1. 20 5月, 2016 1 次提交
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      mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount · 0139aa7b
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
      struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
      directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
      tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
      to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
      who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
      accessed directly.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
      [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
      Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
      Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
      Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
      Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0139aa7b
  2. 18 3月, 2016 2 次提交
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      mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation · 95813b8f
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed by definition, but,
      unfortunately, it would be failed sometimes.  It is hard to track down
      the problem, because it is related to page reference manipulation and we
      don't have any facility to analyze it.
      
      This patch adds tracepoints to track down page reference manipulation.
      With it, we can find exact reason of failure and can fix the problem.
      Following is an example of tracepoint output.  (note: this example is
      stale version that printing flags as the number.  Recent version will
      print it as human readable string.)
      
      <...>-9018  [004]    92.678375: page_ref_set:         pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x0 count=1 mapcount=0 mapping=(nil) mt=4 val=1
      <...>-9018  [004]    92.678378: kernel_stack:
       => get_page_from_freelist (ffffffff81176659)
       => __alloc_pages_nodemask (ffffffff81176d22)
       => alloc_pages_vma (ffffffff811bf675)
       => handle_mm_fault (ffffffff8119e693)
       => __do_page_fault (ffffffff810631ea)
       => trace_do_page_fault (ffffffff81063543)
       => do_async_page_fault (ffffffff8105c40a)
       => async_page_fault (ffffffff817581d8)
      [snip]
      <...>-9018  [004]    92.678379: page_ref_mod:         pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40048 count=2 mapcount=1 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=1
      [snip]
      ...
      ...
      <...>-9131  [001]    93.174468: test_pages_isolated:  start_pfn=0x17800 end_pfn=0x17c00 fin_pfn=0x17ac9 ret=fail
      [snip]
      <...>-9018  [004]    93.174843: page_ref_mod_and_test: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40068 count=0 mapcount=0 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=-1 ret=1
       => release_pages (ffffffff8117c9e4)
       => free_pages_and_swap_cache (ffffffff811b0697)
       => tlb_flush_mmu_free (ffffffff81199616)
       => tlb_finish_mmu (ffffffff8119a62c)
       => exit_mmap (ffffffff811a53f7)
       => mmput (ffffffff81073f47)
       => do_exit (ffffffff810794e9)
       => do_group_exit (ffffffff81079def)
       => SyS_exit_group (ffffffff81079e74)
       => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff817560b6)
      
      This output shows that problem comes from exit path.  In exit path, to
      improve performance, pages are not freed immediately.  They are gathered
      and processed by batch.  During this process, migration cannot be
      possible and CMA allocation is failed.  This problem is hard to find
      without this page reference tracepoint facility.
      
      Enabling this feature bloat kernel text 30 KB in my configuration.
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      12127327        2243616 1507328 15878271         f2487f vmlinux_disabled
      12157208        2258880 1507328 15923416         f2f8d8 vmlinux_enabled
      
      Note that, due to header file dependency problem between mm.h and
      tracepoint.h, this feature has to open code the static key functions for
      tracepoints.  Proposed by Steven Rostedt in following link.
      
      https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/9/699
      
      [arnd@arndb.de: crypto/async_pq: use __free_page() instead of put_page()]
      [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: fix build failure for xtensa]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig text, per Vlastimil]
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      95813b8f
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      mm: introduce page reference manipulation functions · fe896d18
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      The success of CMA allocation largely depends on the success of
      migration and key factor of it is page reference count.  Until now, page
      reference is manipulated by direct calling atomic functions so we cannot
      follow up who and where manipulate it.  Then, it is hard to find actual
      reason of CMA allocation failure.  CMA allocation should be guaranteed
      to succeed so finding offending place is really important.
      
      In this patch, call sites where page reference is manipulated are
      converted to introduced wrapper function.  This is preparation step to
      add tracepoint to each page reference manipulation function.  With this
      facility, we can easily find reason of CMA allocation failure.  There is
      no functional change in this patch.
      
      In addition, this patch also converts reference read sites.  It will
      help a second step that renames page._count to something else and
      prevents later attempt to direct access to it (Suggested by Andrew).
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fe896d18