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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>
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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>
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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()
...
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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()
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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/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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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