Earlier patches focused on having direct reclaim and kswapd use data
that is node-centric for reclaiming but shrink_node() itself still uses
too much zone information. This patch removes unnecessary zone-based
information with the most important decision being whether to continue
reclaim or not. Some memcg APIs are adjusted as a result even though
memcg itself still uses some zone information.
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: optimization]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468588165-12461-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-14-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kswapd goes through some complex steps trying to figure out if it should
stay awake based on the classzone_idx and the requested order. It is
unnecessarily complex and passes in an invalid classzone_idx to
balance_pgdat(). What matters most of all is whether a larger order has
been requsted and whether kswapd successfully reclaimed at the previous
order. This patch irons out the logic to check just that and the end
result is less headache inducing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-10-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.
Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
logic. Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
active sizes. It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.
Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed
later but is easier to review.
In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions
1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem
When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.
That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.
2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails
This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Node-based reclaim requires node-based LRUs and locking. This is a
preparation patch that just moves the lru_lock to the node so later
patches are easier to review. It is a mechanical change but note this
patch makes contention worse because the LRU lock is hotter and direct
reclaim and kswapd can contend on the same lock even when reclaiming
from different zones.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-3-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patchset: "Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9"
This series moves LRUs from the zones to the node. While this is a
current rebase, the test results were based on mmotm as of June 23rd.
Conceptually, this series is simple but there are a lot of details.
Some of the broad motivations for this are;
1. The residency of a page partially depends on what zone the page was
allocated from. This is partially combatted by the fair zone allocation
policy but that is a partial solution that introduces overhead in the
page allocator paths.
2. Currently, reclaim on node 0 behaves slightly different to node 1. For
example, direct reclaim scans in zonelist order and reclaims even if
the zone is over the high watermark regardless of the age of pages
in that LRU. Kswapd on the other hand starts reclaim on the highest
unbalanced zone. A difference in distribution of file/anon pages due
to when they were allocated results can result in a difference in
again. While the fair zone allocation policy mitigates some of the
problems here, the page reclaim results on a multi-zone node will
always be different to a single-zone node.
it was scheduled on as a result.
3. kswapd and the page allocator scan zones in the opposite order to
avoid interfering with each other but it's sensitive to timing. This
mitigates the page allocator using pages that were allocated very recently
in the ideal case but it's sensitive to timing. When kswapd is allocating
from lower zones then it's great but during the rebalancing of the highest
zone, the page allocator and kswapd interfere with each other. It's worse
if the highest zone is small and difficult to balance.
4. slab shrinkers are node-based which makes it harder to identify the exact
relationship between slab reclaim and LRU reclaim.
The reason we have zone-based reclaim is that we used to have
large highmem zones in common configurations and it was necessary
to quickly find ZONE_NORMAL pages for reclaim. Today, this is much
less of a concern as machines with lots of memory will (or should) use
64-bit kernels. Combinations of 32-bit hardware and 64-bit hardware are
rare. Machines that do use highmem should have relatively low highmem:lowmem
ratios than we worried about in the past.
Conceptually, moving to node LRUs should be easier to understand. The
page allocator plays fewer tricks to game reclaim and reclaim behaves
similarly on all nodes.
The series has been tested on a 16 core UMA machine and a 2-socket 48
core NUMA machine. The UMA results are presented in most cases as the NUMA
machine behaved similarly.
pagealloc
---------
This is a microbenchmark that shows the benefit of removing the fair zone
allocation policy. It was tested uip to order-4 but only orders 0 and 1 are
shown as the other orders were comparable.
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9
Min total-odr0-1 490.00 ( 0.00%) 457.00 ( 6.73%)
Min total-odr0-2 347.00 ( 0.00%) 329.00 ( 5.19%)
Min total-odr0-4 288.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 5.21%)
Min total-odr0-8 251.00 ( 0.00%) 239.00 ( 4.78%)
Min total-odr0-16 234.00 ( 0.00%) 222.00 ( 5.13%)
Min total-odr0-32 223.00 ( 0.00%) 211.00 ( 5.38%)
Min total-odr0-64 217.00 ( 0.00%) 208.00 ( 4.15%)
Min total-odr0-128 214.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 4.67%)
Min total-odr0-256 250.00 ( 0.00%) 230.00 ( 8.00%)
Min total-odr0-512 271.00 ( 0.00%) 269.00 ( 0.74%)
Min total-odr0-1024 291.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 3.09%)
Min total-odr0-2048 303.00 ( 0.00%) 296.00 ( 2.31%)
Min total-odr0-4096 311.00 ( 0.00%) 309.00 ( 0.64%)
Min total-odr0-8192 316.00 ( 0.00%) 314.00 ( 0.63%)
Min total-odr0-16384 317.00 ( 0.00%) 315.00 ( 0.63%)
Min total-odr1-1 742.00 ( 0.00%) 712.00 ( 4.04%)
Min total-odr1-2 562.00 ( 0.00%) 530.00 ( 5.69%)
Min total-odr1-4 457.00 ( 0.00%) 433.00 ( 5.25%)
Min total-odr1-8 411.00 ( 0.00%) 381.00 ( 7.30%)
Min total-odr1-16 381.00 ( 0.00%) 356.00 ( 6.56%)
Min total-odr1-32 372.00 ( 0.00%) 346.00 ( 6.99%)
Min total-odr1-64 372.00 ( 0.00%) 343.00 ( 7.80%)
Min total-odr1-128 375.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 6.40%)
Min total-odr1-256 379.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 7.39%)
Min total-odr1-512 385.00 ( 0.00%) 355.00 ( 7.79%)
Min total-odr1-1024 386.00 ( 0.00%) 358.00 ( 7.25%)
Min total-odr1-2048 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%)
Min total-odr1-4096 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%)
Min total-odr1-8192 388.00 ( 0.00%) 363.00 ( 6.44%)
This shows a steady improvement throughout. The primary benefit is from
reduced system CPU usage which is obvious from the overall times;
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8
User 189.19 191.80
System 2604.45 2533.56
Elapsed 2855.30 2786.39
The vmstats also showed that the fair zone allocation policy was definitely
removed as can be seen here;
4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8
DMA32 allocs 28794729769 0
Normal allocs 48432501431 77227309877
Movable allocs 0 0
tiobench on ext4
----------------
tiobench is a benchmark that artifically benefits if old pages remain resident
while new pages get reclaimed. The fair zone allocation policy mitigates this
problem so pages age fairly. While the benchmark has problems, it is important
that tiobench performance remains constant as it implies that page aging
problems that the fair zone allocation policy fixes are not re-introduced.
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9
Min PotentialReadSpeed 89.65 ( 0.00%) 90.21 ( 0.62%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-1 82.68 ( 0.00%) 82.01 ( -0.81%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-2 72.76 ( 0.00%) 72.07 ( -0.95%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-4 75.13 ( 0.00%) 74.92 ( -0.28%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-8 64.91 ( 0.00%) 65.19 ( 0.43%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-16 62.24 ( 0.00%) 62.22 ( -0.03%)
Min RandRead-MB/sec-1 0.88 ( 0.00%) 0.88 ( 0.00%)
Min RandRead-MB/sec-2 0.95 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( -3.16%)
Min RandRead-MB/sec-4 1.43 ( 0.00%) 1.34 ( -6.29%)
Min RandRead-MB/sec-8 1.61 ( 0.00%) 1.60 ( -0.62%)
Min RandRead-MB/sec-16 1.80 ( 0.00%) 1.90 ( 5.56%)
Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-1 76.41 ( 0.00%) 76.85 ( 0.58%)
Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-2 74.11 ( 0.00%) 73.54 ( -0.77%)
Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-4 80.05 ( 0.00%) 80.13 ( 0.10%)
Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-8 72.88 ( 0.00%) 73.20 ( 0.44%)
Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-16 75.91 ( 0.00%) 76.44 ( 0.70%)
Min RandWrite-MB/sec-1 1.18 ( 0.00%) 1.14 ( -3.39%)
Min RandWrite-MB/sec-2 1.02 ( 0.00%) 1.03 ( 0.98%)
Min RandWrite-MB/sec-4 1.05 ( 0.00%) 0.98 ( -6.67%)
Min RandWrite-MB/sec-8 0.89 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( 3.37%)
Min RandWrite-MB/sec-16 0.92 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 1.09%)
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 approx-v9
User 645.72 525.90
System 403.85 331.75
Elapsed 6795.36 6783.67
This shows that the series has little or not impact on tiobench which is
desirable and a reduction in system CPU usage. It indicates that the fair
zone allocation policy was removed in a manner that didn't reintroduce
one class of page aging bug. There were only minor differences in overall
reclaim activity
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8
Minor Faults 645838 647465
Major Faults 573 640
Swap Ins 0 0
Swap Outs 0 0
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 46041453 44190646
Normal allocs 78053072 79887245
Movable allocs 0 0
Allocation stalls 24 67
Stall zone DMA 0 0
Stall zone DMA32 0 0
Stall zone Normal 0 2
Stall zone HighMem 0 0
Stall zone Movable 0 65
Direct pages scanned 10969 30609
Kswapd pages scanned 93375144 93492094
Kswapd pages reclaimed 93372243 93489370
Direct pages reclaimed 10969 30609
Kswapd efficiency 99% 99%
Kswapd velocity 13741.015 13781.934
Direct efficiency 100% 100%
Direct velocity 1.614 4.512
Percentage direct scans 0% 0%
kswapd activity was roughly comparable. There were differences in direct
reclaim activity but negligible in the context of the overall workload
(velocity of 4 pages per second with the patches applied, 1.6 pages per
second in the baseline kernel).
pgbench read-only large configuration on ext4
---------------------------------------------
pgbench is a database benchmark that can be sensitive to page reclaim
decisions. This also checks if removing the fair zone allocation policy
is safe
pgbench Transactions
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8
Hmean 1 188.26 ( 0.00%) 189.78 ( 0.81%)
Hmean 5 330.66 ( 0.00%) 328.69 ( -0.59%)
Hmean 12 370.32 ( 0.00%) 380.72 ( 2.81%)
Hmean 21 368.89 ( 0.00%) 369.00 ( 0.03%)
Hmean 30 382.14 ( 0.00%) 360.89 ( -5.56%)
Hmean 32 428.87 ( 0.00%) 432.96 ( 0.95%)
Negligible differences again. As with tiobench, overall reclaim activity
was comparable.
bonnie++ on ext4
----------------
No interesting performance difference, negligible differences on reclaim
stats.
paralleldd on ext4
------------------
This workload uses varying numbers of dd instances to read large amounts of
data from disk.
4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9
Amean Elapsd-1 186.04 ( 0.00%) 189.41 ( -1.82%)
Amean Elapsd-3 192.27 ( 0.00%) 191.38 ( 0.46%)
Amean Elapsd-5 185.21 ( 0.00%) 182.75 ( 1.33%)
Amean Elapsd-7 183.71 ( 0.00%) 182.11 ( 0.87%)
Amean Elapsd-12 180.96 ( 0.00%) 181.58 ( -0.35%)
Amean Elapsd-16 181.36 ( 0.00%) 183.72 ( -1.30%)
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9
User 1548.01 1552.44
System 8609.71 8515.08
Elapsed 3587.10 3594.54
There is little or no change in performance but some drop in system CPU usage.
4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9
Minor Faults 362662 367360
Major Faults 1204 1143
Swap Ins 22 0
Swap Outs 2855 1029
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 31409797 28837521
Normal allocs 46611853 49231282
Movable allocs 0 0
Direct pages scanned 0 0
Kswapd pages scanned 40845270 40869088
Kswapd pages reclaimed 40830976 40855294
Direct pages reclaimed 0 0
Kswapd efficiency 99% 99%
Kswapd velocity 11386.711 11369.769
Direct efficiency 100% 100%
Direct velocity 0.000 0.000
Percentage direct scans 0% 0%
Page writes by reclaim 2855 1029
Page writes file 0 0
Page writes anon 2855 1029
Page reclaim immediate 771 1628
Sector Reads 293312636 293536360
Sector Writes 18213568 18186480
Page rescued immediate 0 0
Slabs scanned 128257 132747
Direct inode steals 181 56
Kswapd inode steals 59 1131
It basically shows that kswapd was active at roughly the same rate in
both kernels. There was also comparable slab scanning activity and direct
reclaim was avoided in both cases. There appears to be a large difference
in numbers of inodes reclaimed but the workload has few active inodes and
is likely a timing artifact.
stutter
-------
stutter simulates a simple workload. One part uses a lot of anonymous
memory, a second measures mmap latency and a third copies a large file.
The primary metric is checking for mmap latency.
stutter
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8
Min mmap 16.6283 ( 0.00%) 13.4258 ( 19.26%)
1st-qrtle mmap 54.7570 ( 0.00%) 34.9121 ( 36.24%)
2nd-qrtle mmap 57.3163 ( 0.00%) 46.1147 ( 19.54%)
3rd-qrtle mmap 58.9976 ( 0.00%) 47.1882 ( 20.02%)
Max-90% mmap 59.7433 ( 0.00%) 47.4453 ( 20.58%)
Max-93% mmap 60.1298 ( 0.00%) 47.6037 ( 20.83%)
Max-95% mmap 73.4112 ( 0.00%) 82.8719 (-12.89%)
Max-99% mmap 92.8542 ( 0.00%) 88.8870 ( 4.27%)
Max mmap 1440.6569 ( 0.00%) 121.4201 ( 91.57%)
Mean mmap 59.3493 ( 0.00%) 42.2991 ( 28.73%)
Best99%Mean mmap 57.2121 ( 0.00%) 41.8207 ( 26.90%)
Best95%Mean mmap 55.9113 ( 0.00%) 39.9620 ( 28.53%)
Best90%Mean mmap 55.6199 ( 0.00%) 39.3124 ( 29.32%)
Best50%Mean mmap 53.2183 ( 0.00%) 33.1307 ( 37.75%)
Best10%Mean mmap 45.9842 ( 0.00%) 20.4040 ( 55.63%)
Best5%Mean mmap 43.2256 ( 0.00%) 17.9654 ( 58.44%)
Best1%Mean mmap 32.9388 ( 0.00%) 16.6875 ( 49.34%)
This shows a number of improvements with the worst-case outlier greatly
improved.
Some of the vmstats are interesting
4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4
mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8
Swap Ins 163 502
Swap Outs 0 0
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 618719206 1381662383
Normal allocs 891235743 564138421
Movable allocs 0 0
Allocation stalls 2603 1
Direct pages scanned 216787 2
Kswapd pages scanned 50719775 41778378
Kswapd pages reclaimed 41541765 41777639
Direct pages reclaimed 209159 0
Kswapd efficiency 81% 99%
Kswapd velocity 16859.554 14329.059
Direct efficiency 96% 0%
Direct velocity 72.061 0.001
Percentage direct scans 0% 0%
Page writes by reclaim 6215049 0
Page writes file 6215049 0
Page writes anon 0 0
Page reclaim immediate 70673 90
Sector Reads 81940800 81680456
Sector Writes 100158984 98816036
Page rescued immediate 0 0
Slabs scanned 1366954 22683
While this is not guaranteed in all cases, this particular test showed
a large reduction in direct reclaim activity. It's also worth noting
that no page writes were issued from reclaim context.
This series is not without its hazards. There are at least three areas
that I'm concerned with even though I could not reproduce any problems in
that area.
1. Reclaim/compaction is going to be affected because the amount of reclaim is
no longer targetted at a specific zone. Compaction works on a per-zone basis
so there is no guarantee that reclaiming a few THP's worth page pages will
have a positive impact on compaction success rates.
2. The Slab/LRU reclaim ratio is affected because the frequency the shrinkers
are called is now different. This may or may not be a problem but if it
is, it'll be because shrinkers are not called enough and some balancing
is required.
3. The anon/file reclaim ratio may be affected. Pages about to be dirtied are
distributed between zones and the fair zone allocation policy used to do
something very similar for anon. The distribution is now different but not
necessarily in any way that matters but it's still worth bearing in mind.
VM statistic counters for reclaim decisions are zone-based. If the kernel
is to reclaim on a per-node basis then we need to track per-node
statistics but there is no infrastructure for that. The most notable
change is that the old node_page_state is renamed to
sum_zone_node_page_state. The new node_page_state takes a pglist_data and
uses per-node stats but none exist yet. There is some renaming such as
vm_stat to vm_zone_stat and the addition of vm_node_stat and the renaming
of mod_state to mod_zone_state. Otherwise, this is mostly a mechanical
patch with no functional change. There is a lot of similarity between the
node and zone helpers which is unfortunate but there was no obvious way of
reusing the code and maintaining type safety.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The helper early_page_nid_uninitialised() has been dead since commit
974a786e63 ("mm, page_alloc: remove MIGRATE_RESERVE") so remove the
dead code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468008031-3848-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to assure the comment is consistent with the code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466171914-21027-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Let's add ShmemHugePages and ShmemPmdMapped fields into meminfo and
smaps. It indicates how many times we allocate and map shmem THP.
NR_ANON_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES is renamed to NR_ANON_THPS.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-27-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As with anon THP, we only mlock file huge pages if we can prove that the
page is not mapped with PTE. This way we can avoid mlock leak into
non-mlocked vma on split.
We rely on PageDoubleMap() under lock_page() to check if the the page
may be PTE mapped. PG_double_map is set by page_add_file_rmap() when
the page mapped with PTEs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-21-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, to charge a non-slab allocation to kmemcg one has to use
alloc_kmem_pages helper with __GFP_ACCOUNT flag. A page allocated with
this helper should finally be freed using free_kmem_pages, otherwise it
won't be uncharged.
This API suits its current users fine, but it turns out to be impossible
to use along with page reference counting, i.e. when an allocation is
supposed to be freed with put_page, as it is the case with pipe or unix
socket buffers.
To overcome this limitation, this patch moves charging/uncharging to
generic page allocator paths, i.e. to __alloc_pages_nodemask and
free_pages_prepare, and zaps alloc/free_kmem_pages helpers. This way,
one can use any of the available page allocation functions to get the
allocated page charged to kmemcg - it's enough to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT,
just like in case of kmalloc and friends. A charged page will be
automatically uncharged on free.
To make it possible, we need to mark pages charged to kmemcg somehow.
To avoid introducing a new page flag, we make use of page->_mapcount for
marking such pages. Since pages charged to kmemcg are not supposed to
be mapped to userspace, it should work just fine. There are other
(ab)users of page->_mapcount - buddy and balloon pages - but we don't
conflict with them.
In case kmemcg is compiled out or not used at runtime, this patch
introduces no overhead to generic page allocator paths. If kmemcg is
used, it will be plus one gfp flags check on alloc and plus one
page->_mapcount check on free, which shouldn't hurt performance, because
the data accessed are hot.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a9736d856f895bcb465d9f257b54efe32eda6f99.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Handle memcg_kmem_enabled check out to the caller. This reduces the
number of function definitions making the code easier to follow. At
the same time it doesn't result in code bloat, because all of these
functions are used only in one or two places.
- Move __GFP_ACCOUNT check to the caller as well so that one wouldn't
have to dive deep into memcg implementation to see which allocations
are charged and which are not.
- Refresh comments.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52882a28b542c1979fd9a033b4dc8637fc347399.1464079537.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is motivated from Hugh and Vlastimil's concern [1].
There are two ways to get freepage from the allocator. One is using
normal memory allocation API and the other is __isolate_free_page()
which is internally used for compaction and pageblock isolation. Later
usage is rather tricky since it doesn't do whole post allocation
processing done by normal API.
One problematic thing I already know is that poisoned page would not be
checked if it is allocated by __isolate_free_page(). Perhaps, there
would be more.
We could add more debug logic for allocated page in the future and this
separation would cause more problem. I'd like to fix this situation at
this time. Solution is simple. This patch commonize some logic for
newly allocated page and uses it on all sites. This will solve the
problem.
[1] http://marc.info/?i=alpine.LSU.2.11.1604270029350.7066%40eggly.anvils%3E
[iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: mm-page_alloc-introduce-post-allocation-processing-on-page-allocator-v3]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466150259-27727-9-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
split_page() calls set_page_owner() to set up page_owner to each pages.
But, it has a drawback that head page and the others have different
stacktrace because callsite of set_page_owner() is slightly differnt.
To avoid this problem, this patch copies head page's page_owner to the
others. It needs to introduce new function, split_page_owner() but it
also remove the other function, get_page_owner_gfp() so looks good to
do.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's not necessary to initialized page_owner with holding the zone lock.
It would cause more contention on the zone lock although it's not a big
problem since it is just debug feature. But, it is better than before
so do it. This is also preparation step to use stackdepot in page owner
feature. Stackdepot allocates new pages when there is no reserved space
and holding the zone lock in this case will cause deadlock.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We don't need to split freepages with holding the zone lock. It will
cause more contention on zone lock so not desirable.
[rientjes@google.com: if __isolate_free_page() fails, avoid adding to freelist so we don't call map_pages() with it]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1606211447001.43430@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough
to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS,
android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we
have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation.
For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. enhance
compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page, reserved memory,
vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of non-movable pages in system,
their solutions are void in the long run.
So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages with
movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related to
migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags.
If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three
functions which are function pointers of struct
address_space_operations.
1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode);
What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true*
if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the
page as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the
page for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should
return *false*.
Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver
shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields.
2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode);
After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page. The
function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page
and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should
indicate to the VM the oldpage is no longer movable via
__ClearPageMovable() under page_lock if you migrated the oldpage
successfully and returns 0. If driver cannot migrate the page at the
moment, driver can return -EAGAIN. On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page
migration in a short time because VM interprets -EAGAIN as "temporal
migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN, VM will give
up the page migration without retrying in this time.
Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions.
3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *);
If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page
to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed
page. In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the
own data structure.
4. non-lru movable page flags
There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page.
* PG_movable
Driver should use the below function to make page movable under
page_lock.
void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family
functions which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is
not a real flag of struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's
lower bits to represent it.
#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2
page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE;
so driver shouldn't access page->mapping directly. Instead, driver
should use page_mapping which mask off the low two bits of page->mapping
so it can get right struct address_space.
For testing of non-lru movable page, VM supports __PageMovable function.
However, it doesn't guarantee to identify non-lru movable page because
page->mapping field is unified with other variables in struct page. As
well, if driver releases the page after isolation by VM, page->mapping
doesn't have stable value although it has PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE (Look at
__ClearPageMovable). But __PageMovable is cheap to catch whether page
is LRU or non-lru movable once the page has been isolated. Because LRU
pages never can have PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE in page->mapping. It is also
good for just peeking to test non-lru movable pages before more
expensive checking with lock_page in pfn scanning to select victim.
For guaranteeing non-lru movable page, VM provides PageMovable function.
Unlike __PageMovable, PageMovable functions validates page->mapping and
mapping->a_ops->isolate_page under lock_page. The lock_page prevents
sudden destroying of page->mapping.
Driver using __SetPageMovable should clear the flag via
__ClearMovablePage under page_lock before the releasing the page.
* PG_isolated
To prevent concurrent isolation among several CPUs, VM marks isolated
page as PG_isolated under lock_page. So if a CPU encounters PG_isolated
non-lru movable page, it can skip it. Driver doesn't need to manipulate
the flag because VM will set/clear it automatically. Keep in mind that
if driver sees PG_isolated page, it means the page have been isolated by
VM so it shouldn't touch page.lru field. PG_isolated is alias with
PG_reclaim flag so driver shouldn't use the flag for own purpose.
[opensource.ganesh@gmail.com: mm/compaction: remove local variable is_lru]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160618014841.GA7422@leo-test
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464736881-24886-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: John Einar Reitan <john.reitan@foss.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's a part of oom context just like allocation order and nodemask, so
let's move it to oom_control instead of passing it in the argument list.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a71226c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As a part of memory initialisation the architecture passes an array to
free_area_init_nodes() which specifies the max PFN of each memory zone.
This array is not necessarily monotonic (due to unused zones) so this
array is parsed to build monotonic lists of the min and max PFN for each
zone. ZONE_MOVABLE is special cased here as its limits are managed by
the mm subsystem rather than the architecture. Unfortunately, this
special casing is broken when ZONE_MOVABLE is the not the last zone in
the zone list. The core of the issue is:
if (i == ZONE_MOVABLE)
continue;
arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[i] =
arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[i-1];
As ZONE_MOVABLE is skipped the lowest_possible_pfn of the next zone will
be set to zero. This patch fixes this bug by adding explicitly tracking
where the next zone should start rather than relying on the contents
arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[].
Thie is low priority. To get bitten by this you need to enable a zone
that appears after ZONE_MOVABLE in the zone_type enum. As far as I can
tell this means running a kernel with ZONE_DEVICE or ZONE_CMA enabled,
so I can't see this affecting too many people.
I only noticed this because I've been fiddling with ZONE_DEVICE on
powerpc and 4.6 broke my test kernel. This bug, in conjunction with the
changes in Taku Izumi's kernelcore=mirror patch (d91749c1dd) and
powerpc being the odd architecture which initialises max_zone_pfn[] to
~0ul instead of 0 caused all of system memory to be placed into
ZONE_DEVICE at boot, followed a panic since device memory cannot be used
for kernel allocations. I've already submitted a patch to fix the
powerpc specific bits, but I figured this should be fixed too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462435033-15601-1-git-send-email-oohall@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
early_page_uninitialised looks up an arbitrary PFN. While a machine
without node 0 will boot with "mm, page_alloc: Always return a valid
node from early_pfn_to_nid", it works because it assumes that nodes are
always in PFN order. This is not guaranteed so this patch adds
robustness by always checking if the node being checked is online.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468008031-3848-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
early_pfn_to_nid can return node 0 if a PFN is invalid on machines that
has no node 0. A machine with only node 1 was observed to crash with
the following message:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a3c8
PGD 0
Modules linked in:
Hardware name: Supermicro H8DSP-8/H8DSP-8, BIOS 080011 06/30/2006
task: ffffffff81c0d500 ti: ffffffff81c00000 task.ti: ffffffff81c00000
RIP: reserve_bootmem_region+0x6a/0xef
CR2: 000000000002a3c8 CR3: 0000000001c06000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
Call Trace:
free_all_bootmem+0x4b/0x12a
mem_init+0x70/0xa3
start_kernel+0x25b/0x49b
The problem is that early_page_uninitialised uses the early_pfn_to_nid
helper which returns node 0 for invalid PFNs. No caller of
early_pfn_to_nid cares except early_page_uninitialised. This patch has
early_pfn_to_nid always return a valid node.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468008031-3848-3-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The optimistic fast path may use cpuset_current_mems_allowed instead of
of a NULL nodemask supplied by the caller for cpuset allocations. The
preferred zone is calculated on this basis for statistic purposes and as
a starting point in the zonelist iterator.
However, if the context can ignore memory policies due to being atomic
or being able to ignore watermarks then the starting point in the
zonelist iterator is no longer correct. This patch resets the zonelist
iterator in the allocator slowpath if the context can ignore memory
policies. This will alter the zone used for statistics but only after
it is known that it makes sense for that context. Resetting it before
entering the slowpath would potentially allow an ALLOC_CPUSET allocation
to be accounted for against the wrong zone. Note that while nodemask is
not explicitly set to the original nodemask, it would only have been
overwritten if cpuset_enabled() and it was reset before the slowpath was
entered.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160602103936.GU2527@techsingularity.net
Fixes: c33d6c06f6 ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Geert Uytterhoeven reported the following problem that bisected to
commit c33d6c06f6 ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone
in a zonelist twice") on m68k/ARAnyM
BUG: scheduling while atomic: cron/668/0x10c9a0c0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 668 Comm: cron Not tainted 4.6.0-atari-05133-gc33d6c06f60f710f #364
Call Trace: [<0003d7d0>] __schedule_bug+0x40/0x54
__schedule+0x312/0x388
__schedule+0x0/0x388
prepare_to_wait+0x0/0x52
schedule+0x64/0x82
schedule_timeout+0xda/0x104
set_next_entity+0x18/0x40
pick_next_task_fair+0x78/0xda
io_schedule_timeout+0x36/0x4a
bit_wait_io+0x0/0x40
bit_wait_io+0x12/0x40
__wait_on_bit+0x46/0x76
wait_on_page_bit_killable+0x64/0x6c
bit_wait_io+0x0/0x40
wake_bit_function+0x0/0x4e
__lock_page_or_retry+0xde/0x124
do_scan_async+0x114/0x17c
lookup_swap_cache+0x24/0x4e
handle_mm_fault+0x626/0x7de
find_vma+0x0/0x66
down_read+0x0/0xe
wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout+0x77/0x7c
find_vma+0x16/0x66
do_page_fault+0xe6/0x23a
res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
buserr_c+0x190/0x6d4
res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
buserr+0x20/0x28
res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
buserr+0x20/0x28
The relationship is not obvious but it's due to a failure to rescan the
full zonelist after the fair zone allocation policy exhausts the batch
count. While this is a functional problem, it's also a performance
issue. A page allocator microbenchmark showed the following
4.7.0-rc1 4.7.0-rc1
vanilla reset-v1r2
Min alloc-odr0-1 327.00 ( 0.00%) 326.00 ( 0.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 235.00 ( 0.00%) 235.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 198.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 170.00 ( 0.00%) 170.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 156.00 ( 0.00%) 156.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 150.00 ( 0.00%) 150.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 146.00 ( 0.00%) 146.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 145.00 ( 0.00%) 145.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 155.00 ( 0.00%) 155.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 168.00 ( 0.00%) 165.00 ( 1.79%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 175.00 ( 0.00%) 174.00 ( 0.57%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 180.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 187.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 0.53%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 190.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 191.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr1-1 736.00 ( 0.00%) 445.00 ( 39.54%)
Min alloc-odr1-2 343.00 ( 0.00%) 335.00 ( 2.33%)
Min alloc-odr1-4 277.00 ( 0.00%) 270.00 ( 2.53%)
Min alloc-odr1-8 238.00 ( 0.00%) 233.00 ( 2.10%)
Min alloc-odr1-16 224.00 ( 0.00%) 218.00 ( 2.68%)
Min alloc-odr1-32 210.00 ( 0.00%) 208.00 ( 0.95%)
Min alloc-odr1-64 207.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 1.93%)
Min alloc-odr1-128 276.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 26.81%)
Min alloc-odr1-256 206.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 1.94%)
Min alloc-odr1-512 207.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 2.42%)
Min alloc-odr1-1024 208.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 1.44%)
Min alloc-odr1-2048 213.00 ( 0.00%) 212.00 ( 0.47%)
Min alloc-odr1-4096 218.00 ( 0.00%) 216.00 ( 0.92%)
Min alloc-odr1-8192 341.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 35.78%)
Note that order-0 allocations are unaffected but higher orders get a
small boost from this patch and a large reduction in system CPU usage
overall as can be seen here:
4.7.0-rc1 4.7.0-rc1
vanilla reset-v1r2
User 85.32 86.31
System 2221.39 2053.36
Elapsed 2368.89 2202.47
Fixes: c33d6c06f6 ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531100848.GR2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In DEBUG_VM kernel, we can hit infinite loop for order == 0 in
buffered_rmqueue() when check_new_pcp() returns 1, because the bad page
is never removed from the pcp list. Fix this by removing the page
before retrying. Also we don't need to check if page is non-NULL,
because we simply grab it from the list which was just tested for being
non-empty.
Fixes: 479f854a20 ("mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160530090154.GM2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per the discussion with Joonsoo Kim [1], we need check the return value
of lookup_page_ext() for all call sites since it might return NULL in
some cases, although it is unlikely, i.e. memory hotplug.
Tested with ltp with "page_owner=0".
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160519002809.GA10245@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build-breaking typos]
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build problems from lookup_page_ext]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6285269.2CksypHdYp@wuerfel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464023768-31025-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we check page->flags twice for "HWPoisoned" case of
check_new_page_bad(), which can cause a race with unpoisoning.
This race unnecessarily taints kernel with "BUG: Bad page state".
check_new_page_bad() is the only caller of bad_page() which is
interested in __PG_HWPOISON, so let's move the hwpoison related code in
bad_page() to it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518100949.GA17299@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and CONFIG_KASAN is enabled,
free_pages_prepare()'s codeflow is below.
1)kmemcheck_free_shadow()
2)kasan_free_pages()
- set shadow byte of page is freed
3)kernel_poison_pages()
3.1) check access to page is valid or not using kasan
---> error occur, kasan think it is invalid access
3.2) poison page
4)kernel_map_pages()
So kasan_free_pages() should be called after poisoning the page.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463220405-7455-1-git-send-email-iamyooon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 92923ca3aa ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the
memblock region") the reserved bit is set on reserved memblock regions.
However start and end address are passed as unsigned long. This is only
32bit on i386, so it can end up marking the wrong pages reserved for
ranges at 4GB and above.
This was observed on a 32bit Xen dom0 which was booted with initial
memory set to a value below 4G but allowing to balloon in memory
(dom0_mem=1024M for example). This would define a reserved bootmem
region for the additional memory (for example on a 8GB system there was
a reverved region covering the 4GB-8GB range). But since the addresses
were passed on as unsigned long, this was actually marking all pages
from 0 to 4GB as reserved.
Fixes: 92923ca3aa ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463491221-10573-1-git-send-email-stefan.bader@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's more convenient to use existing function helper to convert string
"on/off" to boolean.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461908824-16129-1-git-send-email-mnghuan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joonsoo has reported that he is able to trigger OOM for !costly high
order requests (heavy fork() workload close the OOM) with the new oom
detection rework. This is because we rely only on should_reclaim_retry
when the compaction is disabled and it only checks watermarks for the
requested order and so we might trigger OOM when there is a lot of free
memory.
It is not very clear what are the usual workloads when the compaction is
disabled. Relying on high order allocations heavily without any
mechanism to create those orders except for unbound amount of reclaim is
certainly not a good idea.
To prevent from potential regressions let's help this configuration
some. We have to sacrifice the determinsm though because there simply
is none here possible. should_compact_retry implementation for
!CONFIG_COMPACTION, which was empty so far, will do watermark check for
order-0 on all eligible zones. This will cause retrying until either
the reclaim cannot make any further progress or all the zones are
depleted even for order-0 pages. This means that the number of retries
is basically unbounded for !costly orders but that was the case before
the rework as well so this shouldn't regress.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"mm: consider compaction feedback also for costly allocation" has
removed the upper bound for the reclaim/compaction retries based on the
number of reclaimed pages for costly orders. While this is desirable
the patch did miss a mis interaction between reclaim, compaction and the
retry logic. The direct reclaim tries to get zones over min watermark
while compaction backs off and returns COMPACT_SKIPPED when all zones
are below low watermark + 1<<order gap. If we are getting really close
to OOM then __compaction_suitable can keep returning COMPACT_SKIPPED a
high order request (e.g. hugetlb order-9) while the reclaim is not able
to release enough pages to get us over low watermark. The reclaim is
still able to make some progress (usually trashing over few remaining
pages) so we are not able to break out from the loop.
I have seen this happening with the same test described in "mm: consider
compaction feedback also for costly allocation" on a swapless system.
The original problem got resolved by "vmscan: consider classzone_idx in
compaction_ready" but it shows how things might go wrong when we
approach the oom event horizont.
The reason why compaction requires being over low rather than min
watermark is not clear to me. This check was there essentially since
56de7263fc ("mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order
allocation fails"). It is clearly an implementation detail though and
we shouldn't pull it into the generic retry logic while we should be
able to cope with such eventuality. The only place in
should_compact_retry where we retry without any upper bound is for
compaction_withdrawn() case.
Introduce compaction_zonelist_suitable function which checks the given
zonelist and returns true only if there is at least one zone which would
would unblock __compaction_suitable if more memory got reclaimed. In
this implementation it checks __compaction_suitable with NR_FREE_PAGES
plus part of the reclaimable memory as the target for the watermark
check. The reclaimable memory is reduced linearly by the allocation
order. The idea is that we do not want to reclaim all the remaining
memory for a single allocation request just unblock
__compaction_suitable which doesn't guarantee we will make a further
progress.
The new helper is then used if compaction_withdrawn() feedback was
provided so we do not retry if there is no outlook for a further
progress. !costly requests shouldn't be affected much - e.g. order-2
pages would require to have at least 64kB on the reclaimable LRUs while
order-9 would need at least 32M which should be enough to not lock up.
[vbabka@suse.cz: fix classzone_idx vs. high_zoneidx usage in compaction_zonelist_suitable]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for Mel's mm-page_alloc-remove-field-from-alloc_context.patch]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER retry logic is mostly handled inside
should_reclaim_retry currently where we decide to not retry after at
least order worth of pages were reclaimed or the watermark check for at
least one zone would succeed after reclaiming all pages if the reclaim
hasn't made any progress. Compaction feedback is mostly ignored and we
just try to make sure that the compaction did at least something before
giving up.
The first condition was added by a41f24ea9f ("page allocator: smarter
retry of costly-order allocations) and it assumed that lumpy reclaim
could have created a page of the sufficient order. Lumpy reclaim, has
been removed quite some time ago so the assumption doesn't hold anymore.
Remove the check for the number of reclaimed pages and rely on the
compaction feedback solely. should_reclaim_retry now only makes sure
that we keep retrying reclaim for high order pages only if they are
hidden by watermaks so order-0 reclaim makes really sense.
should_compact_retry now keeps retrying even for the costly allocations.
The number of retries is reduced wrt. !costly requests because they are
less important and harder to grant and so their pressure shouldn't cause
contention for other requests or cause an over reclaim. We also do not
reset no_progress_loops for costly request to make sure we do not keep
reclaiming too agressively.
This has been tested by running a process which fragments memory:
- compact memory
- mmap large portion of the memory (1920M on 2GRAM machine with 2G
of swapspace)
- MADV_DONTNEED single page in PAGE_SIZE*((1UL<<MAX_ORDER)-1)
steps until certain amount of memory is freed (250M in my test)
and reduce the step to (step / 2) + 1 after reaching the end of
the mapping
- then run a script which populates the page cache 2G (MemTotal)
from /dev/zero to a new file
And then tries to allocate
nr_hugepages=$(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2/(2*1024)}' /proc/meminfo)
huge pages.
root@test1:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory;echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory; ./fragment-mem-and-run /root/alloc_hugepages.sh 1920M 250M
Node 0, zone DMA 31 28 31 10 2 0 2 1 2 3 1
Node 0, zone DMA32 437 319 171 50 28 25 20 16 16 14 437
* This is the /proc/buddyinfo after the compaction
Done fragmenting. size=2013265920 freed=262144000
Node 0, zone DMA 165 48 3 1 2 0 2 2 2 2 0
Node 0, zone DMA32 35109 14575 185 51 41 12 6 0 0 0 0
* /proc/buddyinfo after memory got fragmented
Executing "/root/alloc_hugepages.sh"
Eating some pagecache
508623+0 records in
508623+0 records out
2083319808 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 11.7292 s, 178 MB/s
Node 0, zone DMA 3 5 3 1 2 0 2 2 2 2 0
Node 0, zone DMA32 111 344 153 20 24 10 3 0 0 0 0
* /proc/buddyinfo after page cache got eaten
Trying to allocate 129
129
* 129 hugepages requested and all of them granted.
Node 0, zone DMA 3 5 3 1 2 0 2 2 2 2 0
Node 0, zone DMA32 127 97 30 99 11 6 2 1 4 0 0
* /proc/buddyinfo after hugetlb allocation.
10 runs will behave as follows:
Trying to allocate 130
130
--
Trying to allocate 129
129
--
Trying to allocate 128
128
--
Trying to allocate 129
129
--
Trying to allocate 128
128
--
Trying to allocate 129
129
--
Trying to allocate 132
132
--
Trying to allocate 129
129
--
Trying to allocate 128
128
--
Trying to allocate 129
129
So basically 100% success for all 10 attempts.
Without the patch numbers looked much worse:
Trying to allocate 128
12
--
Trying to allocate 129
14
--
Trying to allocate 129
7
--
Trying to allocate 129
16
--
Trying to allocate 129
30
--
Trying to allocate 129
38
--
Trying to allocate 129
19
--
Trying to allocate 129
37
--
Trying to allocate 129
28
--
Trying to allocate 129
37
Just for completness the base kernel without oom detection rework looks
as follows:
Trying to allocate 127
30
--
Trying to allocate 129
12
--
Trying to allocate 129
52
--
Trying to allocate 128
32
--
Trying to allocate 129
12
--
Trying to allocate 129
10
--
Trying to allocate 129
32
--
Trying to allocate 128
14
--
Trying to allocate 128
16
--
Trying to allocate 129
8
As we can see the success rate is much more volatile and smaller without
this patch. So the patch not only makes the retry logic for costly
requests more sensible the success rate is even higher.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
should_reclaim_retry will give up retries for higher order allocations
if none of the eligible zones has any requested or higher order pages
available even if we pass the watermak check for order-0. This is done
because there is no guarantee that the reclaimable and currently free
pages will form the required order.
This can, however, lead to situations where the high-order request (e.g.
order-2 required for the stack allocation during fork) will trigger OOM
too early - e.g. after the first reclaim/compaction round. Such a
system would have to be highly fragmented and there is no guarantee
further reclaim/compaction attempts would help but at least make sure
that the compaction was active before we go OOM and keep retrying even
if should_reclaim_retry tells us to oom if
- the last compaction round backed off or
- we haven't completed at least MAX_COMPACT_RETRIES active
compaction rounds.
The first rule ensures that the very last attempt for compaction was not
ignored while the second guarantees that the compaction has done some
work. Multiple retries might be needed to prevent occasional pigggy
backing of other contexts to steal the compacted pages before the
current context manages to retry to allocate them.
compaction_failed() is taken as a final word from the compaction that
the retry doesn't make much sense. We have to be careful though because
the first compaction round is MIGRATE_ASYNC which is rather weak as it
ignores pages under writeback and gives up too easily in other
situations. We therefore have to make sure that MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode
has been used before we give up. With this logic in place we do not
have to increase the migration mode unconditionally and rather do it
only if the compaction failed for the weaker mode. A nice side effect
is that the stronger migration mode is used only when really needed so
this has a potential of smaller latencies in some cases.
Please note that the compaction doesn't tell us much about how
successful it was when returning compaction_made_progress so we just
have to blindly trust that another retry is worthwhile and cap the
number to something reasonable to guarantee a convergence.
If the given number of successful retries is not sufficient for a
reasonable workloads we should focus on the collected compaction
tracepoints data and try to address the issue in the compaction code.
If this is not feasible we can increase the retries limit.
[mhocko@suse.com: fix warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160512061636.GA4200@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
wait_iff_congested has been used to throttle allocator before it retried
another round of direct reclaim to allow the writeback to make some
progress and prevent reclaim from looping over dirty/writeback pages
without making any progress.
We used to do congestion_wait before commit 0e093d9976 ("writeback: do
not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if
significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone")
but that led to undesirable stalls and sleeping for the full timeout
even when the BDI wasn't congested. Hence wait_iff_congested was used
instead.
But it seems that even wait_iff_congested doesn't work as expected. We
might have a small file LRU list with all pages dirty/writeback and yet
the bdi is not congested so this is just a cond_resched in the end and
can end up triggering pre mature OOM.
This patch replaces the unconditional wait_iff_congested by
congestion_wait which is executed only if we _know_ that the last round
of direct reclaim didn't make any progress and dirty+writeback pages are
more than a half of the reclaimable pages on the zone which might be
usable for our target allocation. This shouldn't reintroduce stalls
fixed by 0e093d9976 because congestion_wait is called only when we are
getting hopeless when sleeping is a better choice than OOM with many
pages under IO.
We have to preserve logic introduced by commit 373ccbe592 ("mm,
vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any
progress") into the __alloc_pages_slowpath now that wait_iff_congested
is not used anymore. As the only remaining user of wait_iff_congested
is shrink_inactive_list we can remove the WQ specific short sleep from
wait_iff_congested because the sleep is needed to be done only once in
the allocation retry cycle.
[mhocko@suse.com: high_zoneidx->ac_classzone_idx to evaluate memory reserves properly]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_slowpath has traditionally relied on the direct reclaim
and did_some_progress as an indicator that it makes sense to retry
allocation rather than declaring OOM. shrink_zones had to rely on
zone_reclaimable if shrink_zone didn't make any progress to prevent from
a premature OOM killer invocation - the LRU might be full of dirty or
writeback pages and direct reclaim cannot clean those up.
zone_reclaimable allows to rescan the reclaimable lists several times
and restart if a page is freed. This is really subtle behavior and it
might lead to a livelock when a single freed page keeps allocator
looping but the current task will not be able to allocate that single
page. OOM killer would be more appropriate than looping without any
progress for unbounded amount of time.
This patch changes OOM detection logic and pulls it out from shrink_zone
which is too low to be appropriate for any high level decisions such as
OOM which is per zonelist property. It is __alloc_pages_slowpath which
knows how many attempts have been done and what was the progress so far
therefore it is more appropriate to implement this logic.
The new heuristic is implemented in should_reclaim_retry helper called
from __alloc_pages_slowpath. It tries to be more deterministic and
easier to follow. It builds on an assumption that retrying makes sense
only if the currently reclaimable memory + free pages would allow the
current allocation request to succeed (as per __zone_watermark_ok) at
least for one zone in the usable zonelist.
This alone wouldn't be sufficient, though, because the writeback might
get stuck and reclaimable pages might be pinned for a really long time
or even depend on the current allocation context. Therefore there is a
backoff mechanism implemented which reduces the reclaim target after
each reclaim round without any progress. This means that we should
eventually converge to only NR_FREE_PAGES as the target and fail on the
wmark check and proceed to OOM. The backoff is simple and linear with
1/16 of the reclaimable pages for each round without any progress. We
are optimistic and reset counter for successful reclaim rounds.
Costly high order pages mostly preserve their semantic and those without
__GFP_REPEAT fail right away while those which have the flag set will
back off after the amount of reclaimable pages reaches equivalent of the
requested order. The only difference is that if there was no progress
during the reclaim we rely on zone watermark check. This is more
logical thing to do than previous 1<<order attempts which were a result
of zone_reclaimable faking the progress.
[vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: check classzone_idx for shrink_zone]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: separate the heuristic into should_reclaim_retry]
[rientjes@google.com: use zone_page_state_snapshot for NR_FREE_PAGES]
[rientjes@google.com: shrink_zones doesn't need to return anything]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_direct_compact communicates potential back off by two
variables:
- deferred_compaction tells that the compaction returned
COMPACT_DEFERRED
- contended_compaction is set when there is a contention on
zone->lock resp. zone->lru_lock locks
__alloc_pages_slowpath then backs of for THP allocation requests to
prevent from long stalls. This is rather messy and it would be much
cleaner to return a single compact result value and hide all the nasty
details into __alloc_pages_direct_compact.
This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Compaction code is doing weird dances between COMPACT_FOO -> int ->
unsigned long
But there doesn't seem to be any reason for that. All functions which
return/use one of those constants are not expecting any other value so it
really makes sense to define an enum for them and make it clear that no
other values are expected.
This is a pure cleanup and shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The inactive file list should still be large enough to contain readahead
windows and freshly written file data, but it no longer is the only
source for detecting multiple accesses to file pages. The workingset
refault measurement code causes recently evicted file pages that get
accessed again after a shorter interval to be promoted directly to the
active list.
With that mechanism in place, we can afford to (on a larger system)
dedicate more memory to the active file list, so we can actually cache
more of the frequently used file pages in memory, and not have them
pushed out by streaming writes, once-used streaming file reads, etc.
This can help things like database workloads, where only half the page
cache can currently be used to cache the database working set. This
patch automatically increases that fraction on larger systems, using the
same ratio that has already been used for anonymous memory.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: cgroup-awareness]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The page allocator fast path uses either the requested nodemask or
cpuset_current_mems_allowed if cpusets are enabled. If the allocation
context allows watermarks to be ignored then it can also ignore memory
policies. However, on entering the allocator slowpath the nodemask may
still be cpuset_current_mems_allowed and the policies are enforced.
This patch resets the nodemask appropriately before entering the
slowpath.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160504143628.GU2858@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bad pages should be rare so the code handling them doesn't need to be
inline for performance reasons. Put it to separate function which
returns void. This also assumes that the initial page_expected_state()
result will match the result of the thorough check, i.e. the page
doesn't become "good" in the meanwhile. This matches the same
expectations already in place in free_pages_check().
!DEBUG_VM bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 134/-274 (-140)
function old new delta
check_new_page_bad - 134 +134
get_page_from_freelist 3468 3194 -274
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The new free_pcp_prepare() function shares a lot of code with
free_pages_prepare(), which makes this a maintenance risk when some
future patch modifies only one of them. We should be able to achieve
the same effect (skipping free_pages_check() from !DEBUG_VM configs) by
adding a parameter to free_pages_prepare() and making it inline, so the
checks (and the order != 0 parts) are eliminated from the call from
free_pcp_prepare().
!DEBUG_VM: bloat-o-meter reports no difference, as my gcc was already
inlining free_pages_prepare() and the elimination seems to work as
expected
DEBUG_VM bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 1035/-778 (257)
function old new delta
__free_pages_ok 297 1060 +763
free_hot_cold_page 480 752 +272
free_pages_prepare 778 - -778
Here inlining didn't occur before, and added some code, but it's ok for
a debug option.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Every page allocated checks a number of page fields for validity. This
catches corruption bugs of pages that are already freed but it is
expensive. This patch weakens the debugging check by checking PCP pages
only when the PCP lists are being refilled. All compound pages are
checked. This potentially avoids debugging checks entirely if the PCP
lists are never emptied and refilled so some corruption issues may be
missed. Full checking requires DEBUG_VM.
With the two deferred debugging patches applied, the impact to a page
allocator microbenchmark is
4.6.0-rc3 4.6.0-rc3
inline-v3r6 deferalloc-v3r7
Min alloc-odr0-1 344.00 ( 0.00%) 317.00 ( 7.85%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 248.00 ( 0.00%) 231.00 ( 6.85%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 209.00 ( 0.00%) 192.00 ( 8.13%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 181.00 ( 0.00%) 166.00 ( 8.29%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 168.00 ( 0.00%) 154.00 ( 8.33%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 161.00 ( 0.00%) 148.00 ( 8.07%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 158.00 ( 0.00%) 145.00 ( 8.23%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 156.00 ( 0.00%) 143.00 ( 8.33%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 168.00 ( 0.00%) 154.00 ( 8.33%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 178.00 ( 0.00%) 167.00 ( 6.18%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 186.00 ( 0.00%) 174.00 ( 6.45%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 192.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 6.25%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 198.00 ( 0.00%) 184.00 ( 7.07%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 200.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 6.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 201.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 6.47%)
Min free-odr0-1 189.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 4.76%)
Min free-odr0-2 132.00 ( 0.00%) 126.00 ( 4.55%)
Min free-odr0-4 104.00 ( 0.00%) 99.00 ( 4.81%)
Min free-odr0-8 90.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 ( 5.56%)
Min free-odr0-16 84.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 4.76%)
Min free-odr0-32 80.00 ( 0.00%) 76.00 ( 5.00%)
Min free-odr0-64 78.00 ( 0.00%) 74.00 ( 5.13%)
Min free-odr0-128 77.00 ( 0.00%) 73.00 ( 5.19%)
Min free-odr0-256 94.00 ( 0.00%) 91.00 ( 3.19%)
Min free-odr0-512 108.00 ( 0.00%) 112.00 ( -3.70%)
Min free-odr0-1024 115.00 ( 0.00%) 118.00 ( -2.61%)
Min free-odr0-2048 120.00 ( 0.00%) 125.00 ( -4.17%)
Min free-odr0-4096 123.00 ( 0.00%) 129.00 ( -4.88%)
Min free-odr0-8192 126.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( -3.17%)
Min free-odr0-16384 126.00 ( 0.00%) 131.00 ( -3.97%)
Note that the free paths for large numbers of pages is impacted as the
debugging cost gets shifted into that path when the page data is no
longer necessarily cache-hot.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Every page free checks a number of page fields for validity. This
catches premature frees and corruptions but it is also expensive. This
patch weakens the debugging check by checking PCP pages at the time they
are drained from the PCP list. This will trigger the bug but the site
that freed the corrupt page will be lost. To get the full context, a
kernel rebuild with DEBUG_VM is necessary.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An important function for cpusets is cpuset_node_allowed(), which
optimizes on the fact if there's a single root CPU set, it must be
trivially allowed. But the check "nr_cpusets() <= 1" doesn't use the
cpusets_enabled_key static key the right way where static keys eliminate
branching overhead with jump labels.
This patch converts it so that static key is used properly. It's also
switched to the new static key API and the checking functions are
converted to return bool instead of int. We also provide a new variant
__cpuset_zone_allowed() which expects that the static key check was
already done and they key was enabled. This is needed for
get_page_from_freelist() where we want to also avoid the relatively
slower check when ALLOC_CPUSET is not set in alloc_flags.
The impact on the page allocator microbenchmark is less than expected
but the cleanup in itself is worthwhile.
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
multcheck-v1r20 cpuset-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 348.00 ( 0.00%) 348.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 254.00 ( 0.00%) 254.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 213.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( 1.61%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 171.00 ( 1.16%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 166.00 ( 0.00%) 163.00 ( 1.81%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 162.00 ( 0.00%) 159.00 ( 1.85%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 160.00 ( 0.00%) 157.00 ( 1.88%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 169.00 ( 0.00%) 166.00 ( 1.78%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 180.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 188.00 ( 0.00%) 187.00 ( 0.53%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 194.00 ( 0.00%) 193.00 ( 0.52%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 199.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 0.50%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 202.00 ( 0.00%) 201.00 ( 0.50%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 203.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 0.49%)
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The function call overhead of get_pfnblock_flags_mask() is measurable in
the page free paths. This patch uses an inlined version that is faster.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The original count is never reused so it can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check without side-effects should be easier to maintain. It also
removes the duplicated cpupid and flags reset done in !DEBUG_VM variant
of both free_pcp_prepare() and then bulkfree_pcp_prepare(). Finally, it
enables the next patch.
It shouldn't result in new branches, thanks to inlining of the check.
!DEBUG_VM bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-27 (-27)
function old new delta
__free_pages_ok 748 739 -9
free_pcppages_bulk 1403 1385 -18
DEBUG_VM:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-28 (-28)
function old new delta
free_pages_prepare 806 778 -28
This is also slightly faster because cpupid information is not set on
tail pages so we can avoid resets there.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Every page allocated or freed is checked for sanity to avoid corruptions
that are difficult to detect later. A bad page could be due to a number
of fields. Instead of using multiple branches, this patch combines
multiple fields into a single branch. A detailed check is only
necessary if that check fails.
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
initonce-v1r20 multcheck-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 359.00 ( 0.00%) 348.00 ( 3.06%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 260.00 ( 0.00%) 254.00 ( 2.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 214.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.47%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 165.00 ( 0.00%) 166.00 ( -0.61%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 162.00 ( 0.00%) 162.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 161.00 ( 0.00%) 160.00 ( 0.62%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 170.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 0.59%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 181.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 0.55%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 190.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 1.05%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 196.00 ( 0.00%) 194.00 ( 1.02%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 202.00 ( 0.00%) 199.00 ( 1.49%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 205.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 1.46%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 205.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 0.98%)
Again, the benefit is marginal but avoiding excessive branches is
important. Ideally the paths would not have to check these conditions
at all but regrettably abandoning the tests would make use-after-free
bugs much harder to detect.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The classzone_idx can be inferred from preferred_zoneref so remove the
unnecessary field and save stack space.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The allocator fast path looks up the first usable zone in a zonelist and
then get_page_from_freelist does the same job in the zonelist iterator.
This patch preserves the necessary information.
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
fastmark-v1r20 initonce-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 364.00 ( 0.00%) 359.00 ( 1.37%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 262.00 ( 0.00%) 260.00 ( 0.76%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 214.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 165.00 ( 0.00%) 165.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 161.00 ( 0.00%) 162.00 ( -0.62%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 159.00 ( 0.00%) 161.00 ( -1.26%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 168.00 ( 0.00%) 170.00 ( -1.19%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 180.00 ( 0.00%) 181.00 ( -0.56%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 190.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 196.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 202.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 206.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 0.49%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 206.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 0.49%)
The benefit is negligible and the results are within the noise but each
cycle counts.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Watermarks have to be checked on every allocation including the number
of pages being allocated and whether reserves can be accessed. The
reserves only matter if memory is limited and the free_pages adjustment
only applies to high-order pages. This patch adds a shortcut for
order-0 pages that avoids numerous calculations if there is plenty of
free memory yielding the following performance difference in a page
allocator microbenchmark;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
optfair-v1r20 fastmark-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 380.00 ( 0.00%) 364.00 ( 4.21%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 273.00 ( 0.00%) 262.00 ( 4.03%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 227.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 5.73%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 196.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 5.10%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 183.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 5.46%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 173.00 ( 0.00%) 165.00 ( 4.62%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 169.00 ( 0.00%) 161.00 ( 4.73%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 169.00 ( 0.00%) 159.00 ( 5.92%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 180.00 ( 0.00%) 168.00 ( 6.67%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 190.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 5.26%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 198.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 4.04%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 204.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 3.92%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 209.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 3.35%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 213.00 ( 0.00%) 206.00 ( 3.29%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 214.00 ( 0.00%) 206.00 ( 3.74%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The fair zone allocation policy is not without cost but it can be
reduced slightly. This patch removes an unnecessary local variable,
checks the likely conditions of the fair zone policy first, uses a bool
instead of a flags check and falls through when a remote node is
encountered instead of doing a full restart. The benefit is marginal
but it's there
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
decstat-v1r20 optfair-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 377.00 ( 0.00%) 380.00 ( -0.80%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 273.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 226.00 ( 0.00%) 227.00 ( -0.44%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 196.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 183.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 175.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 1.14%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 172.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 1.74%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 170.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 0.59%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 183.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 1.64%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 191.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 0.52%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 199.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 0.50%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 204.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 210.00 ( 0.00%) 209.00 ( 0.48%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 213.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 214.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 0.00%)
The benefit is marginal at best but one of the most important benefits,
avoiding a second search when falling back to another node is not
triggered by this particular test so the benefit for some corner cases
is understated.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The page allocator fast path checks page multiple times unnecessarily.
This patch avoids all the slowpath checks if the first allocation
attempt succeeds.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When bulk freeing pages from the per-cpu lists the zone is checked for
isolated pageblocks on every release. This patch checks it once per
drain.
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix locking radce, per Vlastimil]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__GFP_HARDWALL only has meaning in the context of cpusets but the fast
path always applies the flag on the first attempt. Move the
manipulations into the cpuset paths where they will be masked by a
static branch in the common case.
With the other micro-optimisations in this series combined, the impact
on a page allocator microbenchmark is
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
decstat-v1r20 micro-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 381.00 ( 0.00%) 377.00 ( 1.05%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 275.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 0.73%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 229.00 ( 0.00%) 226.00 ( 1.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 199.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 1.51%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 186.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( 1.61%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 179.00 ( 0.00%) 175.00 ( 2.23%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 174.00 ( 0.00%) 172.00 ( 1.15%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 172.00 ( 0.00%) 170.00 ( 1.16%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 181.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( -1.10%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 193.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 1.04%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 201.00 ( 0.00%) 199.00 ( 1.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 206.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 0.97%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 212.00 ( 0.00%) 210.00 ( 0.94%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 215.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.93%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 216.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 0.93%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
page is guaranteed to be set before it is read with or without the
initialisation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zonelist here is a copy of a struct field that is used once. Ditch it.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The number of zones skipped to a zone expiring its fair zone allocation
quota is irrelevant. Convert to bool.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alloc_flags is a bitmask of flags but it is signed which does not
necessarily generate the best code depending on the compiler. Even
without an impact, it makes more sense that this be unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pageblocks have an associated bitmap to store migrate types and whether
the pageblock should be skipped during compaction. The bitmap may be
associated with a memory section or a zone but the zone is looked up
unconditionally. The compiler should optimise this away automatically
so this is a cosmetic patch only in many cases.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The page allocator iterates through a zonelist for zones that match the
addressing limitations and nodemask of the caller but many allocations
will not be restricted. Despite this, there is always functional call
overhead which builds up.
This patch inlines the optimistic basic case and only calls the iterator
function for the complex case. A hindrance was the fact that
cpuset_current_mems_allowed is used in the fastpath as the allowed
nodemask even though all nodes are allowed on most systems. The patch
handles this by only considering cpuset_current_mems_allowed if a cpuset
exists. As well as being faster in the fast-path, this removes some
junk in the slowpath.
The performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
statinline-v1r20 optiter-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 412.00 ( 0.00%) 382.00 ( 7.28%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 301.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 6.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 247.00 ( 0.00%) 233.00 ( 5.67%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 215.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 5.58%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 199.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 5.53%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 191.00 ( 0.00%) 182.00 ( 4.71%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 187.00 ( 0.00%) 177.00 ( 5.35%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 185.00 ( 0.00%) 175.00 ( 5.41%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 193.00 ( 0.00%) 184.00 ( 4.66%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 207.00 ( 0.00%) 197.00 ( 4.83%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 213.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 4.69%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 220.00 ( 0.00%) 209.00 ( 5.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 226.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 5.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 229.00 ( 0.00%) 218.00 ( 4.80%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 229.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 4.37%)
perf indicated that next_zones_zonelist disappeared in the profile and
__next_zones_zonelist did not appear. This is expected as the
micro-benchmark would hit the inlined fast-path every time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The PageAnon check always checks for compound_head but this is a
relatively expensive check if the caller already knows the page is a
head page. This patch creates a helper and uses it in the page free
path which only operates on head pages.
With this patch and "Only check PageCompound for high-order pages", the
performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
vanilla nocompound-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 425.00 ( 0.00%) 417.00 ( 1.88%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 313.00 ( 0.00%) 308.00 ( 1.60%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 257.00 ( 0.00%) 253.00 ( 1.56%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 224.00 ( 0.00%) 221.00 ( 1.34%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 208.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 1.44%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 199.00 ( 0.00%) 199.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 195.00 ( 0.00%) 193.00 ( 1.03%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 192.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 0.52%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 204.00 ( 0.00%) 200.00 ( 1.96%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 213.00 ( 0.00%) 212.00 ( 0.47%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 219.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 225.00 ( 0.00%) 225.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 230.00 ( 0.00%) 231.00 ( -0.43%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 235.00 ( 0.00%) 234.00 ( 0.43%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 235.00 ( 0.00%) 234.00 ( 0.43%)
Min free-odr0-1 215.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 11.16%)
Min free-odr0-2 152.00 ( 0.00%) 136.00 ( 10.53%)
Min free-odr0-4 119.00 ( 0.00%) 107.00 ( 10.08%)
Min free-odr0-8 106.00 ( 0.00%) 96.00 ( 9.43%)
Min free-odr0-16 97.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 ( 10.31%)
Min free-odr0-32 91.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 8.79%)
Min free-odr0-64 89.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 8.99%)
Min free-odr0-128 88.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 9.09%)
Min free-odr0-256 106.00 ( 0.00%) 95.00 ( 10.38%)
Min free-odr0-512 116.00 ( 0.00%) 111.00 ( 4.31%)
Min free-odr0-1024 125.00 ( 0.00%) 118.00 ( 5.60%)
Min free-odr0-2048 133.00 ( 0.00%) 126.00 ( 5.26%)
Min free-odr0-4096 136.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 4.41%)
Min free-odr0-8192 138.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 5.80%)
Min free-odr0-16384 137.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 5.11%)
There is a sizable boost to the free allocator performance. While there
is an apparent boost on the allocation side, it's likely a co-incidence
or due to the patches slightly reducing cache footprint.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_may_oom is the central place to decide when the
out_of_memory should be invoked. This is a good approach for most
checks there because they are page allocator specific and the allocation
fails right after for all of them.
The notable exception is GFP_NOFS context which is faking
did_some_progress and keep the page allocator looping even though there
couldn't have been any progress from the OOM killer. This patch doesn't
change this behavior because we are not ready to allow those allocation
requests to fail yet (and maybe we will face the reality that we will
never manage to safely fail these request). Instead __GFP_FS check is
moved down to out_of_memory and prevent from OOM victim selection there.
There are two reasons for that
- OOM notifiers might release some memory even from this context
as none of the registered notifier seems to be FS related
- this might help a dying thread to get an access to memory
reserves and move on which will make the behavior more
consistent with the case when the task gets killed from a
different context.
Keep a comment in __alloc_pages_may_oom to make sure we do not forget
how GFP_NOFS is special and that we really want to do something about
it.
Note to the current oom_notifier users:
The observable difference for you is that oom notifiers cannot depend on
any fs locks because we could deadlock. Not that this would be allowed
today because that would just lockup machine in most of the cases and
ruling out the OOM killer along the way. Another difference is that
callbacks might be invoked sooner now because GFP_NOFS is a weaker
reclaim context and so there could be reclaimable memory which is just
not reachable now. That would require GFP_NOFS only loads which are
really rare and more importantly the observable result would be dropping
of reconstructible object and potential performance drop which is not
such a big deal when we are struggling to fulfill other important
allocation requests.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Raushaniya Maksudova <rmaksudova@parallels.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ZONE_MOVABLE could be treated as highmem so we need to consider it for
accurate statistics. And, in following patches, ZONE_CMA will be
introduced and it can be treated as highmem, too. So, instead of
manually adding stat of ZONE_MOVABLE, looping all zones and check
whether the zone is highmem or not and add stat of the zone which can be
treated as highmem.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a system thats node's pfns are overlapped as follows:
-----pfn-------->
N0 N1 N2 N0 N1 N2
Therefore, we need to care this overlapping when iterating pfn range.
mark_free_pages() iterates requested zone's pfn range and unset all
range's bitmap first. And then it marks freepages in a zone to the
bitmap. If there is an overlapping zone, above unset could clear
previous marked bit and reference to this bitmap in the future will
cause the problem. To prevent it, this patch adds a zone check in
mark_free_pages().
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__offline_isolated_pages() and test_pages_isolated() are used by memory
hotplug. These functions require that range is in a single zone but
there is no code to do this because memory hotplug checks it before
calling these functions. To avoid confusing future user of these
functions, this patch adds comments to them.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__free_pages_boot_core has parameter pfn which is not used at all.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type. They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint. To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code. After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Khugepaged attempts to raise min_free_kbytes if its set too low.
However, on boot khugepaged sets min_free_kbytes first from
subsys_initcall(), and then the mm 'core' over-rides min_free_kbytes
after from init_per_zone_wmark_min(), via a module_init() call.
Khugepaged used to use a late_initcall() to set min_free_kbytes (such
that it occurred after the core initialization), however this was
removed when the initialization of min_free_kbytes was integrated into
the starting of the khugepaged thread.
The fix here is simply to invoke the core initialization using a
core_initcall() instead of module_init(), such that the previous
initialization ordering is restored. I didn't restore the
late_initcall() since start_stop_khugepaged() already sets
min_free_kbytes via set_recommended_min_free_kbytes().
This was noticed when we had a number of page allocation failures when
moving a workload to a kernel with this new initialization ordering. On
an 8GB system this restores min_free_kbytes back to 67584 from 11365
when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y is set and either
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=y or
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y.
Fixes: 79553da293 ("thp: cleanup khugepaged startup")
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hanjun Guo has reported that a CMA stress test causes broken accounting of
CMA and free pages:
> Before the test, I got:
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
> CmaTotal: 204800 kB
> CmaFree: 195044 kB
>
>
> After running the test:
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
> CmaTotal: 204800 kB
> CmaFree: 6602584 kB
>
> So the freed CMA memory is more than total..
>
> Also the the MemFree is more than mem total:
>
> -bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 16342016 kB
> MemFree: 22367268 kB
> MemAvailable: 22370528 kB
Laura Abbott has confirmed the issue and suspected the freepage accounting
rewrite around 3.18/4.0 by Joonsoo Kim. Joonsoo had a theory that this is
caused by unexpected merging between MIGRATE_ISOLATE and MIGRATE_CMA
pageblocks:
> CMA isolates MAX_ORDER aligned blocks, but, during the process,
> partialy isolated block exists. If MAX_ORDER is 11 and
> pageblock_order is 9, two pageblocks make up MAX_ORDER
> aligned block and I can think following scenario because pageblock
> (un)isolation would be done one by one.
>
> (each character means one pageblock. 'C', 'I' means MIGRATE_CMA,
> MIGRATE_ISOLATE, respectively.
>
> CC -> IC -> II (Isolation)
> II -> CI -> CC (Un-isolation)
>
> If some pages are freed at this intermediate state such as IC or CI,
> that page could be merged to the other page that is resident on
> different type of pageblock and it will cause wrong freepage count.
This was supposed to be prevented by CMA operating on MAX_ORDER blocks,
but since it doesn't hold the zone->lock between pageblocks, a race
window does exist.
It's also likely that unexpected merging can occur between
MIGRATE_ISOLATE and non-CMA pageblocks. This should be prevented in
__free_one_page() since commit 3c605096d3 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict
max order of merging on isolated pageblock"). However, we only check
the migratetype of the pageblock where buddy merging has been initiated,
not the migratetype of the buddy pageblock (or group of pageblocks)
which can be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
Joonsoo has suggested checking for buddy migratetype as part of
page_is_buddy(), but that would add extra checks in allocator hotpath
and bloat-o-meter has shown significant code bloat (the function is
inline).
This patch reduces the bloat at some expense of more complicated code.
The buddy-merging while-loop in __free_one_page() is initially bounded
to pageblock_border and without any migratetype checks. The checks are
placed outside, bumping the max_order if merging is allowed, and
returning to the while-loop with a statement which can't be possibly
considered harmful.
This fixes the accounting bug and also removes the arguably weird state
in the original commit 3c605096d3 where buddies could be left
unmerged.
Fixes: 3c605096d3 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock")
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/2/280
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Debugged-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Debugged-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.18+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After the OOM killer is disabled during suspend operation, any
!__GFP_NOFAIL && __GFP_FS allocations are forced to fail. Thus, any
!__GFP_NOFAIL && !__GFP_FS allocations should be forced to fail as well.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Upstream has supported page parallel initialisation for X86 and the boot
time is improved greately. Some tests have been done for Power.
Here is the result I have done with different memory size.
* 4GB memory:
boot time is as the following:
with patch vs without patch: 10.4s vs 24.5s
boot time is improved 57%
* 200GB memory:
boot time looks the same with and without patches.
boot time is about 38s
* 32TB memory:
boot time looks the same with and without patches
boot time is about 160s.
The boot time is much shorter than X86 with 24TB memory.
From community discussion, it costs about 694s for X86 24T system.
Parallel initialisation improves the performance by deferring memory
initilisation to kswap with N kthreads, it should improve the performance
therotically.
In testing on X86, performance is improved greatly with huge memory. But
on Power platform, it is improved greatly with less than 100GB memory.
For huge memory, it is not improved greatly. But it saves the time with
several threads at least, as the following information shows(32TB system
log):
[ 22.648169] node 9 initialised, 16607461 pages in 280ms
[ 22.783772] node 3 initialised, 23937243 pages in 410ms
[ 22.858877] node 6 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms
[ 22.863252] node 2 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms
[ 22.907545] node 0 initialised, 32049614 pages in 540ms
[ 22.920891] node 15 initialised, 32212280 pages in 550ms
[ 22.923236] node 4 initialised, 32306127 pages in 550ms
[ 22.923384] node 12 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms
[ 22.924754] node 8 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms
[ 22.940780] node 13 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.940796] node 11 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.941700] node 5 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.941721] node 10 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.941876] node 7 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.944946] node 14 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
[ 22.946063] node 1 initialised, 33345485 pages in 580ms
It saves the time about 550*16 ms at least, although it can be ignore to
compare the boot time about 160 seconds. What's more, the boot time is
much shorter on Power even without patches than x86 for huge memory
machine.
So this patchset is still necessary to be enabled for Power.
This patch (of 2):
This patch is based on Mel Gorman's old patch in the mailing list,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/280 which is discussed but it is fixed with
a completion to wait for all memory initialised in page_alloc_init_late().
It is to fix the OOM problem on X86 with 24TB memory which allocates
memory in late initialisation. But for Power platform with 32TB memory,
it causes a call trace in vfs_caches_init->inode_init() and inode hash
table needs more memory. So this patch allocates 1GB for 0.25TB/node for
large system as it is mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/627
This call trace is found on Power with 32TB memory, 1024CPUs, 16nodes.
Currently, it only allocates 2GB*16=32GB for early initialisation. But
Dentry cache hash table needes 16GB and Inode cache hash table needs 16GB.
So the system have no enough memory for it. The log from dmesg as the
following:
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2147483648 (order: 18,17179869184 bytes)
vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 16021913600 of 17179934720 bytes
swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2080020
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0-0-ppc64
Call Trace:
.dump_stack+0xb4/0xb664 (unreliable)
.warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160
.__vmalloc_area_node+0x1a4/0x2b0
.__vmalloc_node_range+0xe4/0x110
.__vmalloc_node+0x40/0x50
.alloc_large_system_hash+0x134/0x2a4
.inode_init+0xa4/0xf0
.vfs_caches_init+0x80/0x144
.start_kernel+0x40c/0x4e0
start_here_common+0x20/0x4a4
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Most of the mm subsystem uses pr_<level> so make it consistent.
Miscellanea:
- Realign arguments
- Add missing newline to format
- kmemleak-test.c has a "kmemleak: " prefix added to the
"Kmemleak testing" logging message via pr_fmt
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [percpu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel style prefers a single string over split strings when the string is
'user-visible'.
Miscellanea:
- Add a missing newline
- Realign arguments
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [percpu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 647757197c ("mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status") was
incomplete and didn't remove the comment about __GFP_NOFAIL being
deprecated in buffered_rmqueue.
Let's get rid of this leftover but keep the WARN_ON_ONCE for order > 1
because we should really discourage from using __GFP_NOFAIL with higher
order allocations because those are just too subtle.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The success of CMA allocation largely depends on the success of
migration and key factor of it is page reference count. Until now, page
reference is manipulated by direct calling atomic functions so we cannot
follow up who and where manipulate it. Then, it is hard to find actual
reason of CMA allocation failure. CMA allocation should be guaranteed
to succeed so finding offending place is really important.
In this patch, call sites where page reference is manipulated are
converted to introduced wrapper function. This is preparation step to
add tracepoint to each page reference manipulation function. With this
facility, we can easily find reason of CMA allocation failure. There is
no functional change in this patch.
In addition, this patch also converts reference read sites. It will
help a second step that renames page._count to something else and
prevents later attempt to direct access to it (Suggested by Andrew).
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
THP defrag is enabled by default to direct reclaim/compact but not wake
kswapd in the event of a THP allocation failure. The problem is that
THP allocation requests potentially enter reclaim/compaction. This
potentially incurs a severe stall that is not guaranteed to be offset by
reduced TLB misses. While there has been considerable effort to reduce
the impact of reclaim/compaction, it is still a high cost and workloads
that should fit in memory fail to do so. Specifically, a simple
anon/file streaming workload will enter direct reclaim on NUMA at least
even though the working set size is 80% of RAM. It's been years and
it's time to throw in the towel.
First, this patch defines THP defrag as follows;
madvise: A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact if the application requests it
never: Neither reclaim/compact nor wake kswapd
defer: A failed allocation will wake kswapd/kcompactd
always: A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact (historical behaviour)
khugepaged defrag will enter direct/reclaim but not wake kswapd.
Next it sets the default defrag option to be "madvise" to only enter
direct reclaim/compaction for applications that specifically requested
it.
Lastly, it removes a check from the page allocator slowpath that is
related to __GFP_THISNODE to allow "defer" to work. The callers that
really cares are slub/slab and they are updated accordingly. The slab
one may be surprising because it also corrects a comment as kswapd was
never woken up by that path.
This means that a THP fault will no longer stall for most applications
by default and the ideal for most users that get THP if they are
immediately available. There are still options for users that prefer a
stall at startup of a new application by either restoring historical
behaviour with "always" or pick a half-way point with "defer" where
kswapd does some of the work in the background and wakes kcompactd if
necessary. THP defrag for khugepaged remains enabled and will enter
direct/reclaim but no wakeup kswapd or kcompactd.
After this patch a THP allocation failure will quickly fallback and rely
on khugepaged to recover the situation at some time in the future. In
some cases, this will reduce THP usage but the benefit of THP is hard to
measure and not a universal win where as a stall to reclaim/compaction
is definitely measurable and can be painful.
The first test for this is using "usemem" to read a large file and write
a large anonymous mapping (to avoid the zero page) multiple times. The
total size of the mappings is 80% of RAM and the benchmark simply
measures how long it takes to complete. It uses multiple threads to see
if that is a factor. On UMA, the performance is almost identical so is
not reported but on NUMA, we see this
usemem
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
Amean System-1 102.86 ( 0.00%) 46.81 ( 54.50%)
Amean System-4 37.85 ( 0.00%) 34.02 ( 10.12%)
Amean System-7 48.12 ( 0.00%) 46.89 ( 2.56%)
Amean System-12 51.98 ( 0.00%) 56.96 ( -9.57%)
Amean System-21 80.16 ( 0.00%) 79.05 ( 1.39%)
Amean System-30 110.71 ( 0.00%) 107.17 ( 3.20%)
Amean System-48 127.98 ( 0.00%) 124.83 ( 2.46%)
Amean Elapsd-1 185.84 ( 0.00%) 105.51 ( 43.23%)
Amean Elapsd-4 26.19 ( 0.00%) 25.58 ( 2.33%)
Amean Elapsd-7 21.65 ( 0.00%) 21.62 ( 0.16%)
Amean Elapsd-12 18.58 ( 0.00%) 17.94 ( 3.43%)
Amean Elapsd-21 17.53 ( 0.00%) 16.60 ( 5.33%)
Amean Elapsd-30 17.45 ( 0.00%) 17.13 ( 1.84%)
Amean Elapsd-48 15.40 ( 0.00%) 15.27 ( 0.82%)
For a single thread, the benchmark completes 43.23% faster with this
patch applied with smaller benefits as the thread increases. Similar,
notice the large reduction in most cases in system CPU usage. The
overall CPU time is
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
User 10357.65 10438.33
System 3988.88 3543.94
Elapsed 2203.01 1634.41
Which is substantial. Now, the reclaim figures
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults 128458477 278352931
Major Faults 2174976 225
Swap Ins 16904701 0
Swap Outs 17359627 0
Allocation stalls 43611 0
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 19832646 19448017
Normal allocs 614488453 580941839
Movable allocs 0 0
Direct pages scanned 24163800 0
Kswapd pages scanned 0 0
Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 0
Direct pages reclaimed 20691346 0
Compaction stalls 42263 0
Compaction success 938 0
Compaction failures 41325 0
This patch eliminates almost all swapping and direct reclaim activity.
There is still overhead but it's from NUMA balancing which does not
identify that it's pointless trying to do anything with this workload.
I also tried the thpscale benchmark which forces a corner case where
compaction can be used heavily and measures the latency of whether base
or huge pages were used
thpscale Fault Latencies
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
Amean fault-base-1 5288.84 ( 0.00%) 2817.12 ( 46.73%)
Amean fault-base-3 6365.53 ( 0.00%) 3499.11 ( 45.03%)
Amean fault-base-5 6526.19 ( 0.00%) 4363.06 ( 33.15%)
Amean fault-base-7 7142.25 ( 0.00%) 4858.08 ( 31.98%)
Amean fault-base-12 13827.64 ( 0.00%) 10292.11 ( 25.57%)
Amean fault-base-18 18235.07 ( 0.00%) 13788.84 ( 24.38%)
Amean fault-base-24 21597.80 ( 0.00%) 24388.03 (-12.92%)
Amean fault-base-30 26754.15 ( 0.00%) 19700.55 ( 26.36%)
Amean fault-base-32 26784.94 ( 0.00%) 19513.57 ( 27.15%)
Amean fault-huge-1 4223.96 ( 0.00%) 2178.57 ( 48.42%)
Amean fault-huge-3 2194.77 ( 0.00%) 2149.74 ( 2.05%)
Amean fault-huge-5 2569.60 ( 0.00%) 2346.95 ( 8.66%)
Amean fault-huge-7 3612.69 ( 0.00%) 2997.70 ( 17.02%)
Amean fault-huge-12 3301.75 ( 0.00%) 6727.02 (-103.74%)
Amean fault-huge-18 6696.47 ( 0.00%) 6685.72 ( 0.16%)
Amean fault-huge-24 8000.72 ( 0.00%) 9311.43 (-16.38%)
Amean fault-huge-30 13305.55 ( 0.00%) 9750.45 ( 26.72%)
Amean fault-huge-32 9981.71 ( 0.00%) 10316.06 ( -3.35%)
The average time to fault pages is substantially reduced in the majority
of caseds but with the obvious caveat that fewer THPs are actually used
in this adverse workload
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
Percentage huge-1 0.71 ( 0.00%) 14.04 (1865.22%)
Percentage huge-3 10.77 ( 0.00%) 33.05 (206.85%)
Percentage huge-5 60.39 ( 0.00%) 38.51 (-36.23%)
Percentage huge-7 45.97 ( 0.00%) 34.57 (-24.79%)
Percentage huge-12 68.12 ( 0.00%) 40.07 (-41.17%)
Percentage huge-18 64.93 ( 0.00%) 47.82 (-26.35%)
Percentage huge-24 62.69 ( 0.00%) 44.23 (-29.44%)
Percentage huge-30 43.49 ( 0.00%) 55.38 ( 27.34%)
Percentage huge-32 50.72 ( 0.00%) 51.90 ( 2.35%)
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults 37429143 47564000
Major Faults 1916 1558
Swap Ins 1466 1079
Swap Outs 2936863 149626
Allocation stalls 62510 3
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 6566458 6401314
Normal allocs 216361697 216538171
Movable allocs 0 0
Direct pages scanned 25977580 17998
Kswapd pages scanned 0 3638931
Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 207236
Direct pages reclaimed 8833714 88
Compaction stalls 103349 5
Compaction success 270 4
Compaction failures 103079 1
Note again that while this does swap as it's an aggressive workload, the
direct relcim activity and allocation stalls is substantially reduced.
There is some kswapd activity but ftrace showed that the kswapd activity
was due to normal wakeups from 4K pages being allocated.
Compaction-related stalls and activity are almost eliminated.
I also tried the stutter benchmark. For this, I do not have figures for
NUMA but it's something that does impact UMA so I'll report what is
available
stutter
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
Min mmap 7.3571 ( 0.00%) 7.3438 ( 0.18%)
1st-qrtle mmap 7.5278 ( 0.00%) 17.9200 (-138.05%)
2nd-qrtle mmap 7.6818 ( 0.00%) 21.6055 (-181.25%)
3rd-qrtle mmap 11.0889 ( 0.00%) 21.8881 (-97.39%)
Max-90% mmap 27.8978 ( 0.00%) 22.1632 ( 20.56%)
Max-93% mmap 28.3202 ( 0.00%) 22.3044 ( 21.24%)
Max-95% mmap 28.5600 ( 0.00%) 22.4580 ( 21.37%)
Max-99% mmap 29.6032 ( 0.00%) 25.5216 ( 13.79%)
Max mmap 4109.7289 ( 0.00%) 4813.9832 (-17.14%)
Mean mmap 12.4474 ( 0.00%) 19.3027 (-55.07%)
This benchmark is trying to fault an anonymous mapping while there is a
heavy IO load -- a scenario that desktop users used to complain about
frequently. This shows a mix because the ideal case of mapping with THP
is not hit as often. However, note that 99% of the mappings complete
13.79% faster. The CPU usage here is particularly interesting
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
User 67.50 0.99
System 1327.88 91.30
Elapsed 2079.00 2128.98
And once again we look at the reclaim figures
4.4.0 4.4.0
kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults 335241922 1314582827
Major Faults 715 819
Swap Ins 0 0
Swap Outs 0 0
Allocation stalls 532723 0
DMA allocs 0 0
DMA32 allocs 1822364341 1177950222
Normal allocs 1815640808 1517844854
Movable allocs 0 0
Direct pages scanned 21892772 0
Kswapd pages scanned 20015890 41879484
Kswapd pages reclaimed 19961986 41822072
Direct pages reclaimed 21892741 0
Compaction stalls 1065755 0
Compaction success 514 0
Compaction failures 1065241 0
Allocation stalls and all direct reclaim activity is eliminated as well
as compaction-related stalls.
THP gives impressive gains in some cases but only if they are quickly
available. We're not going to reach the point where they are completely
free so lets take the costs out of the fast paths finally and defer the
cost to kswapd, kcompactd and khugepaged where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have
seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and
cause thundering herds in direct reclaim. Unfortunately, the only way
to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the
system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the
system's latency requirements. In order to get kswapd to maintain a
250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G.
That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason.
On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and
overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes
sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well.
Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of
the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory.
Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the
current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula never
chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve.
On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the
distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory
statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo.
It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated
without pushing the guest system to swap. This metric would be very
useful in VM orchestration software to improve memory management of
different VMs under overcommit.
This patch (of 2):
Factor out calculation of the available memory counter into a separate
exportable function, in order to be able to use it in other parts of the
kernel.
In particular, it appears a relevant metric to report to the hypervisor
via virtio-balloon statistics interface (in a followup patch).
Signed-off-by: Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Memory compaction can be currently performed in several contexts:
- kswapd balancing a zone after a high-order allocation failure
- direct compaction to satisfy a high-order allocation, including THP
page fault attemps
- khugepaged trying to collapse a hugepage
- manually from /proc
The purpose of compaction is two-fold. The obvious purpose is to
satisfy a (pending or future) high-order allocation, and is easy to
evaluate. The other purpose is to keep overal memory fragmentation low
and help the anti-fragmentation mechanism. The success wrt the latter
purpose is more
The current situation wrt the purposes has a few drawbacks:
- compaction is invoked only when a high-order page or hugepage is not
available (or manually). This might be too late for the purposes of
keeping memory fragmentation low.
- direct compaction increases latency of allocations. Again, it would
be better if compaction was performed asynchronously to keep
fragmentation low, before the allocation itself comes.
- (a special case of the previous) the cost of compaction during THP
page faults can easily offset the benefits of THP.
- kswapd compaction appears to be complex, fragile and not working in
some scenarios. It could also end up compacting for a high-order
allocation request when it should be reclaiming memory for a later
order-0 request.
To improve the situation, we should be able to benefit from an
equivalent of kswapd, but for compaction - i.e. a background thread
which responds to fragmentation and the need for high-order allocations
(including hugepages) somewhat proactively.
One possibility is to extend the responsibilities of kswapd, which could
however complicate its design too much. It should be better to let
kswapd handle reclaim, as order-0 allocations are often more critical
than high-order ones.
Another possibility is to extend khugepaged, but this kthread is a
single instance and tied to THP configs.
This patch goes with the option of a new set of per-node kthreads called
kcompactd, and lays the foundations, without introducing any new
tunables. The lifecycle mimics kswapd kthreads, including the memory
hotplug hooks.
For compaction, kcompactd uses the standard compaction_suitable() and
ompact_finished() criteria and the deferred compaction functionality.
Unlike direct compaction, it uses only sync compaction, as there's no
allocation latency to minimize.
This patch doesn't yet add a call to wakeup_kcompactd. The kswapd
compact/reclaim loop for high-order pages will be replaced by waking up
kcompactd in the next patch with the description of what's wrong with
the old approach.
Waking up of the kcompactd threads is also tied to kswapd activity and
follows these rules:
- we don't want to affect any fastpaths, so wake up kcompactd only from
the slowpath, as it's done for kswapd
- if kswapd is doing reclaim, it's more important than compaction, so
don't invoke kcompactd until kswapd goes to sleep
- the target order used for kswapd is passed to kcompactd
Future possible future uses for kcompactd include the ability to wake up
kcompactd on demand in special situations, such as when hugepages are
not available (currently not done due to __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) or when a
fragmentation event (i.e. __rmqueue_fallback()) occurs. It's also
possible to perform periodic compaction with kcompactd.
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build errors with kcompactd]
[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: don't use modular references for non modular code]
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can disable debug_pagealloc processing even if the code is compiled
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. This patch changes the code to query
whether it is enabled or not in runtime.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export _debug_pagealloc_enabled to modules]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently /proc/kpageflags returns nothing for "tail" buddy pages, which
is inconvenient when grasping how free pages are distributed. This
patch sets KPF_BUDDY for such pages.
With this patch:
$ grep MemFree /proc/meminfo ; tools/vm/page-types -b buddy
MemFree: 3134992 kB
flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags
0x0000000000000400 779272 3044 __________B_______________________________ buddy
0x0000000000000c00 4385 17 __________BM______________________________ buddy,mmap
total 783657 3061
783657 pages is 3134628 kB (roughly consistent with the global counter,)
so it's OK.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, per Naoya]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a performance drop report due to hugepage allocation and in
there half of cpu time are spent on pageblock_pfn_to_page() in
compaction [1].
In that workload, compaction is triggered to make hugepage but most of
pageblocks are un-available for compaction due to pageblock type and
skip bit so compaction usually fails. Most costly operations in this
case is to find valid pageblock while scanning whole zone range. To
check if pageblock is valid to compact, valid pfn within pageblock is
required and we can obtain it by calling pageblock_pfn_to_page(). This
function checks whether pageblock is in a single zone and return valid
pfn if possible. Problem is that we need to check it every time before
scanning pageblock even if we re-visit it and this turns out to be very
expensive in this workload.
Although we have no way to skip this pageblock check in the system where
hole exists at arbitrary position, we can use cached value for zone
continuity and just do pfn_to_page() in the system where hole doesn't
exist. This optimization considerably speeds up in above workload.
Before vs After
Max: 1096 MB/s vs 1325 MB/s
Min: 635 MB/s 1015 MB/s
Avg: 899 MB/s 1194 MB/s
Avg is improved by roughly 30% [2].
[1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg97378.html
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/9/23
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't forget to restore zone->contiguous on error path, per Vlastimil]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this
is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc
with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting
corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also
cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be
zeroed after hibernation.
Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't
have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages. It has
uses apart from that though. Clearing of the pages on free provides an
increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks.
Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of
kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work. Because of
how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if
hibernation is enabled. The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled
with an option when !HIBERNATION.
Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since bad_page() is the only user of the badflags parameter of
dump_page_badflags(), we can move the code to bad_page() and simplify a
bit.
The dump_page_badflags() function is renamed to __dump_page() and can
still be called separately from dump_page() for temporary debug prints
where page_owner info is not desired.
The only user-visible change is that page->mem_cgroup is printed before
the bad flags.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The page_owner mechanism is useful for dealing with memory leaks. By
reading /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner one can determine the stack traces
leading to allocations of all pages, and find e.g. a buggy driver.
This information might be also potentially useful for debugging, such as
the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() calls to dump_page(). So let's print the stored
info from dump_page().
Example output:
page:ffffea000292f1c0 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8800b2f6cc18 index:0x91d
flags: 0x1fffff8001002c(referenced|uptodate|lru|mappedtodisk)
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1)
page->mem_cgroup:ffff8801392c5000
page allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x24213ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY)
[<ffffffff811682c4>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x134/0x230
[<ffffffff811b40c8>] alloc_pages_current+0x88/0x120
[<ffffffff8115e386>] __page_cache_alloc+0xe6/0x120
[<ffffffff8116ba6c>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xdc/0x240
[<ffffffff8116bd05>] ondemand_readahead+0x135/0x260
[<ffffffff8116be9c>] page_cache_async_readahead+0x6c/0x70
[<ffffffff811604c2>] generic_file_read_iter+0x3f2/0x760
[<ffffffff811e0dc7>] __vfs_read+0xa7/0xd0
page has been migrated, last migrate reason: compaction
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The information in /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner includes the migratetype
of the pageblock the page belongs to. This is also checked against the
page's migratetype (as declared by gfp_flags during its allocation), and
the page is reported as Fallback if its migratetype differs from the
pageblock's one. t This is somewhat misleading because in fact fallback
allocation is not the only reason why these two can differ. It also
doesn't direcly provide the page's migratetype, although it's possible
to derive that from the gfp_flags.
It's arguably better to print both page and pageblock's migratetype and
leave the interpretation to the consumer than to suggest fallback
allocation as the only possible reason. While at it, we can print the
migratetypes as string the same way as /proc/pagetypeinfo does, as some
of the numeric values depend on kernel configuration. For that, this
patch moves the migratetype_names array from #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS part
of mm/vmstat.c to mm/page_alloc.c and exports it.
With the new format strings for flags, we can now also provide symbolic
page and gfp flags in the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner file. This
replaces the positional printing of page flags as single letters, which
might have looked nicer, but was limited to a subset of flags, and
required the user to remember the letters.
Example page_owner entry after the patch:
Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x24213ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY)
PFN 520 type Movable Block 1 type Movable Flags 0xfffff8001006c(referenced|uptodate|lru|active|mappedtodisk)
[<ffffffff811682c4>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x134/0x230
[<ffffffff811b4058>] alloc_pages_current+0x88/0x120
[<ffffffff8115e386>] __page_cache_alloc+0xe6/0x120
[<ffffffff8116ba6c>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xdc/0x240
[<ffffffff8116bd05>] ondemand_readahead+0x135/0x260
[<ffffffff8116bfb1>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x31/0x50
[<ffffffff81160523>] generic_file_read_iter+0x453/0x760
[<ffffffff811e0d57>] __vfs_read+0xa7/0xd0
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It would be useful to translate gfp_flags into string representation
when printing in case of an allocation failure, especially as the flags
have been undergoing some changes recently and the script
./scripts/gfp-translate needs a matching source version to be accurate.
Example output:
stapio: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x2080020(GFP_ATOMIC)
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 031bc5743f ("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc
boottime configurable") CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is by default not adding
any page debugging.
This resulted in several unnoticed bugs, e.g.
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<569F5E29.3090107@de.ibm.com>
or
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<56A20F30.4050705@de.ibm.com>
as this behaviour change was not even documented in Kconfig.
Let's provide a new Kconfig symbol that allows to change the default
back to enabled, e.g. for debug kernels. This also makes the change
obvious to kernel packagers.
Let's also change the Kconfig description for CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, to
indicate that there are two stages of overhead.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This function is getting full of weird tricks to avoid word-wrapping.
Use a goto to eliminate a tab stop then use the new space
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Xeon E7 v3 based systems supports Address Range Mirroring and UEFI BIOS
complied with UEFI spec 2.5 can notify which ranges are mirrored
(reliable) via EFI memory map. Now Linux kernel utilize its information
and allocates boot time memory from reliable region.
My requirement is:
- allocate kernel memory from mirrored region
- allocate user memory from non-mirrored region
In order to meet my requirement, ZONE_MOVABLE is useful. By arranging
non-mirrored range into ZONE_MOVABLE, mirrored memory is used for kernel
allocations.
My idea is to extend existing "kernelcore" option and introduces
kernelcore=mirror option. By specifying "mirror" instead of specifying
the amount of memory, non-mirrored region will be arranged into
ZONE_MOVABLE.
Earlier discussions are at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/9/24https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/9https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/27/18https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/836
For example, suppose 2-nodes system with the following memory range:
node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000109fffffff]
node 1 [mem 0x00000010a0000000-0x000000209fffffff]
and the following ranges are marked as reliable (mirrored):
[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000100000000]
[0x0000000100000000-0x0000000180000000]
[0x0000000800000000-0x0000000880000000]
[0x00000010a0000000-0x0000001120000000]
[0x00000017a0000000-0x0000001820000000]
If you specify kernelcore=mirror, ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE are
arranged like bellow:
- node 0:
ZONE_NORMAL : [0x0000000100000000-0x00000010a0000000]
ZONE_MOVABLE: [0x0000000180000000-0x00000010a0000000]
- node 1:
ZONE_NORMAL : [0x00000010a0000000-0x00000020a0000000]
ZONE_MOVABLE: [0x0000001120000000-0x00000020a0000000]
In overlapped range, pages to be ZONE_MOVABLE in ZONE_NORMAL are treated
as absent pages, and vice versa.
This patch (of 2):
Currently each zone's zone_start_pfn is calculated at
free_area_init_core(). However zone's range is fixed at the time when
invoking zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
This patch changes how each zone->zone_start_pfn is calculated in
zone_spanned_pages_in_node().
Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 944d9fec8d ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the runtime gigantic page allocation via
alloc_contig_range(), making this support available only when CONFIG_CMA
is enabled. Because it doesn't depend on MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks and the
associated infrastructure, it is possible with few simple adjustments to
require only CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION instead of full CONFIG_CMA.
After this patch, alloc_contig_range() and related functions are
available and used for gigantic pages with just CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION
enabled. Note CONFIG_CMA selects CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION. This allows
supporting runtime gigantic pages without the CMA-specific checks in
page allocator fastpaths.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove unused struct zone *z variable which appeared in 86051ca5ea
("mm: fix usemap initialization").
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In support of providing struct page for large persistent memory
capacities, use struct vmem_altmap to change the default policy for
allocating memory for the memmap array. The default vmemmap_populate()
allocates page table storage area from the page allocator. Given
persistent memory capacities relative to DRAM it may not be feasible to
store the memmap in 'System Memory'. Instead vmem_altmap represents
pre-allocated "device pages" to satisfy vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
requests.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we don't split huge page on partial unmap. It's not an ideal
situation. It can lead to memory overhead.
Furtunately, we can detect partial unmap on page_remove_rmap(). But we
cannot call split_huge_page() from there due to locking context.
It's also counterproductive to do directly from munmap() codepath: in
many cases we will hit this from exit(2) and splitting the huge page
just to free it up in small pages is not what we really want.
The patch introduce deferred_split_huge_page() which put the huge page
into queue for splitting. The splitting itself will happen when we get
memory pressure via shrinker interface. The page will be dropped from
list on freeing through compound page destructor.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We're going to allow mapping of individual 4k pages of THP compound. It
means we need to track mapcount on per small page basis.
Straight-forward approach is to use ->_mapcount in all subpages to track
how many time this subpage is mapped with PMDs or PTEs combined. But
this is rather expensive: mapping or unmapping of a THP page with PMD
would require HPAGE_PMD_NR atomic operations instead of single we have
now.
The idea is to store separately how many times the page was mapped as
whole -- compound_mapcount. This frees up ->_mapcount in subpages to
track PTE mapcount.
We use the same approach as with compound page destructor and compound
order to store compound_mapcount: use space in first tail page,
->mapping this time.
Any time we map/unmap whole compound page (THP or hugetlb) -- we
increment/decrement compound_mapcount. When we map part of compound
page with PTE we operate on ->_mapcount of the subpage.
page_mapcount() counts both: PTE and PMD mappings of the page.
Basically, we have mapcount for a subpage spread over two counters. It
makes tricky to detect when last mapcount for a page goes away.
We introduced PageDoubleMap() for this. When we split THP PMD for the
first time and there's other PMD mapping left we offset up ->_mapcount
in all subpages by one and set PG_double_map on the compound page.
These additional references go away with last compound_mapcount.
This approach provides a way to detect when last mapcount goes away on
per small page basis without introducing new overhead for most common
cases.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
[mhocko@suse.com: ignore partial THP when moving task]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We don't define meaning of page->mapping for tail pages. Currently it's
always NULL, which can be inconsistent with head page and potentially
lead to problems.
Let's poison the pointer to catch all illigal uses.
page_rmapping(), page_mapping() and page_anon_vma() are changed to look
on head page.
The only illegal use I've caught so far is __GPF_COMP pages from sound
subsystem, mapped with PTEs. do_shared_fault() is changed to use
page_rmapping() instead of direct access to fault_page->mapping.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__GFP_NOFAIL is a big hammer used to ensure that the allocation request
can never fail. This is a strong requirement and as such it also
deserves a special treatment when the system is OOM. The primary
problem here is that the allocation request might have come with some
locks held and the oom victim might be blocked on the same locks. This
is basically an OOM deadlock situation.
This patch tries to reduce the risk of such a deadlocks by giving
__GFP_NOFAIL allocations a special treatment and let them dive into
memory reserves after oom killer invocation. This should help them to
make a progress and release resources they are holding. The OOM victim
should compensate for the reserves consumption.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each + list_entry to
simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To make the intention clearer, use list_{first,last}_entry instead of
list_entry.
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 0aaa29a56e ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order
atomic allocations on demand") added an unnecessary and unused parameter
to __rmqueue. It was a parameter that was used in an earlier version of
the patch and then left behind. This patch cleans it up.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is
merely memory not available to userspace allocations. There is nothing
writeback-specific about it. Generalize the name so that it's reusable
outside of that context.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_slowpath is looping over ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS requests if
__GFP_NOFAIL is requested. This is fragile because we are basically
relying on somebody else to make the reclaim (be it the direct reclaim
or OOM killer) for us. The caller might be holding resources (e.g.
locks) which block other other reclaimers from making any progress for
example. Remove the retry loop and rely on __alloc_pages_slowpath to
invoke all allowed reclaim steps and retry logic.
We have to be careful about __GFP_NOFAIL allocations from the
PF_MEMALLOC context even though this is a very bad idea to begin with
because no progress can be gurateed at all. We shouldn't break the
__GFP_NOFAIL semantic here though. It could be argued that this is
essentially GFP_NOWAIT context which we do not support but PF_MEMALLOC
is much harder to check for existing users because they might happen
deep down the code path performed much later after setting the flag so
we cannot really rule out there is no kernel path triggering this
combination.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__alloc_pages_high_priority doesn't do anything special other than it
calls get_page_from_freelist and loops around GFP_NOFAIL allocation
until it succeeds. It would be better if the first part was done in
__alloc_pages_slowpath where we modify the zonelist because this would
be easier to read and understand. Opencoding the function into its only
caller allows to simplify it a bit as well.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hardcoding index to zonelists array in gfp_zonelist() is not a good
idea, let's enumerate it to improve readability.
No functional change.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build]
[n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: fix warning in comparing enumerator]
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now, we have tracepoint in test_pages_isolated() to notify pfn which
cannot be isolated. But, in alloc_contig_range(), some error path
doesn't call test_pages_isolated() so it's still hard to know exact pfn
that causes allocation failure.
This patch change this situation by calling test_pages_isolated() in
almost error path. In allocation failure case, some overhead is added
by this change, but, allocation failure is really rare event so it would
not matter.
In fatal signal pending case, we don't call test_pages_isolated()
because this failure is intentional one.
There was a bogus outer_start problem due to unchecked buddy order and
this patch also fix it. Before this patch, it didn't matter, because
end result is same thing. But, after this patch, tracepoint will report
failed pfn so it should be accurate.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be
fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more
allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be.
Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse
consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory
consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches.
So this patch switches kmem accounting to the white-policy: now only
those kmem allocations that are marked as __GFP_ACCOUNT are accounted to
memcg. Currently, no kmem allocations are marked like this. The
following patches will mark several kmem allocations that are known to
be easily triggered from userspace and therefore should be accounted to
memcg.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 016c13daa5 ("mm, page_alloc: use masks and shifts when
converting GFP flags to migrate types") has swapped MIGRATE_MOVABLE and
MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE in the enum definition. However, migratetype_names
wasn't updated to reflect that.
As a result, the file /proc/pagetypeinfo shows the counts for Movable as
Reclaimable and vice versa.
Additionally, commit 0aaa29a56e ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks
for high-order atomic allocations on demand") introduced
MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC, but did not add a letter to distinguish it into
show_migration_types(), so it doesn't appear in the listing of free
areas during page alloc failures or oom kills.
This patch fixes both problems. The atomic reserves will show with a
letter 'H' in the free areas listings.
Fixes: 016c13daa5 ("mm, page_alloc: use masks and shifts when converting GFP flags to migrate types")
Fixes: 0aaa29a56e ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit a1c34a3bf0 ("mm: Don't offset memmap for flatmem") Laura
fixed a problem for Srinivas relating to the bottom 2MB of RAM on an ARM
IFC6410 board.
One small wrinkle on ia64 is that it allocates the node_mem_map earlier
in arch code, so it skips the block of code where "offset" is
initialized.
Move initialization of start and offset before the check for the
node_mem_map so that they will always be available in the latter part of
the function.
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
Fixes: a1c34a3bf0 (mm: Don't offset memmap for flatmem)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Let's try to be consistent about data type of page order.
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix build (type of pageblock_order)]
[hughd@google.com: some configs end up with MAX_ORDER and pageblock_order having different types]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some
context. There's one example:
CPU0 CPU1
isolate_migratepages_block()
page_count()
compound_head()
!!PageTail() == true
put_page()
tail->first_page = NULL
head = tail->first_page
alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP)
prep_compound_page()
tail->first_page = head
__SetPageTail(p);
!!PageTail() == true
<head == NULL dereferencing>
The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in
practice. But who knows.
We can fix the race by changing how encode PageTail() and compound_head()
within struct page to be able to update them in one shot.
The patch introduces page->compound_head into third double word block in
front of compound_dtor and compound_order. Bit 0 encodes PageTail() and
the rest bits are pointer to head page if bit zero is set.
The patch moves page->pmd_huge_pte out of word, just in case if an
architecture defines pgtable_t into something what can have the bit 0
set.
hugetlb_cgroup uses page->lru.next in the second tail page to store
pointer struct hugetlb_cgroup. The patch switch it to use page->private
in the second tail page instead. The space is free since ->first_page is
removed from the union.
The patch also opens possibility to remove HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER
limitation, since there's now space in first tail page to store struct
hugetlb_cgroup pointer. But that's out of scope of the patch.
That means page->compound_head shares storage space with:
- page->lru.next;
- page->next;
- page->rcu_head.next;
That's too long list to be absolutely sure, but looks like nobody uses
bit 0 of the word.
page->rcu_head.next guaranteed[1] to have bit 0 clean as long as we use
call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu(). But future
call_rcu_lazy() is not allowed as it makes use of the bit and we can
get false positive PageTail().
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150827163634.GD4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch halves space occupied by compound_dtor and compound_order in
struct page.
For compound_order, it's trivial long -> short conversion.
For get_compound_page_dtor(), we now use hardcoded table for destructor
lookup and store its index in the struct page instead of direct pointer
to destructor. It shouldn't be a big trouble to maintain the table: we
have only two destructor and NULL currently.
This patch free up one word in tail pages for reuse. This is preparation
for the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The primary purpose of watermarks is to ensure that reclaim can always
make forward progress in PF_MEMALLOC context (kswapd and direct reclaim).
These assume that order-0 allocations are all that is necessary for
forward progress.
High-order watermarks serve a different purpose. Kswapd had no high-order
awareness before they were introduced
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au). This was
particularly important when there were high-order atomic requests. The
watermarks both gave kswapd awareness and made a reserve for those atomic
requests.
There are two important side-effects of this. The most important is that
a non-atomic high-order request can fail even though free pages are
available and the order-0 watermarks are ok. The second is that
high-order watermark checks are expensive as the free list counts up to
the requested order must be examined.
With the introduction of MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC it is no longer necessary to
have high-order watermarks. Kswapd and compaction still need high-order
awareness which is handled by checking that at least one suitable
high-order page is free.
With the patch applied, there was little difference in the allocation
failure rates as the atomic reserves are small relative to the number of
allocation attempts. The expected impact is that there will never be an
allocation failure report that shows suitable pages on the free lists.
The one potential side-effect of this is that in a vanilla kernel, the
watermark checks may have kept a free page for an atomic allocation. Now,
we are 100% relying on the HighAtomic reserves and an early allocation to
have allocated them. If the first high-order atomic allocation is after
the system is already heavily fragmented then it'll fail.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify __zone_watermark_ok(), per Vlastimil]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
High-order watermark checking exists for two reasons -- kswapd high-order
awareness and protection for high-order atomic requests. Historically the
kernel depended on MIGRATE_RESERVE to preserve min_free_kbytes as
high-order free pages for as long as possible. This patch introduces
MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC that reserves pageblocks for high-order atomic
allocations on demand and avoids using those blocks for order-0
allocations. This is more flexible and reliable than MIGRATE_RESERVE was.
A MIGRATE_HIGHORDER pageblock is created when an atomic high-order
allocation request steals a pageblock but limits the total number to 1% of
the zone. Callers that speculatively abuse atomic allocations for
long-lived high-order allocations to access the reserve will quickly fail.
Note that SLUB is currently not such an abuser as it reclaims at least
once. It is possible that the pageblock stolen has few suitable
high-order pages and will need to steal again in the near future but there
would need to be strong justification to search all pageblocks for an
ideal candidate.
The pageblocks are unreserved if an allocation fails after a direct
reclaim attempt.
The watermark checks account for the reserved pageblocks when the
allocation request is not a high-order atomic allocation.
The reserved pageblocks can not be used for order-0 allocations. This may
allow temporary wastage until a failed reclaim reassigns the pageblock.
This is deliberate as the intent of the reservation is to satisfy a
limited number of atomic high-order short-lived requests if the system
requires them.
The stutter benchmark was used to evaluate this but while it was running
there was a systemtap script that randomly allocated between 1 high-order
page and 12.5% of memory's worth of order-3 pages using GFP_ATOMIC. This
is much larger than the potential reserve and it does not attempt to be
realistic. It is intended to stress random high-order allocations from an
unknown source, show that there is a reduction in failures without
introducing an anomaly where atomic allocations are more reliable than
regular allocations. The amount of memory reserved varied throughout the
workload as reserves were created and reclaimed under memory pressure.
The allocation failures once the workload warmed up were as follows;
4.2-rc5-vanilla 70%
4.2-rc5-atomic-reserve 56%
The failure rate was also measured while building multiple kernels. The
failure rate was 14% but is 6% with this patch applied.
Overall, this is a small reduction but the reserves are small relative to
the number of allocation requests. In early versions of the patch, the
failure rate reduced by a much larger amount but that required much larger
reserves and perversely made atomic allocations seem more reliable than
regular allocations.
[yalin.wang2010@gmail.com: fix redundant check and a memory leak]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that
existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages
tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the
allocation. At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic
allocations relied on this property so MIGRATE_RESERVE was introduced. A
later patch will introduce an alternative MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC so this patch
deletes MIGRATE_RESERVE and supporting code so it'll be easier to review.
Note that this patch in isolation may look like a false regression if
someone was bisecting high-order atomic allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The zonelist cache (zlc) was introduced to skip over zones that were
recently known to be full. This avoided expensive operations such as the
cpuset checks, watermark calculations and zone_reclaim. The situation
today is different and the complexity of zlc is harder to justify.
1) The cpuset checks are no-ops unless a cpuset is active and in general
are a lot cheaper.
2) zone_reclaim is now disabled by default and I suspect that was a large
source of the cost that zlc wanted to avoid. When it is enabled, it's
known to be a major source of stalling when nodes fill up and it's
unwise to hit every other user with the overhead.
3) Watermark checks are expensive to calculate for high-order
allocation requests. Later patches in this series will reduce the cost
of the watermark checking.
4) The most important issue is that in the current implementation it
is possible for a failed THP allocation to mark a zone full for order-0
allocations and cause a fallback to remote nodes.
The last issue could be addressed with additional complexity but as the
benefit of zlc is questionable, it is better to remove it. If stalls due
to zone_reclaim are ever reported then an alternative would be to
introduce deferring logic based on a timeout inside zone_reclaim itself
and leave the page allocator fast paths alone.
The impact on page-allocator microbenchmarks is negligible as they don't
hit the paths where the zlc comes into play. Most page-reclaim related
workloads showed no noticeable difference as a result of the removal.
The impact was noticeable in a workload called "stutter". One part uses a
lot of anonymous memory, a second measures mmap latency and a third copies
a large file. In an ideal world the latency application would not notice
the mmap latency. On a 2-node machine the results of this patch are
stutter
4.3.0-rc1 4.3.0-rc1
baseline nozlc-v4
Min mmap 20.9243 ( 0.00%) 20.7716 ( 0.73%)
1st-qrtle mmap 22.0612 ( 0.00%) 22.0680 ( -0.03%)
2nd-qrtle mmap 22.3291 ( 0.00%) 22.3809 ( -0.23%)
3rd-qrtle mmap 25.2244 ( 0.00%) 25.2396 ( -0.06%)
Max-90% mmap 48.0995 ( 0.00%) 28.3713 ( 41.02%)
Max-93% mmap 52.5557 ( 0.00%) 36.0170 ( 31.47%)
Max-95% mmap 55.8173 ( 0.00%) 47.3163 ( 15.23%)
Max-99% mmap 67.3781 ( 0.00%) 70.1140 ( -4.06%)
Max mmap 24447.6375 ( 0.00%) 12915.1356 ( 47.17%)
Mean mmap 33.7883 ( 0.00%) 27.7944 ( 17.74%)
Best99%Mean mmap 27.7825 ( 0.00%) 25.2767 ( 9.02%)
Best95%Mean mmap 26.3912 ( 0.00%) 23.7994 ( 9.82%)
Best90%Mean mmap 24.9886 ( 0.00%) 23.2251 ( 7.06%)
Best50%Mean mmap 22.0157 ( 0.00%) 22.0261 ( -0.05%)
Best10%Mean mmap 21.6705 ( 0.00%) 21.6083 ( 0.29%)
Best5%Mean mmap 21.5581 ( 0.00%) 21.4611 ( 0.45%)
Best1%Mean mmap 21.3079 ( 0.00%) 21.1631 ( 0.68%)
Note that the maximum stall latency went from 24 seconds to 12 which is
still bad but an improvement. The milage varies considerably 2-node
machine on an earlier test went from 494 seconds to 47 seconds and a
4-node machine that tested an earlier version of this patch went from a
worst case stall time of 6 seconds to 67ms. The nature of the benchmark
is inherently unpredictable as it is hammering the system and the milage
will vary between machines.
There is a secondary impact with potentially more direct reclaim because
zones are now being considered instead of being skipped by zlc. In this
particular test run it did not occur so will not be described. However,
in at least one test the following was observed
1. Direct reclaim rates were higher. This was likely due to direct reclaim
being entered instead of the zlc disabling a zone and busy looping.
Busy looping may have the effect of allowing kswapd to make more
progress and in some cases may be better overall. If this is found then
the correct action is to put direct reclaimers to sleep on a waitqueue
and allow kswapd make forward progress. Busy looping on the zlc is even
worse than when the allocator used to blindly call congestion_wait().
2. There was higher swap activity as direct reclaim was active.
3. Direct reclaim efficiency was lower. This is related to 1 as more
scanning activity also encountered more pages that could not be
immediately reclaimed
In that case, the direct page scan and reclaim rates are noticeable but
it is not considered a problem for a few reasons
1. The test is primarily concerned with latency. The mmap attempts are also
faulted which means there are THP allocation requests. The ZLC could
cause zones to be disabled causing the process to busy loop instead
of reclaiming. This looks like elevated direct reclaim activity but
it's the correct action to take based on what processes requested.
2. The test hammers reclaim and compaction heavily. The number of successful
THP faults is highly variable but affects the reclaim stats. It's not a
realistic or reasonable measure of page reclaim activity.
3. No other page-reclaim intensive workload that was tested showed a problem.
4. If a workload is identified that benefitted from the busy looping then it
should be fixed by having direct reclaimers sleep on a wait queue until
woken by kswapd instead of busy looping. We had this class of problem before
when congestion_waits() with a fixed timeout was a brain damaged decision
but happened to benefit some workloads.
If a workload is identified that relied on the zlc to busy loop then it
should be fixed correctly and have a direct reclaimer sleep on a waitqueue
until woken by kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".
Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.
This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.
This patch then converts a number of sites
o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.
o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.
o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
flag manipulations.
o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.
The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.
The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
File-backed pages that will be immediately written are balanced between
zones. This heuristic tries to avoid having a single zone filled with
recently dirtied pages but the checks are unnecessarily expensive. Move
consider_zone_balanced into the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps
multiple times. The patch also gives the parameter a more meaningful
name.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Overall, the intent of this series is to remove the zonelist cache which
was introduced to avoid high overhead in the page allocator. Once this is
done, it is necessary to reduce the cost of watermark checks.
The series starts with minor micro-optimisations.
Next it notes that GFP flags that affect watermark checks are abused.
__GFP_WAIT historically identified callers that could not sleep and could
access reserves. This was later abused to identify callers that simply
prefer to avoid sleeping and have other options. A patch distinguishes
between atomic callers, high-priority callers and those that simply wish
to avoid sleep.
The zonelist cache has been around for a long time but it is of dubious
merit with a lot of complexity and some issues that are explained. The
most important issue is that a failed THP allocation can cause a zone to
be treated as "full". This potentially causes unnecessary stalls, reclaim
activity or remote fallbacks. The issues could be fixed but it's not
worth it. The series places a small number of other micro-optimisations
on top before examining GFP flags watermarks.
High-order watermarks enforcement can cause high-order allocations to fail
even though pages are free. The watermark checks both protect high-order
atomic allocations and make kswapd aware of high-order pages but there is
a much better way that can be handled using migrate types. This series
uses page grouping by mobility to reserve pageblocks for high-order
allocations with the size of the reservation depending on demand. kswapd
awareness is maintained by examining the free lists. By patch 12 in this
series, there are no high-order watermark checks while preserving the
properties that motivated the introduction of the watermark checks.
This patch (of 10):
No user of zone_watermark_ok_safe() specifies alloc_flags. This patch
removes the unnecessary parameter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Charging kmem pages proceeds in two steps. First, we try to charge the
allocation size to the memcg the current task belongs to, then we allocate
a page and "commit" the charge storing the pointer to the memcg in the
page struct.
Such a design looks overcomplicated, because there is not much sense in
trying charging the allocation before actually allocating a page: we won't
be able to consume much memory over the limit even if we charge after
doing the actual allocation, besides we already charge user pages post
factum, so being pedantic with kmem pages just looks pointless.
So this patch simplifies the design by merging the "charge" and the
"commit" steps into the same function, which takes the allocated page.
Also, rename the charge and uncharge methods to memcg_kmem_charge and
memcg_kmem_uncharge and make the charge method return error code instead
of bool to conform to mem_cgroup_try_charge.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If kernelcore was not specified, or the kernelcore size is zero
(required_movablecore >= totalpages), or the kernelcore size is larger
than totalpages, there is no ZONE_MOVABLE. We should fill the zone with
both kernel memory and movable memory.
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Srinivas Kandagatla reported bad page messages when trying to remove the
bottom 2MB on an ARM based IFC6410 board
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:fffa8
page:ef7fb500 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x96640253(locked|error|dirty|active|arch_1|reclaim|mlocked)
page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
bad because of flags:
flags: 0x200041(locked|active|mlocked)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.19.0-rc3-00007-g412f9ba-dirty #816
Hardware name: Qualcomm (Flattened Device Tree)
unwind_backtrace
show_stack
dump_stack
bad_page
free_pages_prepare
free_hot_cold_page
__free_pages
free_highmem_page
mem_init
start_kernel
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Removing the lower 2MB made the start of the lowmem zone to no longer be
page block aligned. IFC6410 uses CONFIG_FLATMEM where alloc_node_mem_map
allocates memory for the mem_map. alloc_node_mem_map will offset for
unaligned nodes with the assumption the pfn/page translation functions
will account for the offset. The functions for CONFIG_FLATMEM do not
offset however, resulting in overrunning the memmap array. Just use the
allocated memmap without any offset when running with CONFIG_FLATMEM to
avoid the overrun.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergman <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the user set "movablecore=xx" to a large number, corepages will
overflow. Fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit a2f3aa0257 ("[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell") fixed an oops
experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions,
early_*(), are called at runtime by introducing an 'enum memmap_context'
parameter to memmap_init_zone() and init_currently_empty_zone(). This
parameter is intended to be used to tell whether the call of these two
functions is being made on behalf of a hotplug event, or happening at
boot-time. However, init_currently_empty_zone() does not use this
parameter at all, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Its a bit odd that debugfs_create_bool() takes 'u32 *' as an argument,
when all it needs is a boolean pointer.
It would be better to update this API to make it accept 'bool *'
instead, as that will make it more consistent and often more convenient.
Over that bool takes just a byte.
That required updates to all user sites as well, in the same commit
updating the API. regmap core was also using
debugfs_{read|write}_file_bool(), directly and variable types were
updated for that to be bool as well.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of the rest of MM. There was an unusually large amount of
MM material this time"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring
zram: unify error reporting
zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage
zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
...
For a memoryless node, the output of get_pfn_range_for_nid are all zero.
It will display mem from 0 to -1.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When hot adding a node from add_memory(), we will add memblock first, so
the node is not empty. But when called from cpu_up(), the node should
be empty.
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>\
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We use sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio rather than
sysctl_lower_zone_reserve_ratio to determine how aggressive the kernel
is in defending lowmem from the possibility of being captured into
pinned user memory. To avoid misleading, correct it in some comments.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The comment says that the per-cpu batchsize and zone watermarks are
determined by present_pages which is definitely wrong, they are both
calculated from managed_pages. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE. Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise. In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.
The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac3 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").
Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.
To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage. Both functions get described in comments.
It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly. The number of users would be small
anyway.
Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead. This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.
Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.
To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers. Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The pair of get/set_freepage_migratetype() functions are used to cache
pageblock migratetype for a page put on a pcplist, so that it does not
have to be retrieved again when the page is put on a free list (e.g.
when pcplists become full). Historically it was also assumed that the
value is accurate for pages on freelists (as the functions' names
unfortunately suggest), but that cannot be guaranteed without affecting
various allocator fast paths. It is in fact not needed and all such
uses have been removed.
The last remaining (but pointless) usage related to pages of freelists
is in move_freepages(), which this patch removes.
To prevent further confusion, rename the functions to
get/set_pcppage_migratetype() and expand their description. Since all
the users are now in mm/page_alloc.c, move the functions there from the
shared header.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Seungho Park <seungho1.park@lge.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() is used to verify whether all
pages in pageblock were either successfully isolated, or are hwpoisoned.
Two of the possible state of pages, that are tested, are however bogus
and misleading.
Both tests rely on get_freepage_migratetype(page), which however has no
guarantees about pages on freelists. Specifically, it doesn't guarantee
that the migratetype returned by the function actually matches the
migratetype of the freelist that the page is on. Such guarantee is not
its purpose and would have negative impact on allocator performance.
The first test checks whether the freepage_migratetype equals
MIGRATE_ISOLATE, supposedly to catch races between page isolation and
allocator activity. These races should be fixed nowadays with
51bb1a4093 ("mm/page_alloc: add freepage on isolate pageblock to correct
buddy list") and related patches. As explained above, the check
wouldn't be able to catch them reliably anyway. For the same reason
false positives can happen, although they are harmless, as the
move_freepages() call would just move the page to the same freelist it's
already on. So removing the test is not a bug fix, just cleanup. After
this patch, we assume that all PageBuddy pages are on the correct
freelist and that the races were really fixed. A truly reliable
verification in the form of e.g. VM_BUG_ON() would be complicated and
is arguably not needed.
The second test (page_count(page) == 0 && get_freepage_migratetype(page)
== MIGRATE_ISOLATE) is probably supposed (the code comes from a big
memory isolation patch from 2007) to catch pages on MIGRATE_ISOLATE
pcplists. However, pcplists don't contain MIGRATE_ISOLATE freepages
nowadays, those are freed directly to free lists, so the check is
obsolete. Remove it as well.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Seungho Park <seungho1.park@lge.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The force_kill member of struct oom_control isn't needed if an order of -1
is used instead. This is the same as order == -1 in struct
compact_control which requires full memory compaction.
This patch introduces no functional change.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are essential elements to an oom context that are passed around to
multiple functions.
Organize these elements into a new struct, struct oom_control, that
specifies the context for an oom condition.
This patch introduces no functional change.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit febd5949e1 ("mm/memory hotplug: init the zone's size when
calculating node totalpages") refines the function
free_area_init_core().
After doing so, these two parameters are not used anymore.
This patch removes these two parameters.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nr_node_ids records the highest possible node id, which is calculated by
scanning the bitmap node_states[N_POSSIBLE]. Current implementation
scan the bitmap from the beginning, which will scan the whole bitmap.
This patch reverses the order by scanning from the end with
find_last_bit().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1/ Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
kernel's direct map. This facility is used by the pmem driver to
enable pfn_to_page() operations on the page frames returned by DAX
('direct_access' in 'struct block_device_operations'). For now, the
'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes from "System
RAM". Support for allocating the memmap from device memory will
arrive in a later kernel.
2/ Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
ioremap_wt(). memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects. The
replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3. Completion of
the conversion is targeted for v4.4.
3/ Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.
4/ Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
cacheable to improve performance.
5/ Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support
for issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
fixes.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
appeared in a linux-next release. The changes outside of the typical
drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().
Summary:
- Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
kernel's direct map.
This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
'struct block_device_operations').
For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
from "System RAM". Support for allocating the memmap from device
memory will arrive in a later kernel.
- Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
ioremap_wt(). memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects. The
replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.
Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.
- Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.
- Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
cacheable to improve performance.
- Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
fixes"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
add devm_memremap_pages
mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access()
nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
devres: add devm_memremap
libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
...
While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace
there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its
lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem
into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages
separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations.
Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace
unbinding the driver of the device.
Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these
pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory. Device memory has
different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM. However,
since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently
depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com>
[hch: various simplifications in the arch interface]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Commit c48a11c7ad ("netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb") added
checks for page->pfmemalloc to __skb_fill_page_desc():
if (page->pfmemalloc && !page->mapping)
skb->pfmemalloc = true;
It assumes page->mapping == NULL implies that page->pfmemalloc can be
trusted. However, __delete_from_page_cache() can set set page->mapping
to NULL and leave page->index value alone. Due to being in union, a
non-zero page->index will be interpreted as true page->pfmemalloc.
So the assumption is invalid if the networking code can see such a page.
And it seems it can. We have encountered this with a NFS over loopback
setup when such a page is attached to a new skbuf. There is no copying
going on in this case so the page confuses __skb_fill_page_desc which
interprets the index as pfmemalloc flag and the network stack drops
packets that have been allocated using the reserves unless they are to
be queued on sockets handling the swapping which is the case here and
that leads to hangs when the nfs client waits for a response from the
server which has been dropped and thus never arrive.
The struct page is already heavily packed so rather than finding another
hole to put it in, let's do a trick instead. We can reuse the index
again but define it to an impossible value (-1UL). This is the page
index so it should never see the value that large. Replace all direct
users of page->pfmemalloc by page_is_pfmemalloc which will hide this
nastiness from unspoiled eyes.
The information will get lost if somebody wants to use page->index
obviously but that was the case before and the original code expected
that the information should be persisted somewhere else if that is
really needed (e.g. what SLAB and SLUB do).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix blooper in slub]
Fixes: c48a11c7ad ("netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.com>
Debugged-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we add a new node, the edge of memory may be wrong.
e.g. system has 4 nodes, and node3 is movable, node3 mem:[24G-32G],
1. hotremove the node3,
2. then hotadd node3 with a part of memory, mem:[26G-30G],
3. call hotadd_new_pgdat()
free_area_init_node()
get_pfn_range_for_nid()
4. it will return wrong start_pfn and end_pfn, because we have not
update the memblock.
This patch also fixes a BUG_ON during hot-addition, please see
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142961156129456&w=2
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The race condition addressed in commit add05cecef ("mm: soft-offline:
don't free target page in successful page migration") was not closed
completely, because that can happen not only for soft-offline, but also
for hard-offline. Consider that a slab page is about to be freed into
buddy pool, and then an uncorrected memory error hits the page just
after entering __free_one_page(), then VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags &
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) is triggered, despite the fact that it's not
necessary because the data on the affected page is not consumed.
To solve it, this patch drops __PG_HWPOISON from page flag checks at
allocation/free time. I think it's justified because __PG_HWPOISON
flags is defined to prevent the page from being reused, and setting it
outside the page's alloc-free cycle is a designed behavior (not a bug.)
For recent months, I was annoyed about BUG_ON when soft-offlined page
remains on lru cache list for a while, which is avoided by calling
put_page() instead of putback_lru_page() in page migration's success
path. This means that this patch reverts a major change from commit
add05cecef about the new refcounting rule of soft-offlined pages, so
"reuse window" revives. This will be closed by a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman