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Kirill Tkhai authored
We may simply check for sc->may_unmap in isolate_lru_pages() instead of doing that in both of its callers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154748280735.29962.15867846875217618569.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by:
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Syzbot with KMSAN reports (excerpt): ================================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:353 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_mm+0x249/0x370 mm/mempolicy.c:384 CPU: 1 PID: 17420 Comm: syz-executor4 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7+ #15 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x173/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:113 kmsan_report+0x12e/0x2a0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:613 __msan_warning+0x82/0xf0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:295 mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:353 [inline] mpol_rebind_mm+0x249/0x370 mm/mempolicy.c:384 update_tasks_nodemask+0x608/0xca0 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1120 update_nodemasks_hier kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1185 [inline] update_nodemask kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1253 [inline] cpuset_write_resmask+0x2a98/0x34b0 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1728 ... Uninit was created at: kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:204 [inline] kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0x92/0x150 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:158 kmsan_kmalloc+0xa6/0x130 mm/kmsan/kmsan_hooks.c:176 kmem_cache_alloc+0x572/0xb90 mm/slub.c:2777 mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:276 [inline] do_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1180 [inline] kernel_mbind+0x8a7/0x31a0 mm/mempolicy.c:1347 __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1354 [inline] As it's difficult to report where exactly the uninit value resides in the mempolicy object, we have to guess a bit. mm/mempolicy.c:353 contains this part of mpol_rebind_policy(): if (!mpol_store_user_nodemask(pol) && nodes_equal(pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed, *newmask)) "mpol_store_user_nodemask(pol)" is testing pol->flags, which I couldn't ever see being uninitialized after leaving mpol_new(). So I'll guess it's actually about accessing pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed on line 354, but still part of statement starting on line 353. For w.cpuset_mems_allowed to be not initialized, and the nodes_equal() reachable for a mempolicy where mpol_set_nodemask() is called in do_mbind(), it seems the only possibility is a MPOL_PREFERRED policy with empty set of nodes, i.e. MPOL_LOCAL equivalent, with MPOL_F_LOCAL flag. Let's exclude such policies from the nodes_equal() check. Note the uninit access should be benign anyway, as rebinding this kind of policy is always a no-op. Therefore no actual need for stable inclusion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a71997c3-e8ae-a787-d5ce-3db05768b27c@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73da3e9c-cc84-509e-17d9-0c434bb9967d@suse.czSigned-off-by:Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by: syzbot+b19c2dc2c990ea657a71@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tetsuo Handa authored
If a memory cgroup contains a single process with many threads (including different process group sharing the mm) then it is possible to trigger a race when the oom killer complains that there are no oom elible tasks and complain into the log which is both annoying and confusing because there is no actual problem. The race looks as follows: P1 oom_reaper P2 try_charge try_charge mem_cgroup_out_of_memory mutex_lock(oom_lock) out_of_memory oom_kill_process(P1,P2) wake_oom_reaper mutex_unlock(oom_lock) oom_reap_task mutex_lock(oom_lock) select_bad_process # no victim The problem is more visible with many threads. Fix this by checking for fatal_signal_pending from mem_cgroup_out_of_memory when the oom_lock is already held. The oom bypass is safe because we do the same early in the try_charge path already. The situation migh have changed in the mean time. It should be safe to check for fatal_signal_pending and tsk_is_oom_victim but for a better code readability abstract the current charge bypass condition into should_force_charge and reuse it from that path. " Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/01370f70-e1f6-ebe4-b95e-0df21a0bc15e@i-love.sakura.ne.jpSigned-off-by:Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Rapoport authored
There are two early memory allocations that use memblock_alloc_node_nopanic() and do not check its return value. While this happens very early during boot and chances that the allocation will fail are diminishing, it is still worth to have proper checks for the allocation errors. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547734941-944-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
NestMMU requires us to mark the pte invalid and flush the tlb when we do a RW upgrade of pte. We fixed a variant of this in the fault path in bd5050e3 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Change pte relax sequence to handle nest MMU hang"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116085035.29729-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Architectures like ppc64 require to do a conditional tlb flush based on the old and new value of pte. Follow the regular pte change protection sequence for hugetlb too. This allows the architectures to override the update sequence. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116085035.29729-5-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
NestMMU requires us to mark the pte invalid and flush the tlb when we do a RW upgrade of pte. We fixed a variant of this in the fault path in bd5050e3 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Change pte relax sequence to handle nest MMU hang"). Do the same for mprotect upgrades. Hugetlb is handled in the next patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116085035.29729-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Architectures like ppc64 require to do a conditional tlb flush based on the old and new value of pte. Enable that by passing old pte value as the arg. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116085035.29729-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Patch series "NestMMU pte upgrade workaround for mprotect", v5. We can upgrade pte access (R -> RW transition) via mprotect. We need to make sure we follow the recommended pte update sequence as outlined in commit bd5050e3 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Change pte relax sequence to handle nest MMU hang") for such updates. This patch series does that. This patch (of 5): Some architectures may want to call flush_tlb_range from these helpers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116085035.29729-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118235123.27843-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Changbin Du authored
Move the PAGE_OWNER option from submenu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" to dedicated submenu "Memory Debugging". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190120024254.6270-1-changbin.du@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Yang Fan authored
The variable 'addr' is redundant in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(), just use parameter 'addr0' directly. Then remove the const qualifier of the parameter, and change its name to 'addr'. And in according with other functions, remove the const qualifier of all other no-pointer parameters in function arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190127041112.25599-1-nullptr.cpp@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Yang Fan <nullptr.cpp@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Shakeel Butt authored
Since the start of the git history of Linux, the kernel after selecting the worst process to be oom-killed, prefer to kill its child (if the child does not share mm with the parent). Later it was changed to prefer to kill a child who is worst. If the parent is still the worst then the parent will be killed. This heuristic assumes that the children did less work than their parent and by killing one of them, the work lost will be less. However this is very workload dependent. If there is a workload which can benefit from this heuristic, can use oom_score_adj to prefer children to be killed before the parent. The select_bad_process() has already selected the worst process in the system/memcg. There is no need to recheck the badness of its children and hoping to find a worse candidate. That's a lot of unneeded racy work. Also the heuristic is dangerous because it make fork bomb like workloads to recover much later because we constantly pick and kill processes which are not memory hogs. So, let's remove this whole heuristic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190121215850.221745-2-shakeelb@google.comSigned-off-by:
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by:
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190122152151.16139-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Pages which use page_type must never be mapped to userspace as it would destroy their page type. Add an explicit check for this instead of assuming that kernel drivers always get this right. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129053830.3749-1-willy@infradead.orgSigned-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox authored
It's never appropriate to map a page allocated by SLAB into userspace. A buggy device driver might try this, or an attacker might be able to find a way to make it happen. Christoph said: : Let's just fail the code. Currently this may work with SLUB. But SLAB : and SLOB overlay fields with mapcount. So you would have a corrupted page : struct if you mapped a slab page to user space. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125173827.2658-1-willy@infradead.orgSigned-off-by:
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Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) authored
One of the vmalloc stress test case triggers the kernel BUG(): <snip> [60.562151] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [60.562154] kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:512! [60.562206] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [60.562247] CPU: 0 PID: 430 Comm: vmalloc_test/0 Not tainted 4.20.0+ #161 [60.562293] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [60.562351] RIP: 0010:alloc_vmap_area+0x36f/0x390 <snip> it can happen due to big align request resulting in overflowing of calculated address, i.e. it becomes 0 after ALIGN()'s fixup. Fix it by checking if calculated address is within vstart/vend range. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124115648.9433-2-urezki@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Chris Down authored
memcg has a significant number of files exposed to kernfs where their value is either exposed directly or is "max" in the case of PAGE_COUNTER_MAX. This patch makes this generic by providing a single function to do this work. In combination with the previous patch adding mem_cgroup_from_seq, this makes all of the seq_show feeder functions significantly more simple. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124194100.GA31425@chrisdown.nameSigned-off-by:
Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Acked-by:
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Chris Down authored
This is the start of a series of patches similar to my earlier DEFINE_MEMCG_MAX_OR_VAL work, but with less Macro Magic(tm). There are a bunch of places we go from seq_file to mem_cgroup, which currently requires manually getting the css, then getting the mem_cgroup from the css. It's in enough places now that having mem_cgroup_from_seq makes sense (and also makes the next patch a bit nicer). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124194050.GA31341@chrisdown.nameSigned-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Cgroup has a standardized poll/notification mechanism for waking all pollers on all fds when a filesystem node changes. To allow polling for custom events, add a .poll callback that can override the default. This is in preparation for pollable cgroup pressure files which have per-fd trigger configurations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124211518.244221-3-surenb@google.comSigned-off-by:
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Patch series "psi: pressure stall monitors", v3. Android is adopting psi to detect and remedy memory pressure that results in stuttering and decreased responsiveness on mobile devices. Psi gives us the stall information, but because we're dealing with latencies in the millisecond range, periodically reading the pressure files to detect stalls in a timely fashion is not feasible. Psi also doesn't aggregate its averages at a high enough frequency right now. This patch series extends the psi interface such that users can configure sensitive latency thresholds and use poll() and friends to be notified when these are breached. As high-frequency aggregation is costly, it implements an aggregation method that is optimized for fast, short-interval averaging, and makes the aggregation frequency adaptive, such that high-frequency updates only happen while monitored stall events are actively occurring. With these patches applied, Android can monitor for, and ward off, mounting memory shortages before they cause problems for the user. For example, using memory stall monitors in userspace low memory killer daemon (lmkd) we can detect mounting pressure and kill less important processes before device becomes visibly sluggish. In our memory stress testing psi memory monitors produce roughly 10x less false positives compared to vmpressure signals. Having ability to specify multiple triggers for the same psi metric allows other parts of Android framework to monitor memory state of the device and act accordingly. The new interface is straightforward. The user opens one of the pressure files for writing and writes a trigger description into the file descriptor that defines the stall state - some or full, and the maximum stall time over a given window of time. E.g.: /* Signal when stall time exceeds 100ms of a 1s window */ char trigger[] = "full 100000 1000000"; fd = open("/proc/pressure/memory"); write(fd, trigger, sizeof(trigger)); while (poll() >= 0) { ... } close(fd); When the monitored stall state is entered, psi adapts its aggregation frequency according to what the configured time window requires in order to emit event signals in a timely fashion. Once the stalling subsides, aggregation reverts back to normal. The trigger is associated with the open file descriptor. To stop monitoring, the user only needs to close the file descriptor and the trigger is discarded. Patches 1-4 prepare the psi code for polling support. Patch 5 implements the adaptive polling logic, the pressure growth detection optimized for short intervals, and hooks up write() and poll() on the pressure files. The patches were developed in collaboration with Johannes Weiner. This patch (of 5): Kernfs has a standardized poll/notification mechanism for waking all pollers on all fds when a filesystem node changes. To allow polling for custom events, add a .poll callback that can override the default. This is in preparation for pollable cgroup pressure files which have per-fd trigger configurations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124211518.244221-2-surenb@google.comSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Compaction is inherently race-prone as a suitable page freed during compaction can be allocated by any parallel task. This patch uses a capture_control structure to isolate a page immediately when it is freed by a direct compactor in the slow path of the page allocator. The intent is to avoid redundant scanning. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2582.11 ( 0.00%) 2563.68 ( 0.71%) Amean fault-both-5 4500.26 ( 0.00%) 4233.52 ( 5.93%) Amean fault-both-7 5819.53 ( 0.00%) 6333.65 ( -8.83%) Amean fault-both-12 9321.18 ( 0.00%) 9759.38 ( -4.70%) Amean fault-both-18 9782.76 ( 0.00%) 10338.76 ( -5.68%) Amean fault-both-24 15272.81 ( 0.00%) 13379.55 * 12.40%* Amean fault-both-30 15121.34 ( 0.00%) 16158.25 ( -6.86%) Amean fault-both-32 18466.67 ( 0.00%) 18971.21 ( -2.73%) Latency is only moderately affected but the devil is in the details. A closer examination indicates that base page fault latency is reduced but latency of huge pages is increased as it takes creater care to succeed. Part of the "problem" is that allocation success rates are close to 100% even when under pressure and compaction gets harder 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Percentage huge-3 96.70 ( 0.00%) 98.23 ( 1.58%) Percentage huge-5 96.99 ( 0.00%) 95.30 ( -1.75%) Percentage huge-7 94.19 ( 0.00%) 97.24 ( 3.24%) Percentage huge-12 94.95 ( 0.00%) 97.35 ( 2.53%) Percentage huge-18 96.74 ( 0.00%) 97.30 ( 0.58%) Percentage huge-24 97.07 ( 0.00%) 97.55 ( 0.50%) Percentage huge-30 95.69 ( 0.00%) 98.50 ( 2.95%) Percentage huge-32 96.70 ( 0.00%) 99.27 ( 2.65%) And scan rates are reduced as expected by 6% for the migration scanner and 29% for the free scanner indicating that there is less redundant work. Compaction migrate scanned 20815362 19573286 Compaction free scanned 16352612 11510663 [mgorman@techsingularity.net: remove redundant check] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201143853.GH9565@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-23-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Pageblock hints are cleared when compaction restarts or kswapd makes enough progress that it can sleep but it's over-eager in that the bit is cleared for migration sources with no LRU pages and migration targets with no free pages. As pageblock skip hint flushes are relatively rare and out-of-band with respect to kswapd, this patch makes a few more expensive checks to see if it's appropriate to even clear the bit. Every pageblock that is not cleared will avoid 512 pages being scanned unnecessarily on x86-64. The impact is variable with different workloads showing small differences in latency, success rates and scan rates. This is expected as clearing the hints is not that common but doing a small amount of work out-of-band to avoid a large amount of work in-band later is generally a good thing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-22-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Once fast searching finishes, there is a possibility that the linear scanner is scanning full blocks found by the fast scanner earlier. This patch uses an adaptive stride to sample pageblocks for free pages. The more consecutive full pageblocks encountered, the larger the stride until a pageblock with free pages is found. The scanners might meet slightly sooner but it is an acceptable risk given that the search of the free lists may still encounter the pages and adjust the cached PFN of the free scanner accordingly. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2752.37 ( 0.00%) 2729.95 ( 0.81%) Amean fault-both-5 4341.69 ( 0.00%) 4397.80 ( -1.29%) Amean fault-both-7 6308.75 ( 0.00%) 6097.61 ( 3.35%) Amean fault-both-12 10241.81 ( 0.00%) 9407.15 ( 8.15%) Amean fault-both-18 13736.09 ( 0.00%) 10857.63 * 20.96%* Amean fault-both-24 16853.95 ( 0.00%) 13323.24 * 20.95%* Amean fault-both-30 15862.61 ( 0.00%) 17345.44 ( -9.35%) Amean fault-both-32 18450.85 ( 0.00%) 16892.00 ( 8.45%) The latency is mildly improved offseting some overhead from earlier patches that are prerequisites for the rest of the series. However, a major impact is on the free scan rate with an 82% reduction. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17 Compaction migrate scanned 21607271 20116887 Compaction free scanned 95336406 16668703 It's also the first time in the series where the number of pages scanned by the migration scanner is greater than the free scanner due to the increased search efficiency. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-21-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
As compaction proceeds and creates high-order blocks, the free list search gets less efficient as the larger blocks are used as compaction targets. Eventually, the larger blocks will be behind the migration scanner for partially migrated pageblocks and the search fails. This patch round-robins what orders are searched so that larger blocks can be ignored and find smaller blocks that can be used as migration targets. The overall impact was small on 1-socket but it avoids corner cases where the migration/free scanners meet prematurely or situations where many of the pageblocks encountered by the free scanner are almost full instead of being properly packed. Previous testing had indicated that without this patch there were occasional large spikes in the free scanner without this patch. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-20-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The fast isolation of free pages allows the cached PFN of the free scanner to advance faster than necessary depending on the contents of the free list. The key is that fast_isolate_freepages() can update zone->compact_cached_free_pfn via isolate_freepages_block(). When the fast search fails, the linear scan can start from a point that has skipped valid migration targets, particularly pageblocks with just low-order free pages. This can cause the migration source/target scanners to meet prematurely causing a reset. This patch starts by avoiding an update of the pageblock skip information and cached PFN from isolate_freepages_block() and puts the responsibility of updating that information in the callers. The fast scanner will update the cached PFN if and only if it finds a block that is higher than the existing cached PFN and sets the skip if the pageblock is full or nearly full. The linear scanner will update skipped information and the cached PFN only when a block is completely scanned. The total impact is that the free scanner advances more slowly as it is primarily driven by the linear scanner instead of the fast search. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 noresched-v3r17 slowfree-v3r17 Amean fault-both-3 2965.68 ( 0.00%) 3036.75 ( -2.40%) Amean fault-both-5 3995.90 ( 0.00%) 4522.24 * -13.17%* Amean fault-both-7 5842.12 ( 0.00%) 6365.35 ( -8.96%) Amean fault-both-12 9550.87 ( 0.00%) 10340.93 ( -8.27%) Amean fault-both-18 13304.72 ( 0.00%) 14732.46 ( -10.73%) Amean fault-both-24 14618.59 ( 0.00%) 16288.96 ( -11.43%) Amean fault-both-30 16650.96 ( 0.00%) 16346.21 ( 1.83%) Amean fault-both-32 17145.15 ( 0.00%) 19317.49 ( -12.67%) The impact to latency is higher than the last version but it appears to be due to a slight increase in the free scan rates which is a potential side-effect of the patch. However, this is necessary for later patches that are more careful about how pageblocks are treated as earlier iterations of those patches hit corner cases where the restarts were punishing and very visible. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-19-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Scanning on large machines can take a considerable length of time and eventually need to be rescheduled. This is treated as an abort event but that's not appropriate as the attempt is likely to be retried after making numerous checks and taking another cycle through the page allocator. This patch will check the need to reschedule if necessary but continue the scanning. The main benefit is reduced scanning when compaction is taking a long time or the machine is over-saturated. It also avoids an unnecessary exit of compaction that ends up being retried by the page allocator in the outer loop. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 synccached-v3r16 noresched-v3r17 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2958.27 ( 0.00%) 2965.68 ( -0.25%) Amean fault-both-5 4091.90 ( 0.00%) 3995.90 ( 2.35%) Amean fault-both-7 5803.05 ( 0.00%) 5842.12 ( -0.67%) Amean fault-both-12 9481.06 ( 0.00%) 9550.87 ( -0.74%) Amean fault-both-18 14141.51 ( 0.00%) 13304.72 ( 5.92%) Amean fault-both-24 16438.00 ( 0.00%) 14618.59 ( 11.07%) Amean fault-both-30 17531.72 ( 0.00%) 16650.96 ( 5.02%) Amean fault-both-32 17101.96 ( 0.00%) 17145.15 ( -0.25%) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-18-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
With incremental changes, compact_should_abort no longer makes any documented sense. Rename to compact_check_resched and update the associated comments. There is no benefit other than reducing redundant code and making the intent slightly clearer. It could potentially be merged with earlier patches but it just makes the review slightly harder. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-17-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Migrate has separate cached PFNs for ASYNC and SYNC* migration on the basis that some migrations will fail in ASYNC mode. However, if the cached PFNs match at the start of scanning and pageblocks are skipped due to having no isolation candidates, then the sync state does not matter. This patch keeps matching cached PFNs in sync until a pageblock with isolation candidates is found. The actual benefit is marginal given that the sync scanner following the async scanner will often skip a number of pageblocks but it's useless work. Any benefit depends heavily on whether the scanners restarted recently. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-16-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When scanning for sources or targets, PageCompound is checked for huge pages as they can be skipped quickly but it happens relatively late after a lot of setup and checking. This patch short-cuts the check to make it earlier. It might still change when the lock is acquired but this has less overhead overall. The free scanner advances but the migration scanner does not. Typically the free scanner encounters more movable blocks that change state over the lifetime of the system and also tends to scan more aggressively as it's actively filling its portion of the physical address space with data. This could change in the future but for the moment, this worked better in practice and incurred fewer scan restarts. The impact on latency and allocation success rates is marginal but the free scan rates are reduced by 15% and system CPU usage is reduced by 3.3%. The 2-socket results are not materially different. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-15-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Async migration aborts on spinlock contention but contention can be high when there are multiple compaction attempts and kswapd is active. The consequence is that the migration scanners move forward uselessly while still contending on locks for longer while leaving suitable migration sources behind. This patch will acquire the lock but track when contention occurs. When it does, the current pageblock will finish as compaction may succeed for that block and then abort. This will have a variable impact on latency as in some cases useless scanning is avoided (reduces latency) but a lock will be contended (increase latency) or a single contended pageblock is scanned that would otherwise have been skipped (increase latency). 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3002.07 ( 0.00%) 3153.17 ( -5.03%) Amean fault-both-5 4684.47 ( 0.00%) 4280.52 ( 8.62%) Amean fault-both-7 6815.54 ( 0.00%) 5811.50 * 14.73%* Amean fault-both-12 10864.02 ( 0.00%) 9276.85 ( 14.61%) Amean fault-both-18 12247.52 ( 0.00%) 11032.67 ( 9.92%) Amean fault-both-24 15683.99 ( 0.00%) 14285.70 ( 8.92%) Amean fault-both-30 18620.02 ( 0.00%) 16293.76 * 12.49%* Amean fault-both-32 19250.28 ( 0.00%) 16721.02 * 13.14%* 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16 Percentage huge-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Percentage huge-3 95.00 ( 0.00%) 96.82 ( 1.92%) Percentage huge-5 94.22 ( 0.00%) 95.40 ( 1.26%) Percentage huge-7 92.35 ( 0.00%) 95.92 ( 3.86%) Percentage huge-12 91.90 ( 0.00%) 96.73 ( 5.25%) Percentage huge-18 89.58 ( 0.00%) 96.77 ( 8.03%) Percentage huge-24 90.03 ( 0.00%) 96.05 ( 6.69%) Percentage huge-30 89.14 ( 0.00%) 96.81 ( 8.60%) Percentage huge-32 90.58 ( 0.00%) 97.41 ( 7.54%) There is a variable impact that is mostly good on latency while allocation success rates are slightly higher. System CPU usage is reduced by about 10% but scan rate impact is mixed Compaction migrate scanned 27997659.00 20148867 Compaction free scanned 120782791.00 118324914 Migration scan rates are reduced 28% which is expected as a pageblock is used by the async scanner instead of skipped. The impact on the free scanner is known to be variable. Overall the primary justification for this patch is that completing scanning of a pageblock is very important for later patches. [yuehaibing@huawei.com: fix unused variable warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-14-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Pageblocks are marked for skip when no pages are isolated after a scan. However, it's possible to hit corner cases where the migration scanner gets stuck near the boundary between the source and target scanner. Due to pages being migrated in blocks of COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, pages that are migrated can be reallocated before the pageblock is complete. The pageblock is not necessarily skipped so it can be rescanned multiple times. Similarly, a pageblock with some dirty/writeback pages may fail to migrate and be rescanned until writeback completes which is wasteful. This patch tracks if a pageblock is being rescanned. If so, then the entire pageblock will be migrated as one operation. This narrows the race window during which pages can be reallocated during migration. Secondly, if there are pages that cannot be isolated then the pageblock will still be fully scanned and marked for skipping. On the second rescan, the pageblock skip is set and the migration scanner makes progress. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 findfree-v3r16 norescan-v3r16 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3200.68 ( 0.00%) 3002.07 ( 6.21%) Amean fault-both-5 4847.75 ( 0.00%) 4684.47 ( 3.37%) Amean fault-both-7 6658.92 ( 0.00%) 6815.54 ( -2.35%) Amean fault-both-12 11077.62 ( 0.00%) 10864.02 ( 1.93%) Amean fault-both-18 12403.97 ( 0.00%) 12247.52 ( 1.26%) Amean fault-both-24 15607.10 ( 0.00%) 15683.99 ( -0.49%) Amean fault-both-30 18752.27 ( 0.00%) 18620.02 ( 0.71%) Amean fault-both-32 21207.54 ( 0.00%) 19250.28 * 9.23%* 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 findfree-v3r16 norescan-v3r16 Percentage huge-3 96.86 ( 0.00%) 95.00 ( -1.91%) Percentage huge-5 93.72 ( 0.00%) 94.22 ( 0.53%) Percentage huge-7 94.31 ( 0.00%) 92.35 ( -2.08%) Percentage huge-12 92.66 ( 0.00%) 91.90 ( -0.82%) Percentage huge-18 91.51 ( 0.00%) 89.58 ( -2.11%) Percentage huge-24 90.50 ( 0.00%) 90.03 ( -0.52%) Percentage huge-30 91.57 ( 0.00%) 89.14 ( -2.65%) Percentage huge-32 91.00 ( 0.00%) 90.58 ( -0.46%) Negligible difference but this was likely a case when the specific corner case was not hit. A previous run of the same patch based on an earlier iteration of the series showed large differences where migration rates could be halved when the corner case was hit. The specific corner case where migration scan rates go through the roof was due to a dirty/writeback pageblock located at the boundary of the migration/free scanner did not happen in this case. When it does happen, the scan rates multipled by massive margins. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-13-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Similar to the migration scanner, this patch uses the free lists to quickly locate a migration target. The search is different in that lower orders will be searched for a suitable high PFN if necessary but the search is still bound. This is justified on the grounds that the free scanner typically scans linearly much more than the migration scanner. If a free page is found, it is isolated and compaction continues if enough pages were isolated. For SYNC* scanning, the full pageblock is scanned for any remaining free pages so that is can be marked for skipping in the near future. 1-socket thpfioscale 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 isolmig-v3r15 findfree-v3r16 Amean fault-both-3 3024.41 ( 0.00%) 3200.68 ( -5.83%) Amean fault-both-5 4749.30 ( 0.00%) 4847.75 ( -2.07%) Amean fault-both-7 6454.95 ( 0.00%) 6658.92 ( -3.16%) Amean fault-both-12 10324.83 ( 0.00%) 11077.62 ( -7.29%) Amean fault-both-18 12896.82 ( 0.00%) 12403.97 ( 3.82%) Amean fault-both-24 13470.60 ( 0.00%) 15607.10 * -15.86%* Amean fault-both-30 17143.99 ( 0.00%) 18752.27 ( -9.38%) Amean fault-both-32 17743.91 ( 0.00%) 21207.54 * -19.52%* The impact on latency is variable but the search is optimistic and sensitive to the exact system state. Success rates are similar but the major impact is to the rate of scanning 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 isolmig-v3r15 findfree-v3r16 Compaction migrate scanned 25646769 29507205 Compaction free scanned 201558184 100359571 The free scan rates are reduced by 50%. The 2-socket reductions for the free scanner are more dramatic which is a likely reflection that the machine has more memory. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning] [vbabka@suse.cz: correct number of pages scanned for lower orders] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-12-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Due to either a fast search of the free list or a linear scan, it is possible for multiple compaction instances to pick the same pageblock for migration. This is lucky for one scanner and increased scanning for all the others. It also allows a race between requests on which first allocates the resulting free block. This patch tests and updates the pageblock skip for the migration scanner carefully. When isolating a block, it will check and skip if the block is already in use. Once the zone lock is acquired, it will be rechecked so that only one scanner can set the pageblock skip for exclusive use. Any scanner contending will continue with a linear scan. The skip bit is still set if no pages can be isolated in a range. While this may result in redundant scanning, it avoids unnecessarily acquiring the zone lock when there are no suitable migration sources. 1-socket thpscale Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3390.40 ( 0.00%) 3024.41 ( 10.80%) Amean fault-both-5 5082.28 ( 0.00%) 4749.30 ( 6.55%) Amean fault-both-7 7012.51 ( 0.00%) 6454.95 ( 7.95%) Amean fault-both-12 11346.63 ( 0.00%) 10324.83 ( 9.01%) Amean fault-both-18 15324.19 ( 0.00%) 12896.82 * 15.84%* Amean fault-both-24 16088.50 ( 0.00%) 13470.60 * 16.27%* Amean fault-both-30 18723.42 ( 0.00%) 17143.99 ( 8.44%) Amean fault-both-32 18612.01 ( 0.00%) 17743.91 ( 4.66%) 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 findmig-v3r15 isolmig-v3r15 Percentage huge-3 89.83 ( 0.00%) 92.96 ( 3.48%) Percentage huge-5 91.96 ( 0.00%) 93.26 ( 1.41%) Percentage huge-7 92.85 ( 0.00%) 93.63 ( 0.84%) Percentage huge-12 92.74 ( 0.00%) 92.80 ( 0.07%) Percentage huge-18 91.71 ( 0.00%) 91.62 ( -0.10%) Percentage huge-24 92.13 ( 0.00%) 91.50 ( -0.69%) Percentage huge-30 93.79 ( 0.00%) 92.73 ( -1.13%) Percentage huge-32 91.27 ( 0.00%) 91.94 ( 0.74%) This shows a reasonable reduction in latency as multiple compaction scanners do not operate on the same blocks with a similar allocation success rate. Compaction migrate scanned 41093126 25646769 Migration scan rates are reduced by 38%. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-11-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
The migration scanner is a linear scan of a zone with a potentiall large search space. Furthermore, many pageblocks are unusable such as those filled with reserved pages or partially filled with pages that cannot migrate. These still get scanned in the common case of allocating a THP and the cost accumulates. The patch uses a partial search of the free lists to locate a migration source candidate that is marked as MOVABLE when allocating a THP. It prefers picking a block with a larger number of free pages already on the basis that there are fewer pages to migrate to free the entire block. The lowest PFN found during searches is tracked as the basis of the start for the linear search after the first search of the free list fails. After the search, the free list is shuffled so that the next search will not encounter the same page. If the search fails then the subsequent searches will be shorter and the linear scanner is used. If this search fails, or if the request is for a small or unmovable/reclaimable allocation then the linear scanner is still used. It is somewhat pointless to use the list search in those cases. Small free pages must be used for the search and there is no guarantee that movable pages are located within that block that are contiguous. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 noboost-v3r10 findmig-v3r15 Amean fault-both-3 3771.41 ( 0.00%) 3390.40 ( 10.10%) Amean fault-both-5 5409.05 ( 0.00%) 5082.28 ( 6.04%) Amean fault-both-7 7040.74 ( 0.00%) 7012.51 ( 0.40%) Amean fault-both-12 11887.35 ( 0.00%) 11346.63 ( 4.55%) Amean fault-both-18 16718.19 ( 0.00%) 15324.19 ( 8.34%) Amean fault-both-24 21157.19 ( 0.00%) 16088.50 * 23.96%* Amean fault-both-30 21175.92 ( 0.00%) 18723.42 * 11.58%* Amean fault-both-32 21339.03 ( 0.00%) 18612.01 * 12.78%* 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 noboost-v3r10 findmig-v3r15 Percentage huge-3 86.50 ( 0.00%) 89.83 ( 3.85%) Percentage huge-5 92.52 ( 0.00%) 91.96 ( -0.61%) Percentage huge-7 92.44 ( 0.00%) 92.85 ( 0.44%) Percentage huge-12 92.98 ( 0.00%) 92.74 ( -0.25%) Percentage huge-18 91.70 ( 0.00%) 91.71 ( 0.02%) Percentage huge-24 91.59 ( 0.00%) 92.13 ( 0.60%) Percentage huge-30 90.14 ( 0.00%) 93.79 ( 4.04%) Percentage huge-32 90.03 ( 0.00%) 91.27 ( 1.37%) This shows an improvement in allocation latencies with similar allocation success rates. While not presented, there was a 31% reduction in migration scanning and a 8% reduction on system CPU usage. A 2-socket machine showed similar benefits. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: several fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204120111.GL9565@techsingularity.net [vbabka@suse.cz: migrate block that was found-fast, some optimisations] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-10-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
When pageblocks get fragmented, watermarks are artifically boosted to reclaim pages to avoid further fragmentation events. However, compaction is often either fragmentation-neutral or moving movable pages away from unmovable/reclaimable pages. As the true watermarks are preserved, allow compaction to ignore the boost factor. The expected impact is very slight as the main benefit is that compaction is slightly more likely to succeed when the system has been fragmented very recently. On both 1-socket and 2-socket machines for THP-intensive allocation during fragmentation the success rate was increased by less than 1% which is marginal. However, detailed tracing indicated that failure of migration due to a premature ENOMEM triggered by watermark checks were eliminated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-9-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When compaction is finishing, it uses a flag to ensure the pageblock is complete but it makes sense to always complete migration of a pageblock. Minimally, skip information is based on a pageblock and partially scanned pageblocks may incur more scanning in the future. The pageblock skip handling also becomes more strict later in the series and the hint is more useful if a complete pageblock was always scanned. The potentially impacts latency as more scanning is done but it's not a consistent win or loss as the scanning is not always a high percentage of the pageblock and sometimes it is offset by future reductions in scanning. Hence, the results are not presented this time due to a misleading mix of gains/losses without any clear pattern. However, full scanning of the pageblock is important for later patches. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-8-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Pages with no migration handler use a fallback handler which sometimes works and sometimes persistently retries. A historical example was blockdev pages but there are others such as odd refcounting when page->private is used. These are retried multiple times which is wasteful during compaction so this patch will fail migration faster unless the caller specifies MIGRATE_SYNC. This is not expected to help THP allocation success rates but it did reduce latencies very slightly in some cases. 1-socket thpfioscale 4.20.0 4.20.0 noreserved-v2r15 failfast-v2r15 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3839.67 ( 0.00%) 3833.72 ( 0.15%) Amean fault-both-5 5177.47 ( 0.00%) 4967.15 ( 4.06%) Amean fault-both-7 7245.03 ( 0.00%) 7139.19 ( 1.46%) Amean fault-both-12 11534.89 ( 0.00%) 11326.30 ( 1.81%) Amean fault-both-18 16241.10 ( 0.00%) 16270.70 ( -0.18%) Amean fault-both-24 19075.91 ( 0.00%) 19839.65 ( -4.00%) Amean fault-both-30 22712.11 ( 0.00%) 21707.05 ( 4.43%) Amean fault-both-32 21692.92 ( 0.00%) 21968.16 ( -1.27%) The 2-socket results are not materially different. Scan rates are similar as expected. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-7-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
It's non-obvious that high-order free pages are split into order-0 pages from the function name. Fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-6-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
A zone parameter is passed into a number of top-level compaction functions despite the fact that it's already in compact_control. This is harmless but it did need an audit to check if zone actually ever changes meaningfully. This patches removes the parameter in a number of top-level functions. The change could be much deeper but this was enough to briefly clarify the flow. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-5-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by:
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