11 Jun, 2020
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Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add
WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does
not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm).Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case.
[hch@lst.de: fix a comment typo, cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-3-hch@lst.de
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc/vas: fix up for {un}use_mm() rename]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200422163935.5aa93ba5@canb.auug.org.auSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Tested-by: Jens Axboe
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [usb]
Acked-by: Haren Myneni
Cc: Alex Deucher
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Felipe Balbi
Cc: Jason Wang
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: Zhenyu Wang
Cc: Zhi Wang
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2.
The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are
duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once. For
instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported
architectures.Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils
down to, e.g.static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address)
{
return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1);
}static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
{
return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address);
}These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided
XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined.For architectures that really need a custom version there is always
possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic.These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table
accessors to the new header.This patch (of 12):
The linux/mm.h header includes to allow inlining of the
functions involving page table manipulations, e.g. pte_alloc() and
pmd_alloc(). So, there is no point to explicitly include
in the files that include .The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop:
for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do
sed -i -e '/include / d' $f
doneSigned-off-by: Mike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Cain
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Greentime Hu
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: Guo Ren
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Helge Deller
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Ley Foon Tan
Cc: Mark Salter
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: Max Filippov
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: Mike Rapoport
Cc: Nick Hu
Cc: Paul Walmsley
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Rich Felker
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Stafford Horne
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Vincent Chen
Cc: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Sep, 2018
1 commit
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Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only
potentially expensive, it's buggy too. It also happens to be entirely
unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by
simply making the sequence number be 64-bit. That doesn't even grow the
data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are
already 64-bit.So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow
case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes
the code faster too. Win-win.[ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics
also just goes away entirely with this ]Reported-by: Jann Horn
Suggested-by: Will Deacon
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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When perf profiling a wide variety of different workloads, it was found
that vmacache_find() had higher than expected cost: up to 0.08% of cpu
utilization in some cases. This was found to rival other core VM
functions such as alloc_pages_vma() with thp enabled and default
mempolicy, and the conditionals in __get_vma_policy().VMACACHE_HASH() determines which of the four per-task_struct slots a vma
is cached for a particular address. This currently depends on the pfn,
so pfn 5212 occupies a different vmacache slot than its neighboring pfn
5213.vmacache_find() iterates through all four of current's vmacache slots
when looking up an address. Hashing based on pfn, an address has
~1/VMACACHE_SIZE chance of being cached in the first vmacache slot, or
about 25%, *if* the vma is cached.This patch hashes an address by its pmd instead of pte to optimize for
workloads with good spatial locality. This results in a higher
probability of vmas being cached in the first slot that is checked:
normally ~70% on the same workloads instead of 25%.[rientjes@google.com: various updates]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807231532290.109445@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807091749150.114630@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Nov, 2017
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
02 Mar, 2017
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…ched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h>
Update all usage sites first.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> -
We are going to split out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.Create a trivial placeholder file that just
maps to to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
…sched.h> to <linux/mm_types>
The <linux/sched.h> header includes various vmacache related defines,
which are arguably misplaced.Move them to mm_types.h and minimize the sched.h impact by putting
all task vmacache state into a new 'struct vmacache' structure.No change in functionality.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
08 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Current code doesn't count first FIND operation after VMA cache flush
(which happen surprisingly often) artificially increasing cache hit ratio.On my regular setup the difference is:
Before After
==========================================================* boot, login into KDE
vmacache_find_calls 446216 vmacache_find_calls 492741
vmacache_find_hits 277596 vmacache_find_hits 276096~62.2% ~56.0%
* rebuild kernel (no changes to code, usual config)
vmacache_find_calls 1943007 vmacache_find_calls 2083718
vmacache_find_hits 1246123 vmacache_find_hits 1244146~64.1% ~59.7%
* rebuild kernel (full rebuild, usual config)
vmacache_find_calls 32163155 vmacache_find_calls 33677183
vmacache_find_hits 27889956 vmacache_find_hits 27877591~88.2% ~84.3%
Total: ~4% cache hit ratio.
If someone is counting _relative_ cache _miss_ ratio, misreporting is much
higher.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160822225009.GA3934@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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This function incurs in very hot paths and merely does a few loads for
validity check. Lets inline it, such that we can save the function call
overhead.(akpm: this is cosmetic - the compiler already inlines vmacache_valid_mm())
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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These flushes deal with sequence number overflows, such as for long lived
threads. These are rare, but interesting from a debugging PoV. As such,
display the number of flushes when vmacache debugging is enabled.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jun, 2014
2 commits
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For single threaded workloads, we can avoid flushing and iterating through
the entire list of tasks, making the whole function a lot faster,
requiring only a single atomic read for the mm_users.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Introduce a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE option to enable counting the cache
hit rate -- exported in /proc/vmstat.Any updates to the caching scheme needs this kind of data, thus it can
save some work re-implementing the counting all the time.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2014
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BUG_ON() is a big hammer, and should be used _only_ if there is some
major corruption that you cannot possibly recover from, making it
imperative that the current process (and possibly the whole machine) be
terminated with extreme prejudice.The trivial sanity check in the vmacache code is *not* such a fatal
error. Recovering from it is absolutely trivial, and using BUG_ON()
just makes it harder to debug for no actual advantage.To make matters worse, the placement of the BUG_ON() (only if the range
check matched) actually makes it harder to hit the sanity check to begin
with, so _if_ there is a bug (and we just got a report from Srivatsa
Bhat that this can indeed trigger), it is harder to debug not just
because the machine is possibly dead, but because we don't have better
coverage.BUG_ON() must *die*. Maybe we should add a checkpatch warning for it,
because it is simply just about the worst thing you can ever do if you
hit some "this cannot happen" situation.Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are
two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
caching schemes can be too high to consider.We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this
simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
below 1%.The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely,
the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
the cache.+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 |
| patched | 73.45% | 13.58 |
+----------------+----------+------------------+2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
approach as we're dealing with good locality.+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 |
| patched | 88.09% | 9.31 |
+----------------+----------+------------------+3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline | 70.66% | 17.14 |
| patched | 91.15% | 12.57 |
+----------------+----------+------------------+4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
about non-existent. The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
reduces it considerably. For instance, with 80 threads:+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline | 1.06% | 91.54 |
| patched | 99.97% | 14.18 |
+----------------+----------+------------------+[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
[hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds