14 Oct, 2020
5 commits
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The function is_huge_zero_page() doesn't call compound_head() to make sure
the page pointer is a head page. The call to is_huge_zero_page() in
release_pages() is made before compound_head() is called so the test would
fail if release_pages() was called with a tail page of the huge_zero_page
and put_page_testzero() would be called releasing the page.
This is unlikely to be happening in normal use or we would be seeing all
sorts of process data corruption when accessing a THP zero page.Looking at other places where is_huge_zero_page() is called, all seem to
only pass a head page so I think the right solution is to move the call
to compound_head() in release_pages() to a point before calling
is_huge_zero_page().Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Yu Zhao
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917173938.16420-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since commit 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping
pagevecs"), unevictable pages do not goes directly back onto zone's
unevictable list.Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Shakeel Butt
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200927122209.59328-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since commit 07d802699528 ("mm: devmap: refactor 1-based refcounting for
ZONE_DEVICE pages"), we have renamed the func put_devmap_managed_page() to
page_is_devmap_managed().Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: John Hubbard
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200905084453.19353-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
To activate a page, mark_page_accessed() always holds a reference on it.
It either gets a new reference when adding a page to
lru_pvecs.activate_page or reuses an existing one it previously got when
it added a page to lru_pvecs.lru_add. So it doesn't call SetPageActive()
on a page that doesn't have any reference left. Therefore, the race is
impossible these days (I didn't brother to dig into its history).For other paths, namely reclaim and migration, a reference count is always
held while calling SetPageActive() on a page.SetPageSlabPfmemalloc() also uses SetPageActive(), but it's irrelevant to
LRU pages.Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Alexander Duyck
Cc: David Hildenbrand
Cc: Huang Ying
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Nicholas Piggin
Cc: Qian Cai
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818184704.3625199-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We don't initially add anon pages to active lruvec after commit
b518154e59aa ("mm/vmscan: protect the workingset on anonymous LRU").
Remove activate_page() from unuse_pte(), which seems to be missed by the
commit. And make the function static while we are at it.Before the commit, we called lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable() to add
new ksm pages to active lruvec. Therefore, activate_page() wasn't
necessary for them in the first place.Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Alexander Duyck
Cc: Huang Ying
Cc: David Hildenbrand
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Nicholas Piggin
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818184704.3625199-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Oct, 2020
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
20 Sep, 2020
1 commit
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5.8 commit 5d91f31faf8e ("mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge page") has
established that vm_events should count every subpage of a THP, including
unevictable_pgs_culled and unevictable_pgs_rescued; but
lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() was not doing so for
unevictable_pgs_mlocked, and mm/mlock.c was not doing so for
unevictable_pgs mlocked, munlocked, cleared and stranded.Fix them; but THPs don't go the pagevec way in mlock.c, so no fixes needed
on that path.Fixes: 5d91f31faf8e ("mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt
Acked-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Alex Shi
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Qian Cai
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008301408230.5954@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2020
1 commit
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Commit eef1a429f234 ("mm/swap.c: piggyback lru_add_drain_all() calls")
implemented an optimization mechanism to exit the to-be-started LRU
drain operation (name it A) if another drain operation *started and
finished* while (A) was blocked on the LRU draining mutex.This was done through a seqcount_t latch, which is an abuse of its
semantics:1. seqcount_t latching should be used for the purpose of switching
between two storage places with sequence protection to allow
interruptible, preemptible, writer sections. The referenced
optimization mechanism has absolutely nothing to do with that.2. The used raw_write_seqcount_latch() has two SMP write memory
barriers to insure one consistent storage place out of the two
storage places available. A full memory barrier is required
instead: to guarantee that the pagevec counter stores visible by
local CPU are visible to other CPUs -- before loading the current
drain generation.Beside the seqcount_t API abuse, the semantics of a latch sequence
counter was force-fitted into the referenced optimization. What was
meant is to track "generations" of LRU draining operations, where
"global lru draining generation = x" implies that all generations
0 < n
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y2pg9erj.fsf@vostro.fn.ogness.net
15 Aug, 2020
2 commits
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Read to lru_add_pvec->nr could be interrupted and then write to the same
variable. The write has local interrupt disabled, but the plain reads
result in data races. However, it is unlikely the compilers could do much
damage here given that lru_add_pvec->nr is a "unsigned char" and there is
an existing compiler barrier. Thus, annotate the reads using the
data_race() macro. The data races were reported by KCSAN,BUG: KCSAN: data-race in lru_add_drain_cpu / rotate_reclaimable_page
write to 0xffff9291ebcb8a40 of 1 bytes by interrupt on cpu 23:
rotate_reclaimable_page+0x2df/0x490
pagevec_add at include/linux/pagevec.h:81
(inlined by) rotate_reclaimable_page at mm/swap.c:259
end_page_writeback+0x1b5/0x2b0
end_swap_bio_write+0x1d0/0x280
bio_endio+0x297/0x560
dec_pending+0x218/0x430 [dm_mod]
clone_endio+0xe4/0x2c0 [dm_mod]
bio_endio+0x297/0x560
blk_update_request+0x201/0x920
scsi_end_request+0x6b/0x4a0
scsi_io_completion+0xb7/0x7e0
scsi_finish_command+0x1ed/0x2a0
scsi_softirq_done+0x1c9/0x1d0
blk_done_softirq+0x181/0x1d0
__do_softirq+0xd9/0x57c
irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0
do_IRQ+0x8b/0x190
ret_from_intr+0x0/0x42
delay_tsc+0x46/0x80
__const_udelay+0x3c/0x40
__udelay+0x10/0x20
kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x202/0x3a0
__tsan_read1+0xc2/0x100
lru_add_drain_cpu+0xb8/0x3f0
lru_add_drain+0x25/0x40
shrink_active_list+0xe1/0xc80
shrink_lruvec+0x766/0xb70
shrink_node+0x2d6/0xca0
do_try_to_free_pages+0x1f7/0x9a0
try_to_free_pages+0x252/0x5b0
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x458/0x1290
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450
alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0
do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0
__handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40
handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
page_fault+0x34/0x40read to 0xffff9291ebcb8a40 of 1 bytes by task 37761 on cpu 23:
lru_add_drain_cpu+0xb8/0x3f0
lru_add_drain_cpu at mm/swap.c:602
lru_add_drain+0x25/0x40
shrink_active_list+0xe1/0xc80
shrink_lruvec+0x766/0xb70
shrink_node+0x2d6/0xca0
do_try_to_free_pages+0x1f7/0x9a0
try_to_free_pages+0x252/0x5b0
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x458/0x1290
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450
alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0
do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0
__handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40
handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0
do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9
page_fault+0x34/0x402 locks held by oom02/37761:
#0: ffff9281e5928808 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault
#1: ffffffffb3ade380 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: fs_reclaim_acquire.part
irq event stamp: 1949217
trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
__do_softirq+0x2e7/0x57c
__do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c
irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 23 PID: 37761 Comm: oom02 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200226+ #6
Hardware name: HP ProLiant BL660c Gen9, BIOS I38 10/17/2018Signed-off-by: Qian Cai
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Marco Elver
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200228044018.1263-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The thp prefix is more frequently used than hpage and we should be
consistent between the various functions.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/migrate.c]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: David Hildenbrand
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629151959.15779-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Aug, 2020
1 commit
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In current implementation, newly created or swap-in anonymous page is
started on active list. Growing active list results in rebalancing
active/inactive list so old pages on active list are demoted to inactive
list. Hence, the page on active list isn't protected at all.Following is an example of this situation.
Assume that 50 hot pages on active list. Numbers denote the number of
pages on active/inactive list (active | inactive).1. 50 hot pages on active list
50(h) | 02. workload: 50 newly created (used-once) pages
50(uo) | 50(h)3. workload: another 50 newly created (used-once) pages
50(uo) | 50(uo), swap-out 50(h)This patch tries to fix this issue. Like as file LRU, newly created or
swap-in anonymous pages will be inserted to the inactive list. They are
promoted to active list if enough reference happens. This simple
modification changes the above example as following.1. 50 hot pages on active list
50(h) | 02. workload: 50 newly created (used-once) pages
50(h) | 50(uo)3. workload: another 50 newly created (used-once) pages
50(h) | 50(uo), swap-out 50(uo)As you can see, hot pages on active list would be protected.
Note that, this implementation has a drawback that the page cannot be
promoted and will be swapped-out if re-access interval is greater than the
size of inactive list but less than the size of total(active+inactive).
To solve this potential issue, following patch will apply workingset
detection similar to the one that's already applied to file LRU.Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1595490560-15117-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
xargs perl -pi -e \
's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
26 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Non-file-lru page could also be activated in mark_page_accessed() and we
need to count this activation for nonresident_age.Note that it's better for this patch to be squashed into the patch "mm:
workingset: age nonresident information alongside anonymous pages".Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592288204-27734-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jun, 2020
11 commits
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The commit 2262185c5b28 ("mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats") added
PGLAZYFREE, PGACTIVATE & PGDEACTIVATE stats for cgroups but missed
couple of places and PGLAZYFREE missed huge page handling. Fix that.
Also for PGLAZYFREE use the irq-unsafe function to update as the irq is
already disabled.Fixes: 2262185c5b28 ("mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527182947.251343-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Many of the callbacks called by pagevec_lru_move_fn() does not correctly
update the vmstats for huge pages. Fix that. Also __pagevec_lru_add_fn()
use the irq-unsafe alternative to update the stat as the irqs are
already disabled.Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527182916.249910-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The VM tries to balance reclaim pressure between anon and file so as to
reduce the amount of IO incurred due to the memory shortage. It already
counts refaults and swapins, but in addition it should also count
writepage calls during reclaim.For swap, this is obvious: it's IO that wouldn't have occurred if the
anonymous memory hadn't been under memory pressure. From a relative
balancing point of view this makes sense as well: even if anon is cold and
reclaimable, a cache that isn't thrashing may have equally cold pages that
don't require IO to reclaim.For file writeback, it's trickier: some of the reclaim writepage IO would
have likely occurred anyway due to dirty expiration. But not all of it -
premature writeback reduces batching and generates additional writes.
Since the flushers are already woken up by the time the VM starts writing
cache pages one by one, let's assume that we'e likely causing writes that
wouldn't have happened without memory pressure. In addition, the per-page
cost of IO would have probably been much cheaper if written in larger
batches from the flusher thread rather than the single-page-writes from
kswapd.For our purposes - getting the trend right to accelerate convergence on a
stable state that doesn't require paging at all - this is sufficiently
accurate. If we later wanted to optimize for sustained thrashing, we can
still refine the measurements.Count all writepage calls from kswapd as IO cost toward the LRU that the
page belongs to.Why do this dynamically? Don't we know in advance that anon pages require
IO to reclaim, and so could build in a static bias?First, scanning is not the same as reclaiming. If all the anon pages are
referenced, we may not swap for a while just because we're scanning the
anon list. During this time, however, it's important that we age
anonymous memory and the page cache at the same rate so that their
hot-cold gradients are comparable. Everything else being equal, we still
want to reclaim the coldest memory overall.Second, we keep copies in swap unless the page changes. If there is
swap-backed data that's mostly read (tmpfs file) and has been swapped out
before, we can reclaim it without incurring additional IO.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-14-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We split the LRU lists into anon and file, and we rebalance the scan
pressure between them when one of them begins thrashing: if the file cache
experiences workingset refaults, we increase the pressure on anonymous
pages; if the workload is stalled on swapins, we increase the pressure on
the file cache instead.With cgroups and their nested LRU lists, we currently don't do this
correctly. While recursive cgroup reclaim establishes a relative LRU
order among the pages of all involved cgroups, LRU pressure balancing is
done on an individual cgroup LRU level. As a result, when one cgroup is
thrashing on the filesystem cache while a sibling may have cold anonymous
pages, pressure doesn't get equalized between them.This patch moves LRU balancing decision to the root of reclaim - the same
level where the LRU order is established.It does this by tracking LRU cost recursively, so that every level of the
cgroup tree knows the aggregate LRU cost of all memory within its domain.
When the page scanner calculates the scan balance for any given individual
cgroup's LRU list, it uses the values from the ancestor cgroup that
initiated the reclaim cycle.If one sibling is then thrashing on the cache, it will tip the pressure
balance inside its ancestors, and the next hierarchical reclaim iteration
will go more after the anon pages in the tree.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-13-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since the LRUs were split into anon and file lists, the VM has been
balancing between page cache and anonymous pages based on per-list ratios
of scanned vs. rotated pages. In most cases that tips page reclaim
towards the list that is easier to reclaim and has the fewest actively
used pages, but there are a few problems with it:1. Refaults and LRU rotations are weighted the same way, even though
one costs IO and the other costs a bit of CPU.2. The less we scan an LRU list based on already observed rotations,
the more we increase the sampling interval for new references, and
rotations become even more likely on that list. This can enter a
death spiral in which we stop looking at one list completely until
the other one is all but annihilated by page reclaim.Since commit a528910e12ec ("mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing")
we have refault detection for the page cache. Along with swapin events,
they are good indicators of when the file or anon list, respectively, is
too small for its workingset and needs to grow.For example, if the page cache is thrashing, the cache pages need more
time in memory, while there may be colder pages on the anonymous list.
Likewise, if swapped pages are faulting back in, it indicates that we
reclaim anonymous pages too aggressively and should back off.Replace LRU rotations with refaults and swapins as the basis for relative
reclaim cost of the two LRUs. This will have the VM target list balances
that incur the least amount of IO on aggregate.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-12-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Operations like MADV_FREE, FADV_DONTNEED etc. currently move any affected
active pages to the inactive list to accelerate their reclaim (good) but
also steer page reclaim toward that LRU type, or away from the other
(bad).The reason why this is undesirable is that such operations are not part of
the regular page aging cycle, and rather a fluke that doesn't say much
about the remaining pages on that list; they might all be in heavy use,
and once the chunk of easy victims has been purged, the VM continues to
apply elevated pressure on those remaining hot pages. The other LRU,
meanwhile, might have easily reclaimable pages, and there was never a need
to steer away from it in the first place.As the previous patch outlined, we should focus on recording actually
observed cost to steer the balance rather than speculating about the
potential value of one LRU list over the other. In that spirit, leave
explicitely deactivated pages to the LRU algorithm to pick up, and let
rotations decide which list is the easiest to reclaim.[cai@lca.pw: fix set-but-not-used warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200522133335.GA624@Qians-MacBook-Air.local
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Qian Cai
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently, scan pressure between the anon and file LRU lists is balanced
based on a mixture of reclaim efficiency and a somewhat vague notion of
"value" of having certain pages in memory over others. That concept of
value is problematic, because it has caused us to count any event that
remotely makes one LRU list more or less preferrable for reclaim, even
when these events are not directly comparable and impose very different
costs on the system. One example is referenced file pages that we still
deactivate and referenced anonymous pages that we actually rotate back to
the head of the list.There is also conceptual overlap with the LRU algorithm itself. By
rotating recently used pages instead of reclaiming them, the algorithm
already biases the applied scan pressure based on page value. Thus, when
rebalancing scan pressure due to rotations, we should think of reclaim
cost, and leave assessing the page value to the LRU algorithm.Lastly, considering both value-increasing as well as value-decreasing
events can sometimes cause the same type of event to be counted twice,
i.e. how rotating a page increases the LRU value, while reclaiming it
succesfully decreases the value. In itself this will balance out fine,
but it quietly skews the impact of events that are only recorded once.The abstract metric of "value", the murky relationship with the LRU
algorithm, and accounting both negative and positive events make the
current pressure balancing model hard to reason about and modify.This patch switches to a balancing model of accounting the concrete,
actually observed cost of reclaiming one LRU over another. For now, that
cost includes pages that are scanned but rotated back to the list head.
Subsequent patches will add consideration for IO caused by refaulting of
recently evicted pages.Replace struct zone_reclaim_stat with two cost counters in the lruvec, and
make everything that affects cost go through a new lru_note_cost()
function.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When the splitlru patches divided page cache and swap-backed pages into
separate LRU lists, the pressure balance between the lists was biased to
account for the fact that streaming IO can cause memory pressure with a
flood of pages that are used only once. New page cache additions would
tip the balance toward the file LRU, and repeat access would neutralize
that bias again. This ensured that page reclaim would always go for
used-once cache first.Since e9868505987a ("mm,vmscan: only evict file pages when we have
plenty"), page reclaim generally skips over swap-backed memory entirely as
long as there is used-once cache present, and will apply the LRU balancing
when only repeatedly accessed cache pages are left - at which point the
previous use-once bias will have been neutralized. This makes the
use-once cache balancing bias unnecessary.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
They're the same function, and for the purpose of all callers they are
equivalent to lru_cache_add().[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for local_lock changes]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The reclaim code that balances between swapping and cache reclaim tries to
predict likely reuse based on in-memory reference patterns alone. This
works in many cases, but when it fails it cannot detect when the cache is
thrashing pathologically, or when we're in the middle of a swap storm.The high seek cost of rotational drives under which the algorithm evolved
also meant that mistakes could quickly result in lockups from too
aggressive swapping (which is predominantly random IO). As a result, the
balancing code has been tuned over time to a point where it mostly goes
for page cache and defers swapping until the VM is under significant
memory pressure.The resulting strategy doesn't make optimal caching decisions - where
optimal is the least amount of IO required to execute the workload.The proliferation of fast random IO devices such as SSDs, in-memory
compression such as zswap, and persistent memory technologies on the
horizon, has made this undesirable behavior very noticable: Even in the
presence of large amounts of cold anonymous memory and a capable swap
device, the VM refuses to even seriously scan these pages, and can leave
the page cache thrashing needlessly.This series sets out to address this. Since commit ("a528910e12ec mm:
thrash detection-based file cache sizing") we have exact tracking of
refault IO - the ultimate cost of reclaiming the wrong pages. This allows
us to use an IO cost based balancing model that is more aggressive about
scanning anonymous memory when the cache is thrashing, while being able to
avoid unnecessary swap storms.These patches base the LRU balance on the rate of refaults on each list,
times the relative IO cost between swap device and filesystem
(swappiness), in order to optimize reclaim for least IO cost incurred.History
I floated these changes in 2016. At the time they were incomplete and
full of workarounds due to a lack of infrastructure in the reclaim code:
We didn't have PageWorkingset, we didn't have hierarchical cgroup
statistics, and problems with the cgroup swap controller. As swapping
wasn't too high a priority then, the patches stalled out. With all
dependencies in place now, here we are again with much cleaner,
feature-complete patches.I kept the acks for patches that stayed materially the same :-)
Below is a series of test results that demonstrate certain problematic
behavior of the current code, as well as showcase the new code's more
predictable and appropriate balancing decisions.Test #1: No convergence
This test shows an edge case where the VM currently doesn't converge at
all on a new file workingset with a stale anon/tmpfs set.The test sets up a cold anon set the size of 3/4 RAM, then tries to
establish a new file set half the size of RAM (flat access pattern).The vanilla kernel refuses to even scan anon pages and never converges.
The file set is perpetually served from the filesystem.The first test kernel is with the series up to the workingset patch
applied. This allows thrashing page cache to challenge the anonymous
workingset. The VM then scans the lists based on the current
scanned/rotated balancing algorithm. It converges on a stable state where
all cold anon pages are pushed out and the fileset is served entirely from
cache:noconverge/5.7-rc5-mm noconverge/5.7-rc5-mm-workingset
Scanned 417719308.00 ( +0.00%) 64091155.00 ( -84.66%)
Reclaimed 417711094.00 ( +0.00%) 61640308.00 ( -85.24%)
Reclaim efficiency % 100.00 ( +0.00%) 96.18 ( -3.78%)
Scanned file 417719308.00 ( +0.00%) 59211118.00 ( -85.83%)
Scanned anon 0.00 ( +0.00%) 4880037.00 ( )
Swapouts 0.00 ( +0.00%) 2439957.00 ( )
Swapins 0.00 ( +0.00%) 257.00 ( )
Refaults 415246605.00 ( +0.00%) 59183722.00 ( -85.75%)
Restore refaults 0.00 ( +0.00%) 54988252.00 ( )The second test kernel is with the full patch series applied, which
replaces the scanned/rotated ratios with refault/swapin rate-based
balancing. It evicts the cold anon pages more aggressively in the
presence of a thrashing cache and the absence of swapins, and so converges
with about 60% of the IO and reclaim activity:noconverge/5.7-rc5-mm-workingset noconverge/5.7-rc5-mm-lrubalance
Scanned 64091155.00 ( +0.00%) 37579741.00 ( -41.37%)
Reclaimed 61640308.00 ( +0.00%) 35129293.00 ( -43.01%)
Reclaim efficiency % 96.18 ( +0.00%) 93.48 ( -2.78%)
Scanned file 59211118.00 ( +0.00%) 32708385.00 ( -44.76%)
Scanned anon 4880037.00 ( +0.00%) 4871356.00 ( -0.18%)
Swapouts 2439957.00 ( +0.00%) 2435565.00 ( -0.18%)
Swapins 257.00 ( +0.00%) 262.00 ( +1.94%)
Refaults 59183722.00 ( +0.00%) 32675667.00 ( -44.79%)
Restore refaults 54988252.00 ( +0.00%) 28480430.00 ( -48.21%)We're triggering this case in host sideloading scenarios: When a host's
primary workload is not saturating the machine (primary load is usually
driven by user activity), we can optimistically sideload a batch job; if
user activity picks up and the primary workload needs the whole host
during this time, we freeze the sideload and rely on it getting pushed to
swap. Frequently that swapping doesn't happen and the completely inactive
sideload simply stays resident while the expanding primary worklad is
struggling to gain ground.Test #2: Kernel build
This test is a a kernel build that is slightly memory-restricted (make -j4
inside a 400M cgroup).Despite the very aggressive swapping of cold anon pages in test #1, this
test shows that the new kernel carefully balances swap against cache
refaults when both the file and the cache set are pressured.It shows the patched kernel to be slightly better at finding the coldest
memory from the combined anon and file set to evict under pressure. The
result is lower aggregate reclaim and paging activity:z 5.7-rc5-mm 5.7-rc5-mm-lrubalance
Real time 210.60 ( +0.00%) 210.97 ( +0.18%)
User time 745.42 ( +0.00%) 746.48 ( +0.14%)
System time 69.78 ( +0.00%) 69.79 ( +0.02%)
Scanned file 354682.00 ( +0.00%) 293661.00 ( -17.20%)
Scanned anon 465381.00 ( +0.00%) 378144.00 ( -18.75%)
Swapouts 185920.00 ( +0.00%) 147801.00 ( -20.50%)
Swapins 34583.00 ( +0.00%) 32491.00 ( -6.05%)
Refaults 212664.00 ( +0.00%) 172409.00 ( -18.93%)
Restore refaults 48861.00 ( +0.00%) 80091.00 ( +63.91%)
Total paging IO 433167.00 ( +0.00%) 352701.00 ( -18.58%)Test #3: Overload
This next test is not about performance, but rather about the
predictability of the algorithm. The current balancing behavior doesn't
always lead to comprehensible results, which makes performance analysis
and parameter tuning (swappiness e.g.) very difficult.The test shows the balancing behavior under equivalent anon and file
input. Anon and file sets are created of equal size (3/4 RAM), have the
same access patterns (a hot-cold gradient), and synchronized access rates.
Swappiness is raised from the default of 60 to 100 to indicate equal IO
cost between swap and cache.With the vanilla balancing code, anon scans make up around 9% of the total
pages scanned, or a ~1:10 ratio. This is a surprisingly skewed ratio, and
it's an outcome that is hard to explain given the input parameters to the
VM.The new balancing model targets a 1:2 balance: All else being equal,
reclaiming a file page costs one page IO - the refault; reclaiming an anon
page costs two IOs - the swapout and the swapin. In the test we observe a
~1:3 balance.The scanned and paging IO numbers indicate that the anon LRU algorithm we
have in place right now does a slightly worse job at picking the coldest
pages compared to the file algorithm. There is ongoing work to improve
this, like Joonsoo's anon workingset patches; however, it's difficult to
compare the two aging strategies when the balancing between them is
behaving unintuitively.The slightly less efficient anon reclaim results in a deviation from the
optimal 1:2 scan ratio we would like to see here - however, 1:3 is much
closer to what we'd want to see in this test than the vanilla kernel's
aging of 10+ cache pages for every anonymous one:overload-100/5.7-rc5-mm-workingset overload-100/5.7-rc5-mm-lrubalance-realfile
Scanned 533633725.00 ( +0.00%) 595687785.00 ( +11.63%)
Reclaimed 494325440.00 ( +0.00%) 518154380.00 ( +4.82%)
Reclaim efficiency % 92.63 ( +0.00%) 86.98 ( -6.03%)
Scanned file 484532894.00 ( +0.00%) 456937722.00 ( -5.70%)
Scanned anon 49100831.00 ( +0.00%) 138750063.00 ( +182.58%)
Swapouts 8096423.00 ( +0.00%) 48982142.00 ( +504.98%)
Swapins 10027384.00 ( +0.00%) 62325044.00 ( +521.55%)
Refaults 479819973.00 ( +0.00%) 451309483.00 ( -5.94%)
Restore refaults 426422087.00 ( +0.00%) 399914067.00 ( -6.22%)
Total paging IO 497943780.00 ( +0.00%) 562616669.00 ( +12.99%)Test #4: Parallel IO
It's important to note that these patches only affect the situation where
the kernel has to reclaim workingset memory, which is usually a
transitionary period. The vast majority of page reclaim occuring in a
system is from trimming the ever-expanding page cache.These patches don't affect cache trimming behavior. We never swap as long
as we only have use-once cache moving through the file LRU, we only
consider swapping when the cache is actively thrashing.The following test demonstrates this. It has an anon workingset that
takes up half of RAM and then writes a file that is twice the size of RAM
out to disk.As the cache is funneled through the inactive file list, no anon pages are
scanned (aside from apparently some background noise of 10 pages):5.7-rc5-mm 5.7-rc5-mm-lrubalance
Scanned 10714722.00 ( +0.00%) 10723445.00 ( +0.08%)
Reclaimed 10703596.00 ( +0.00%) 10712166.00 ( +0.08%)
Reclaim efficiency % 99.90 ( +0.00%) 99.89 ( -0.00%)
Scanned file 10714722.00 ( +0.00%) 10723435.00 ( +0.08%)
Scanned anon 0.00 ( +0.00%) 10.00 ( )
Swapouts 0.00 ( +0.00%) 7.00 ( )
Swapins 0.00 ( +0.00%) 0.00 ( +0.00%)
Refaults 92.00 ( +0.00%) 41.00 ( -54.84%)
Restore refaults 0.00 ( +0.00%) 0.00 ( +0.00%)
Total paging IO 92.00 ( +0.00%) 48.00 ( -47.31%)This patch (of 14):
Currently, THP are counted as single pages until they are split right
before being swapped out. However, at that point the VM is already in the
middle of reclaim, and adjusting the LRU balance then is useless.Always account THP by the number of basepages, and remove the fixup from
the splitting path.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
None of the three callers of get_compound_page_dtor() want to know the
value; they just want to call the function. Replace it with
destroy_compound_page() which calls the dtor for them.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200517105051.9352-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 May, 2020
1 commit
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The various struct pagevec per CPU variables are protected by disabling
either preemption or interrupts across the critical sections. Inside
these sections spinlocks have to be acquired.These spinlocks are regular spinlock_t types which are converted to
"sleeping" spinlocks on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels. Obviously sleeping
locks cannot be acquired in preemption or interrupt disabled sections.local locks provide a trivial way to substitute preempt and interrupt
disable instances. On a non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel local_lock() maps
to preempt_disable() and local_lock_irq() to local_irq_disable().Create lru_rotate_pvecs containing the pagevec and the locallock.
Create lru_pvecs containing the remaining pagevecs and the locallock.
Add lru_add_drain_cpu_zone() which is used from compact_zone() to avoid
exporting the pvec structure.Change the relevant call sites to acquire these locks instead of using
preempt_disable() / get_cpu() / get_cpu_var() and local_irq_disable() /
local_irq_save().There is neither a functional change nor a change in the generated
binary code for non PREEMPT_RT enabled non-debug kernels.When lockdep is enabled local locks have lockdep maps embedded. These
allow lockdep to validate the protections, i.e. inappropriate usage of a
preemption only protected sections would result in a lockdep warning
while the same problem would not be noticed with a plain
preempt_disable() based protection.local locks also improve readability as they provide a named scope for
the protections while preempt/interrupt disable are opaque scopeless.Finally local locks allow PREEMPT_RT to substitute them with real
locking primitives to ensure the correctness of operation in a fully
preemptible kernel.[ bigeasy: Adopted to use local_lock ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
08 Apr, 2020
2 commits
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Yang Shi writes:
Currently, when truncating a shmem file, if the range is partly in a THP
(start or end is in the middle of THP), the pages actually will just get
cleared rather than being freed, unless the range covers the whole THP.
Even though all the subpages are truncated (randomly or sequentially), the
THP may still be kept in page cache.This might be fine for some usecases which prefer preserving THP, but
balloon inflation is handled in base page size. So when using shmem THP
as memory backend, QEMU inflation actually doesn't work as expected since
it doesn't free memory. But the inflation usecase really needs to get the
memory freed. (Anonymous THP will also not get freed right away, but will
be freed eventually when all subpages are unmapped: whereas shmem THP
still stays in page cache.)Split THP right away when doing partial hole punch, and if split fails
just clear the page so that read of the punched area will return zeroes.Hugh Dickins adds:
Our earlier "team of pages" huge tmpfs implementation worked in the way
that Yang Shi proposes; and we have been using this patch to continue to
split the huge page when hole-punched or truncated, since converting over
to the compound page implementation. Although huge tmpfs gives out huge
pages when available, if the user specifically asks to truncate or punch a
hole (perhaps to free memory, perhaps to reduce the memcg charge), then
the filesystem should do so as best it can, splitting the huge page.That is not always possible: any additional reference to the huge page
prevents split_huge_page() from succeeding, so the result can be flaky.
But in practice it works successfully enough that we've not seen any
problem from that.Add shmem_punch_compound() to encapsulate the decision of when a split is
needed, and doing the split if so. Using this simplifies the flow in
shmem_undo_range(); and the first (trylock) pass does not need to do any
page clearing on failure, because the second pass will either succeed or
do that clearing. Following the example of zero_user_segment() when
clearing a partial page, add flush_dcache_page() and set_page_dirty() when
clearing a hole - though I'm not certain that either is needed.But: split_huge_page() would be sure to fail if shmem_undo_range()'s
pagevec holds further references to the huge page. The easiest way to fix
that is for find_get_entries() to return early, as soon as it has put one
compound head or tail into the pagevec. At first this felt like a hack;
but on examination, this convention better suits all its callers - or will
do, if the slight one-page-per-pagevec slowdown in shmem_unlock_mapping()
and shmem_seek_hole_data() is transformed into a 512-page-per-pagevec
speedup by checking for compound pages there.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Yang Shi
Cc: Alexander Duyck
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: David Hildenbrand
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2002261959020.10801@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand
the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes
page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments. So the function
is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again. All these
are put in one patch as one logical change.Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner
Suggested-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Rik van Riel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317100342.2730705-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Apr, 2020
2 commits
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Memory barrier is needed after setting LRU bit, but smp_mb() is too
strong. Some architectures, i.e. x86, imply memory barrier with atomic
operations, so replacing it with smp_mb__after_atomic() sounds better,
which is nop on strong ordered machines, and full memory barriers on
others. With this change the vm-scalability cases would perform better on
x86, I saw total 6% improvement with this patch and previous inline fix.The test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against v5.6-rc4:
mainline w/ inline fix w/ both (adding this)
150MB 154MB 159MBFixes: 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
__pagevec_lru_add() is only used in mm directory now.
Remove the export symbol.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200126011436.22979-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Feb, 2020
1 commit
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An upcoming patch changes and complicates the refcounting and especially
the "put page" aspects of it. In order to keep everything clean,
refactor the devmap page release routines:* Rename put_devmap_managed_page() to page_is_devmap_managed(), and
limit the functionality to "read only": return a bool, with no side
effects.* Add a new routine, put_devmap_managed_page(), to handle decrementing
the refcount for ZONE_DEVICE pages.* Change callers (just release_pages() and put_page()) to check
page_is_devmap_managed() before calling the new
put_devmap_managed_page() routine. This is a performance point:
put_page() is a hot path, so we need to avoid non- inline function calls
where possible.* Rename __put_devmap_managed_page() to free_devmap_managed_page(), and
limit the functionality to unconditionally freeing a devmap page.This is originally based on a separate patch by Ira Weiny, which applied
to an early version of the put_user_page() experiments. Since then,
Jérôme Glisse suggested the refactoring described above.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107224558.2362728-5-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard
Suggested-by: Jérôme Glisse
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Alex Williamson
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Cc: Björn Töpel
Cc: Daniel Vetter
Cc: Hans Verkuil
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Leon Romanovsky
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Cc: Mike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Dec, 2019
2 commits
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This is a very slow operation. Right now POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED is the top
user because it has to freeze page references when removing it from the
cache. invalidate_bdev() calls it for the same reason. Both are
triggered from userspace, so it's easy to generate a storm.mlock/mlockall no longer calls lru_add_drain_all - I've seen here
serious slowdown on older kernels.There are some less obvious paths in memory migration/CMA/offlining
which shouldn't call frequently.The worst case requires a non-trivial workload because
lru_add_drain_all() skips cpus where vectors are empty. Something must
constantly generate a flow of pages for each cpu. Also cpus must be
busy to make scheduling per-cpu works slower. And the machine must be
big enough (64+ cpus in our case).In our case that was a massive series of mlock calls in map-reduce while
other tasks write logs (and generates flows of new pages in per-cpu
vectors). Mlock calls were serialized by mutex and accumulated latency
up to 10 seconds or more.The kernel does not call lru_add_drain_all on mlock paths since 4.15,
but the same scenario could be triggered by fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
or any other remaining user.There is no reason to do the drain again if somebody else already
drained all the per-cpu vectors while we waited for the lock.Piggyback on a drain starting and finishing while we wait for the lock:
all pages pending at the time of our entry were drained from the
vectors.Callers like POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED retry their operations once after
draining per-cpu vectors when pages have unexpected references.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157019456205.3142.3369423180908482020.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This avoids duplicated PageReferenced() calls. No behavior change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016225326.GB12497@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Liu Jingqi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Sep, 2019
1 commit
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Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.
- Background
The Android terminology used for forking a new process and starting an app
from scratch is a cold start, while resuming an existing app is a hot
start. While we continually try to improve the performance of cold
starts, hot starts will always be significantly less power hungry as well
as faster so we are trying to make hot start more likely than cold start.To increase hot start, Android userspace manages the order that apps
should be killed in a process called ActivityManagerService.
ActivityManagerService tracks every Android app or service that the user
could be interacting with at any time and translates that into a ranked
list for lmkd(low memory killer daemon). They are likely to be killed by
lmkd if the system has to reclaim memory. In that sense they are similar
to entries in any other cache. Those apps are kept alive for
opportunistic performance improvements but those performance improvements
will vary based on the memory requirements of individual workloads.- Problem
Naturally, cached apps were dominant consumers of memory on the system.
However, they were not significant consumers of swap even though they are
good candidate for swap. Under investigation, swapping out only begins
once the low zone watermark is hit and kswapd wakes up, but the overall
allocation rate in the system might trip lmkd thresholds and cause a
cached process to be killed(we measured performance swapping out vs.
zapping the memory by killing a process. Unsurprisingly, zapping is 10x
times faster even though we use zram which is much faster than real
storage) so kill from lmkd will often satisfy the high zone watermark,
resulting in very few pages actually being moved to swap.- Approach
The approach we chose was to use a new interface to allow userspace to
proactively reclaim entire processes by leveraging platform information.
This allowed us to bypass the inaccuracy of the kernel’s LRUs for pages
that are known to be cold from userspace and to avoid races with lmkd by
reclaiming apps as soon as they entered the cached state. Additionally,
it could provide many chances for platform to use much information to
optimize memory efficiency.To achieve the goal, the patchset introduce two new options for madvise.
One is MADV_COLD which will deactivate activated pages and the other is
MADV_PAGEOUT which will reclaim private pages instantly. These new
options complement MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE by adding non-destructive
ways to gain some free memory space. MADV_PAGEOUT is similar to
MADV_DONTNEED in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed immediately; MADV_COLD is similar
to MADV_FREE in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed when memory pressure rises.This patch (of 5):
When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range, it could
give a hint to kernel that the pages can be reclaimed when memory pressure
happens but data should be preserved for future use. This could reduce
workingset eviction so it ends up increasing performance.This patch introduces the new MADV_COLD hint to madvise(2) syscall.
MADV_COLD can be used by a process to mark a memory range as not expected
to be used in the near future. The hint can help kernel in deciding which
pages to evict early during memory pressure.It works for every LRU pages like MADV_[DONTNEED|FREE]. IOW, It moves
active file page -> inactive file LRU
active anon page -> inacdtive anon LRUUnlike MADV_FREE, it doesn't move active anonymous pages to inactive file
LRU's head because MADV_COLD is a little bit different symantic.
MADV_FREE means it's okay to discard when the memory pressure because the
content of the page is *garbage* so freeing such pages is almost zero
overhead since we don't need to swap out and access afterward causes just
minor fault. Thus, it would make sense to put those freeable pages in
inactive file LRU to compete other used-once pages. It makes sense for
implmentaion point of view, too because it's not swapbacked memory any
longer until it would be re-dirtied. Even, it could give a bonus to make
them be reclaimed on swapless system. However, MADV_COLD doesn't mean
garbage so reclaiming them requires swap-out/in in the end so it's bigger
cost. Since we have designed VM LRU aging based on cost-model, anonymous
cold pages would be better to position inactive anon's LRU list, not file
LRU. Furthermore, it would help to avoid unnecessary scanning if system
doesn't have a swap device. Let's start simpler way without adding
complexity at this moment. However, keep in mind, too that it's a caveat
that workloads with a lot of pages cache are likely to ignore MADV_COLD on
anonymous memory because we rarely age anonymous LRU lists.* man-page material
MADV_COLD (since Linux x.x)
Pages in the specified regions will be treated as less-recently-accessed
compared to pages in the system with similar access frequencies. In
contrast to MADV_FREE, the contents of the region are preserved regardless
of subsequent writes to pages.MADV_COLD cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or VM_PFNMAP
pages.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with hmm.git]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726023435.214162-2-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
Reported-by: kbuild test robot
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Daniel Colascione
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Hillf Danton
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko
Cc: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Sonny Rao
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan
Cc: Tim Murray
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Sep, 2019
2 commits
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A later patch makes THP deferred split shrinker memcg aware, but it needs
page->mem_cgroup information in THP destructor, which is called after
mem_cgroup_uncharge() now.So move mem_cgroup_uncharge() from __page_cache_release() to compound page
destructor, which is called by both THP and other compound pages except
HugeTLB. And call it in __put_single_page() for single order page.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565144277-36240-3-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Suggested-by: "Kirill A . Shutemov"
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Shakeel Butt
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Qian Cai
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a cleanup patch that replaces two historical uses of
list_move_tail() with relatively recent add_page_to_lru_list_tail().Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716212436.7137-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Ira Weiny
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jul, 2019
2 commits
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The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the
README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other
files there via TOC markup.Despite being written on different times with different
styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar
look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both
raw text file and as via the html output produced by the
Sphinx build system.At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
02 Jul, 2019
1 commit
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release_pages() is an optimized version of a loop around put_page().
Unfortunately for devmap pages the logic is not entirely correct in
release_pages(). This is because device pages can be more than type
MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC. There are in fact 4 types, private, public, FS DAX,
and PCI P2PDMA. Some of these have specific needs to "put" the page while
others do not.This logic to handle any special needs is contained in
put_devmap_managed_page(). Therefore all devmap pages should be processed
by this function where we can contain the correct logic for a page put.Handle all device type pages within release_pages() by calling
put_devmap_managed_page() on all devmap pages. If
put_devmap_managed_page() returns true the page has been put and we
continue with the next page. A false return of put_devmap_managed_page()
means the page did not require special processing and should fall to
"normal" processing.This was found via code inspection while determining if release_pages()
and the new put_user_pages() could be interchangeable.[1][1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523172852.GA27175@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190605214922.17684-1-ira.weiny@intel.com
Cc: Jérôme Glisse
Cc: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe
21 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the fileThese files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 May, 2019
1 commit
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There is no function named munlock_vma_pages(). Correct it to
munlock_vma_page().Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402095609.27181-1-peng.fan@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
