40 ( 10.10%)
Amean fault-both-5 5409.05 ( 0.00%) 5082.28 ( 6.04%)
Amean fault-both-7 7040.74 ( 0.00%) 7012.51 ( 0.40%)
Amean fault-both-12 11887.35 ( 0.00%) 11346.63 ( 4.55%)
Amean fault-both-18 16718.19 ( 0.00%) 15324.19 ( 8.34%)
Amean fault-both-24 21157.19 ( 0.00%) 16088.50 * 23.96%*
Amean fault-both-30 21175.92 ( 0.00%) 18723.42 * 11.58%*
Amean fault-both-32 21339.03 ( 0.00%) 18612.01 * 12.78%*5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
noboost-v3r10 findmig-v3r15
Percentage huge-3 86.50 ( 0.00%) 89.83 ( 3.85%)
Percentage huge-5 92.52 ( 0.00%) 91.96 ( -0.61%)
Percentage huge-7 92.44 ( 0.00%) 92.85 ( 0.44%)
Percentage huge-12 92.98 ( 0.00%) 92.74 ( -0.25%)
Percentage huge-18 91.70 ( 0.00%) 91.71 ( 0.02%)
Percentage huge-24 91.59 ( 0.00%) 92.13 ( 0.60%)
Percentage huge-30 90.14 ( 0.00%) 93.79 ( 4.04%)
Percentage huge-32 90.03 ( 0.00%) 91.27 ( 1.37%)This shows an improvement in allocation latencies with similar
allocation success rates. While not presented, there was a 31%
reduction in migration scanning and a 8% reduction on system CPU usage.
A 2-socket machine showed similar benefits.[mgorman@techsingularity.net: several fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204120111.GL9565@techsingularity.net
[vbabka@suse.cz: migrate block that was found-fast, some optimisations]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-10-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When compaction is finishing, it uses a flag to ensure the pageblock is
complete but it makes sense to always complete migration of a pageblock.
Minimally, skip information is based on a pageblock and partially
scanned pageblocks may incur more scanning in the future. The pageblock
skip handling also becomes more strict later in the series and the hint
is more useful if a complete pageblock was always scanned.The potentially impacts latency as more scanning is done but it's not a
consistent win or loss as the scanning is not always a high percentage
of the pageblock and sometimes it is offset by future reductions in
scanning. Hence, the results are not presented this time due to a
misleading mix of gains/losses without any clear pattern. However, full
scanning of the pageblock is important for later patches.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It's non-obvious that high-order free pages are split into order-0 pages
from the function name. Fix it.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
A zone parameter is passed into a number of top-level compaction
functions despite the fact that it's already in compact_control. This
is harmless but it did need an audit to check if zone actually ever
changes meaningfully. This patches removes the parameter in a number of
top-level functions. The change could be much deeper but this was
enough to briefly clarify the flow.No functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The last_migrated_pfn field is a bit dubious as to whether it really
helps but either way, the information from it can be inferred without
increasing the size of compact_control so remove the field.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: YueHaibing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sysctl_extfrag_handler() neglects to propagate the return value from
proc_dointvec_minmax() to its caller. It's a wrapper that doesn't need
to exist, so just use proc_dointvec_minmax() directly.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190104032557.3056-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Reported-by: Aditya Pakki
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Dec, 2018
1 commit
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This is a preparation patch only, no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181123114528.28802-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Zi Yan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Oct, 2018
1 commit
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When systems are overcommitted and resources become contended, it's hard
to tell exactly the impact this has on workload productivity, or how close
the system is to lockups and OOM kills. In particular, when machines work
multiple jobs concurrently, the impact of overcommit in terms of latency
and throughput on the individual job can be enormous.In order to maximize hardware utilization without sacrificing individual
job health or risk complete machine lockups, this patch implements a way
to quantify resource pressure in the system.A kernel built with CONFIG_PSI=y creates files in /proc/pressure/ that
expose the percentage of time the system is stalled on CPU, memory, or IO,
respectively. Stall states are aggregate versions of the per-task delay
accounting delays:cpu: some tasks are runnable but not executing on a CPU
memory: tasks are reclaiming, or waiting for swapin or thrashing cache
io: tasks are waiting for io completionsThese percentages of walltime can be thought of as pressure percentages,
and they give a general sense of system health and productivity loss
incurred by resource overcommit. They can also indicate when the system
is approaching lockup scenarios and OOMs.To do this, psi keeps track of the task states associated with each CPU
and samples the time they spend in stall states. Every 2 seconds, the
samples are averaged across CPUs - weighted by the CPUs' non-idle time to
eliminate artifacts from unused CPUs - and translated into percentages of
walltime. A running average of those percentages is maintained over 10s,
1m, and 5m periods (similar to the loadaverage).[hannes@cmpxchg.org: doc fixlet, per Randy]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828205625.GA14030@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: code optimization]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907175015.GA8479@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: rename psi_clock() to psi_update_work(), per Peter]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907145404.GB11088@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180913014222.GA2370@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Tested-by: Daniel Drake
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan
Cc: Christopher Lameter
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Enderborg
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Vinayak Menon
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jun, 2018
1 commit
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mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions.
Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
readable.https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions.
Done using
$ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace mm/*.c
and some typing.Before: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l
44
After: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l
86Miscellanea:
o Whitespace neatening around these conversions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e032ef111eebcd4c5952bae86763b541d373469.1522102887.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 May, 2018
1 commit
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This reverts the following commits that change CMA design in MM.
3d2054ad8c2d ("ARM: CMA: avoid double mapping to the CMA area if CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y")
1d47a3ec09b5 ("mm/cma: remove ALLOC_CMA")
bad8c6c0b114 ("mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE")
Ville reported a following error on i386.
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x4, date = 2013-06-28
Initializing CPU#0
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000377fe:00118000)
Initializing Movable for node 0 (00000001:00118000)
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:377fe
page:f53effc0 count:0 mapcount:-127 mapping:00000000 index:0x0
flags: 0x80000000()
raw: 80000000 00000000 00000000 ffffff80 00000000 00000100 00000200 00000001
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.17.0-rc5-elk+ #145
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E5410/03VXMC, BIOS A15 07/11/2013
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x60/0x96
bad_page+0x9a/0x100
free_pages_check_bad+0x3f/0x60
free_pcppages_bulk+0x29d/0x5b0
free_unref_page_commit+0x84/0xb0
free_unref_page+0x3e/0x70
__free_pages+0x1d/0x20
free_highmem_page+0x19/0x40
add_highpages_with_active_regions+0xab/0xeb
set_highmem_pages_init+0x66/0x73
mem_init+0x1b/0x1d7
start_kernel+0x17a/0x363
i386_start_kernel+0x95/0x99
startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168The reason for this error is that the span of MOVABLE_ZONE is extended
to whole node span for future CMA initialization, and, normal memory is
wrongly freed here. I submitted the fix and it seems to work, but,
another problem happened.It's so late time to fix the later problem so I decide to reverting the
series.Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä
Acked-by: Laura Abbott
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Apr, 2018
2 commits
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Now, all reserved pages for CMA region are belong to the ZONE_MOVABLE
and it only serves for a request with GFP_HIGHMEM && GFP_MOVABLE.Therefore, we don't need to maintain ALLOC_CMA at all.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512114786-5085-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc: Marek Szyprowski
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Will Deacon
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
No allocation callback is using this argument anymore. new_page_node
used to use this parameter to convey node_id resp. migration error up
to move_pages code (do_move_page_to_node_array). The error status never
made it into the final status field and we have a better way to
communicate node id to the status field now. All other allocation
callbacks simply ignored the argument so we can drop it finally.[mhocko@suse.com: fix migration callback]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105085259.GH2801@dhcp22.suse.cz
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alloc_misplaced_dst_page()]
[mhocko@kernel.org: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180103091134.GB11319@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180103082555.14592-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan
Cc: Andrea Reale
Cc: Anshuman Khandual
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Apr, 2018
2 commits
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519585191-10180-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It's possible for free pages to become stranded on per-cpu pagesets
(pcps) that, if drained, could be merged with buddy pages on the zone's
free area to form large order pages, including up to MAX_ORDER.Consider a verbose example using the tools/vm/page-types tool at the
beginning of a ZONE_NORMAL ('B' indicates a buddy page and 'S' indicates
a slab page). Pages on pcps do not have any page flags set.109954 1 _______S________________________________________________________
109955 2 __________B_____________________________________________________
109957 1 ________________________________________________________________
109958 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109959 7 ________________________________________________________________
109960 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109961 9 ________________________________________________________________
10996a 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
10996b 3 ________________________________________________________________
10996e 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
10996f 1 ________________________________________________________________
...
109f8c 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109f8d 2 ________________________________________________________________
109f8f 2 __________B_____________________________________________________
109f91 f ________________________________________________________________
109fa0 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109fa1 7 ________________________________________________________________
109fa8 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109fa9 1 ________________________________________________________________
109faa 1 __________B_____________________________________________________
109fab 1 _______S________________________________________________________The compaction migration scanner is attempting to defragment this memory
since it is at the beginning of the zone. It has done so quite well,
all movable pages have been migrated. From pfn [0x109955, 0x109fab),
there are only buddy pages and pages without flags set.These pages may be stranded on pcps that could otherwise allow this
memory to be coalesced if freed back to the zone free area. It is
possible that some of these pages may not be on pcps and that something
has called alloc_pages() and used the memory directly, but we rely on
the absence of __GFP_MOVABLE in these cases to allocate from
MIGATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks to try to keep these MIGRATE_MOVABLE
pageblocks as free as possible.These buddy and pcp pages, spanning 1,621 pages, could be coalesced and
allow for three transparent hugepages to be dynamically allocated.
Running the numbers for all such spans on the system, it was found that
there were over 400 such spans of only buddy pages and pages without
flags set at the time this /proc/kpageflags sample was collected.
Without this support, there were _no_ order-9 or order-10 pages free.When kcompactd fails to defragment memory such that a cc.order page can
be allocated, drain all pcps for the zone back to the buddy allocator so
this stranding cannot occur. Compaction for that order will
subsequently be deferred, which acts as a ratelimit on this drain.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803010340100.88270@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
