08 Oct, 2016
2 commits
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There is a memory waste problem if we define field on struct page_ext by
hard-coding. Entry size of struct page_ext includes the size of those
fields even if it is disabled at runtime. Now, extra memory request at
runtime is possible so page_owner don't need to define it's own fields
by hard-coding.This patch removes hard-coded define and uses extra memory for storing
page_owner information in page_owner. Most of code are just mechanical
changes.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Until now, if some page_ext users want to use it's own field on
page_ext, it should be defined in struct page_ext by hard-coding. It
has a problem that wastes memory in following situation.struct page_ext {
#ifdef CONFIG_A
int a;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_B
int b;
#endif
};Assume that kernel is built with both CONFIG_A and CONFIG_B. Even if we
enable feature A and doesn't enable feature B at runtime, each entry of
struct page_ext takes two int rather than one int. It's undesirable
result so this patch tries to fix it.To solve above problem, this patch implements to support extra space
allocation at runtime. When need() callback returns true, it's extra
memory requirement is summed to entry size of page_ext. Also, offset
for each user's extra memory space is returned. With this offset, user
can use this extra space and there is no need to define needed field on
page_ext by hard-coding.This patch only implements an infrastructure. Following patch will use
it for page_owner which is only user having it's own fields on page_ext.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Currently, we store each page's allocation stacktrace on corresponding
page_ext structure and it requires a lot of memory. This causes the
problem that memory tight system doesn't work well if page_owner is
enabled. Moreover, even with this large memory consumption, we cannot
get full stacktrace because we allocate memory at boot time and just
maintain 8 stacktrace slots to balance memory consumption. We could
increase it to more but it would make system unusable or change system
behaviour.To solve the problem, this patch uses stackdepot to store stacktrace.
It obviously provides memory saving but there is a drawback that
stackdepot could fail.stackdepot allocates memory at runtime so it could fail if system has
not enough memory. But, most of allocation stack are generated at very
early time and there are much memory at this time. So, failure would
not happen easily. And, one failure means that we miss just one page's
allocation stacktrace so it would not be a big problem. In this patch,
when memory allocation failure happens, we store special stracktrace
handle to the page that is failed to save stacktrace. With it, user can
guess memory usage properly even if failure happens.Memory saving looks as following. (4GB memory system with page_owner)
(before the patch -> after the patch)static allocation:
92274688 bytes -> 25165824 bytesdynamic allocation after boot + kernel build:
0 bytes -> 327680 bytestotal:
92274688 bytes -> 25493504 bytes72% reduction in total.
Note that implementation looks complex than someone would imagine
because there is recursion issue. stackdepot uses page allocator and
page_owner is called at page allocation. Using stackdepot in page_owner
could re-call page allcator and then page_owner. That is a recursion.
To detect and avoid it, whenever we obtain stacktrace, recursion is
checked and page_owner is set to dummy information if found. Dummy
information means that this page is allocated for page_owner feature
itself (such as stackdepot) and it's understandable behavior for user.[iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: mm-page_owner-use-stackdepot-to-store-stacktrace-v3]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466150259-27727-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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During migration, page_owner info is now copied with the rest of the
page, so the stacktrace leading to free page allocation during migration
is overwritten. For debugging purposes, it might be however useful to
know that the page has been migrated since its initial allocation. This
might happen many times during the lifetime for different reasons and
fully tracking this, especially with stacktraces would incur extra
memory costs. As a compromise, store and print the migrate_reason of
the last migration that occurred to the page. This is enough to
distinguish compaction, numa balancing etc.Example page_owner entry after the patch:
Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x24200ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE)
PFN 628753 type Movable Block 1228 type Movable Flags 0x1fffff80040030(dirty|lru|swapbacked)
[] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x134/0x230
[] alloc_pages_vma+0xb5/0x250
[] shmem_alloc_page+0x61/0x90
[] shmem_getpage_gfp+0x678/0x960
[] shmem_fallocate+0x329/0x440
[] vfs_fallocate+0x140/0x230
[] SyS_fallocate+0x44/0x70
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
Page has been migrated, last migrate reason: compactionSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Sasha Levin
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g. by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced. However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:- it does not count unmapped file pages
- it affects the reclaimer logicTo overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g. by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer. A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Raghavendra K T
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Page owner uses the page_ext structure to keep meta-information for every
page in the system. The structure also contains a field of type 'struct
stack_trace', page owner uses this field during invocation of the function
save_stack_trace. It is easy to notice that keeping a copy of this
structure for every page in the system is very inefficiently in terms of
memory.The patch removes this unnecessary field of page_ext and forces page owner
to use a stack_trace structure allocated on the stack.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use struct initializers]
Signed-off-by: Sergei Rogachev
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2014
3 commits
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This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It
is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it
remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak
or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature.This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When
allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra
memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and
analyze it from this stored information.In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in
struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of
struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime
without considerable memory waste.Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free,
using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the
trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched.
And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later
analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather
than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug.Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For
example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this
patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature
using this interface.I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature,
but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that.
Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree.Contributor:
Alexander Nyberg
Mel Gorman
Dave Hansen
Minchan Kim
Michal Nazarewicz
Andrew Morton
Jungsoo SonSigned-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
recompile whole source code when we decide to use it. This is really
painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
not possible due to third party module depending on struct page. So, we
can't use this good feature in many cases.Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
flags to outside of struct page. This gets rid of third party module
issue mentioned above. And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
memory for this page extension in boottime. With these property, we can
avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. This will help our
development process greatly.This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal. debug-pagealloc
originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
use field of struct page_ext. Because memory for page_ext is allocated
later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
page_ext. This patch implements this.Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But,
this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment. Please refer it.Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds