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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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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c
All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems
leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This
increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they
are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge
conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c.
- ctl_table range fixes
Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in
coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the
extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the
values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing
{under,over}flows.
- Misc fixes
Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl
files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in
declaration for alignment_tbl
* tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits)
selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages
selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh
MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS
sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler
sysctl: remove unneeded include
sysctl: remove the vm_table
sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c
sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count()
fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c
fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c
security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c
mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c
mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c
mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c
mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
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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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Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2.
This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers.
Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by
the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon
drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this
counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the
balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other
balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually.
This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like
/proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting.
This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without
requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information
is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM.
This patch (of 4):
Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and
expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces.
[npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
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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This moves all vmstat related sysctls to its own file, removes useless
extern variable declarations, and do some related clean-ups. To avoid
compiler warnings when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not defined, add the macro
definition CONFIG_PROC_FS ahead CONFIG_NUMA in vmstat.c.
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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Change of attributes of the pages may lead to fragmentation of direct
mapping over time and performance degradation when these pages contain
executable code.
With current code it's one way road: kernel tries to avoid splitting
large pages, but it doesn't restore them back even if page attributes
got compatible again.
Any change to the mapping may potentially allow to restore large page.
Add a hook to cpa_flush() path that will check if the pages in the range
that were just touched can be mapped at PMD level. If the collapse at the
PMD level succeeded, also attempt to collapse PUD level.
The collapse logic runs only when a set_memory_ method explicitly sets
CPA_COLLAPSE flag, for now this is only enabled in set_memory_rox().
CPUs don't like[1] to have to have TLB entries of different size for the
same memory, but looks like it's okay as long as these entries have
matching attributes[2]. Therefore it's critical to flush TLB before any
following changes to the mapping.
Note that we already allow for multiple TLB entries of different sizes
for the same memory now in split_large_page() path. It's not a new
situation.
set_memory_4k() provides a way to use 4k pages on purpose. Kernel must
not remap such pages as large. Re-use one of software PTE bits to
indicate such pages.
[1] See Erratum 383 of AMD Family 10h Processors
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1da1b025-cabc-6f04-bde5-e50830d1ecf0@amd.com/
[rppt@kernel.org:
* s/restore/collapse/
* update formatting per peterz
* use 'struct ptdesc' instead of 'struct page' for list of page tables to
be freed
* try to collapse PMD first and if it succeeds move on to PUD as peterz
suggested
* flush TLB twice: for changes done in the original CPA call and after
collapsing of large pages
* update commit message
]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250126074733.1384926-4-rppt@kernel.org
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The upstream commit adcfb264c3ed ("vmstat: disable vmstat_work on
vmstat_cpu_down_prep()") introduced another warning during the boot phase
so was soon reverted on upstream by commit cd6313beaeae ("Revert "vmstat:
disable vmstat_work on vmstat_cpu_down_prep()""). This commit resolves it
and reattempts the original fix.
Even after mm/vmstat:online teardown, shepherd may still queue work for
the dying cpu until the cpu is removed from online mask. While it's quite
rare, this means that after unbind_workers() unbinds a per-cpu kworker, it
potentially runs vmstat_update for the dying CPU on an irrelevant cpu
before entering atomic AP states. When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, it results
in the following error with the backtrace.
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: \
kworker/7:3/1702
caller is refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1702 Comm: kworker/7:3 Tainted: G
Tainted: [N]=TEST
Workqueue: mm_percpu_wq vmstat_update
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
vmstat_update+0x17/0xa0
process_one_work+0x869/0x1aa0
worker_thread+0x5e5/0x1100
kthread+0x29e/0x380
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
So, for mm/vmstat:online, disable vmstat_work reliably on teardown and
symmetrically enable it on startup.
For secondary CPUs during CPU hotplug scenarios, ensure the delayed work
is disabled immediately after the initialization. These CPUs are not yet
online when start_shepherd_timer() runs on boot CPU. vmstat_cpu_online()
will enable the work for them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108042807.3429745-1-koichiro.den@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Suggested-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This reverts commit adcfb264c3ed51fbbf5068ddf10d309a63683868.
It turns out this just causes a different warning splat instead that
seems to be much easier to trigger, so let's revert ASAP.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250106131817.GAZ3vYGVr3-hWFFPLj@fat_crate.local/
Cc: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Even after mm/vmstat:online teardown, shepherd may still queue work for
the dying cpu until the cpu is removed from online mask. While it's quite
rare, this means that after unbind_workers() unbinds a per-cpu kworker, it
potentially runs vmstat_update for the dying CPU on an irrelevant cpu
before entering atomic AP states. When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, it results
in the following error with the backtrace.
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: \
kworker/7:3/1702
caller is refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1702 Comm: kworker/7:3 Tainted: G
Tainted: [N]=TEST
Workqueue: mm_percpu_wq vmstat_update
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
vmstat_update+0x17/0xa0
process_one_work+0x869/0x1aa0
worker_thread+0x5e5/0x1100
kthread+0x29e/0x380
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
So, for mm/vmstat:online, disable vmstat_work reliably on teardown and
symmetrically enable it on startup.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241221033321.4154409-1-koichiro.den@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch introduces a new counter to memory.stat that tracks hugeTLB
usage, only if hugeTLB accounting is done to memory.current. This feature
is enabled the same way hugeTLB accounting is enabled, via the
memory_hugetlb_accounting mount flag for cgroupsv2.
1. Why is this patch necessary?
Currently, memcg hugeTLB accounting is an opt-in feature [1] that adds
hugeTLB usage to memory.current. However, the metric is not reported in
memory.stat. Given that users often interpret memory.stat as a breakdown
of the value reported in memory.current, the disparity between the two
reports can be confusing. This patch solves this problem by including the
metric in memory.stat as well, but only if it is also reported in
memory.current (it would also be confusing if the value was reported in
memory.stat, but not in memory.current)
Aside from the consistency between the two files, we also see benefits in
observability. Userspace might be interested in the hugeTLB footprint of
cgroups for many reasons. For instance, system admins might want to
verify that hugeTLB usage is distributed as expected across tasks: i.e.
memory-intensive tasks are using more hugeTLB pages than tasks that don't
consume a lot of memory, or are seen to fault frequently. Note that this
is separate from wanting to inspect the distribution for limiting purposes
(in which case, hugeTLB controller makes more sense).
2. We already have a hugeTLB controller. Why not use that?
It is true that hugeTLB tracks the exact value that we want. In fact, by
enabling the hugeTLB controller, we get all of the observability benefits
that I mentioned above, and users can check the total hugeTLB usage,
verify if it is distributed as expected, etc.
With this said, there are 2 problems:
(a) They are still not reported in memory.stat, which means the
disparity between the memcg reports are still there.
(b) We cannot reasonably expect users to enable the hugeTLB controller
just for the sake of hugeTLB usage reporting, especially since
they don't have any use for hugeTLB usage enforcing [2].
3. Implementation Details:
In the alloc / free hugetlb functions, we call lruvec_stat_mod_folio
regardless of whether memcg accounts hugetlb. mem_cgroup_commit_charge
which is called from alloc_hugetlb_folio will set memcg for the folio only
if the CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_HUGETLB_ACCOUNTING cgroup mount option is used, so
lruvec_stat_mod_folio accounts per-memcg hugetlb counters only if the
feature is enabled. Regardless of whether memcg accounts for hugetlb, the
newly added global counter is updated and shown in /proc/vmstat.
The global counter is added because vmstats is the preferred framework for
cgroup stats. It makes stat items consistent between global and cgroups.
It also provides a per-node breakdown, which is useful. Because it does
not use cgroup-specific hooks, we also keep generic MM code separate from
memcg code.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231006184629.155543-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/
[2] Of course, we can't make a new patch for every feature that can be
duplicated. However, since the existing solution of enabling the
hugeTLB controller is an imperfect solution that still leaves a
discrepancy between memory.stat and memory.curent, I think that it
is reasonable to isolate the feature in this case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101204402.1885383-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Since 5.14-rc1, NUMA events will only be folded from per-CPU statistics to
per zone and global statistics when the user actually needs it.
Currently, the kernel has performs the fold operation when reading
/proc/vmstat, but does not perform the fold operation in /proc/zoneinfo.
This can lead to inaccuracies in the following statistics in zoneinfo:
- numa_hit
- numa_miss
- numa_foreign
- numa_interleave
- numa_local
- numa_other
Therefore, before printing per-zone vm_numa_event when reading
/proc/zoneinfo, we should also perform the fold operation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1730433998-10461-1-git-send-email-mengensun@tencent.com
Fixes: f19298b9516c ("mm/vmstat: convert NUMA statistics to basic NUMA counters")
Signed-off-by: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: JinLiang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Pick up e7ac4daeed91 ("mm: count zeromap read and set for swapout and
swapin") in order to move
mm: define obj_cgroup_get() if CONFIG_MEMCG is not defined
mm: zswap: modify zswap_compress() to accept a page instead of a folio
mm: zswap: rename zswap_pool_get() to zswap_pool_tryget()
mm: zswap: modify zswap_stored_pages to be atomic_long_t
mm: zswap: support large folios in zswap_store()
mm: swap: count successful large folio zswap stores in hugepage zswpout stats
mm: zswap: zswap_store_page() will initialize entry after adding to xarray.
mm: add per-order mTHP swpin counters
from mm-unstable into mm-stable.
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When the proportion of folios from the zeromap is small, missing their
accounting may not significantly impact profiling. However, it's easy to
construct a scenario where this becomes an issue—for example, allocating
1 GB of memory, writing zeros from userspace, followed by MADV_PAGEOUT,
and then swapping it back in. In this case, the swap-out and swap-in
counts seem to vanish into a black hole, potentially causing semantic
ambiguity.
On the other hand, Usama reported that zero-filled pages can exceed 10% in
workloads utilizing zswap, while Hailong noted that some app in Android
have more than 6% zero-filled pages. Before commit 0ca0c24e3211 ("mm:
store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap"), both zswap and zRAM
implemented similar optimizations, leading to these optimized-out pages
being counted in either zswap or zRAM counters (with pswpin/pswpout also
increasing for zRAM). With zeromap functioning prior to both zswap and
zRAM, userspace will no longer detect these swap-out and swap-in actions.
We have three ways to address this:
1. Introduce a dedicated counter specifically for the zeromap.
2. Use pswpin/pswpout accounting, treating the zero map as a standard
backend. This approach aligns with zRAM's current handling of
same-page fills at the device level. However, it would mean losing the
optimized-out page counters previously available in zRAM and would not
align with systems using zswap. Additionally, as noted by Nhat Pham,
pswpin/pswpout counters apply only to I/O done directly to the backend
device.
3. Count zeromap pages under zswap, aligning with system behavior when
zswap is enabled. However, this would not be consistent with zRAM, nor
would it align with systems lacking both zswap and zRAM.
Given the complications with options 2 and 3, this patch selects
option 1.
We can find these counters from /proc/vmstat (counters for the whole
system) and memcg's memory.stat (counters for the interested memcg).
For example:
$ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /proc/vmstat
swpin_zero 1648
swpout_zero 33536
$ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.stat
swpin_zero 3905
swpout_zero 3985
This patch does not address any specific zeromap bug, but the missing
swpout and swpin counts for zero-filled pages can be highly confusing and
may mislead user-space agents that rely on changes in these counters as
indicators. Therefore, we add a Fixes tag to encourage the inclusion of
this counter in any kernel versions with zeromap.
Many thanks to Kanchana for the contribution of changing
count_objcg_event() to count_objcg_events() to support large folios[1],
which has now been incorporated into this patch.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001053222.6944-5-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241107011246.59137-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Fixes: 0ca0c24e3211 ("mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap")
Co-developed-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Hailong Liu <hailong.liu@oppo.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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refresh_zone_stat_thresholds function has two loops which is expensive for
higher number of CPUs and NUMA nodes.
Below is the rough estimation of total iterations done by these loops
based on number of NUMA and CPUs.
Total number of iterations: nCPU * 2 * Numa * mCPU
Where:
nCPU = total number of CPUs
Numa = total number of NUMA nodes
mCPU = mean value of total CPUs (e.g., 512 for 1024 total CPUs)
For the system under test with 16 NUMA nodes and 1024 CPUs, this results
in a substantial increase in the number of loop iterations during boot-up
when NUMA is enabled:
No NUMA = 1024*2*1*512 = 1,048,576 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 224 ms total for all the CPUs in the system under test.
16 NUMA = 1024*2*16*512 = 16,777,216 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 4.5 seconds total for all the CPUs in the system under test.
Calling this for each CPU is expensive when there are large number of CPUs
along with multiple NUMAs. Fix this by deferring
refresh_zone_stat_thresholds to be called later at once when all the
secondary CPUs are up. Also, register the DYN hooks to keep the existing
hotplug functionality intact.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1723443220-20623-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (Microsoft) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When we do not set percpu_pagelist_high_fraction the kernel will compute
the pcp high_min/max by itself, which makes it hard to determine the
current high_min/max values.
So output the pcp high_min/max values to /proc/zoneinfo.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010120935.656619-1-mengensun@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This is an attempt to mitigate the issue of running out of memory when THP
is always enabled. During runtime whenever a THP is being faulted in
(__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page) or collapsed by khugepaged
(collapse_huge_page), the THP is added to _deferred_list. Whenever memory
reclaim happens in linux, the kernel runs the deferred_split shrinker
which goes through the _deferred_list.
If the folio was partially mapped, the shrinker attempts to split it. If
the folio is not partially mapped, the shrinker checks if the THP was
underused, i.e. how many of the base 4K pages of the entire THP were
zero-filled. If this number goes above a certain threshold (decided by
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none), the
shrinker will attempt to split that THP. Then at remap time, the pages
that were zero-filled are mapped to the shared zeropage, hence saving
memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830100438.3623486-6-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Co-authored-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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: 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: 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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Print the promo watermark in zoneinfo just like other watermarks. This
helps users check and verify all the watermarks are appropriate.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240801232548.36604-3-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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As part of the dynamic kernel stack project, we need to know the amount of
data that can be saved by reducing the default kernel stack size [1].
Provide a kernel stack usage histogram to aid in optimizing kernel stack
sizes and minimizing memory waste in large-scale environments. The
histogram divides stack usage into power-of-two buckets and reports the
results in /proc/vmstat. This information is especially valuable in
environments with millions of machines, where even small optimizations can
have a significant impact.
The histogram data is presented in /proc/vmstat with entries like
"kstack_1k", "kstack_2k", and so on, indicating the number of threads that
exited with stack usage falling within each respective bucket.
Example outputs:
Intel:
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
ARM with 64K page_size:
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 1
kstack_2k 340
kstack_4k 25212
kstack_8k 1659
kstack_16k 0
kstack_32k 0
kstack_64k 0
Note: once the dynamic kernel stack is implemented it will depend on the
implementation the usability of this feature: On hardware that supports
faults on kernel stacks, we will have other metrics that show the total
number of pages allocated for stacks. On hardware where faults are not
supported, we will most likely have some optimization where only some
threads are extended, and for those, these metrics will still be very
useful.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974367
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730150158.832783-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240724203322.2765486-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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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/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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Fix invalid access to pgdat during hot-remove operation:
ndctl users reported a GPF when trying to destroy a namespace:
$ ndctl destroy-namespace all -r all -f
Segmentation fault
dmesg:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for
non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000005650: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
PTI
KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range
[0x000000000002b280-0x000000000002b287]
CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 1868 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/08HT8T, BIOS
2.20.1 09/13/2023
RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x2a/0x110
cxl-test users report a GPF when trying to unload the test module:
$ modrpobe -r cxl-test
dmesg
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000004200
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1076 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O N 6.11.0-rc1 #197
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [N]=TEST
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/15
RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x6/0x90
Currently, when memory is hot-plugged or hot-removed the accounting is
done based on the assumption that memmap is allocated from the same node
as the hot-plugged/hot-removed memory, which is not always the case.
In addition, there are challenges with keeping the node id of the memory
that is being remove to the time when memmap accounting is actually
performed: since this is done after remove_pfn_range_from_zone(), and
also after remove_memory_block_devices(). Meaning that we cannot use
pgdat nor walking though memblocks to get the nid.
Given all of that, account the memmap overhead system wide instead.
For this we are going to be using global atomic counters, but given that
memmap size is rarely modified, and normally is only modified either
during early boot when there is only one CPU, or under a hotplug global
mutex lock, therefore there is no need for per-cpu optimizations.
Also, while we are here rename nr_memmap to nr_memmap_pages, and
nr_memmap_boot to nr_memmap_boot_pages to be self explanatory that the
units are in page count.
[pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: address a few nits from David Hildenbrand]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240808213437.682006-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAHj4cs9Ax1=CoJkgBGP_+sNu6-6=6v=_L-ZBZY0bVLD3wUWZQg@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Zq0tPd2h6alFz8XF@aschofie-mobl2/#t
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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/proc/vmstat contains events and stats, events can only grow, but stats
can grow and shrink.
vmstat has the following:
-------------------------
NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS: per-zone stats
NR_VM_NUMA_EVENT_ITEMS: per-numa events
NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS: per-numa stats
NR_VM_WRITEBACK_STAT_ITEMS: system-wide background-writeback and
dirty-throttling tresholds.
NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS: system-wide events
-------------------------
Rename NR_VM_WRITEBACK_STAT_ITEMS to NR_VM_STAT_ITEMS, to track the
system-wide stats, we are going to add per-page metadata stats to this
category in the next patch.
Also delete unused writeback_stat_name().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240808213437.682006-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Cc: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
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Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata and how much
it takes away from the machine capacity. Thus, we want to describe the
amount of memory that is going towards per-page metadata, which can vary
depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system use.
This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown below:
Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator:
/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE
Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator:
/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE
Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine:
(/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot +
/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE
Utility for userspace:
Observability: Describe the amount of memory overhead that is going to
per-page metadata on the system at any given time since this overhead is
not currently observable.
Debugging: Tracking the changes or absolute value in struct pages can help
detect anomalies as they can be correlated with other metrics in the
machine (e.g., memtotal, number of huge pages, etc).
page_ext overheads: Some kernel features such as page_owner
page_table_check that use page_ext can be optionally enabled via kernel
parameters. Having the total per-page metadata information helps users
precisely measure impact. Furthermore, page-metadata metrics will reflect
the amount of struct pages reliquished (or overhead reduced) when
hugetlbfs pages are reserved which will vary depending on whether hugetlb
vmemmap optimization is enabled or not.
For background and results see:
lore.kernel.org/all/20240220214558.3377482-1-souravpanda@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605222751.1406125-1-souravpanda@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add NR_IOMMU_PAGES into node_stat_item that counts number of pages
that are allocated by the IOMMU subsystem.
The allocations can be view per-node via:
/sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/vmstat.
For example:
$ grep iommu /sys/devices/system/node/node*/vmstat
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/vmstat:nr_iommu_pages 106025
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/vmstat:nr_iommu_pages 3464
The value is in page-count, therefore, in the above example
the iommu allocations amount to ~428M.
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240413002522.1101315-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive. This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.
To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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NR_PAGE_ORDERS defines the number of page orders supported by the page
allocator, ranging from 0 to MAX_ORDER, MAX_ORDER + 1 in total.
NR_PAGE_ORDERS assists in defining arrays of page orders and allows for
more natural iteration over them.
[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fixup for kerneldoc warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240101111512.7empzyifq7kxtzk3@box
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Demotion can work well without CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING. But the commit
23e9f0138963 ("mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* to per-node stats") wrongly hid
it behind CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING.
Fix it by moving them out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231229022651.3229174-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Fixes: 23e9f0138963 ("mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* to per-node stats")
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Since zswap now writes back pages from memcg-specific LRUs, we now need a
new stat to show writebacks count for each memcg.
[nphamcs@gmail.com: rename ZSWP_WB to ZSWPWB]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205193307.2432803-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-5-nphamcs@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.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: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Demotion will migrate pages across nodes. Previously, only the global
demotion statistics were accounted for. Changed them to per-node
statistics, making it easier to observe where demotion occurs on each
node.
This will help to identify which nodes are under pressure.
This patch also make pgdemote_* behind CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING, since
demotion is not available for !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
With this patch, here is a sample where node0 node1 are DRAM,
node3 is PMEM:
Global stats:
$ grep demote /proc/vmstat
pgdemote_kswapd 254288
pgdemote_direct 113497
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
Per-node stats:
$ grep demote /sys/devices/system/node/node0/vmstat # demotion source
pgdemote_kswapd 68454
pgdemote_direct 83431
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
$ grep demote /sys/devices/system/node/node1/vmstat # demotion source
pgdemote_kswapd 185834
pgdemote_direct 30066
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
$ grep demote /sys/devices/system/node/node3/vmstat # demotion target
pgdemote_kswapd 0
pgdemote_direct 0
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231103031450.1456523-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The target to tune PCP high automatically is as follows,
- Minimize allocation/freeing from/to shared zone
- Minimize idle pages in PCP
- Minimize pages in PCP if the system free pages is too few
To reach these target, a tuning algorithm as follows is designed,
- When we refill PCP via allocating from the zone, increase PCP high.
Because if we had larger PCP, we could avoid to allocate from the
zone.
- In periodic vmstat updating kworker (via refresh_cpu_vm_stats()),
decrease PCP high to try to free possible idle PCP pages.
- When page reclaiming is active for the zone, stop increasing PCP
high in allocating path, decrease PCP high and free some pages in
freeing path.
So, the PCP high can be tuned to the page allocating/freeing depth of
workloads eventually.
One issue of the algorithm is that if the number of pages allocated is
much more than that of pages freed on a CPU, the PCP high may become the
maximal value even if the allocating/freeing depth is small. But this
isn't a severe issue, because there are no idle pages in this case.
One alternative choice is to increase PCP high when we drain PCP via
trying to free pages to the zone, but don't increase PCP high during PCP
refilling. This can avoid the issue above. But if the number of pages
allocated is much less than that of pages freed on a CPU, there will be
many idle pages in PCP and it is hard to free these idle pages.
1/8 (>> 3) of PCP high will be decreased periodically. The value 1/8 is
kind of arbitrary. Just to make sure that the idle PCP pages will be
freed eventually.
On a 2-socket Intel server with 224 logical CPU, we run 8 kbuild instances
in parallel (each with `make -j 28`) in 8 cgroup. This simulates the
kbuild server that is used by 0-Day kbuild service. With the patch, the
build time decreases 3.5%. The cycles% of the spinlock contention (mostly
for zone lock) decreases from 11.0% to 0.5%. The number of PCP draining
for high order pages freeing (free_high) decreases 65.6%. The number of
pages allocated from zone (instead of from PCP) decreases 83.9%.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231016053002.756205-8-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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If there is no memory allocation/freeing in the PCP (Per-CPU Pageset) of a
remote zone (zone in remote NUMA node) after some time (3 seconds for
now), the pages of the PCP of the remote zone will be drained to avoid
memory wastage.
This behavior was introduced in the commit 4ae7c03943fc ("[PATCH]
Periodically drain non local pagesets") and the commit 4037d452202e ("Move
remote node draining out of slab allocators")
But, after the commit 7cc36bbddde5 ("vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers
V8"), the vmstat updater worker which is used to drain the PCP of remote
zones may not be re-queued when we are waiting for the timeout
(pcp->expire != 0) if there are no vmstat changes on this CPU, for
example, when the CPU goes idle or runs user space only workloads. This
may cause the pages of a remote zone be kept in PCP of this CPU for long
time. So that, the page reclaiming of the remote zone may be triggered
prematurely. This isn't a severe problem in practice, because the PCP of
the remote zone will be drained if some memory are allocated/freed again
on this CPU. And, the PCP will eventually be drained during the direct
reclaiming if necessary.
Anyway, the problem still deserves a fix via guaranteeing that the vmstat
updater worker will always be re-queued when we are waiting for the
timeout. In effect, this restores the original behavior before the commit
7cc36bbddde5.
We can reproduce the bug via allocating/freeing pages from a remote zone
then go idle as follows. And the patch can fix it.
- Run some workloads, use `numactl` to bind CPU to node 0 and memory to
node 1. So the PCP of the CPU on node 0 for zone on node 1 will be
filled.
- After workloads finish, idle for 60s
- Check /proc/zoneinfo
With the original kernel, the number of pages in the PCP of the CPU on
node 0 for zone on node 1 is non-zero after idle. With the patched
kernel, it becomes 0 after idle. That is, we avoid to keep pages in the
remote PCP during idle.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231007062356.187621-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230811090819.60845-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 7cc36bbddde5 ("vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers V8")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Use this_cpu_try_cmpxchg instead of this_cpu_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) ==
old in mod_zone_state and mod_node_state. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns
success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and
related move instruction in front of cmpxchg).
Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904150917.8318-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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No page_ext function or structure is used in vmstat. Just remove page_ext
header from vmstat.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717113227.1897173-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.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:
- Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs
- Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing
- Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace
with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to
mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability
- Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the
prevalence of page rescanning
- Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the
get_user_pages() interface
- Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the
maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree
- Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code
- David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for
get_user_pages()
- Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization
work for the vmalloc code
- Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups,
- SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code
- Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of
device refcounting
- Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code
- Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some
rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the
provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses
- Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache
and directio access to file mappings
- John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code
- ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign
- Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly
with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock
- Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment
from 128 to 8
- Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by
reorganizing the LRU management
- Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the
buffer_head code
- Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work
- Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their
functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits)
mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool()
mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem()
hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()
Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one"
mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node
mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim()
mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list()
mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block()
mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads
mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes
mm: remove references to pagevec
mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate
mm: remove struct pagevec
net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch
i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch
pagevec: rename fbatch_count()
mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()
drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch
i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch
scatterlist: add sg_set_folio()
...
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Problem: The interruption caused by vmstat_update is undesirable
for certain applications.
With workloads that are running on isolated cpus with nohz full mode to
shield off any kernel interruption. For example, a VM running a
time sensitive application with a 50us maximum acceptable interruption
(use case: soft PLC).
oslat 1094.456862: sys_mlock(start: 7f7ed0000b60, len: 1000)
oslat 1094.456971: workqueue_queue_work: ... function=vmstat_update ...
oslat 1094.456974: sched_switch: prev_comm=oslat ... ==> next_comm=kworker/5:1 ...
kworker 1094.456978: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/5:1 ==> next_comm=oslat ...
The example above shows an additional 7us for the
oslat -> kworker -> oslat
switches. In the case of a virtualized CPU, and the vmstat_update
interruption in the host (of a qemu-kvm vcpu), the latency penalty
observed in the guest is higher than 50us, violating the acceptable
latency threshold.
The isolated vCPU can perform operations that modify per-CPU page counters,
for example to complete I/O operations:
CPU 11/KVM-9540 [001] dNh1. 2314.248584: mod_zone_page_state <-__folio_end_writeback
CPU 11/KVM-9540 [001] dNh1. 2314.248585: <stack trace>
=> 0xffffffffc042b083
=> mod_zone_page_state
=> __folio_end_writeback
=> folio_end_writeback
=> iomap_finish_ioend
=> blk_mq_end_request_batch
=> nvme_irq
=> __handle_irq_event_percpu
=> handle_irq_event
=> handle_edge_irq
=> __common_interrupt
=> common_interrupt
=> asm_common_interrupt
=> vmx_do_interrupt_nmi_irqoff
=> vmx_handle_exit_irqoff
=> vcpu_enter_guest
=> vcpu_run
=> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
=> kvm_vcpu_ioctl
=> __x64_sys_ioctl
=> do_syscall_64
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
In kernel users of vmstat counters either require the precise value and
they are using zone_page_state_snapshot interface or they can live with an
imprecision as the regular flushing can happen at arbitrary time and
cumulative error can grow (see calculate_normal_threshold).
From that POV the regular flushing can be postponed for CPUs that have
been isolated from the kernel interference without critical infrastructure
ever noticing. Skip regular flushing from vmstat_shepherd for all
isolated CPUs to avoid interference with the isolated workload.
Suggested by Michal Hocko.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZIDoV/zxFKVmQl7W@tpad
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory
acceptance. Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD
SEV-SNP, require memory to be accepted before it can be used by the
guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific to the Virtual Machine
platform.
There are several ways the kernel can deal with unaccepted memory:
1. Accept all the memory during boot. It is easy to implement and it
doesn't have runtime cost once the system is booted. The downside is
very long boot time.
Accept can be parallelized to multiple CPUs to keep it manageable
(i.e. via DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), but it tends to saturate
memory bandwidth and does not scale beyond the point.
2. Accept a block of memory on the first use. It requires more
infrastructure and changes in page allocator to make it work, but
it provides good boot time.
On-demand memory accept means latency spikes every time kernel steps
onto a new memory block. The spikes will go away once workload data
set size gets stabilized or all memory gets accepted.
3. Accept all memory in background. Introduce a thread (or multiple)
that gets memory accepted proactively. It will minimize time the
system experience latency spikes on memory allocation while keeping
low boot time.
This approach cannot function on its own. It is an extension of #2:
background memory acceptance requires functional scheduler, but the
page allocator may need to tap into unaccepted memory before that.
The downside of the approach is that these threads also steal CPU
cycles and memory bandwidth from the user's workload and may hurt
user experience.
Implement #1 and #2 for now. #2 is the default. Some workloads may want
to use #1 with accept_memory=eager in kernel command line. #3 can be
implemented later based on user's demands.
Support of unaccepted memory requires a few changes in core-mm code:
- memblock accepts memory on allocation. It serves early boot memory
allocations and doesn't limit them to pre-accepted pool of memory.
- page allocator accepts memory on the first allocation of the page.
When kernel runs out of accepted memory, it accepts memory until the
high watermark is reached. It helps to minimize fragmentation.
EFI code will provide two helpers if the platform supports unaccepted
memory:
- accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted.
- range_contains_unaccepted_memory() checks anything within the range
of physical addresses requires acceptance.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> # memblock
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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Add a new CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS config option to dump extra statistics
about handling page fault under VMA lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-29-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.
This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.
Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.
[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Direct reclaim stats are useful for identifying a potential source for
application latency, as well as spotting issues with kswapd. However,
khugepaged currently distorts the picture: as a kernel thread it doesn't
impose allocation latencies on userspace, and it explicitly opts out of
kswapd reclaim. Its activity showing up in the direct reclaim stats is
misleading. Counting it as kswapd reclaim could also cause confusion when
trying to understand actual kswapd behavior.
Break out khugepaged from the direct reclaim counters into new
pgsteal_khugepaged, pgdemote_khugepaged, pgscan_khugepaged counters.
Test with a huge executable (CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS):
pgsteal_kswapd 1342185
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 3623
pgscan_kswapd 1345025
pgscan_direct 0
pgscan_khugepaged 3623
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026180133.377671-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Eric Bergen <ebergen@meta.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@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:
- Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
- Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
contention.
Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
to the single bit level.
KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.
- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.
- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
support file/shmem-backed pages.
- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen
- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov
- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
memory-failure
- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.
- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.
- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.
- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.
- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions
- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(
- migration enhancements from Peter Xu
- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying
- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.
- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.
- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.
- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
activity.
- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.
- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.
- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.
- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.
- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.
- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.
- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer
hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull preempt RT updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Introduce preempt_[dis|enable_nested() and use it to clean up various
places which have open coded PREEMPT_RT conditionals.
On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels, spinlocks and rwlocks are neither
disabling preemption nor interrupts. Though there are a few places
which depend on the implicit preemption/interrupt disable of those
locks, e.g. seqcount write sections, per CPU statistics updates etc.
PREEMPT_RT added open coded CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT conditionals to
disable/enable preemption in the related code parts all over the
place. That's hard to read and does not really explain why this is
necessary.
Linus suggested to use helper functions (preempt_disable_nested() and
preempt_enable_nested()) and use those in the affected places. On !RT
enabled kernels these functions are NOPs, but contain a lockdep assert
to validate that preemption is actually disabled to catch call sites
which do not have preemption disabled.
Clean up the affected code paths in mm, dentry and lib"
* tag 'sched-rt-2022-10-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
u64_stats: Streamline the implementation
flex_proportions: Disable preemption entering the write section.
mm/compaction: Get rid of RT ifdeffery
mm/memcontrol: Replace the PREEMPT_RT conditionals
mm/debug: Provide VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED()
mm/vmstat: Use preempt_[dis|en]able_nested()
dentry: Use preempt_[dis|en]able_nested()
preempt: Provide preempt_[dis|en]able_nested()
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"The first batch of KVM patches, mostly covering x86.
ARM:
- Account stage2 page table allocations in memory stats
x86:
- Account EPT/NPT arm64 page table allocations in memory stats
- Tracepoint cleanups/fixes for nested VM-Enter and emulated MSR
accesses
- Drop eVMCS controls filtering for KVM on Hyper-V, all known
versions of Hyper-V now support eVMCS fields associated with
features that are enumerated to the guest
- Use KVM's sanitized VMCS config as the basis for the values of
nested VMX capabilities MSRs
- A myriad event/exception fixes and cleanups. Most notably, pending
exceptions morph into VM-Exits earlier, as soon as the exception is
queued, instead of waiting until the next vmentry. This fixed a
longstanding issue where the exceptions would incorrecly become
double-faults instead of triggering a vmexit; the common case of
page-fault vmexits had a special workaround, but now it's fixed for
good
- A handful of fixes for memory leaks in error paths
- Cleanups for VMREAD trampoline and VMX's VM-Exit assembly flow
- Never write to memory from non-sleepable kvm_vcpu_check_block()
- Selftests refinements and cleanups
- Misc typo cleanups
Generic:
- remove KVM_REQ_UNHALT"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
KVM: remove KVM_REQ_UNHALT
KVM: mips, x86: do not rely on KVM_REQ_UNHALT
KVM: x86: never write to memory from kvm_vcpu_check_block()
KVM: x86: Don't snapshot pending INIT/SIPI prior to checking nested events
KVM: nVMX: Make event request on VMXOFF iff INIT/SIPI is pending
KVM: nVMX: Make an event request if INIT or SIPI is pending on VM-Enter
KVM: SVM: Make an event request if INIT or SIPI is pending when GIF is set
KVM: x86: lapic does not have to process INIT if it is blocked
KVM: x86: Rename kvm_apic_has_events() to make it INIT/SIPI specific
KVM: x86: Rename and expose helper to detect if INIT/SIPI are allowed
KVM: nVMX: Make an event request when pending an MTF nested VM-Exit
KVM: x86: make vendor code check for all nested events
mailmap: Update Oliver's email address
KVM: x86: Allow force_emulation_prefix to be written without a reload
KVM: selftests: Add an x86-only test to verify nested exception queueing
KVM: selftests: Use uapi header to get VMX and SVM exit reasons/codes
KVM: x86: Rename inject_pending_events() to kvm_check_and_inject_events()
KVM: VMX: Update MTF and ICEBP comments to document KVM's subtle behavior
KVM: x86: Treat pending TRIPLE_FAULT requests as pending exceptions
KVM: x86: Morph pending exceptions to pending VM-Exits at queue time
...
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By using the maple tree and the maple tree state, the vmacache is no
longer beneficial and is complicating the VMA code. Remove the vmacache
to reduce the work in keeping it up to date and code complexity.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-26-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch switch the demotion target building logic to use memory tiers
instead of NUMA distance. All N_MEMORY NUMA nodes will be placed in the
default memory tier and additional memory tiers will be added by drivers
like dax kmem.
This patch builds the demotion target for a NUMA node by looking at all
memory tiers below the tier to which the NUMA node belongs. The closest
node in the immediately following memory tier is used as a demotion
target.
Since we are now only building demotion target for N_MEMORY NUMA nodes the
CPU hotplug calls are removed in this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Replace the open coded CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT conditional
preempt_enable/disable() pairs with the new helper functions which hide
the underlying implementation details.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164131.402717-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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In NUMA balancing memory tiering mode, if there are hot pages in slow
memory node and cold pages in fast memory node, we need to promote/demote
hot/cold pages between the fast and cold memory nodes.
A choice is to promote/demote as fast as possible. But the CPU cycles and
memory bandwidth consumed by the high promoting/demoting throughput will
hurt the latency of some workload because of accessing inflating and slow
memory bandwidth contention.
A way to resolve this issue is to restrict the max promoting/demoting
throughput. It will take longer to finish the promoting/demoting. But
the workload latency will be better. This is implemented in this patch as
the page promotion rate limit mechanism.
The number of the candidate pages to be promoted to the fast memory node
via NUMA balancing is counted, if the count exceeds the limit specified by
the users, the NUMA balancing promotion will be stopped until the next
second.
A new sysctl knob kernel.numa_balancing_promote_rate_limit_MBps is added
for the users to specify the limit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713083954.34196-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: osalvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhong Jiang <zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We keep track of several kernel memory stats (total kernel memory, page
tables, stack, vmalloc, etc) on multiple levels (global, per-node,
per-memcg, etc). These stats give insights to users to how much memory
is used by the kernel and for what purposes.
Currently, memory used by KVM mmu is not accounted in any of those
kernel memory stats. This patch series accounts the memory pages
used by KVM for page tables in those stats in a new
NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE stat. This stat can be later extended to account
for other types of secondary pages tables (e.g. iommu page tables).
KVM has a decent number of large allocations that aren't for page
tables, but for most of them, the number/size of those allocations
scales linearly with either the number of vCPUs or the amount of memory
assigned to the VM. KVM's secondary page table allocations do not scale
linearly, especially when nested virtualization is in use.
From a KVM perspective, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE will scale with KVM's
per-VM pages_{4k,2m,1g} stats unless the guest is doing something
bizarre (e.g. accessing only 4kb chunks of 2mb pages so that KVM is
forced to allocate a large number of page tables even though the guest
isn't accessing that much memory). However, someone would need to either
understand how KVM works to make that connection, or know (or be told) to
go look at KVM's stats if they're running VMs to better decipher the stats.
Furthermore, having NR_PAGETABLE side-by-side with NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE
is informative. For example, when backing a VM with THP vs. HugeTLB,
NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE is roughly the same, but NR_PAGETABLE is an order
of magnitude higher with THP. So having this stat will at the very least
prove to be useful for understanding tradeoffs between VM backing types,
and likely even steer folks towards potential optimizations.
The original discussion with more details about the rationale:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilqoi77b.wl-maz@kernel.org
This stat will be used by subsequent patches to count KVM mmu
memory usage.
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823004639.2387269-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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FOR_ALL_ZONES should be consistent with enum zone_type. Otherwise,
__count_zid_vm_events have the potential to add count to wrong item when
zid is ZONE_DEVICE.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220807154442.GA18167@haolee.io
Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:
- bitmap: optimize bitmap_weight() usage, from me
- lib/bitmap.c make bitmap_print_bitmask_to_buf parseable, from Mauro
Carvalho Chehab
- include/linux/find: Fix documentation, from Anna-Maria Behnsen
- bitmap: fix conversion from/to fix-sized arrays, from me
- bitmap: Fix return values to be unsigned, from Kees Cook
It has been in linux-next for at least a week with no problems.
* tag 'bitmap-for-5.19-rc1' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (31 commits)
nodemask: Fix return values to be unsigned
bitmap: Fix return values to be unsigned
KVM: x86: hyper-v: replace bitmap_weight() with hweight64()
KVM: x86: hyper-v: fix type of valid_bank_mask
ia64: cleanup remove_siblinginfo()
drm/amd/pm: use bitmap_{from,to}_arr32 where appropriate
KVM: s390: replace bitmap_copy with bitmap_{from,to}_arr64 where appropriate
lib/bitmap: add test for bitmap_{from,to}_arr64
lib: add bitmap_{from,to}_arr64
lib/bitmap: extend comment for bitmap_(from,to)_arr32()
include/linux/find: Fix documentation
lib/bitmap.c make bitmap_print_bitmask_to_buf parseable
MAINTAINERS: add cpumask and nodemask files to BITMAP_API
arch/x86: replace nodes_weight with nodes_empty where appropriate
mm/vmstat: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
clocksource: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty in clocksource.c
genirq/affinity: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
irq: mips: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
drm/i915/pmu: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
arch/x86: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
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