Vlastimil Babka [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:19 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm/page_alloc: DEBUG_VM checks for free_list placement of CMA and RESERVE pages
For the MIGRATE_RESERVE pages, it is important they do not get misplaced
on free_list of other migratetype, otherwise the whole MIGRATE_RESERVE
pageblock might be changed to other migratetype in
try_to_steal_freepages(). For MIGRATE_CMA, the pages also must not go to
a different free_list, otherwise they could get allocated as unmovable and
result in CMA failure.
This is ensured by setting the freepage_migratetype appropriately when
placing pages on pcp lists, and using the information when releasing them
back to free_list. It is also assumed that CMA and RESERVE pageblocks are
created only in the init phase. This patch adds DEBUG_VM checks to catch
any regressions introduced for this invariant.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:19 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after. Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage. The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.
The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page. This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.
The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.
All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not. Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.
Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job. There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted. This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change. It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.
The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations. The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing. In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO. The sync results are expected to be
more stable. The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.
The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts. Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison. As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures. The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.
The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:19 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
fs: buffer: do not use unnecessary atomic operations when discarding buffers
Discarding buffers uses a bunch of atomic operations when discarding
buffers because ...... I can't think of a reason. Use a cmpxchg loop to
clear all the necessary flags. In most (all?) cases this will be a single
atomic operations.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:18 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: do not use unnecessary atomic operations when adding pages to the LRU
When adding pages to the LRU we clear the active bit unconditionally. As
the page could be reachable from other paths we cannot use unlocked
operations without risk of corruption such as a parallel
mark_page_accessed. This patch tests if is necessary to clear the active
flag before using an atomic operation. This potentially opens a tiny race
when PageActive is checked as mark_page_accessed could be called after
PageActive was checked. The race already exists but this patch changes it
slightly. The consequence is that that the page may be promoted to the
active list that might have been left on the inactive list before the
patch. It's too tiny a race and too marginal a consequence to always use
atomic operations for.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:18 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: shmem: avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp
shmem_getpage_gfp uses an atomic operation to set the SwapBacked field
before it's even added to the LRU or visible. This is unnecessary as what
could it possible race against? Use an unlocked variant.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:18 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: convert hot/cold parameter and immediate callers to bool
cold is a bool, make it one. Make the likely case the "if" part of the
block instead of the else as according to the optimisation manual this is
preferred.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:17 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: use unsigned int for order in more places
X86 prefers the use of unsigned types for iterators and there is a
tendency to mix whether a signed or unsigned type if used for page order.
This converts a number of sites in mm/page_alloc.c to use unsigned int for
order where possible.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:17 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: use word-based accesses for get/set pageblock bitmaps
The test_bit operations in get/set pageblock flags are expensive. This
patch reads the bitmap on a word basis and use shifts and masks to isolate
the bits of interest. Similarly masks are used to set a local copy of the
bitmap and then use cmpxchg to update the bitmap if there have been no
other changes made in parallel.
In a test running dd onto tmpfs the overhead of the pageblock-related
functions went from 1.27% in profiles to 0.5%.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:16 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: take the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK check out of the fast path
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK is set in a few cases. Always by kswapd, always for
__GFP_MEMALLOC, sometimes for swap-over-nfs, tasks etc. Each of these
cases are relatively rare events but the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK check is an
unlikely branch in the fast path. This patch moves the check out of the
fast path and after it has been determined that the watermarks have not
been met. This helps the common fast path at the cost of making the slow
path slower and hitting kswapd with a performance cost. It's a reasonable
tradeoff.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:16 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: only check the zone id check if pages are buddies
A node/zone index is used to check if pages are compatible for merging
but this happens unconditionally even if the buddy page is not free. Defer
the calculation as long as possible. Ideally we would check the zone boundary
but nodes can overlap.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:15 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
include/linux/jump_label.h: expose the reference count
This patch exposes the jump_label reference count in preparation for the
next patch. cpusets cares about both the jump_label being enabled and how
many users of the cpusets there currently are.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:15 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: do not treat a zone that cannot be used for dirty pages as "full"
If a zone cannot be used for a dirty page then it gets marked "full" which
is cached in the zlc and later potentially skipped by allocation requests
that have nothing to do with dirty zones.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:15 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: page_alloc: do not update zlc unless the zlc is active
The zlc is used on NUMA machines to quickly skip over zones that are full.
However it is always updated, even for the first zone scanned when the
zlc might not even be active. As it's a write to a bitmap that
potentially bounces cache line it's deceptively expensive and most
machines will not care. Only update the zlc if it was active.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:14 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
memcg: deprecate memory.force_empty knob
force_empty has been introduced primarily to drop memory before it gets
reparented on the group removal. This alone doesn't sound fully justified
because reparented pages which are not in use can be reclaimed also later
when there is a memory pressure on the parent level.
Mark the knob CFTYPE_INSANE which tells the cgroup core that it shouldn't
create the knob with the experimental sane_behavior. Other users will get
informed about the deprecation and asked to tell us more because I do not
expect most users will use sane_behavior cgroups mode very soon.
Anyway I expect that most users will be simply cgroup remove handlers
which do that since ever without having any good reason for it.
If somebody really cares because reparented pages, which would be dropped
otherwise, push out more important ones then we should fix the reparenting
code and put pages to the tail.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Marc Carino [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:13 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
cma: increase CMA_ALIGNMENT upper limit to 12
Some systems require a larger maximum PAGE_SIZE order for CMA allocations.
To accommodate such systems, increase the upper-bound of the
CMA_ALIGNMENT range to 12 (which ends up being 16MB on systems with 4K
pages).
Signed-off-by: Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Streetman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:13 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
swap: change swap_list_head to plist, add swap_avail_head
Originally get_swap_page() started iterating through the singly-linked
list of swap_info_structs using swap_list.next or highest_priority_index,
which both were intended to point to the highest priority active swap
target that was not full. The first patch in this series changed the
singly-linked list to a doubly-linked list, and removed the logic to start
at the highest priority non-full entry; it starts scanning at the highest
priority entry each time, even if the entry is full.
Replace the manually ordered swap_list_head with a plist, swap_active_head.
Add a new plist, swap_avail_head. The original swap_active_head plist
contains all active swap_info_structs, as before, while the new
swap_avail_head plist contains only swap_info_structs that are active and
available, i.e. not full. Add a new spinlock, swap_avail_lock, to protect
the swap_avail_head list.
Mel Gorman suggested using plists since they internally handle ordering
the list entries based on priority, which is exactly what swap was doing
manually. All the ordering code is now removed, and swap_info_struct
entries and simply added to their corresponding plist and automatically
ordered correctly.
Using a new plist for available swap_info_structs simplifies and
optimizes get_swap_page(), which no longer has to iterate over full
swap_info_structs. Using a new spinlock for swap_avail_head plist
allows each swap_info_struct to add or remove themselves from the
plist when they become full or not-full; previously they could not
do so because the swap_info_struct->lock is held when they change
from full<->not-full, and the swap_lock protecting the main
swap_active_head must be ordered before any swap_info_struct->lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijieut@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Streetman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:13 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
lib/plist: add plist_requeue
Add plist_requeue(), which moves the specified plist_node after all other
same-priority plist_nodes in the list. This is essentially an optimized
plist_del() followed by plist_add().
This is needed by swap, which (with the next patch in this set) uses a
plist of available swap devices. When a swap device (either a swap
partition or swap file) are added to the system with swapon(), the device
is added to a plist, ordered by the swap device's priority. When swap
needs to allocate a page from one of the swap devices, it takes the page
from the first swap device on the plist, which is the highest priority
swap device. The swap device is left in the plist until all its pages are
used, and then removed from the plist when it becomes full.
However, as described in man 2 swapon, swap must allocate pages from swap
devices with the same priority in round-robin order; to do this, on each
swap page allocation, swap uses a page from the first swap device in the
plist, and then calls plist_requeue() to move that swap device entry to
after any other same-priority swap devices. The next swap page allocation
will again use a page from the first swap device in the plist and requeue
it, and so on, resulting in round-robin usage of equal-priority swap
devices.
Also add plist_test_requeue() test function, for use by plist_test() to
test plist_requeue() function.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijieut@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Streetman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:13 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
lib/plist: add helper functions
Add PLIST_HEAD() to plist.h, equivalent to LIST_HEAD() from list.h, to
define and initialize a struct plist_head.
Add plist_for_each_continue() and plist_for_each_entry_continue(),
equivalent to list_for_each_continue() and list_for_each_entry_continue(),
to iterate over a plist continuing after the current position.
Add plist_prev() and plist_next(), equivalent to (struct list_head*)->prev
and ->next, implemented by list_prev_entry() and list_next_entry(), to
access the prev/next struct plist_node entry. These are needed because
unlike struct list_head, direct access of the prev/next struct plist_node
isn't possible; the list must be navigated via the contained struct
list_head. e.g. instead of accessing the prev by list_prev_entry(node,
node_list) it can be accessed by plist_prev(node).
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijieut@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Streetman [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:12 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
swap: change swap_info singly-linked list to list_head
The logic controlling the singly-linked list of swap_info_struct entries
for all active, i.e. swapon'ed, swap targets is rather complex, because:
-it stores the entries in priority order
-there is a pointer to the highest priority entry
-there is a pointer to the highest priority not-full entry
-there is a highest_priority_index variable set outside the swap_lock
-swap entries of equal priority should be used equally
this complexity leads to bugs such as: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/13/181
where different priority swap targets are incorrectly used equally.
That bug probably could be solved with the existing singly-linked lists,
but I think it would only add more complexity to the already difficult to
understand get_swap_page() swap_list iteration logic.
The first patch changes from a singly-linked list to a doubly-linked list
using list_heads; the highest_priority_index and related code are removed
and get_swap_page() starts each iteration at the highest priority
swap_info entry, even if it's full. While this does introduce unnecessary
list iteration (i.e. Schlemiel the painter's algorithm) in the case where
one or more of the highest priority entries are full, the iteration and
manipulation code is much simpler and behaves correctly re: the above bug;
and the fourth patch removes the unnecessary iteration.
The second patch adds some minor plist helper functions; nothing new
really, just functions to match existing regular list functions. These
are used by the next two patches.
The third patch adds plist_requeue(), which is used by get_swap_page() in
the next patch - it performs the requeueing of same-priority entries
(which moves the entry to the end of its priority in the plist), so that
all equal-priority swap_info_structs get used equally.
The fourth patch converts the main list into a plist, and adds a new plist
that contains only swap_info entries that are both active and not full.
As Mel suggested using plists allows removing all the ordering code from
swap - plists handle ordering automatically. The list naming is also
clarified now that there are two lists, with the original list changed
from swap_list_head to swap_active_head and the new list named
swap_avail_head. A new spinlock is also added for the new list, so
swap_info entries can be added or removed from the new list immediately as
they become full or not full.
This patch (of 4):
Replace the singly-linked list tracking active, i.e. swapon'ed,
swap_info_struct entries with a doubly-linked list using struct
list_heads. Simplify the logic iterating and manipulating the list of
entries, especially get_swap_page(), by using standard list_head
functions, and removing the highest priority iteration logic.
The change fixes the bug:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/13/181
in which different priority swap entries after the highest priority entry
are incorrectly used equally in pairs. The swap behavior is now as
advertised, i.e. different priority swap entries are used in order, and
equal priority swap targets are used concurrently.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijieut@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:12 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: fold mlocked_vma_newpage() into its only call site
In previous commit(mm: use the light version __mod_zone_page_state in
mlocked_vma_newpage()) a irq-unsafe __mod_zone_page_state is used. And as
suggested by Andrew, to reduce the risks that new call sites incorrectly
using mlocked_vma_newpage() without knowing they are adding racing, this
patch folds mlocked_vma_newpage() into its only call site,
page_add_new_anon_rmap, to make it open-cocded for people to know what is
going on.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:11 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: use the light version __mod_zone_page_state in mlocked_vma_newpage()
mlocked_vma_newpage() is called with pte lock held(a spinlock), which
implies preemtion disabled, and the vm stat counter is not modified from
interrupt context, so we need not use an irq-safe mod_zone_page_state()
here, using a light-weight version __mod_zone_page_state() would be OK.
This patch also documents __mod_zone_page_state() and some of its
callsites. The comment above __mod_zone_page_state() is from Hugh
Dickins, and acked by Christoph.
Most credits to Hugh and Christoph for the clarification on the usage of
the __mod_zone_page_state().
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation
remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of huge
file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database
workloads.
Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no legitimate
use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available.
Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code.
The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on
each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent
one.
I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test
emulation impact on. I've checked Debian code search and source of all
packages in ALT Linux. No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in strace,
gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff.
There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall. They work just fine
with emulation.
To test performance impact, I've written small test case which demonstrate
pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to begin of
every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order, read every
page.
The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to set
vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM.
The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping,
that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a
nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using remap_file_pages()
over using repeated calls to mmap(2) is that the former approach does not
require the kernel to create additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data
structures.
Supporting of nonlinear mapping requires significant amount of non-trivial
code in kernel virtual memory subsystem including hot paths. Also to get
nonlinear mapping work kernel need a way to distinguish normal page table
entries from entries with file offset (pte_file). Kernel reserves flag in
PTE for this purpose. PTE flags are scarce resource especially on some
CPU architectures. It would be nice to free up the flag for other usage.
Fortunately, there are not many users of remap_file_pages() in the wild.
It's only known that one enterprise RDBMS implementation uses the syscall
on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit
virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit
systems are widely available.
The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation.
The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's
going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is
preserved.
One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit
vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment
for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT for more details on the limit.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:10 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm/compaction: avoid rescanning pageblocks in isolate_freepages
The compaction free scanner in isolate_freepages() currently remembers PFN
of the highest pageblock where it successfully isolates, to be used as the
starting pageblock for the next invocation. The rationale behind this is
that page migration might return free pages to the allocator when
migration fails and we don't want to skip them if the compaction
continues.
Since migration now returns free pages back to compaction code where they
can be reused, this is no longer a concern. This patch changes
isolate_freepages() so that the PFN for restarting is updated with each
pageblock where isolation is attempted. Using stress-highalloc from
mmtests, this resulted in 10% reduction of the pages scanned by the free
scanner.
Note that the somewhat similar functionality that records highest
successful pageblock in zone->compact_cached_free_pfn, remains unchanged.
This cache is used when the whole compaction is restarted, not for
multiple invocations of the free scanner during single compaction.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:10 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm/compaction: do not count migratepages when unnecessary
During compaction, update_nr_listpages() has been used to count remaining
non-migrated and free pages after a call to migrage_pages(). The
freepages counting has become unneccessary, and it turns out that
migratepages counting is also unnecessary in most cases.
The only situation when it's needed to count cc->migratepages is when
migrate_pages() returns with a negative error code. Otherwise, the
non-negative return value is the number of pages that were not migrated,
which is exactly the count of remaining pages in the cc->migratepages
list.
Furthermore, any non-zero count is only interesting for the tracepoint of
mm_compaction_migratepages events, because after that all remaining
unmigrated pages are put back and their count is set to 0.
This patch therefore removes update_nr_listpages() completely, and changes
the tracepoint definition so that the manual counting is done only when
the tracepoint is enabled, and only when migrate_pages() returns a
negative error code.
Furthermore, migrate_pages() and the tracepoints won't be called when
there's nothing to migrate. This potentially avoids some wasted cycles
and reduces the volume of uninteresting mm_compaction_migratepages events
where "nr_migrated=0 nr_failed=0". In the stress-highalloc mmtest, this
was about 75% of the events. The mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages event
is better for determining that nothing was isolated for migration, and
this one was just duplicating the info.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:09 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, compaction: terminate async compaction when rescheduling
Async compaction terminates prematurely when need_resched(), see
compact_checklock_irqsave(). This can never trigger, however, if the
cond_resched() in isolate_migratepages_range() always takes care of the
scheduling.
If the cond_resched() actually triggers, then terminate this pageblock
scan for async compaction as well.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:09 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, thp: avoid excessive compaction latency during fault fix
mm-thp-avoid-excessive-compaction-latency-during-fault.patch excludes sync
compaction for all high order allocations other than thp. What we really
want to do is suppress sync compaction for thp, but only during the page
fault path.
Orders greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER aren't necessarily going to
loop again so this is the only way to exhaust our capabilities before
declaring that we can't allocate.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:09 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, thp: avoid excessive compaction latency during fault
Synchronous memory compaction can be very expensive: it can iterate an
enormous amount of memory without aborting, constantly rescheduling,
waiting on page locks and lru_lock, etc, if a pageblock cannot be
defragmented.
Unfortunately, it's too expensive for transparent hugepage page faults and
it's much better to simply fallback to pages. On 128GB machines, we find
that synchronous memory compaction can take O(seconds) for a single thp
fault.
Now that async compaction remembers where it left off without strictly
relying on sync compaction, this makes thp allocations best-effort without
causing egregious latency during fault. We still need to retry async
compaction after reclaim, but this won't stall for seconds.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:08 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, compaction: embed migration mode in compact_control
We're going to want to manipulate the migration mode for compaction in the
page allocator, and currently compact_control's sync field is only a bool.
Currently, we only do MIGRATE_ASYNC or MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction
depending on the value of this bool. Convert the bool to enum
migrate_mode and pass the migration mode in directly. Later, we'll want
to avoid MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT for thp allocations in the pagefault patch to
avoid unnecessary latency.
This also alters compaction triggered from sysfs, either for the entire
system or for a node, to force MIGRATE_SYNC.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:08 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, compaction: add per-zone migration pfn cache for async compaction
Each zone has a cached migration scanner pfn for memory compaction so that
subsequent calls to memory compaction can start where the previous call
left off.
Currently, the compaction migration scanner only updates the per-zone
cached pfn when pageblocks were not skipped for async compaction. This
creates a dependency on calling sync compaction to avoid having subsequent
calls to async compaction from scanning an enormous amount of non-MOVABLE
pageblocks each time it is called. On large machines, this could be
potentially very expensive.
This patch adds a per-zone cached migration scanner pfn only for async
compaction. It is updated everytime a pageblock has been scanned in its
entirety and when no pages from it were successfully isolated. The cached
migration scanner pfn for sync compaction is updated only when called for
sync compaction.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:08 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, compaction: return failed migration target pages back to freelist
Greg reported that he found isolated free pages were returned back to the
VM rather than the compaction freelist. This will cause holes behind the
free scanner and cause it to reallocate additional memory if necessary
later.
He detected the problem at runtime seeing that ext4 metadata pages (esp
the ones read by "sbi->s_group_desc[i] = sb_bread(sb, block)") were
constantly visited by compaction calls of migrate_pages(). These pages
had a non-zero b_count which caused fallback_migrate_page() ->
try_to_release_page() -> try_to_free_buffers() to fail.
Memory compaction works by having a "freeing scanner" scan from one end of
a zone which isolates pages as migration targets while another "migrating
scanner" scans from the other end of the same zone which isolates pages
for migration.
When page migration fails for an isolated page, the target page is
returned to the system rather than the freelist built by the freeing
scanner. This may require the freeing scanner to continue scanning memory
after suitable migration targets have already been returned to the system
needlessly.
This patch returns destination pages to the freeing scanner freelist when
page migration fails. This prevents unnecessary work done by the freeing
scanner but also encourages memory to be as compacted as possible at the
end of the zone.
David Rientjes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:08 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm, migration: add destination page freeing callback
Memory migration uses a callback defined by the caller to determine how to
allocate destination pages. When migration fails for a source page,
however, it frees the destination page back to the system.
This patch adds a memory migration callback defined by the caller to
determine how to free destination pages. If a caller, such as memory
compaction, builds its own freelist for migration targets, this can reuse
already freed memory instead of scanning additional memory.
If the caller provides a function to handle freeing of destination pages,
it is called when page migration fails. If the caller passes NULL then
freeing back to the system will be handled as usual. This patch
introduces no functional change.
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:07 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
memcg: memcg_kmem_create_cache: make memcg_name_buf statically allocated
It isn't worth complicating the code by allocating it on the first access,
because it only takes 256 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:07 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
memcg: get rid of memcg_create_cache_name
Instead of calling back to memcontrol.c from kmem_cache_create_memcg in
order to just create the name of a per memcg cache, let's allocate it in
place. We only need to pass the memcg name to kmem_cache_create_memcg for
that - everything else can be done in slab_common.c.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Qiang Huang [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:06 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
memcg: fold mem_cgroup_stolen
It is only used in __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(), the name is
confusing and 2 routines for one thing also confuse people, so fold this
function seems more clear.
Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Emil Medve [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:06 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
arch/x86/mm/numa.c: use for_each_memblock()
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:05 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
Memcg zoneinfo lookup sites have either the page, the zone, or the node id
and zone index, but sites that only have the zone have to look up the node
id and zone index themselves, whereas sites that already have those two
integers use a function for a simple pointer chase.
Provide mem_cgroup_zone_zoneinfo() that takes a zone pointer and let sites
that already have node id and zone index - all for each node, for each
zone iterators - use &memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->zoneinfo[zid].
Rename page_cgroup_zoneinfo() to mem_cgroup_page_zoneinfo() to match.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Catalin Marinas [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:04 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
Kmemleak could ignore memory blocks allocated via memblock_alloc() leading
to false positives during scanning. This patch adds the corresponding
callbacks and removes kmemleak_free_* calls in mm/nobootmem.c to avoid
duplication. The kmemleak_alloc() in mm/nobootmem.c is kept since
__alloc_memory_core_early() does not use memblock_alloc() directly.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Catalin Marinas [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:04 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
When mempool_alloc() returns an existing pool object, kmemleak_alloc() is
no longer called and the stack trace corresponds to the original object
allocation. This patch updates the kmemleak allocation stack trace for
such objects to make it more useful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Catalin Marinas [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:04 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
Since radix_tree_preload() stack trace is not always useful for debugging
an actual radix tree memory leak, this patch updates the kmemleak
allocation stack trace in the radix_tree_node_alloc() function.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Catalin Marinas [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:04 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
The memory allocation stack trace is not always useful for debugging a
memory leak (e.g. radix_tree_preload). This function, when called,
updates the stack trace for an already allocated object.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:03 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: pgtable -- Require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker, v2
v2 (by akpm@):
- guard helpers with CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY on i386, otherwise
it fails to build because we've a generic definitions in
asm-generic/pgtable.h
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:03 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: x86 pgtable: require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker
Tracking dirty status on 2 level pages requires very ugly macros and
taking into account how old the machines who can operate without PAE mode
only are, lets drop soft dirty tracker from them for code simplicity (note
I can't drop all the macros from 2 level pages by now since
_PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE and _PAGE_BIT_FILE are still used even without
tracker).
Linus proposed to completely rip off softdirty support on x86-32 (even
with PAE) and since for CRIU we're not planning to support native x86-32
mode, lets do that.
(Softdirty tracker is relatively new feature which is mostly used by CRIU
so I don't expect if such API change would cause problems for userspace).
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cleanups:
- move pte-related code to separate function. It's about half of the
function;
- get rid of some goto-logic;
- use 'return NULL' instead of 'return page' where page can only be
NULL;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:01 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
vmscan: memcg: always use swappiness of the reclaimed memcg
Memory reclaim always uses swappiness of the reclaim target memcg (origin
of the memory pressure) or vm_swappiness for global memory reclaim. This
behavior was consistent (except for difference between global and hard
limit reclaim) because swappiness was enforced to be consistent within
each memcg hierarchy.
After "mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and
oom_control" each memcg can have its own swappiness independent of
hierarchical parents, though, so the consistency guarantee is gone. This
can lead to an unexpected behavior. Say that a group is explicitly
configured to not swapout by memory.swappiness=0 but its memory gets
swapped out anyway when the memory pressure comes from its parent with a
It is also unexpected that the knob is meaningless without setting the
hard limit which would trigger the reclaim and enforce the swappiness.
There are setups where the hard limit is configured higher in the
hierarchy by an administrator and children groups are under control of
somebody else who is interested in the swapout behavior but not
necessarily about the memory limit.
From a semantic point of view swappiness is an attribute defining anon vs.
file proportional scanning of LRU which is memcg specific (unlike charges
which are propagated up the hierarchy) so it should be applied to the
particular memcg's LRU regardless where the memory pressure comes from.
This patch removes vmscan_swappiness() and stores the swappiness into the
scan_control structure. mem_cgroup_swappiness is then used to provide the
correct value before shrink_lruvec is called. The global vm_swappiness is
used for the root memcg.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Hansen [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:02:01 +0000 (10:02 +1000)]
mm: shrinker: add nid to tracepoint output
Now that we are doing NUMA-aware shrinking, and can have
shrinkers running in parallel, or working on individual nodes, it
seems like we should also be sticking the node in the output.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
and noticed that "total_scan" can go negative in some cases. We
used to dump out the "total_scan" variable directly, but some of
the shrinker modifications along the way changed that.
This patch just dumps it out directly, again. It doesn't make
any sense to derive it from new_nr and nr any more since there
are now other shrinkers that can be running in parallel and
mucking with those values.
Here's an example of the negative numbers in the output:
> kswapd0-840 [000] 160.869398: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 10 new scan count 39 total_scan 29 last shrinker return val 256
> kswapd0-840 [000] 160.869618: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 39 new scan count 102 total_scan 63 last shrinker return val 256
> kswapd0-840 [000] 160.870031: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 102 new scan count 47 total_scan -55 last shrinker return val 768
> kswapd0-840 [000] 160.870464: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 47 new scan count 45 total_scan -2 last shrinker return val 768
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384144: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 45 new scan count 56 total_scan 11 last shrinker return val 0
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384297: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 56 new scan count 15 total_scan -41 last shrinker return val 256
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384414: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 15 new scan count 117 total_scan 102 last shrinker return val 0
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384657: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 117 new scan count 36 total_scan -81 last shrinker return val 512
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384880: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 36 new scan count 111 total_scan 75 last shrinker return val 256
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.385256: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 111 new scan count 34 total_scan -77 last shrinker return val 768
> kswapd0-840 [000] 163.385598: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 34 new scan count 122 total_scan 88 last shrinker return val 512
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:59 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
memcg: allow setting low_limit
Export memory.low_limit_in_bytes knob with the same rules as the hard
limit represented by limit_in_bytes knob (e.g. no limit to be set for the
root cgroup). There is no memsw alternative for low_limit_in_bytes
because the primary motivation behind this limit is to protect the working
set of the group and so considering swap doesn't make much sense. There
is also no kmem variant exported because we do not have any easy way to
protect kernel allocations now.
Please note that the low limit might exceed the hard limit which basically
means that the group is not reclaimable if there is other reclaim target
in the hierarchy under pressure.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:59 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
memcg, mm: introduce lowlimit reclaim
Previous discussions have shown that soft limits cannot be reformed
(http://lwn.net/Articles/555249/). This series introduces an alternative
approach for protecting memory allocated to processes executing within a
memory cgroup controller. It is based on a new tunable that was discussed
with Johannes and Tejun held during the kernel summit 2013 and at LSF
2014.
This patchset introduces such low limit that is functionally similar to a
minimum guarantee. Memcgs which are under their lowlimit are not
considered eligible for the reclaim (both global and hardlimit) unless all
groups under the reclaimed hierarchy are below the low limit when all of
them are considered eligible.
The previous version of the patchset posted as a RFC
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=138677140628677&w=2) suggested a hard
guarantee without any fallback. More discussions led me to reconsidering
the default behavior and come up a more relaxed one. The hard requirement
can be added later based on a use case which really requires. It would be
controlled by memory.reclaim_flags knob which would specify whether to OOM
or fallback (default) when all groups are bellow low limit.
The default value of the limit is 0 so all groups are eligible by default
and an interested party has to explicitly set the limit.
The primary use case is to protect an amount of memory allocated to a
workload without it being reclaimed by an unrelated activity. In some
cases this requirement can be fulfilled by mlock but it is not suitable
for many loads and generally requires application awareness. Such
application awareness can be complex. It effectively forbids the use of
memory overcommit as the application must explicitly manage memory
residency.
With the low limit, such workloads can be placed in a memcg with a low
limit that protects the estimated working set.
The hierarchical behavior of the lowlimit is described in the first patch.
The second patch allows setting the lowlimit. The last 2 patches clarify
documentation about the memcg reclaim in gereneral (3rd patch) and low
limit (4th patch).
This patch (of 4)
This patch introduces low limit reclaim. The low_limit acts as a reclaim
protection because groups which are under their low_limit are considered
ineligible for reclaim. While hardlimit protects from using more memory
than allowed lowlimit protects from getting below memory assigned to the
group due to external memory pressure.
More precisely a group is considered eligible for the reclaim under a
specific hierarchy represented by its root only if the group is above its
low limit and the same applies to all parents up the hierarchy to the
root. Nevertheless the limit still might be ignored if all groups under
the reclaimed hierarchy are under their low limits. This will prevent
from OOM rather than protecting the memory.
Consider the following hierarchy with memory pressure coming from the
group A (hard limit reclaim - l-low_limit_in_bytes, u-usage_in_bytes,
h-limit_in_bytes):
root_mem_cgroup
.
_____/
/
A (l = 80 u=90 h=90)
/
/ \_________
/ \
B (l=0 u=50) C (l=50 u=40)
\
D (l=0 u=30)
A and B are reclaimable but C and D are not (D is protected by C).
The low_limit is 0 by default so every group is eligible. This patch
doesn't provide a way to set the limit yet although the core
infrastructure is there already.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Daeseok Youn [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:59 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm/dmapool.c: remove redundant NULL check for dev in dma_pool_create()
"dev" cannot be NULL because it is already checked before calling
dma_pool_create().
If dev ever was NULL, the code would oops in dev_to_node() after enabling
CONFIG_NUMA.
It is possible that some driver is using dev==NULL and has never been run
on a NUMA machine. Such a driver is probably outdated, possibly buggy and
will need some attention if it starts triggering NULL derefs.
Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:58 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail()
Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have
======
if (likely(!PageTail(page))) { <------ (1)
if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
/*
¦* By the time all refcounts have been released
¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us.
¦*/
if (PageHead(page))
__put_compound_page(page);
else
__put_single_page(page);
}
return;
}
/* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */
page_head = compound_head(page); <------------ (2)
======
if at (1) , we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page.
Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is :
smp_rmb();
if (likely(PageTail(page)))
return head;
}
return page;
}
======
here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is
*likely* a tail page. So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I
introduce a helper for this case.
So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a
possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make
compound_head() a wrapper on it.
This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object
size slightly:
text data bss dec hex filename
11003 1328 16 12347 303b mm/swap.o.orig
10971 1328 16 12315 301b mm/swap.o.patched
I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case.
As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case
happens. But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some
other call sites could be benifited from this helper. And given that it
only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object
size. I still believe this helper deserves to exsit.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:58 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm/swap.c: split put_compound_page()
Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid
racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite
lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it
quite hard to follow and maintain.
Now based on two helpers introduced in the previous patch ("mm/swap.c:
introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for spliting
put_compound_page"), this patch replaces those two lengthy code paths with
these two helpers, respectively. Also, it has some comment rephrasing.
After this patch, the put_compound_page() is very compact, thus easy to
read and maintain.
After splitting, the object file is of same size as the original one.
Actually, I've diff'ed put_compound_page()'s orginal disassemble code and
the patched disassemble code, the are 100% the same!
This fact shows that this splitting has no functional change, but it
brings readability.
This patch and the previous one blow the code by 32 lines, mostly due to
comments.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:58 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm/swap.c: introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for splitting put_compound_page()
Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid
racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite
lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it
quite hard to follow and maintain.
This patch and the next patch refactor this function.
Based on the code skeleton of put_compound_page:
put_compound_pge:
if !PageTail(page)
put head page fastpath;
return;
/* else PageTail */
page_head = compound_head(page)
if !__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head)
put head page optimal path; <---(1)
return;
else
put head page slowpath; <--- (2)
return;
This patch introduces two helpers, put_[un]refcounted_compound_page,
handling the code path (1) and code path (2), respectively. They both are
tagged __always_inline, thus elmiating function call overhead, making them
operating the same way as before.
They are almost copied verbatim(except one place, a "goto out_put_single"
is expanded), with some comments rephrasing.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rasmus Villemoes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:57 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm: constify nmask argument to set_mempolicy()
The nmask argument to set_mempolicy() is const according to the user-space
header numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might
as well be declared const in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rasmus Villemoes [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:57 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
mm: constify nmask argument to mbind()
The nmask argument to mbind() is const according to the userspace header
numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might as well
be declared const in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This doesn't really hurt but unnecessary and misleading. init_task is the
"swapper" thread == current, its ->mm is always NULL. And init_mm can
only be used as ->active_mm, not as ->mm.
mm_init_owner() has a single caller with this patch, perhaps it should
die. mm_init() can initialize ->owner under #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:56 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
memcg: optimize the "Search everything else" loop in mm_update_next_owner()
for_each_process_thread() is sub-optimal. All threads share the same
->mm, we can swicth to the next process once we found a thread with
->mm != NULL and ->mm != mm.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:56 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
memcg: mm_update_next_owner() should skip kthreads
"Search through everything else" in mm_update_next_owner() can hit a
kthread which adopted this "mm" via use_mm(), it should not be used as
mm->owner. Add the PF_KTHREAD check.
While at it, change this code to use for_each_process_thread()
instead of deprecated do_each_thread/while_each_thread.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 14 May 2014 00:01:55 +0000 (10:01 +1000)]
brd: return -ENOSPC rather than -ENOMEM on page allocation failure
brd is effectively a thinly provisioned device. Thinly provisioned
devices return -ENOSPC when they can't write a new block. -ENOMEM is an
implementation detail that callers shouldn't know.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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