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2025-04-17mm: vmscan: fix kswapd exit condition in defrag_modeJohannes Weiner
Vlastimil points out an issue with kswapd in defrag_mode not waking up kcompactd reliably. Background: When kswapd is woken for any higher-order request, it initially checks those high-order watermarks to decide if work is necesary. However, it cannot (efficiently) meet the contiguity goal of such a request by itself. So once it has reclaimed a compaction gap, it adjusts the request down to check for free order-0 pages, then wakes kcompactd to coalesce them into larger blocks. In defrag_mode, the initial watermark check needs to be analogously against free pageblocks. However, once kswapd drops the high-order to hand off contiguity work, it also needs to fall back to base page watermarks - otherwise it'll keep reclaiming until blocks are freed. While it appears kcompactd is woken up frequently enough to do most of the compaction work, kswapd ends up overreclaiming by quite a bit: DEFRAGMODE DEFRAGMODE-thispatch Hugealloc Time mean 79381.34 ( +0.00%) 88126.12 ( +11.02%) Hugealloc Time stddev 85852.16 ( +0.00%) 135366.75 ( +57.67%) Kbuild Real time 249.35 ( +0.00%) 226.71 ( -9.04%) Kbuild User time 1249.16 ( +0.00%) 1249.37 ( +0.02%) Kbuild System time 171.76 ( +0.00%) 166.93 ( -2.79%) THP fault alloc 51666.87 ( +0.00%) 52685.60 ( +1.97%) THP fault fallback 16970.00 ( +0.00%) 15951.87 ( -6.00%) Direct compact fail 166.53 ( +0.00%) 178.93 ( +7.40%) Direct compact success 17.13 ( +0.00%) 4.13 ( -71.69%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 3095413.33 ( +0.00%) 9231239.53 ( +198.22%) Compact daemon scanned free 2155966.53 ( +0.00%) 7053692.87 ( +227.17%) Compact direct scanned migrate 265642.47 ( +0.00%) 68388.33 ( -74.26%) Compact direct scanned free 130252.60 ( +0.00%) 55634.87 ( -57.29%) Compact total migrate scanned 3361055.80 ( +0.00%) 9299627.87 ( +176.69%) Compact total free scanned 2286219.13 ( +0.00%) 7109327.73 ( +210.96%) Alloc stall 1890.80 ( +0.00%) 6297.60 ( +232.94%) Pages kswapd scanned 9043558.80 ( +0.00%) 5952576.73 ( -34.18%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 1891708.67 ( +0.00%) 1030645.00 ( -45.52%) Pages direct scanned 1017090.60 ( +0.00%) 2688047.60 ( +164.29%) Pages direct reclaimed 92682.60 ( +0.00%) 309770.53 ( +234.22%) Pages total scanned 10060649.40 ( +0.00%) 8640624.33 ( -14.11%) Pages total reclaimed 1984391.27 ( +0.00%) 1340415.53 ( -32.45%) Swap out 884585.73 ( +0.00%) 417781.93 ( -52.77%) Swap in 287106.27 ( +0.00%) 95589.73 ( -66.71%) File refaults 551697.60 ( +0.00%) 426474.80 ( -22.70%) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416135142.778933-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-17mm: vmscan: restore high-cpu watermark safety in kswapdJohannes Weiner
Vlastimil points out that commit a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") switched kswapd from zone_watermark_ok_safe() to the standard, percpu-cached version of reading free pages, thus dropping the watermark safety precautions for systems with high CPU counts (e.g. >212 cpus on 64G). Restore them. Since zone_watermark_ok_safe() is no longer the right interface, and this was the last caller of the function anyway, open-code the zone_page_state_snapshot() conditional and delete the function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416135142.778933-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide compile-time checking of percpu area accesses. This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect. - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code. - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed. - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained. - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime effects are anticipated. - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark. - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan noticed when working on the swap code. - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible output. - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's handling of large folios. - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions. - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields. - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by huge page sizes. - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and file-backed mappings. - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for pte-mapped large folios. - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one microbenchmark. - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON docs. - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed when using CMA on large machines. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the page's mapped/unmapped status. - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression operations preemptibly. - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests. - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to determine whether a particular page is a guard page. - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't being effective. - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this code. - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic. - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for DAMON's aggregation interval tuning. - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize vmalloc. - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code easier to follow. - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which we accidentally added late last year. - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page initialization. - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page balancing code. - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention is updated accordingly. - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc. - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as it claims. - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case checks. - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code. - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped exclusively into a single MM. - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters. - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical. - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs access to DAMON internal data. - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and cmdline options. - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are generated. - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during an xarray split. - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code. - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the page allocator code. - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work. - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation. - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing fragmentation. - The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs. - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages, separately for file and anon pages. - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim statistics. - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits) mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex() x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() ...
2025-03-21mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folioJinjiang Tu
Syzkaller reports a bug as follows: Injecting memory failure for pfn 0x18b00e at process virtual address 0x20ffd000 Memory failure: 0x18b00e: dirty swapcache page still referenced by 2 users Memory failure: 0x18b00e: recovery action for dirty swapcache page: Failed page: refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x20ffd pfn:0x18b00e memcg:ffff0000dd6d9000 anon flags: 0x5ffffe00482011(locked|dirty|arch_1|swapbacked|hwpoison|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff) raw: 005ffffe00482011 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff0000e232a7c9 raw: 0000000000020ffd 0000000000000000 00000002ffffffff ffff0000dd6d9000 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:184! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 60 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 6.6.0-gcb097e7de84e #3 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : add_to_swap+0xbc/0x158 lr : add_to_swap+0xbc/0x158 sp : ffff800087f37340 x29: ffff800087f37340 x28: fffffc00052c0380 x27: ffff800087f37780 x26: ffff800087f37490 x25: ffff800087f37c78 x24: ffff800087f377a0 x23: ffff800087f37c50 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: fffffc00052c03b4 x20: 0000000000000000 x19: fffffc00052c0380 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 296f696c6f662865 x16: 7461646f7470755f x15: 747365745f6f696c x14: 6f6621284f494c4f x13: 0000000000000001 x12: ffff600036d8b97b x11: 1fffe00036d8b97a x10: ffff600036d8b97a x9 : dfff800000000000 x8 : 00009fffc9274686 x7 : ffff0001b6c5cbd3 x6 : 0000000000000001 x5 : ffff0000c25896c0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000c25896c0 x0 : 0000000000000000 Call trace: add_to_swap+0xbc/0x158 shrink_folio_list+0x12ac/0x2648 shrink_inactive_list+0x318/0x948 shrink_lruvec+0x450/0x720 shrink_node_memcgs+0x280/0x4a8 shrink_node+0x128/0x978 balance_pgdat+0x4f0/0xb20 kswapd+0x228/0x438 kthread+0x214/0x230 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 I can reproduce this issue with the following steps: 1) When a dirty swapcache page is isolated by reclaim process and the page isn't locked, inject memory failure for the page. me_swapcache_dirty() clears uptodate flag and tries to delete from lru, but fails. Reclaim process will put the hwpoisoned page back to lru. 2) The process that maps the hwpoisoned page exits, the page is deleted the page will never be freed and will be in the lru forever. 3) If we trigger a reclaim again and tries to reclaim the page, add_to_swap() will trigger VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO due to the uptodate flag is cleared. To fix it, skip the hwpoisoned page in shrink_folio_list(). Besides, the hwpoison folio may not be unmapped by hwpoison_user_mappings() yet, unmap it in shrink_folio_list(), otherwise the folio will fail to be unmaped by hwpoison_user_mappings() since the folio isn't in lru list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318083939.987651-3-tujinjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger,kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-21mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statisticsHao Jia
Patch series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics". These two patches are related to proactive memory reclaim. Patch 1 Split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim counters and introduces new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive. Patch 2 Adds pswpin and pswpout items to the cgroup-v2 documentation. This patch (of 2): In proactive memory reclaim scenarios, it is necessary to accurately track proactive reclaim statistics to dynamically adjust the frequency and amount of memory being reclaimed proactively. Currently, proactive reclaim is included in direct reclaim statistics, which can make these direct reclaim statistics misleading. Therefore, separate proactive reclaim memory from the direct reclaim counters by introducing new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive, to avoid confusion with direct reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-2-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao1@lixiang.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarksJohannes Weiner
The previous patch added pageblock_order reclaim to kswapd/kcompactd, which helps, but produces only one block at a time. Allocation stalls and THP failure rates are still higher than they could be. To adequately reflect ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT demand for pageblocks, change the watermarking for kswapd & kcompactd: instead of targeting the high watermark in order-0 pages and checking for one suitable block, simply require that the high watermark is entirely met in pageblocks. To this end, track the number of free pages within contiguous pageblocks, then change pgdat_balanced() and compact_finished() to check watermarks against this new value. This further reduces THP latencies and allocation stalls, and improves THP success rates against the previous patch: DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC-WMARKS Hugealloc Time mean 34300.36 ( +0.00%) 28904.00 ( -15.73%) Hugealloc Time stddev 36390.42 ( +0.00%) 33464.37 ( -8.04%) Kbuild Real time 196.13 ( +0.00%) 196.59 ( +0.23%) Kbuild User time 1234.74 ( +0.00%) 1231.67 ( -0.25%) Kbuild System time 62.62 ( +0.00%) 59.10 ( -5.54%) THP fault alloc 57054.53 ( +0.00%) 63223.67 ( +10.81%) THP fault fallback 11581.40 ( +0.00%) 5412.47 ( -53.26%) Direct compact fail 107.80 ( +0.00%) 59.07 ( -44.79%) Direct compact success 4.53 ( +0.00%) 2.80 ( -31.33%) Direct compact success rate % 3.20 ( +0.00%) 3.99 ( +18.66%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 5461033.93 ( +0.00%) 2267500.33 ( -58.48%) Compact daemon scanned free 5824897.93 ( +0.00%) 2339773.00 ( -59.83%) Compact direct scanned migrate 58336.93 ( +0.00%) 47659.93 ( -18.30%) Compact direct scanned free 32791.87 ( +0.00%) 40729.67 ( +24.21%) Compact total migrate scanned 5519370.87 ( +0.00%) 2315160.27 ( -58.05%) Compact total free scanned 5857689.80 ( +0.00%) 2380502.67 ( -59.36%) Alloc stall 2424.60 ( +0.00%) 638.87 ( -73.62%) Pages kswapd scanned 2657018.33 ( +0.00%) 4002186.33 ( +50.63%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 559583.07 ( +0.00%) 718577.80 ( +28.41%) Pages direct scanned 722094.07 ( +0.00%) 355172.73 ( -50.81%) Pages direct reclaimed 107257.80 ( +0.00%) 31162.80 ( -70.95%) Pages total scanned 3379112.40 ( +0.00%) 4357359.07 ( +28.95%) Pages total reclaimed 666840.87 ( +0.00%) 749740.60 ( +12.43%) Swap out 77238.20 ( +0.00%) 110084.33 ( +42.53%) Swap in 11712.80 ( +0.00%) 24457.00 ( +108.80%) File refaults 143438.80 ( +0.00%) 188226.93 ( +31.22%) Also of note is that compaction work overall is reduced. The reason for this is that when free pageblocks are more readily available, allocations are also much more likely to get physically placed in LRU order, instead of being forced to scavenge free space here and there. This means that reclaim by itself has better chances of freeing up whole blocks, and the system relies less on compaction. Comparing all changes to the vanilla kernel: VANILLA DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC-WMARKS Hugealloc Time mean 52739.45 ( +0.00%) 28904.00 ( -45.19%) Hugealloc Time stddev 56541.26 ( +0.00%) 33464.37 ( -40.81%) Kbuild Real time 197.47 ( +0.00%) 196.59 ( -0.44%) Kbuild User time 1240.49 ( +0.00%) 1231.67 ( -0.71%) Kbuild System time 70.08 ( +0.00%) 59.10 ( -15.45%) THP fault alloc 46727.07 ( +0.00%) 63223.67 ( +35.30%) THP fault fallback 21910.60 ( +0.00%) 5412.47 ( -75.29%) Direct compact fail 195.80 ( +0.00%) 59.07 ( -69.48%) Direct compact success 7.93 ( +0.00%) 2.80 ( -57.46%) Direct compact success rate % 3.51 ( +0.00%) 3.99 ( +10.49%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 3369601.27 ( +0.00%) 2267500.33 ( -32.71%) Compact daemon scanned free 5075474.47 ( +0.00%) 2339773.00 ( -53.90%) Compact direct scanned migrate 161787.27 ( +0.00%) 47659.93 ( -70.54%) Compact direct scanned free 163467.53 ( +0.00%) 40729.67 ( -75.08%) Compact total migrate scanned 3531388.53 ( +0.00%) 2315160.27 ( -34.44%) Compact total free scanned 5238942.00 ( +0.00%) 2380502.67 ( -54.56%) Alloc stall 2371.07 ( +0.00%) 638.87 ( -73.02%) Pages kswapd scanned 2160926.73 ( +0.00%) 4002186.33 ( +85.21%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 533191.07 ( +0.00%) 718577.80 ( +34.77%) Pages direct scanned 400450.33 ( +0.00%) 355172.73 ( -11.31%) Pages direct reclaimed 94441.73 ( +0.00%) 31162.80 ( -67.00%) Pages total scanned 2561377.07 ( +0.00%) 4357359.07 ( +70.12%) Pages total reclaimed 627632.80 ( +0.00%) 749740.60 ( +19.46%) Swap out 47959.53 ( +0.00%) 110084.33 ( +129.53%) Swap in 7276.00 ( +0.00%) 24457.00 ( +236.10%) File refaults 138043.00 ( +0.00%) 188226.93 ( +36.35%) THP allocation latencies and %sys time are down dramatically. THP allocation failures are down from nearly 50% to 8.5%. And to recall previous data points, the success rates are steady and reliable without the cumulative deterioration of fragmentation events. Compaction work is down overall. Direct compaction work especially is drastically reduced. As an aside, its success rate of 4% indicates there is room for improvement. For now it's good to rely on it less. Reclaim work is up overall, however direct reclaim work is down. Part of the increase can be attributed to a higher use of THPs, which due to internal fragmentation increase the memory footprint. This is not necessarily an unexpected side-effect for users of THP. However, taken both points together, there may well be some opportunities for fine tuning in the reclaim/compaction coordination. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix squawks from rebasing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314210558.GD1316033@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313210647.1314586-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: compaction: push watermark into compaction_suitable() callersJohannes Weiner
Patch series "mm: reliable huge page allocator". This series makes changes to the allocator and reclaim/compaction code to try harder to avoid fragmentation. As a result, this makes huge page allocations cheaper, more reliable and more sustainable. It's a subset of the huge page allocator RFC initially proposed here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230418191313.268131-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org/ The following results are from a kernel build test, with additional concurrent bursts of THP allocations on a memory-constrained system. Comparing before and after the changes over 15 runs: before after Hugealloc Time mean 52739.45 ( +0.00%) 28904.00 ( -45.19%) Hugealloc Time stddev 56541.26 ( +0.00%) 33464.37 ( -40.81%) Kbuild Real time 197.47 ( +0.00%) 196.59 ( -0.44%) Kbuild User time 1240.49 ( +0.00%) 1231.67 ( -0.71%) Kbuild System time 70.08 ( +0.00%) 59.10 ( -15.45%) THP fault alloc 46727.07 ( +0.00%) 63223.67 ( +35.30%) THP fault fallback 21910.60 ( +0.00%) 5412.47 ( -75.29%) Direct compact fail 195.80 ( +0.00%) 59.07 ( -69.48%) Direct compact success 7.93 ( +0.00%) 2.80 ( -57.46%) Direct compact success rate % 3.51 ( +0.00%) 3.99 ( +10.49%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 3369601.27 ( +0.00%) 2267500.33 ( -32.71%) Compact daemon scanned free 5075474.47 ( +0.00%) 2339773.00 ( -53.90%) Compact direct scanned migrate 161787.27 ( +0.00%) 47659.93 ( -70.54%) Compact direct scanned free 163467.53 ( +0.00%) 40729.67 ( -75.08%) Compact total migrate scanned 3531388.53 ( +0.00%) 2315160.27 ( -34.44%) Compact total free scanned 5238942.00 ( +0.00%) 2380502.67 ( -54.56%) Alloc stall 2371.07 ( +0.00%) 638.87 ( -73.02%) Pages kswapd scanned 2160926.73 ( +0.00%) 4002186.33 ( +85.21%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 533191.07 ( +0.00%) 718577.80 ( +34.77%) Pages direct scanned 400450.33 ( +0.00%) 355172.73 ( -11.31%) Pages direct reclaimed 94441.73 ( +0.00%) 31162.80 ( -67.00%) Pages total scanned 2561377.07 ( +0.00%) 4357359.07 ( +70.12%) Pages total reclaimed 627632.80 ( +0.00%) 749740.60 ( +19.46%) Swap out 47959.53 ( +0.00%) 110084.33 ( +129.53%) Swap in 7276.00 ( +0.00%) 24457.00 ( +236.10%) File refaults 138043.00 ( +0.00%) 188226.93 ( +36.35%) THP latencies are cut in half, and failure rates are cut by 75%. These metrics also hold up over time, while the vanilla kernel sees a steady downward trend in success rates with each subsequent run, owed to the cumulative effects of fragmentation. A more detailed discussion of results is in the patch changelogs. The patches first introduce a vm.defrag_mode sysctl, which enforces the existing ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT alloc flag until after reclaim and compaction have run. They then change kswapd and kcompactd to target pageblocks, which boosts success in the ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT hotpaths. Patches #1 and #2 are somewhat unrelated cleanups, but touch the same code and so are included here to avoid conflicts from re-ordering. This patch (of 5): compaction_suitable() hardcodes the min watermark, with a boost to the low watermark for costly orders. However, compaction_ready() requires order-0 at the high watermark. It currently checks the marks twice. Make the watermark a parameter to compaction_suitable() and have the callers pass in what they require: - compaction_zonelist_suitable() is used by the direct reclaim path, so use the min watermark. - compact_suit_allocation_order() has a watermark in context derived from cc->alloc_flags. The only quirk is that kcompactd doesn't initialize cc->alloc_flags explicitly. There is a direct check in kcompactd_do_work() that passes ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, but there is another check downstack in compact_zone() that ends up passing the unset alloc_flags. Since they default to 0, and that coincides with ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, it is correct. But it's subtle. Set cc->alloc_flags explicitly. - should_continue_reclaim() is direct reclaim, use the min watermark. - Finally, consolidate the two checks in compaction_ready() to a single compaction_suitable() call passing the high watermark. There is a tiny change in behavior: before, compaction_suitable() would check order-0 against min or low, depending on costly order. Then there'd be another high watermark check. Now, the high watermark is passed to compaction_suitable(), and the costly order-boost (low - min) is added on top. This means compaction_ready() sets a marginally higher target for free pages. In a kernelbuild + THP pressure test, though, this didn't show any measurable negative effects on memory pressure or reclaim rates. As the comment above the check says, reclaim is usually stopped short on should_continue_reclaim(), and this just defines the worst-case reclaim cutoff in case compaction is not making any headway. [hughd@google.com: stop oops on out-of-range highest_zoneidx] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/005ace8b-07fa-01d4-b54b-394a3e029c07@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313210647.1314586-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313210647.1314586-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: lock PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED with acquire memory orderingMathieu Desnoyers
The PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED bit is used to provide mutual exclusion of node reclaim for struct pglist_data using a single bit. Use test_and_set_bit_lock rather than test_and_set_bit to test-and-set PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED with an acquire memory ordering semantic. This changes the "lock" acquisition from a full barrier to an acquire memory ordering, which is weaker. The acquire semi-permeable barrier paired with the release on unlock is sufficient for this mutual exclusion use-case. No behavior change intended other than to reduce overhead by using the appropriate barrier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312141014.129725-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk> Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: add missing release barrier on PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED unlockMathieu Desnoyers
The PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED bit is used to provide mutual exclusion of node reclaim for struct pglist_data using a single bit. It is "locked" with a test_and_set_bit (similarly to a try lock) which provides full ordering with respect to loads and stores done within __node_reclaim(). It is "unlocked" with clear_bit(), which does not provide any ordering with respect to loads and stores done before clearing the bit. The lack of clear_bit() memory ordering with respect to stores within __node_reclaim() can cause a subsequent CPU to fail to observe stores from a prior node reclaim. This is not an issue in practice on TSO (e.g. x86), but it is an issue on weakly-ordered architectures (e.g. arm64). Fix this by using clear_bit_unlock rather than clear_bit to clear PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED with a release memory ordering semantic. This provides stronger memory ordering (release rather than relaxed). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312141014.129725-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: d773ed6b856a ("mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk> Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm, swap: simplify folio swap allocationKairui Song
With slot cache gone, clean up the allocation helpers even more. folio_alloc_swap will be the only entry for allocation and adding the folio to swap cache (except suspend), making it opposite of folio_free_swap. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313165935.63303-8-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16vmscan, cleanup: add for_each_managed_zone_pgdat macroBertrand Wlodarczyk
The macro is introduced to eliminate redundancy in the repeated iteration over managed zones in pgdat data structure, reducing the potential for errors. This change doesn't introduce any functional modifications. Due to concentration of the pattern in vmscan.c the macro is placed locally in that file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210160818.686-1-bertrand.wlodarczyk@intel.com Signed-off-by: Bertrand Wlodarczyk <bertrand.wlodarczyk@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm/vmscan: extract calculated pressure balance as a functionHao Zhang
Extract pressure balance calculation into a function.This doesn't change current behaviour. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-col wrapping] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_735DB36A2306C08B8568049E4C0B99716C07@qq.com Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang <zhanghao1@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: memcontrol: move memsw charge callbacks to v1Johannes Weiner
The interweaving of two entirely different swap accounting strategies has been one of the more confusing parts of the memcg code. Split out the v1 code to clarify the implementation and a handful of callsites, and to avoid building the v1 bits when !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1. text data bss dec hex filename 39253 6446 4160 49859 c2c3 mm/memcontrol.o.old 38877 6382 4160 49419 c10b mm/memcontrol.o Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250124054132.45643-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-02-07mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.cKaixiong Yu
This moves vm_swappiness and zone_reclaim_mode to mm/vmscan.c, as part of the kernel/sysctl.c cleaning, also moves some external variable declarations and function declarations from include/linux/swap.h into mm/internal.h. Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-02-01mm/vmscan: accumulate nr_demoted for accurate demotion statisticsLi Zhijian
In shrink_folio_list(), demote_folio_list() can be called 2 times. Currently stat->nr_demoted will only store the last nr_demoted( the later nr_demoted is always zero, the former nr_demoted will get lost), as a result number of demoted pages is not accurate. Accumulate the nr_demoted count across multiple calls to demote_folio_list(), ensuring accurate reporting of demotion statistics. [lizhijian@fujitsu.com: introduce local nr_demoted to fix nr_reclaimed double counting] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111015253.425693-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110122133.423481-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com Fixes: f77f0c751478 ("mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations") Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu> Tested-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-02-01mm/vmscan: fix hard LOCKUP in function isolate_lru_foliosliuye
This fixes the following hard lockup in isolate_lru_folios() during memory reclaim. If the LRU mostly contains ineligible folios this may trigger watchdog. watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 173 RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x255/0x2a0 Call Trace: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x31/0x40 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x5f/0x90 folio_batch_move_lru+0x91/0x150 lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x1c/0x40 process_one_work+0x17d/0x350 worker_thread+0x27b/0x3a0 kthread+0xe8/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 lruvec->lru_lock owner: PID: 2865 TASK: ffff888139214d40 CPU: 40 COMMAND: "kswapd0" #0 [fffffe0000945e60] crash_nmi_callback at ffffffffa567a555 #1 [fffffe0000945e68] nmi_handle at ffffffffa563b171 #2 [fffffe0000945eb0] default_do_nmi at ffffffffa6575920 #3 [fffffe0000945ed0] exc_nmi at ffffffffa6575af4 #4 [fffffe0000945ef0] end_repeat_nmi at ffffffffa6601dde [exception RIP: isolate_lru_folios+403] RIP: ffffffffa597df53 RSP: ffffc90006fb7c28 RFLAGS: 00000002 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffc90006fb7c60 RCX: ffffea04a2196f88 RDX: ffffc90006fb7c60 RSI: ffffc90006fb7c60 RDI: ffffea04a2197048 RBP: ffff88812cbd3010 R8: ffffea04a2197008 R9: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffea04a2197008 R13: ffffea04a2197048 R14: ffffc90006fb7de8 R15: 0000000003e3e937 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 <NMI exception stack> #5 [ffffc90006fb7c28] isolate_lru_folios at ffffffffa597df53 #6 [ffffc90006fb7cf8] shrink_active_list at ffffffffa597f788 #7 [ffffc90006fb7da8] balance_pgdat at ffffffffa5986db0 #8 [ffffc90006fb7ec0] kswapd at ffffffffa5987354 #9 [ffffc90006fb7ef8] kthread at ffffffffa5748238 crash> Scenario: User processe are requesting a large amount of memory and keep page active. Then a module continuously requests memory from ZONE_DMA32 area. Memory reclaim will be triggered due to ZONE_DMA32 watermark alarm reached. However pages in the LRU(active_anon) list are mostly from the ZONE_NORMAL area. Reproduce: Terminal 1: Construct to continuously increase pages active(anon). mkdir /tmp/memory mount -t tmpfs -o size=1024000M tmpfs /tmp/memory dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/memory/block bs=4M tail /tmp/memory/block Terminal 2: vmstat -a 1 active will increase. procs ---memory--- ---swap-- ---io---- -system-- ---cpu--- ... r b swpd free inact active si so bi bo 1 0 0 1445623076 45898836 83646008 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445623076 43450228 86094616 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445623076 41003480 88541364 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445623076 38557088 90987756 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445623076 36109688 93435156 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445619552 33663256 95881632 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445619804 31217140 98327792 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445619804 28769988 100774944 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445619804 26322348 103222584 0 0 0 1 0 0 1445619804 23875592 105669340 0 0 0 cat /proc/meminfo | head Active(anon) increase. MemTotal: 1579941036 kB MemFree: 1445618500 kB MemAvailable: 1453013224 kB Buffers: 6516 kB Cached: 128653956 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 118110812 kB Inactive: 11436620 kB Active(anon): 115345744 kB Inactive(anon): 945292 kB When the Active(anon) is 115345744 kB, insmod module triggers the ZONE_DMA32 watermark. perf record -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_lru_isolate -aR perf script isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=1 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=2 nr_skipped=2 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=1 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=0 nr_skipped=0 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=28835844 nr_skipped=28835844 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=1 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=28835844 nr_skipped=28835844 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=29 nr_skipped=29 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon isolate_mode=0 classzone=1 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=0 nr_skipped=0 nr_taken=0 lru=active_anon See nr_scanned=28835844. 28835844 * 4k = 115343376KB approximately equal to 115345744 kB. If increase Active(anon) to 1000G then insmod module triggers the ZONE_DMA32 watermark. hard lockup will occur. In my device nr_scanned = 0000000003e3e937 when hard lockup. Convert to memory size 0x0000000003e3e937 * 4KB = 261072092 KB. [ffffc90006fb7c28] isolate_lru_folios at ffffffffa597df53 ffffc90006fb7c30: 0000000000000020 0000000000000000 ffffc90006fb7c40: ffffc90006fb7d40 ffff88812cbd3000 ffffc90006fb7c50: ffffc90006fb7d30 0000000106fb7de8 ffffc90006fb7c60: ffffea04a2197008 ffffea0006ed4a48 ffffc90006fb7c70: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffc90006fb7c80: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffc90006fb7c90: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffc90006fb7ca0: 0000000000000000 0000000003e3e937 ffffc90006fb7cb0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffc90006fb7cc0: 8d7c0b56b7874b00 ffff88812cbd3000 About the Fixes: Why did it take eight years to be discovered? The problem requires the following conditions to occur: 1. The device memory should be large enough. 2. Pages in the LRU(active_anon) list are mostly from the ZONE_NORMAL area. 3. The memory in ZONE_DMA32 needs to reach the watermark. If the memory is not large enough, or if the usage design of ZONE_DMA32 area memory is reasonable, this problem is difficult to detect. notes: The problem is most likely to occur in ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_NORMAL, but other suitable scenarios may also trigger the problem. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241119060842.274072-1-liuye@kylinos.cn Fixes: b2e18757f2c9 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis") Signed-off-by: liuye <liuye@kylinos.cn> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-26Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs. - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount inc & dec - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use large folios other than PMD-sized ones - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of the mapletree code - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a few minor code cleanups - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a test for the mapletree code - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new mm/vma.c - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page allocator - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are accumulated: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code when optional compiler warnings are enabled - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the pkeys tests - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to estimate application working set size - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare use-after-free race is fixed - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in improvements in accounting accuracy - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs file interface logic - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in response to DAMOS actions - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs is completed - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but also inclusion (allowing) behavior - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory descriptors - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build time with swap-on-zram - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that mmap_region() can be made MM-internal - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park updates DAMON documentation - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and migration - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags() tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us() seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin() mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page() mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch() mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type() selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy() kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags() selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue ...
2025-01-25mm/mglru: fix PTE-mapped large foliosYu Zhao
Count the accessed bits from PTEs mapping the same large folio as one access rather than multiple accesses. The last patch changed how folios accessed through page tables are promoted: rather than getting promoted after the accessed bit is cleared for the first time, a folio only gets promoted thereafter. Counting the accessed bits from the same large folio as multiple accesses can cause that folio to be promoted prematurely, which in turn can cause overprotection of single-use large folios. This patch reduced the sys time of the kernel compilation by 95% CI [2, 5]% on Altra M128-30 with 3GB DRAM, 12GB zram, 16KB THPs and -j32. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241231043538.4075764-8-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm/mglru: rework workingset protectionYu Zhao
With the aging feedback no longer considering the distribution of folios in each generation, rework workingset protection to better distribute folios across MAX_NR_GENS. This is achieved by reusing PG_workingset and PG_referenced/LRU_REFS_FLAGS in a slightly different way. For folios accessed multiple times through file descriptors, make lru_gen_inc_refs() set additional bits of LRU_REFS_WIDTH in folio->flags after PG_referenced, then PG_workingset after LRU_REFS_WIDTH. After all its bits are set, i.e., LRU_REFS_FLAGS|BIT(PG_workingset), a folio is lazily promoted into the second oldest generation in the eviction path. And when folio_inc_gen() does that, it clears LRU_REFS_FLAGS so that lru_gen_inc_refs() can start over. For this case, LRU_REFS_MASK is only valid when PG_referenced is set. For folios accessed multiple times through page tables, folio_update_gen() from a page table walk or lru_gen_set_refs() from a rmap walk sets PG_referenced after the accessed bit is cleared for the first time. Thereafter, those two paths set PG_workingset and promote folios to the youngest generation. Like folio_inc_gen(), when folio_update_gen() does that, it also clears PG_referenced. For this case, LRU_REFS_MASK is not used. For both of the cases, after PG_workingset is set on a folio, it remains until this folio is either reclaimed, or "deactivated" by lru_gen_clear_refs(). It can be set again if lru_gen_test_recent() returns true upon a refault. When adding folios to the LRU lists, lru_gen_folio_seq() distributes them as follows: +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Accessed thru page tables | Accessed thru file descriptors | +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | PG_active (set while isolated) | | +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+ | PG_workingset | PG_referenced | PG_workingset | LRU_REFS_FLAGS | +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+ |<--------- MIN_NR_GENS --------->| | |<-------------------------- MAX_NR_GENS -------------------------->| After this patch, some typical client and server workloads showed improvements under heavy memory pressure. For example, Python TPC-C, which was used to benchmark a different approach [1] to better detect refault distances, showed a significant decrease in total refaults: Before After Change Time (seconds) 10801 10801 0% Executed (transactions) 41472 43663 +5% workingset_nodes 109070 120244 +10% workingset_refault_anon 5019627 7281831 +45% workingset_refault_file 1294678786 554855564 -57% workingset_refault_total 1299698413 562137395 -57% [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20230920190244.16839-1-ryncsn@gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241231043538.4075764-7-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAOUHufahuWcKf5f1Sg3emnqX+cODuR=2TQo7T4Gr-QYLujn4RA@mail.gmail.com/ Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm/mglru: rework type selectionYu Zhao
With anon and file min_seq being able to move independently, rework type selection so that it is based on the total refaults from all tiers of each type. Also allow a type to be selected until that type reaches MIN_NR_GENS, regardless of whether that type has a larger min_seq or not, to accommodate extreme swappiness. Since some tiers of a selected type can have higher refaults than the first tier of the other type, use a less larger gain factor 2:3 instead of 1:2, in order for those tiers in the selected type to be better protected. As an intermediate step to the final optimization, this change by itself should not have userspace-visiable effects beyond performance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241231043538.4075764-5-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm/mglru: rework aging feedbackYu Zhao
The aging feedback is based on both the number of generations and the distribution of folios in each generation. The number of generations is currently the distance between max_seq and anon min_seq. This is because anon min_seq is not allowed to move past file min_seq. The rationale for that is that file is always evictable whereas anon is not. However, for use cases where anon is a lot cheaper than file: 1. Anon in the second oldest generation can be a better choice than file in the oldest generation. 2. A large amount of file in the oldest generation can skew the distribution, making should_run_aging() return false negative. Allow anon and file min_seq to move independently, and use solely the number of generations as the feedback for aging. Specifically, when both anon and file are evictable, anon min_seq can now be greater than file min_seq, and therefore the number of generations becomes the distance between max_seq and min(min_seq[0],min_seq[1]). And should_run_aging() returns true if and only if the number of generations is less than MAX_NR_GENS. As the first step to the final optimization, this change by itself should not have userspace-visiable effects beyond performance. The next twos patch will take advantage of this change; the last patch in this series will better distribute folios across MAX_NR_GENS. [yuzhao@google.com: restore behaviour for systems with swappiness == 200] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Z4S3-aJy5dj9tBTk@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241231043538.4075764-4-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-21Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker: "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns: 1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is a correctness constraint. 2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a correctness constraint. 3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node. This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries. 4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_ affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes" from a distinctly distributed tree. Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4 identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its own ad-hoc way. This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following API changes: - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up. - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred affinity different than the specified node. When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set). kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been converted, along with a few old drivers. Summary of the changes: - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of kthread_run_on_cpu() - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always called before the first kthread wake up. - Default affine kthread to its preferred node. - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc affinity implementation - Implement kthreads preferred affinity - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity implementation" * tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]() kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost kthread: Implement preferred affinity mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
2025-01-12mm: vmscan : pgdemote vmstat is not getting updated when MGLRU is enabled.Donet Tom
When MGLRU is enabled, the pgdemote_kswapd, pgdemote_direct, and pgdemote_khugepaged stats in vmstat are not being updated. Commit f77f0c751478 ("mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations") moved the pgdemote vmstat update from demote_folio_list() to shrink_inactive_list(), which is in the normal LRU path. As a result, the pgdemote stats are updated correctly for the normal LRU but not for MGLRU. To address this, we have added the pgdemote stat update in the evict_folios() function, which is in the MGLRU path. With this patch, the pgdemote stats will now be updated correctly when MGLRU is enabled. Without this patch vmstat output when MGLRU is enabled ====================================================== pgdemote_kswapd 0 pgdemote_direct 0 pgdemote_khugepaged 0 With this patch vmstat output when MGLRU is enabled =================================================== pgdemote_kswapd 43234 pgdemote_direct 4691 pgdemote_khugepaged 0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109060540.451261-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com Fixes: f77f0c751478 ("mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations") Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Tested-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-08mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred nodeFrederic Weisbecker
kswapd is dedicated to a specific node. As such it wants to be preferrably affine to it, memory and CPUs-wise. Use the proper kthread API to achieve that. As a bonus it takes care of CPU-hotplug events and CPU-isolation on its behalf. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2024-12-30mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in ↵Seiji Nishikawa
throttle_direct_reclaim() The task sometimes continues looping in throttle_direct_reclaim() because allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) keeps returning false. #0 [ffff80002cb6f8d0] __switch_to at ffff8000080095ac #1 [ffff80002cb6f900] __schedule at ffff800008abbd1c #2 [ffff80002cb6f990] schedule at ffff800008abc50c #3 [ffff80002cb6f9b0] throttle_direct_reclaim at ffff800008273550 #4 [ffff80002cb6fa20] try_to_free_pages at ffff800008277b68 #5 [ffff80002cb6fae0] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffff8000082c4660 #6 [ffff80002cb6fc50] alloc_pages_vma at ffff8000082e4a98 #7 [ffff80002cb6fca0] do_anonymous_page at ffff80000829f5a8 #8 [ffff80002cb6fce0] __handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5974 #9 [ffff80002cb6fd90] handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5bd4 At this point, the pgdat contains the following two zones: NODE: 4 ZONE: 0 ADDR: ffff00817fffe540 NAME: "DMA32" SIZE: 20480 MIN/LOW/HIGH: 11/28/45 VM_STAT: NR_FREE_PAGES: 359 NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 18813 NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 0 NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 50 NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 0 NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0 NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0 NR_MLOCK: 0 NR_BOUNCE: 0 NR_ZSPAGES: 0 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0 NODE: 4 ZONE: 1 ADDR: ffff00817fffec00 NAME: "Normal" SIZE: 8454144 PRESENT: 98304 MIN/LOW/HIGH: 68/166/264 VM_STAT: NR_FREE_PAGES: 146 NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 94668 NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 3 NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 735 NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 78 NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0 NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0 NR_MLOCK: 0 NR_BOUNCE: 0 NR_ZSPAGES: 0 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0 In allow_direct_reclaim(), while processing ZONE_DMA32, the sum of inactive/active file-backed pages calculated in zone_reclaimable_pages() based on the result of zone_page_state_snapshot() is zero. Additionally, since this system lacks swap, the calculation of inactive/ active anonymous pages is skipped. crash> p nr_swap_pages nr_swap_pages = $1937 = { counter = 0 } As a result, ZONE_DMA32 is deemed unreclaimable and skipped, moving on to the processing of the next zone, ZONE_NORMAL, despite ZONE_DMA32 having free pages significantly exceeding the high watermark. The problem is that the pgdat->kswapd_failures hasn't been incremented. crash> px ((struct pglist_data *) 0xffff00817fffe540)->kswapd_failures $1935 = 0x0 This is because the node deemed balanced. The node balancing logic in balance_pgdat() evaluates all zones collectively. If one or more zones (e.g., ZONE_DMA32) have enough free pages to meet their watermarks, the entire node is deemed balanced. This causes balance_pgdat() to exit early before incrementing the kswapd_failures, as it considers the overall memory state acceptable, even though some zones (like ZONE_NORMAL) remain under significant pressure. The patch ensures that zone_reclaimable_pages() includes free pages (NR_FREE_PAGES) in its calculation when no other reclaimable pages are available (e.g., file-backed or anonymous pages). This change prevents zones like ZONE_DMA32, which have sufficient free pages, from being mistakenly deemed unreclaimable. By doing so, the patch ensures proper node balancing, avoids masking pressure on other zones like ZONE_NORMAL, and prevents infinite loops in throttle_direct_reclaim() caused by allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) repeatedly returning false. The kernel hangs due to a task stuck in throttle_direct_reclaim(), caused by a node being incorrectly deemed balanced despite pressure in certain zones, such as ZONE_NORMAL. This issue arises from zone_reclaimable_pages() returning 0 for zones without reclaimable file- backed or anonymous pages, causing zones like ZONE_DMA32 with sufficient free pages to be skipped. The lack of swap or reclaimable pages results in ZONE_DMA32 being ignored during reclaim, masking pressure in other zones. Consequently, pgdat->kswapd_failures remains 0 in balance_pgdat(), preventing fallback mechanisms in allow_direct_reclaim() from being triggered, leading to an infinite loop in throttle_direct_reclaim(). This patch modifies zone_reclaimable_pages() to account for free pages (NR_FREE_PAGES) when no other reclaimable pages exist. This ensures zones with sufficient free pages are not skipped, enabling proper balancing and reclaim behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241130164346.436469-1-snishika@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241130161236.433747-2-snishika@redhat.com Fixes: 5a1c84b404a7 ("mm: remove reclaim and compaction retry approximations") Signed-off-by: Seiji Nishikawa <snishika@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-07mm/vmscan: wake up flushers conditionally to avoid cgroup OOMZeng Jingxiang
Commit 14aa8b2d5c2e ("mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle") removed the opportunity to wake up flushers during the MGLRU page reclamation process can lead to an increased likelihood of triggering OOM when encountering many dirty pages during reclamation on MGLRU. This leads to premature OOM if there are too many dirty pages in cgroup: Killed dd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x101cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_WRITE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x80 dump_stack+0x14/0x20 dump_header+0x46/0x1b0 oom_kill_process+0x104/0x220 out_of_memory+0x112/0x5a0 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x13b/0x150 try_charge_memcg+0x44f/0x5c0 charge_memcg+0x34/0x50 __mem_cgroup_charge+0x31/0x90 filemap_add_folio+0x4b/0xf0 __filemap_get_folio+0x1a4/0x5b0 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? __block_commit_write+0x82/0xb0 ext4_da_write_begin+0xe5/0x270 generic_perform_write+0x134/0x2b0 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x57/0xd0 ext4_file_write_iter+0x76/0x7d0 ? selinux_file_permission+0x119/0x150 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f vfs_write+0x30c/0x440 ksys_write+0x65/0xe0 __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x11c2/0x1d50 do_syscall_64+0x47/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e memory: usage 308224kB, limit 308224kB, failcnt 2589 swap: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0 ... file_dirty 303247360 file_writeback 0 ... oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=test, mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/test,task_memcg=/test,task=dd,pid=4404,uid=0 Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 4404 (dd) total-vm:10512kB, anon-rss:1152kB, file-rss:1824kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:0 The flusher wake up was removed to decrease SSD wearing, but if we are seeing all dirty folios at the tail of an LRU, not waking up the flusher could lead to thrashing easily. So wake it up when a memcg is about to OOM due to dirty caches. I did run the build kernel test[1] on V6, with -j16 1G memcg on my local branch: Without the patch(10 times): user 1449.394 system 368.78 372.58 363.03 362.31 360.84 372.70 368.72 364.94 373.51 366.58 (avg 367.399) real 164.883 With the V6 patch(10 times): user 1447.525 system 360.87 360.63 372.39 364.09 368.49 365.15 359.93 362.04 359.72 354.60 (avg 362.79) real 164.514 Test results show that this patch has about 1% performance improvement, which should be caused by noise. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241026115714.1437435-1-jingxiangzeng.cas@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACePvbV4L-gRN9UKKuUnksfVJjOTq_5Sti2-e=pb_w51kucLKQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Fixes: 14aa8b2d5c2e ("mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle") Suggested-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Tested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-06memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for MGLRUShakeel Butt
While updating the generation of the folios, MGLRU requires that the folio's memcg association remains stable. With the charge migration deprecated, there is no need for MGLRU to acquire locks to keep the folio and memcg association stable. [yuzhao@google.com: remove !rcu_read_lock_held() assertion] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZykEtcHrQRq-KrBC@google.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24f45b8beab9788e467e Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/67294349.050a0220.701a.0010.GAE@google.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused local] [shakeel.butt@linux.dev: folio_rcu() fixup, per Yu Zhao] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/iwmabnye3nl4merealrawt3bdvfii2pwavwrddrqpraoveet7h@ezrsdhjwwej7 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025012304.2473312-6-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-06mm/mglru: reset page lru tier bits when activatingWei Xu
When a folio is activated, lru_gen_add_folio() moves the folio to the youngest generation. But unlike folio_update_gen()/folio_inc_gen(), lru_gen_add_folio() doesn't reset the folio lru tier bits (LRU_REFS_MASK | LRU_REFS_FLAGS). This inconsistency can affect how pages are aged via folio_mark_accessed() (e.g. fd accesses), though no user visible impact related to this has been detected yet. Note that lru_gen_add_folio() cannot clear PG_workingset if the activation is due to workingset refault, otherwise PSI accounting will be skipped. So fix lru_gen_add_folio() to clear the lru tier bits other than PG_workingset when activating a folio, and also clear all the lru tier bits when a folio is activated via folio_activate() in lru_gen_look_around(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241017181528.3358821-1-weixugc@google.com Fixes: 018ee47f1489 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap") Signed-off-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-06vmscan: add a vmscan event for reclaim_pagesJaewon Kim
reclaim_folio_list uses a dummy reclaim_stat and is not being used. To know the memory stat, add a new trace event. This is useful how how many pages are not reclaimed or why. This is an example: mm_vmscan_reclaim_pages: nid=0 nr_scanned=112 nr_reclaimed=112 nr_dirty=0 nr_writeback=0 nr_congested=0 nr_immediate=0 nr_activate_anon=0 nr_activate_file=0 nr_ref_keep=0 nr_unmap_fail=0 Currently reclaim_folio_list is only called by reclaim_pages, and reclaim_pages is used by damon and madvise. In the latest Android, reclaim_pages is also used by shmem to reclaim all pages in a address_space. [jaewon31.kim@samsung.com: use sc.nr_scanned rather than new counting] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241016143227.961162-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011124928.1224813-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-06mm: swap: make some count_mthp_stat() call-sites be THP-agnostic.Kanchana P Sridhar
In commit 246d3aa3e531 ("mm: cleanup count_mthp_stat() definition"), Ryan Roberts has pointed out the merits of mm code that does not require THP, to be compile-able without requiring THP ifdefs. As a step in that direction, he has moved count_mthp_stat() to be always defined, resolving to a no-op if THP is not defined. Barry Song referred me to Ryan's commit when I was working on the "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" patch-series [1]. This patch propagates the benefits of the above change to page_io.c and vmscan.c. As a result, there is one less reason to have the ifdef THP in these code sections. [1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=894347 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241002225822.9006-1-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@intel.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: multi-gen LRU: walk_pte_range() use pte_offset_map_rw_nolock()Qi Zheng
In walk_pte_range(), we may modify the pte entry after holding the ptl, so convert it to using pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(). At this time, the pte_same() check is not performed after the ptl held, so we should get pmdval and do pmd_same() check to ensure the stability of pmd entry. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7e9c194a5efacc9609cfd31abb9c7df88b53b530.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: fix shrink nr.unqueued_dirty counter issueZhiguo Jiang
It is needed to ensure sc->nr.unqueued_dirty > 0, which can avoid setting PGDAT_DIRTY flag when sc->nr.unqueued_dirty and sc->nr.file_taken are both zero. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240112012353.1387-1-justinjiang@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm/thp: fix deferred split unqueue naming and lockingHugh Dickins
Recent changes are putting more pressure on THP deferred split queues: under load revealing long-standing races, causing list_del corruptions, "Bad page state"s and worse (I keep BUGs in both of those, so usually don't get to see how badly they end up without). The relevant recent changes being 6.8's mTHP, 6.10's mTHP swapout, and 6.12's mTHP swapin, improved swap allocation, and underused THP splitting. Before fixing locking: rename misleading folio_undo_large_rmappable(), which does not undo large_rmappable, to folio_unqueue_deferred_split(), which is what it does. But that and its out-of-line __callee are mm internals of very limited usability: add comment and WARN_ON_ONCEs to check usage; and return a bool to say if a deferred split was unqueued, which can then be used in WARN_ON_ONCEs around safety checks (sparing callers the arcane conditionals in __folio_unqueue_deferred_split()). Just omit the folio_unqueue_deferred_split() from free_unref_folios(), all of whose callers now call it beforehand (and if any forget then bad_page() will tell) - except for its caller put_pages_list(), which itself no longer has any callers (and will be deleted separately). Swapout: mem_cgroup_swapout() has been resetting folio->memcg_data 0 without checking and unqueueing a THP folio from deferred split list; which is unfortunate, since the split_queue_lock depends on the memcg (when memcg is enabled); so swapout has been unqueueing such THPs later, when freeing the folio, using the pgdat's lock instead: potentially corrupting the memcg's list. __remove_mapping() has frozen refcount to 0 here, so no problem with calling folio_unqueue_deferred_split() before resetting memcg_data. That goes back to 5.4 commit 87eaceb3faa5 ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware"): which included a check on swapcache before adding to deferred queue, but no check on deferred queue before adding THP to swapcache. That worked fine with the usual sequence of events in reclaim (though there were a couple of rare ways in which a THP on deferred queue could have been swapped out), but 6.12 commit dafff3f4c850 ("mm: split underused THPs") avoids splitting underused THPs in reclaim, which makes swapcache THPs on deferred queue commonplace. Keep the check on swapcache before adding to deferred queue? Yes: it is no longer essential, but preserves the existing behaviour, and is likely to be a worthwhile optimization (vmstat showed much more traffic on the queue under swapping load if the check was removed); update its comment. Memcg-v1 move (deprecated): mem_cgroup_move_account() has been changing folio->memcg_data without checking and unqueueing a THP folio from the deferred list, sometimes corrupting "from" memcg's list, like swapout. Refcount is non-zero here, so folio_unqueue_deferred_split() can only be used in a WARN_ON_ONCE to validate the fix, which must be done earlier: mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() first try to split the THP (splitting of course unqueues), or skip it if that fails. Not ideal, but moving charge has been requested, and khugepaged should repair the THP later: nobody wants new custom unqueueing code just for this deprecated case. The 87eaceb3faa5 commit did have the code to move from one deferred list to another (but was not conscious of its unsafety while refcount non-0); but that was removed by 5.6 commit fac0516b5534 ("mm: thp: don't need care deferred split queue in memcg charge move path"), which argued that the existence of a PMD mapping guarantees that the THP cannot be on a deferred list. As above, false in rare cases, and now commonly false. Backport to 6.11 should be straightforward. Earlier backports must take care that other _deferred_list fixes and dependencies are included. There is not a strong case for backports, but they can fix cornercases. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8dc111ae-f6db-2da7-b25c-7a20b1effe3b@google.com Fixes: 87eaceb3faa5 ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware") Fixes: dafff3f4c850 ("mm: split underused THPs") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-03mm: multi-gen LRU: use {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify()Yu Zhao
When the MM_WALK capability is enabled, memory that is mostly accessed by a VM appears younger than it really is, therefore this memory will be less likely to be evicted. Therefore, the presence of a running VM can significantly increase swap-outs for non-VM memory, regressing the performance for the rest of the system. Fix this regression by always calling {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify() whenever we clear the young bits on PMDs/PTEs. [jthoughton@google.com: fix link-time error] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-3-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Reported-by: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-03mm: multi-gen LRU: remove MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL statsYu Zhao
Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: Have secondary MMUs participate in MM_WALK". Today, the MM_WALK capability causes MGLRU to clear the young bit from PMDs and PTEs during the page table walk before eviction, but MGLRU does not call the clear_young() MMU notifier in this case. By not calling this notifier, the MM walk takes less time/CPU, but it causes pages that are accessed mostly through KVM / secondary MMUs to appear younger than they should be. We do call the clear_young() notifier today, but only when attempting to evict the page, so we end up clearing young/accessed information less frequently for secondary MMUs than for mm PTEs, and therefore they appear younger and are less likely to be evicted. Therefore, memory that is *not* being accessed mostly by KVM will be evicted *more* frequently, worsening performance. ChromeOS observed a tab-open latency regression when enabling MGLRU with a setup that involved running a VM: Tab-open latency histogram (ms) Version p50 mean p95 p99 max base 1315 1198 2347 3454 10319 mglru 2559 1311 7399 12060 43758 fix 1119 926 2470 4211 6947 This series replaces the final non-selftest patchs from this series[1], which introduced a similar change (and a new MMU notifier) with KVM optimizations. I'll send a separate series (to Sean and Paolo) for the KVM optimizations. This series also makes proactive reclaim with MGLRU possible for KVM memory. I have verified that this functions correctly with the selftest from [1], but given that that test is a KVM selftest, I'll send it with the rest of the KVM optimizations later. Andrew, let me know if you'd like to take the test now anyway. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240926013506.860253-18-jthoughton@google.com/ This patch (of 2): The removed stats, MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL, are not very helpful and become more complicated to properly compute when adding test/clear_young() notifiers in MGLRU's mm walk. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-1-jthoughton@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-2-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-17mm/mglru: only clear kswapd_failures if reclaimableWei Xu
lru_gen_shrink_node() unconditionally clears kswapd_failures, which can prevent kswapd from sleeping and cause 100% kswapd cpu usage even when kswapd repeatedly fails to make progress in reclaim. Only clear kswap_failures in lru_gen_shrink_node() if reclaim makes some progress, similar to shrink_node(). I happened to run into this problem in one of my tests recently. It requires a combination of several conditions: The allocator needs to allocate a right amount of pages such that it can wake up kswapd without itself being OOM killed; there is no memory for kswapd to reclaim (My test disables swap and cleans page cache first); no other process frees enough memory at the same time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241014221211.832591-1-weixugc@google.com Fixes: e4dde56cd208 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: per-node lru_gen_folio lists") Signed-off-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-21Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series in this pull request are: - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification. - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes - mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications. - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No functional changes - code cleanups only. - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a little cleanup. - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and simplifications and .text shrinkage. - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat kstack_1k 3 kstack_2k 188 kstack_4k 11391 kstack_8k 243 kstack_16k 0 which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project". - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory. - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3 independent small optimizations of page counters". - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident. - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand. Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible() unneeded. - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector. - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions, even from a userspace-only harness. - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved performance. - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo. - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand. Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk()) resulting in the removal of follow_page(). - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown. - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature, - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied yet. - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple tree library code. - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code. - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt. Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are deprecated. - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap allocation. - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic code. - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes. - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem. - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios. - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios. - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect() performance regression due to the addition of mseal(). - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type! - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their accessors/mutators can be removed. - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading zero-filled zswap pages to backing store. - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during an unrelated vma tree walk. - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and better tested. - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park. Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests. - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang. Code cleanups and folio conversions. - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts. Cleanups for shmem controls and stats. - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song. Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning. - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs. - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram rationalization. - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates. - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags. - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy. This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas. - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky. Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning. - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area() implementations to better respect guard areas. - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups. - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge pfnmap support. - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()" from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with CXL memory. - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering of poisoned memry. - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather than into single-page folios" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits) zram: free secondary algorithms names uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality" mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas() memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page() mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault() resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects() resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings mm/x86: support large pfn mappings ...
2024-09-09mm: introduce a pageflag for partially mapped foliosUsama Arif
Currently folio->_deferred_list is used to keep track of partially_mapped folios that are going to be split under memory pressure. In the next patch, all THPs that are faulted in and collapsed by khugepaged are also going to be tracked using _deferred_list. This patch introduces a pageflag to be able to distinguish between partially mapped folios and others in the deferred_list at split time in deferred_split_scan. Its needed as __folio_remove_rmap decrements _mapcount, _large_mapcount and _entire_mapcount, hence it won't be possible to distinguish between partially mapped folios and others in deferred_split_scan. Eventhough it introduces an extra flag to track if the folio is partially mapped, there is no functional change intended with this patch and the flag is not useful in this patch itself, it will become useful in the next patch when _deferred_list has non partially mapped folios. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830100438.3623486-5-usamaarif642@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Zhu <alexlzhu@fb.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Shuang Zhai <zhais@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-09mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress testChris Li
I found a regression on mm-unstable during my swap stress test, using tmpfs to compile linux. The test OOM very soon after the make spawns many cc processes. It bisects down to this change: 33dfe9204f29b415bbc0abb1a50642d1ba94f5e9 (mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch) Yu Zhao propose the fix: "I think this is one of the potential side effects -- Huge mentioned earlier about isolate_lru_folios():" I test that with it the swap stress test no longer OOM. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufYi9h0kz5uW3LHHS3ZrVwEq-kKp8S6N-MZUmErNAXoXmw@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240905-lru-flag-v2-1-8a2d9046c594@kernel.org Fixes: 33dfe9204f29 ("mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch") Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAF8kJuNP5iTj2p07QgHSGOJsiUfYpJ2f4R1Q5-3BN9JiD9W_KA@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-03mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operationsKaiyang Zhao
The ability to observe the demotion and promotion decisions made by the kernel on a per-cgroup basis is important for monitoring and tuning containerized workloads on machines equipped with tiered memory. Different containers in the system may experience drastically different memory tiering actions that cannot be distinguished from the global counters alone. For example, a container running a workload that has a much hotter memory accesses will likely see more promotions and fewer demotions, potentially depriving a colocated container of top tier memory to such an extent that its performance degrades unacceptably. For another example, some containers may exhibit longer periods between data reuse, causing much more numa_hint_faults than numa_pages_migrated. In this case, tuning hot_threshold_ms may be appropriate, but the signal can easily be lost if only global counters are available. In the long term, we hope to introduce per-cgroup control of promotion and demotion actions to implement memory placement policies in tiering. This patch set adds seven counters to memory.stat in a cgroup: numa_pages_migrated, numa_pte_updates, numa_hint_faults, pgdemote_kswapd, pgdemote_khugepaged, pgdemote_direct and pgpromote_success. pgdemote_* and pgpromote_success are also available in memory.numa_stat. count_memcg_events_mm() is added to count multiple event occurrences at once, and get_mem_cgroup_from_folio() is added because we need to get a reference to the memcg of a folio before it's migrated to track numa_pages_migrated. The accounting of PGDEMOTE_* is moved to shrink_inactive_list() before being changed to per-cgroup. [kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu: add documentation of the memcg counters in cgroup-v2.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814235122.252309-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814174227.30639-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-03mm: shmem: support large folio swap outBaolin Wang
Shmem will support large folio allocation [1] [2] to get a better performance, however, the memory reclaim still splits the precious large folios when trying to swap out shmem, which may lead to the memory fragmentation issue and can not take advantage of the large folio for shmeme. Moreover, the swap code already supports for swapping out large folio without split, hence this patch set supports the large folio swap out for shmem. Note the i915_gem_shmem driver still need to be split when swapping, thus add a new flag 'split_large_folio' for writeback_control to indicate spliting the large folio. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1717495894.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515055719.32577-1-da.gomez@samsung.com/ [hughd@google.com: shmem_writepage() split folio at EOF before swapout] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aef55f8d-6040-692d-65e3-16150cce4440@google.com [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: remove the wbc->split_large_folio per Hugh] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1236a002daa301b3b9ba73d6c0fab348427cf295.1724833399.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d80c21abd20e1b0f5ca66b330f074060fb2f082d.1723434324.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01memcg: use ratelimited stats flush in the reclaimShakeel Butt
The Meta prod is seeing large amount of stalls in memcg stats flush from the memcg reclaim code path. At the moment, this specific callsite is doing a synchronous memcg stats flush. The rstat flush is an expensive and time consuming operation, so concurrent relaimers will busywait on the lock potentially for a long time. Actually this issue is not unique to Meta and has been observed by Cloudflare [1] as well. For the Cloudflare case, the stalls were due to contention between kswapd threads running on their 8 numa node machines which does not make sense as rstat flush is global and flush from one kswapd thread should be sufficient for all. Simply replace the synchronous flush with the ratelimited one. One may raise a concern on potentially using 2 sec stale (at worst) stats for heuristics like desirable inactive:active ratio and preferring inactive file pages over anon pages but these specific heuristics do not require very precise stats and also are ignored under severe memory pressure. More specifically for this code path, the stats are needed for two specific heuristics: 1. Deactivate LRUs 2. Cache trim mode The deactivate LRUs heuristic is to maintain a desirable inactive:active ratio of the LRUs. The specific stats needed are WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE* and the hierarchical LRU size. The WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE* is needed to check if there is a refault since last snapshot and the LRU size are needed for the desirable ratio between inactive and active LRUs. See the table below on how the desirable ratio is calculated. /* total target max * memory ratio inactive * ------------------------------------- * 10MB 1 5MB * 100MB 1 50MB * 1GB 3 250MB * 10GB 10 0.9GB * 100GB 31 3GB * 1TB 101 10GB * 10TB 320 32GB */ The desirable ratio only changes at the boundary of 1 GiB, 10 GiB, 100 GiB, 1 TiB and 10 TiB. There is no need for the precise and accurate LRU size information to calculate this ratio. In addition, if deactivation is skipped for some LRU, the kernel will force deactive on the severe memory pressure situation. For the cache trim mode, inactive file LRU size is read and the kernel scales it down based on the reclaim iteration (file >> sc->priority) and only checks if it is zero or not. Again precise information is not needed. This patch has been running on Meta fleet for several months and we have not observed any issues. Please note that MGLRU is not impacted by this issue at all as it avoids rstat flushing completely. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6ee2518b-81dd-4082-bdf5-322883895ffc@kernel.org [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813215358.2259750-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm: multi-gen LRU: ignore non-leaf pmd_young for force_scan=trueYuanchu Xie
When non-leaf pmd accessed bits are available, MGLRU page table walks can clear the non-leaf pmd accessed bit and ignore the accessed bit on the pte if it's on a different node, skipping a generation update as well. If another scan occurs on the same node as said skipped pte. The non-leaf pmd accessed bit might remain cleared and the pte accessed bits won't be checked. While this is sufficient for reclaim-driven aging, where the goal is to select a reasonably cold page, the access can be missed when aging proactively for workingset estimation of a node/memcg. In more detail, get_pfn_folio returns NULL if the folio's nid != node under scanning, so the page table walk skips processing of said pte. Now the pmd_young flag on this pmd is cleared, and if none of the pte's are accessed before another scan occurs on the folio's node, the pmd_young check fails and the pte accessed bit is skipped. Since force_scan disables various other optimizations, we check force_scan to ignore the non-leaf pmd accessed bit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813163759.742675-1-yuanchu@google.com Signed-off-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm/huge_memory: convert split_huge_pages_pid() from follow_page() to folio_walkDavid Hildenbrand
Let's remove yet another follow_page() user. Note that we have to do the split without holding the PTL, after folio_walk_end(). We don't care about losing the secretmem check in follow_page(). [david@redhat.com: teach can_split_folio() that we are not holding an additional reference] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c75d1c6c-8ea6-424f-853c-1ccda6c77ba2@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240802155524.517137-8-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm: create promo_wmark_pages and clean up open-coded sitesKaiyang Zhao
Patch series "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo", v2. This patch (of 2): Define promo_wmark_pages and convert current call sites of wmark_pages with fixed WMARK_PROMO to using it instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240801232548.36604-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240801232548.36604-2-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm: shrink skip folio mapped by an exiting processZhiguo Jiang
The releasing process of the non-shared anonymous folio mapped solely by an exiting process may go through two flows: 1) the anonymous folio is firstly is swaped-out into swapspace and transformed into a swp_entry in shrink_folio_list; 2) then the swp_entry is released in the process exiting flow. This will result in the high cpu load of releasing a non-shared anonymous folio mapped solely by an exiting process. When the low system memory and the exiting process exist at the same time, it will be likely to happen, because the non-shared anonymous folio mapped solely by an exiting process may be reclaimed by shrink_folio_list. This patch is that shrink skips the non-shared anonymous folio solely mapped by an exting process and this folio is only released directly in the process exiting flow, which will save swap-out time and alleviate the load of the process exiting. Barry provided some effectiveness testing in [1]. "I observed that this patch effectively skipped 6114 folios (either 4KB or 64KB mTHP), potentially reducing the swap-out by up to 92MB (97,300,480 bytes) during the process exit. The working set size is 256MB." Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240710083641.546-1-justinjiang@vivo.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240710033212.36497-1-21cnbao@gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@vivo.com> Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm: add node_reclaim successes to VM event countersMatthew Cassell
/proc/vmstat currently shows the number of node_reclaim() failures when vm.zone_reclaim_mode is set appropriately. It would be convenient to have the number of successes right next to zone_reclaim_failed (similar to compaction and migration). While just a trivially addition to the vmstat file. It was helpful during benchmarking to not have to probe node_reclaim() to observe the success/failure ratio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722171316.7517-1-mcassell411@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Cassell <mcassell411@gmail.com> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01Revert "mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available"Usama Arif
This reverts commit 5da226dbfce3 ("mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available") and b7108d66318a ("Multi-gen LRU: skip CMA pages when they are not eligible"). lruvec->lru_lock is highly contended and is held when calling isolate_lru_folios. If the lru has a large number of CMA folios consecutively, while the allocation type requested is not MIGRATE_MOVABLE, isolate_lru_folios can hold the lock for a very long time while it skips those. For FIO workload, ~150million order=0 folios were skipped to isolate a few ZONE_DMA folios [1]. This can cause lockups [1] and high memory pressure for extended periods of time [2]. Remove skipping CMA for MGLRU as well, as it was introduced in sort_folio for the same resaon as 5da226dbfce3a2f44978c2c7cf88166e69a6788b. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOUHufbkhMZYz20aM_3rHZ3OcK4m2puji2FGpUpn_-DevGk3Kg@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZrssOrcJIDy8hacI@gmail.com/ [usamaarif642@gmail.com: also revert b7108d66318a, per Johannes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9060a32d-b2d7-48c0-8626-1db535653c54@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/357ac325-4c61-497a-92a3-bdbd230d5ec9@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9060a32d-b2d7-48c0-8626-1db535653c54@gmail.com Fixes: 5da226dbfce3 ("mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available") Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com> Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-24Merge tag 'random-6.11-rc1-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld: "This adds getrandom() support to the vDSO. First, it adds a new kind of mapping to mmap(2), MAP_DROPPABLE, which lets the kernel zero out pages anytime under memory pressure, which enables allocating memory that never gets swapped to disk but also doesn't count as being mlocked. Then, the vDSO implementation of getrandom() is introduced in a generic manner and hooked into random.c. Next, this is implemented on x86. (Also, though it's not ready for this pull, somebody has begun an arm64 implementation already) Finally, two vDSO selftests are added. There are also two housekeeping cleanup commits" * tag 'random-6.11-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: MAINTAINERS: add random.h headers to RNG subsection random: note that RNDGETPOOL was removed in 2.6.9-rc2 selftests/vDSO: add tests for vgetrandom x86: vdso: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable mappings
2024-07-19mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable mappingsJason A. Donenfeld
The vDSO getrandom() implementation works with a buffer allocated with a new system call that has certain requirements: - It shouldn't be written to core dumps. * Easy: VM_DONTDUMP. - It should be zeroed on fork. * Easy: VM_WIPEONFORK. - It shouldn't be written to swap. * Uh-oh: mlock is rlimited. * Uh-oh: mlock isn't inherited by forks. - It shouldn't reserve actual memory, but it also shouldn't crash when page faulting in memory if none is available * Uh-oh: VM_NORESERVE means segfaults. It turns out that the vDSO getrandom() function has three really nice characteristics that we can exploit to solve this problem: 1) Due to being wiped during fork(), the vDSO code is already robust to having the contents of the pages it reads zeroed out midway through the function's execution. 2) In the absolute worst case of whatever contingency we're coding for, we have the option to fallback to the getrandom() syscall, and everything is fine. 3) The buffers the function uses are only ever useful for a maximum of 60 seconds -- a sort of cache, rather than a long term allocation. These characteristics mean that we can introduce VM_DROPPABLE, which has the following semantics: a) It never is written out to swap. b) Under memory pressure, mm can just drop the pages (so that they're zero when read back again). c) It is inherited by fork. d) It doesn't count against the mlock budget, since nothing is locked. e) If there's not enough memory to service a page fault, it's not fatal, and no signal is sent. This way, allocations used by vDSO getrandom() can use: VM_DROPPABLE | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_WIPEONFORK | VM_NORESERVE And there will be no problem with OOMing, crashing on overcommitment, using memory when not in use, not wiping on fork(), coredumps, or writing out to swap. In order to let vDSO getrandom() use this, expose these via mmap(2) as MAP_DROPPABLE. Note that this involves removing the MADV_FREE special case from sort_folio(), which according to Yu Zhao is unnecessary and will simply result in an extra call to shrink_folio_list() in the worst case. The chunk removed reenables the swapbacked flag, which we don't want for VM_DROPPABLE, and we can't conditionalize it here because there isn't a vma reference available. Finally, the provided self test ensures that this is working as desired. Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>