- 04 Sep, 2015 40 commits
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
Clark stumbled over a VM_BUG_ON() in -RT which was then was removed by Johannes in commit f371763a ("mm: memcontrol: fix false-positive VM_BUG_ON() on -rt"). The comment before that patch was a tiny bit better than it is now. While the patch claimed to fix a false-postive on -RT this was not the case. None of the -RT folks ACKed it and it was not a false positive report. That was a *real* problem. This patch updates the comment that is improper because it refers to "disabled preemption" as a consequence of that lock being taken. A spin_lock() disables preemption, true, but in this case the code relies on the fact that the lock _also_ disables interrupts once it is acquired. And this is the important detail (which was checked the VM_BUG_ON()) which needs to be pointed out. This is the hint one needs while looking at the code. It was explained by Johannes on the list that the per-CPU variables are protected by local_irq_save(). The BUG_ON() was helpful. This code has been workarounded in -RT in the meantime. I wouldn't mind running into more of those if the code in question uses *special* kind of locking since now there is no verification (in terms of lockdep or BUG_ON()) and therefore I bring the VM_BUG_ON() check back in. The two functions after the comment could also have a "local_irq_save()" dance around them in order to serialize access to the per-CPU variables. This has been avoided because the interrupts should be off. Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Zapolskiy authored
This change fills devm_gen_pool_create()/gen_pool_get() "name" argument stub with contents and extends of_gen_pool_get() functionality on this basis. If there is no associated platform device with a device node passed to of_gen_pool_get(), the function attempts to get a label property or device node name (= repeats MTD OF partition standard) and seeks for a named gen_pool registered by device of the parent device node. The main idea of the change is to allow registration of independent gen_pools under the same umbrella device, say "partitions" on "storage device", the original functionality of one "partition" per "storage device" is untouched. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix constness in devres_find()] [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: freeing const data pointers] Signed-off-by:
Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Zapolskiy authored
This change modifies gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create() client interfaces adding one more argument "name" of a gen_pool object. Due to implementation gen_pool_get() is capable to retrieve only one gen_pool associated with a device even if multiple gen_pools are created, fortunately right at the moment it is sufficient for the clients, hence provide NULL as a valid argument on both producer devm_gen_pool_create() and consumer gen_pool_get() sides. Because only one created gen_pool per device is addressable, explicitly add a restriction to devm_gen_pool_create() to create only one gen_pool per device, this implies two possible error codes returned by the function, account it on client side (only misc/sram). This completes client side changes related to genalloc updates. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: gen_pool_get() cleanup] Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
Each memblock_region has nid to indicates the Node ID of this range. For the overlap case, memblock_add_range() inserts the lower part and leave the upper part as indicated in the overlapped region. If the nid of the new range differs from the overlapped region, the information recorded is not correct. This patch adds a WARN_ON when the nid of the new range differs from the overlapped region. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently. Due to deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry exists. With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption. This patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was potentially accesssed by other CPUs. There are many circumstances where this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate CPUs. On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be high. This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped. When the unmapping is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost is lower than flushing individual entries. Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee. If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault. This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting. The architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry. An additional architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required. It's a trivial wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case. The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure. The case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages taken from the vm-scalability test suite. The test case uses NR_CPU readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM. Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 159.62 ( 0.00%) 120.68 ( 24.40%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 30.59 ( 0.00%) 2.80 ( 90.85%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 6.70 ( 0.00%) 0.64 ( 90.38%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 581.00 611.43 System 5804.93 4111.76 Elapsed 161.03 122.12 This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less system CPU time. From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second. The impact is lower on a single socket machine. 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 25.33 ( 0.00%) 20.38 ( 19.54%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 0.91 ( 0.00%) 1.44 (-58.24%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 0.28 ( 0.00%) 0.47 (-65.34%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 58.09 57.64 System 111.82 76.56 Elapsed 27.29 22.55 It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second. The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have relatively few mapped pages. It will have an unpredictable impact on the workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB entries need to be refilled and how long that takes. Worst case, the TLB will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not resident at all. [sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush] Signed-off-by:Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB. If that page was accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU. That is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per second. There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is TLB flushed. This series increases the window so multiple pages can be flushed using a single IPI. This should be safe or the kernel is hosed already. Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS. Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI to flush the entire TLB. Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that need to be batched differently Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second. This patch (of 4): It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to detect what event sent it. This patch makes it easy to identify the source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86. Signed-off-by:Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This test allocates two virtual areas and bounces the physical memory across the two virtual areas using only userfaultfd. Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
During the refile in userfaultfd_read both waitqueues could look empty to the lockless wake_userfault(). Use a seqcount to prevent this false negative that could leave an userfault blocked. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
The THP faults were not propagating the original fault address. The latest version of the API with uffd.arg.pagefault.address is supposed to propagate the full address through THP faults. This was not a kernel crashing bug and it wouldn't risk to corrupt user memory, but it would cause a SIGBUS failure because the wrong page was being copied. For various reasons this wasn't easily reproducible in the qemu workload, but the strestest exposed the problem immediately. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is only simple to achieve if the userfault is going to return to userland (not to the kernel) because we can avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY despite we temporarily released the mmap_sem. The fault would just be retried by userland then. This is safe at least on x86 and powerpc (the two archs with the syscall implemented so far). Hint to verify for which archs this is safe: after handle_mm_fault returns, no access to data structures protected by the mmap_sem must be done by the fault code in arch/*/mm/fault.c until up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) is called. This has two main benefits: signals can run with lower latency in production (signals aren't blocked by userfaults and userfaults are immediately repeated after signal processing) and gdb can then trivially debug the threads blocked in this kind of userfaults coming directly from userland. On a side note: while gdb has a need to get signal processed, coredumps always worked perfectly with userfaults, no matter if the userfault is triggered by GUP a kernel copy_user or directly from userland. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
UFFDIO_API was already forced before read/poll could work. This makes the code more strict to force it also for all other ioctls. All users would already have been required to call UFFDIO_API before invoking other ioctls but this makes it more explicit. This will ensure we can change all ioctls (all but UFFDIO_API/struct uffdio_api) with a bump of uffdio_api.api. There's no actual plan or need to change the API or the ioctl, the current API already should cover fine even the non cooperative usage, but this is just for the longer term future just in case. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
These two ioctl allows to either atomically copy or to map zeropages into the virtual address space. This is used by the thread that opened the userfaultfd to resolve the userfaults. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com> Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
If the rwsem starves writers it wasn't strictly a bug but lockdep doesn't like it and this avoids depending on lowlevel implementation details of the lock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: delete weird BUILD_BUG_ON()] Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This implements mcopy_atomic and mfill_zeropage that are the lowlevel VM methods that are invoked respectively by the UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE userfaultfd commands. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This implements the uABI of UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This activates the userfaultfd syscall. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: activate syscall fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't enable userfaultfd on powerpc] Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This allows to select the userfaultfd during configuration to build it. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Solve in-kernel the race between UFFDIO_COPY|ZEROPAGE and userfaultfd_read if they are run on different threads simultaneously. Until now qemu solved the race in userland: the race was explicitly and intentionally left for userland to solve. However we can also solve it in kernel. Requiring all users to solve this race if they use two threads (one for the background transfer and one for the userfault reads) isn't very attractive from an API prospective, furthermore this allows to remove a whole bunch of mutex and bitmap code from qemu, making it faster. The cost of __get_user_pages_fast should be insignificant considering it scales perfectly and the pagetables are already hot in the CPU cache, compared to the overhead in userland to maintain those structures. Applying this patch is backwards compatible with respect to the userfaultfd userland API, however reverting this change wouldn't be backwards compatible anymore. Without this patch qemu in the background transfer thread, has to read the old state, and do UFFDIO_WAKE if old_state is missing but it become REQUESTED by the time it tries to set it to RECEIVED (signaling the other side received an userfault). vcpu background_thr userfault_thr ----- ----- ----- vcpu0 handle_mm_fault() postcopy_place_page read old_state -> MISSING UFFDIO_COPY 0x7fb76a139000 (no wakeup, still pending) vcpu0 fault at 0x7fb76a139000 enters handle_userfault poll() is kicked poll() -> POLLIN read() -> 0x7fb76a139000 postcopy_pmi_change_state(MISSING, REQUESTED) -> REQUESTED tmp_state = postcopy_pmi_change_state(old_state, RECEIVED) -> REQUESTED /* check that no userfault raced with UFFDIO_COPY */ if (old_state == MISSING && tmp_state == REQUESTED) UFFDIO_WAKE from background thread And a second case where a UFFDIO_WAKE would be needed is in the userfault thread: vcpu background_thr userfault_thr ----- ----- ----- vcpu0 handle_mm_fault() postcopy_place_page read old_state -> MISSING UFFDIO_COPY 0x7fb76a139000 (no wakeup, still pending) tmp_state = postcopy_pmi_change_state(old_state, RECEIVED) -> RECEIVED vcpu0 fault at 0x7fb76a139000 enters handle_userfault poll() is kicked poll() -> POLLIN read() -> 0x7fb76a139000 if (postcopy_pmi_change_state(MISSING, REQUESTED) == RECEIVED) UFFDIO_WAKE from userfault thread This patch removes the need of both UFFDIO_WAKE and of the associated per-page tristate as well. Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
Use proper slab to guarantee alignment. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This makes read O(1) and poll that was already O(1) becomes lockless. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is an optimization but it's a userland visible one and it affects the API. The downside of this optimization is that if you call poll() and you get POLLIN, read(ufd) may still return -EAGAIN. The blocked userfault may be waken by a different thread, before read(ufd) comes around. This in short means that poll() isn't really usable if the userfaultfd is opened in blocking mode. userfaults won't wait in "pending" state to be read anymore and any UFFDIO_WAKE or similar operations that has the objective of waking userfaults after their resolution, will wake all blocked userfaults for the resolved range, including those that haven't been read() by userland yet. The behavior of poll() becomes not standard, but this obviates the need of "spurious" UFFDIO_WAKE and it lets the userland threads to restart immediately without requiring an UFFDIO_WAKE. This is even more significant in case of repeated faults on the same address from multiple threads. This optimization is justified by the measurement that the number of spurious UFFDIO_WAKE accounts for 5% and 10% of the total userfaults for heavy workloads, so it's worth optimizing those away. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
I had requests to return the full address (not the page aligned one) to userland. It's not entirely clear how the page offset could be relevant because userfaults aren't like SIGBUS that can sigjump to a different place and it actually skip resolving the fault depending on a page offset. There's currently no real way to skip the fault especially because after a UFFDIO_COPY|ZEROPAGE, the fault is optimized to be retried within the kernel without having to return to userland first (not even self modifying code replacing the .text that touched the faulting address would prevent the fault to be repeated). Userland cannot skip repeating the fault even more so if the fault was triggered by a KVM secondary page fault or any get_user_pages or any copy-user inside some syscall which will return to kernel code. The second time FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT won't be set leading to a SIGBUS being raised because the userfault can't wait if it cannot release the mmap_map first (and FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT is required for that). Still returning userland a proper structure during the read() on the uffd, can allow to use the current UFFD_API for the future non-cooperative extensions too and it looks cleaner as well. Once we get additional fields there's no point to return the fault address page aligned anymore to reuse the bits below PAGE_SHIFT. The only downside is that the read() syscall will read 32bytes instead of 8bytes but that's not going to be measurable overhead. The total number of new events that can be extended or of new future bits for already shipped events, is limited to 64 by the features field of the uffdio_api structure. If more will be needed a bump of UFFD_API will be required. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __packed] Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelyanov authored
This is (seems to be) the minimal thing that is required to unblock standard uffd usage from the non-cooperative one. Now more bits can be added to the features field indicating e.g. UFFD_FEATURE_FORK and others needed for the latter use-case. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Once an userfaultfd has been created and certain region of the process virtual address space have been registered into it, the thread responsible for doing the memory externalization can manage the page faults in userland by talking to the kernel using the userfaultfd protocol. poll() can be used to know when there are new pending userfaults to be read (POLLIN). Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
If userfaultfd is armed on a certain vma we can't "fill" the holes with zeroes or we'll break the userland on demand paging. The holes if the userfault is armed, are really missing information (not zeroes) that the userland has to load from network or elsewhere. The same issue happens for wrprotected ptes that we can't just convert into a single writable pmd_trans_huge. We could however in theory still merge across zeropages if only VM_UFFD_MISSING is set (so if VM_UFFD_WP is not set)... that could be slightly improved but it'd be much more complex code for a tiny corner case. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx is yet another vma parameter that vma_merge must be aware about so that we can merge vmas back like they were originally before arming the userfaultfd on some memory range. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is where the page faults must be modified to call handle_userfault() if userfaultfd_missing() is true (so if the vma->vm_flags had VM_UFFD_MISSING set). handle_userfault() then takes care of blocking the page fault and delivering it to userland. The fault flags must also be passed as parameter so the "read|write" kind of fault can be passed to userland. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
These two flags gets set in vma->vm_flags to tell the VM common code if the userfaultfd is armed and in which mode (only tracking missing faults, only tracking wrprotect faults or both). If neither flags is set it means the userfaultfd is not armed on the vma. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This adds the vm_userfaultfd_ctx to the vm_area_struct. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Kernel header defining the methods needed by the VM common code to interact with the userfaultfd. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Defines the uAPI of the userfaultfd, notably the ioctl numbers and protocol. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
userfaultfd needs to wake all waitqueues (pass 0 as nr parameter), instead of the current hardcoded 1 (that would wake just the first waitqueue in the head list). Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is the latest userfaultfd patchset. The postcopy live migration feature on the qemu side is mostly ready to be merged and it entirely depends on the userfaultfd syscall to be merged as well. So it'd be great if this patchset could be reviewed for merging in -mm. Userfaults allow to implement on demand paging from userland and more generally they allow userland to more efficiently take control of the behavior of page faults than what was available before (PROT_NONE + SIGSEGV trap). The use cases are: 1) KVM postcopy live migration (one form of cloud memory externalization). KVM postcopy live migration is the primary driver of this work: http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/setting-up-post-copy-live-migration-in-openstack/ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-02/msg04873.html 2) postcopy live migration of binaries inside linux containers: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/132662 3) KVM postcopy live snapshotting (allowing to limit/throttle the memory usage, unlike fork would, plus the avoidance of fork overhead in the first place). While the wrprotect tracking is not implemented yet, the syscall API is already contemplating the wrprotect fault tracking and it's generic enough to allow its later implementation in a backwards compatible fashion. 4) KVM userfaults on shared memory. The UFFDIO_COPY lowlevel method should be extended to work also on tmpfs and then the uffdio_register.ioctls will notify userland that UFFDIO_COPY is available even when the registered virtual memory range is tmpfs backed. 5) alternate mechanism to notify web browsers or apps on embedded devices that volatile pages have been reclaimed. This basically avoids the need to run a syscall before the app can access with the CPU the virtual regions marked volatile. This depends on point 4) to be fulfilled first, as volatile pages happily apply to tmpfs. Even though there wasn't a real use case requesting it yet, it also allows to implement distributed shared memory in a way that readonly shared mappings can exist simultaneously in different hosts and they can be become exclusive at the first wrprotect fault. This patch (of 22): Add documentation. Signed-off-by: -
Daniel Borkmann authored
While debugging a networking issue, I hit a condition that triggered an object to be freed into the wrong kmem cache, and thus triggered the warning in cache_from_obj(). The arguments in the error message are in wrong order: the location of the object's kmem cache is in cachep, not s. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Description is almost copied from commit fb05e7a8 ("net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation"). I saw excessive direct memory reclaim/compaction triggered by slub. This causes performance issues and add latency. Slub uses high-order allocation to reduce internal fragmentation and management overhead. But, direct memory reclaim/compaction has high overhead and the benefit of high-order allocation can't compensate the overhead of both work. This patch makes auxiliary high-order allocation atomic. If there is no memory pressure and memory isn't fragmented, the alloction will still success, so we don't sacrifice high-order allocation's benefit here. If the atomic allocation fails, direct memory reclaim/compaction will not be triggered, allocation fallback to low-order immediately, hence the direct memory reclaim/compaction overhead is avoided. In the allocation failure case, kswapd is waken up and trying to make high-order freepages, so allocation could success next time. Following is the test to measure effect of this patch. System: QEMU, CPU 8, 512 MB Mem: 25% memory is allocated at random position to make fragmentation. Memory-hogger occupies 150 MB memory. Workload: hackbench -g 20 -l 1000 Average result by 10 runs (Base va Patched) elapsed_time(s): 4.3468 vs 2.9838 compact_stall: 461.7 vs 73.6 pgmigrate_success: 28315.9 vs 7256.1 Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
sysfs_slab_add() shouldn't call kobject_put at error path: this puts last reference of kmem-cache kobject and frees it. Kmem cache will be freed second time at error path in kmem_cache_create(). For example this happens when slub debug was enabled in runtime and somebody creates new kmem cache: # echo 1 | tee /sys/kernel/slab/*/sanity_checks # modprobe configfs "configfs_dir_cache" cannot be merged because existing slab have debug and cannot create new slab because unique name ":t-0000096" already taken. Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Initializing a new slab can introduce rather large latencies because most of the initialization runs always with interrupts disabled. There is no point in doing so. The newly allocated slab is not visible yet, so there is no reason to protect it against concurrent alloc/free. Move the expensive parts of the initialization into allocate_slab(), so for all allocations with GFP_WAIT set, interrupts are enabled. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by:
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
Per request of Joonsoo Kim adding kmem debug support. I've tested that when debugging is disabled, then there is almost no performance impact as this code basically gets removed by the compiler. Need some guidance in enabling and testing this. bulk- PREVIOUS - THIS-PATCH 1 - 43 cycles(tsc) 10.811 ns - 44 cycles(tsc) 11.236 ns improved -2.3% 2 - 27 cycles(tsc) 6.867 ns - 28 cycles(tsc) 7.019 ns improved -3.7% 3 - 21 cycles(tsc) 5.496 ns - 22 cycles(tsc) 5.526 ns improved -4.8% 4 - 24 cycles(tsc) 6.038 ns - 19 cycles(tsc) 4.786 ns improved 20.8% 8 - 17 cycles(tsc) 4.280 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.572 ns improved -5.9% 16 - 17 cycles(tsc) 4.483 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.658 ns improved -5.9% 30 - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.531 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.568 ns improved 0.0% 32 - 58 cycles(tsc) 14.586 ns - 65 cycles(tsc) 16.454 ns improved -12.1% 34 - 53 cycles(tsc) 13.391 ns - 63 cycles(tsc) 15.932 ns improved -18.9% 48 - 65 cycles(tsc) 16.268 ns - 50 cycles(tsc) 12.506 ns improved 23.1% 64 - 53 cycles(tsc) 13.440 ns - 63 cycles(tsc) 15.929 ns improved -18.9% 128 - 79 cycles(tsc) 19.899 ns - 86 cycles(tsc) 21.583 ns improved -8.9% 158 - 90 cycles(tsc) 22.732 ns - 90 cycles(tsc) 22.552 ns improved 0.0% 250 - 95 cycles(tsc) 23.916 ns - 98 cycles(tsc) 24.589 ns improved -3.2% Signed-off-by:
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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