1. 28 11月, 2017 1 次提交
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      mm, thp: Do not make pmd/pud dirty without a reason · 152e93af
      Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于
      Currently we make page table entries dirty all the time regardless of
      access type and don't even consider if the mapping is write-protected.
      The reasoning is that we don't really need dirty tracking on THP and
      making the entry dirty upfront may save some time on first write to the
      page.
      
      Unfortunately, such approach may result in false-positive
      can_follow_write_pmd() for huge zero page or read-only shmem file.
      
      Let's only make page dirty only if we about to write to the page anyway
      (as we do for small pages).
      
      I've restructured the code to make entry dirty inside
      maybe_p[mu]d_mkwrite(). It also takes into account if the vma is
      write-protected.
      Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      152e93af
  2. 18 11月, 2017 1 次提交
  3. 07 9月, 2017 2 次提交
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      mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access · cd04ae1e
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      For ages we have been relying on TIF_MEMDIE thread flag to mark OOM
      victims and then, among other things, to give these threads full access
      to memory reserves.  There are few shortcomings of this implementation,
      though.
      
      First of all and the most serious one is that the full access to memory
      reserves is quite dangerous because we leave no safety room for the
      system to operate and potentially do last emergency steps to move on.
      
      Secondly this flag is per task_struct while the OOM killer operates on
      mm_struct granularity so all processes sharing the given mm are killed.
      Giving the full access to all these task_structs could lead to a quick
      memory reserves depletion.  We have tried to reduce this risk by giving
      TIF_MEMDIE only to the main thread and the currently allocating task but
      that doesn't really solve this problem while it surely opens up a room
      for corner cases - e.g.  GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests might loop inside the
      allocator without access to memory reserves because a particular thread
      was not the group leader.
      
      Now that we have the oom reaper and that all oom victims are reapable
      after 1b51e65e ("oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the
      kthreads") we can be more conservative and grant only partial access to
      memory reserves because there are reasonable chances of the parallel
      memory freeing.  We still want some access to reserves because we do not
      want other consumers to eat up the victim's freed memory.  oom victims
      will still contend with __GFP_HIGH users but those shouldn't be so
      aggressive to starve oom victims completely.
      
      Introduce ALLOC_OOM flag and give all tsk_is_oom_victim tasks access to
      the half of the reserves.  This makes the access to reserves independent
      on which task has passed through mark_oom_victim.  Also drop any usage
      of TIF_MEMDIE from the page allocator proper and replace it by
      tsk_is_oom_victim as well which will make page_alloc.c completely
      TIF_MEMDIE free finally.
      
      CONFIG_MMU=n doesn't have oom reaper so let's stick to the original
      ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS approach.
      
      There is a demand to make the oom killer memcg aware which will imply
      many tasks killed at once.  This change will allow such a usecase
      without worrying about complete memory reserves depletion.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810075019.28998-2-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cd04ae1e
    • M
      mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists · 72675e13
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      build_all_zonelists gets a zone parameter to initialize zone's pagesets.
      There is only a single user which gives a non-NULL zone parameter and
      that one doesn't really need the rest of the build_all_zonelists (see
      commit 6dcd73d7 ("memory-hotplug: allocate zone's pcp before
      onlining pages")).
      
      Therefore remove setup_zone_pageset from build_all_zonelists and call it
      from its only user directly.  This will also remove a pointless zonlists
      rebuilding which is always good.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-5-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
      Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      72675e13
  4. 03 8月, 2017 1 次提交
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      mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries · 3ea27719
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
      mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.
      
      He described the race as follows:
      
              CPU0                            CPU1
              ----                            ----
                                              user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                              [PTE now cached in TLB]
              try_to_unmap_one()
              ==> ptep_get_and_clear()
              ==> set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                              mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                              ==> change_pte_range()
                                              ==> [ PTE non-present - no flush ]
      
                                              user writes using cached RW PTE
              ...
      
              try_to_unmap_flush()
      
      The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
      also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
      as munmap, mremap and madvise.
      
      For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
      issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
      mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
      potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
      munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
      window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
      theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
      reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.
      
      Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
      as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
      reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
      corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
      that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
      are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
      reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
      don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
      should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
      the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
      triggering a fault.
      
      Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
      was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
      merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
      there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
      ack.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.deReported-by: NNadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[v4.4+]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ea27719
  5. 13 7月, 2017 1 次提交
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      mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic · dcda9b04
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      __GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to
      the page allocator.  This has been true but only for allocations
      requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.  It has been always
      ignored for smaller sizes.  This is a bit unfortunate because there is
      no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are
      considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the
      page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests.
      
      Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled
      usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can
      give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful
      semantic.  Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user
      that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a
      success.  This will work independent of the order and overrides the
      default allocator behavior.  Page allocator users have several levels of
      guarantee vs.  cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example)
      
       - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_
         attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even
         doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because
         it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more
         aggressive reclaim
      
       - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic
         allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current
         context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below
         the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when
         the request is a performance optimization and there is another
         fallback for a slow path.
      
       - (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) -
         non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access
         some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh
         context with an expensive slow path fallback.
      
       - GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the
         _default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly
         allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of
         that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers
         (e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently).
      
       - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior
         and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive
         reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer
         is not invoked.
      
       - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator
         behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request
         will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer
         won't be triggered.
      
       - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior
         and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed.
         This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders.
      
      Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
      because they already had their semantic.  No new users are added.
      __alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if
      there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point.
      
      This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except
      the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback
      behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c]
      [mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
      [mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com>
      Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
      Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dcda9b04
  6. 09 5月, 2017 3 次提交
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      mm, compaction: finish whole pageblock to reduce fragmentation · baf6a9a1
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      The main goal of direct compaction is to form a high-order page for
      allocation, but it should also help against long-term fragmentation when
      possible.
      
      Most lower-than-pageblock-order compactions are for non-movable
      allocations, which means that if we compact in a movable pageblock and
      terminate as soon as we create the high-order page, it's unlikely that
      the fallback heuristics will claim the whole block.  Instead there might
      be a single unmovable page in a pageblock full of movable pages, and the
      next unmovable allocation might pick another pageblock and increase
      long-term fragmentation.
      
      To help against such scenarios, this patch changes the termination
      criteria for compaction so that the current pageblock is finished even
      though the high-order page already exists.  Note that it might be
      possible that the high-order page formed elsewhere in the zone due to
      parallel activity, but this patch doesn't try to detect that.
      
      This is only done with sync compaction, because async compaction is
      limited to pageblock of the same migratetype, where it cannot result in
      a migratetype fallback.  (Async compaction also eagerly skips
      order-aligned blocks where isolation fails, which is against the goal of
      migrating away as much of the pageblock as possible.)
      
      As a result of this patch, long-term memory fragmentation should be
      reduced.
      
      In testing based on 4.9 kernel with stress-highalloc from mmtests
      configured for order-4 GFP_KERNEL allocations, this patch has reduced
      the number of unmovable allocations falling back to movable pageblocks
      by 20%.  The number
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131545.28577-9-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      baf6a9a1
    • V
      mm, compaction: add migratetype to compact_control · d39773a0
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Preparation patch.  We are going to need migratetype at lower layers
      than compact_zone() and compact_finished().
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131545.28577-7-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d39773a0
    • V
      mm, compaction: reorder fields in struct compact_control · f25ba6dc
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Patch series "try to reduce fragmenting fallbacks", v3.
      
      Last year, Johannes Weiner has reported a regression in page mobility
      grouping [1] and while the exact cause was not found, I've come up with
      some ways to improve it by reducing the number of allocations falling
      back to different migratetype and causing permanent fragmentation.
      
      The series was tested with mmtests stress-highalloc modified to do
      GFP_KERNEL order-4 allocations, on 4.9 with "mm, vmscan: fix zone
      balance check in prepare_kswapd_sleep" (without that, kcompactd indeed
      wasn't woken up) on UMA machine with 4GB memory.  There were 5 repeats
      of each run, as the extfrag stats are quite volatile (note the stats
      below are sums, not averages, as it was less perl hacking for me).
      
      Success rate are the same, already high due to the low allocation order
      used, so I'm not including them.
      
      Compaction stats:
      (the patches are stacked, and I haven't measured the non-functional-changes
      patches separately)
      
                                           patch 1     patch 2     patch 3     patch 4     patch 7     patch 8
        Compaction stalls                    22449       24680       24846       19765       22059       17480
        Compaction success                   12971       14836       14608       10475       11632        8757
        Compaction failures                   9477        9843       10238        9290       10426        8722
        Page migrate success               3109022     3370438     3312164     1695105     1608435     2111379
        Page migrate failure                911588     1149065     1028264     1112675     1077251     1026367
        Compaction pages isolated          7242983     8015530     7782467     4629063     4402787     5377665
        Compaction migrate scanned       980838938   987367943   957690188   917647238   947155598  1018922197
        Compaction free scanned          557926893   598946443   602236894   594024490   541169699   763651731
        Compaction cost                      10243       10578       10304        8286        8398        9440
      
      Compaction stats are mostly within noise until patch 4, which decreases
      the number of compactions, and migrations.  Part of that could be due to
      more pageblocks marked as unmovable, and async compaction skipping
      those.  This changes a bit with patch 7, but not so much.  Patch 8
      increases free scanner stats and migrations, which comes from the
      changed termination criteria.  Interestingly number of compactions
      decreases - probably the fully compacted pageblock satisfies multiple
      subsequent allocations, so it amortizes.
      
      Next comes the extfrag tracepoint, where "fragmenting" means that an
      allocation had to fallback to a pageblock of another migratetype which
      wasn't fully free (which is almost all of the fallbacks).  I have
      locally added another tracepoint for "Page steal" into
      steal_suitable_fallback() which triggers in situations where we are
      allowed to do move_freepages_block().  If we decide to also do
      set_pageblock_migratetype(), it's "Pages steal with pageblock" with
      break down for which allocation migratetype we are stealing and from
      which fallback migratetype.  The last part "due to counting" comes from
      patch 4 and counts the events where the counting of movable pages
      allowed us to change pageblock's migratetype, while the number of free
      pages alone wouldn't be enough to cross the threshold.
      
                                                             patch 1     patch 2     patch 3     patch 4     patch 7     patch 8
        Page alloc extfrag event                            10155066     8522968    10164959    15622080    13727068    13140319
        Extfrag fragmenting                                 10149231     8517025    10159040    15616925    13721391    13134792
        Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable                     159504      168500      184177       97835       70625       56948
        Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable     153613      163549      172693       91740       64099       50917
        Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with reclaim.      5891        4951       11484        6095        6526        6031
        Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable                     4738        4829        6345        4822        5640        5378
        Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable     1836        1902        1851        1579        1739        1760
        Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with unmov.      2902        2927        4494        3243        3901        3618
        Extfrag fragmenting for movable                      9984989     8343696     9968518    15514268    13645126    13072466
        Pages steal                                           179954      192291      210880      123254       94545       81486
        Pages steal with pageblock                             22153       18943       20154       33562       29969       33444
        Pages steal with pageblock for unmovable               14350       12858       13256       20660       19003       20852
        Pages steal with pageblock for unmovable from mov.     12812       11402       11683       19072       17467       19298
        Pages steal with pageblock for unmovable from recl.     1538        1456        1573        1588        1536        1554
        Pages steal with pageblock for movable                  7114        5489        5965       11787       10012       11493
        Pages steal with pageblock for movable from unmov.      6885        5291        5541       11179        9525       10885
        Pages steal with pageblock for movable from recl.        229         198         424         608         487         608
        Pages steal with pageblock for reclaimable               689         596         933        1115         954        1099
        Pages steal with pageblock for reclaimable from unmov.   273         219         537         658         547         667
        Pages steal with pageblock for reclaimable from mov.     416         377         396         457         407         432
        Pages steal with pageblock due to counting                                                 11834       10075        7530
        ... for unmovable                                                                           8993        7381        4616
        ... for movable                                                                             2792        2653        2851
        ... for reclaimable                                                                           49          41          63
      
      What we can see is that "Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable" and "...
      placed with movable" drops with almost each patch, which is good as we
      are polluting less movable pageblocks with unmovable pages.
      
      The most significant change is patch 4 with movable page counting.  On
      the other hand it increases "Extfrag fragmenting for movable" by 50%.
      "Pages steal" drops though, so these movable allocation fallbacks find
      only small free pages and are not allowed to steal whole pageblocks
      back.  "Pages steal with pageblock" raises, because the patch increases
      the chances of pageblock migratetype changes to happen.  This affects
      all migratetypes.
      
      The summary is that patch 4 is not a clear win wrt these stats, but I
      believe that the tradeoff it makes is a good one.  There's less
      pollution of movable pageblocks by unmovable allocations.  There's less
      stealing between pageblock, and those that remain have higher chance of
      changing migratetype also the pageblock itself, so it should more
      faithfully reflect the migratetype of the pages within the pageblock.
      The increase of movable allocations falling back to unmovable pageblock
      might look dramatic, but those allocations can be migrated by compaction
      when needed, and other patches in the series (7-9) improve that aspect.
      
      Patches 7 and 8 continue the trend of reduced unmovable fallbacks and
      also reduce the impact on movable fallbacks from patch 4.
      
      [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg114237.html
      
      This patch (of 8):
      
      While currently there are (mostly by accident) no holes in struct
      compact_control (on x86_64), but we are going to add more bool flags, so
      place them all together to the end of the structure.  While at it, just
      order all fields from largest to smallest.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131545.28577-2-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f25ba6dc
  7. 04 5月, 2017 3 次提交
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      mm: use is_migrate_highatomic() to simplify the code · a6ffdc07
      Xishi Qiu 提交于
      Introduce two helpers, is_migrate_highatomic() and is_migrate_highatomic_page().
      
      Simplify the code, no functional changes.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use static inlines rather than macros, per mhocko]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/58B94F15.6060606@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a6ffdc07
    • J
      mm: delete NR_PAGES_SCANNED and pgdat_reclaimable() · c822f622
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      NR_PAGES_SCANNED counts number of pages scanned since the last page free
      event in the allocator.  This was used primarily to measure the
      reclaimability of zones and nodes, and determine when reclaim should
      give up on them.  In that role, it has been replaced in the preceding
      patches by a different mechanism.
      
      Being implemented as an efficient vmstat counter, it was automatically
      exported to userspace as well.  It's however unlikely that anyone
      outside the kernel is using this counter in any meaningful way.
      
      Remove the counter and the unused pgdat_reclaimable().
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-8-hannes@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: NHillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c822f622
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      mm: fix 100% CPU kswapd busyloop on unreclaimable nodes · c73322d0
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      Patch series "mm: kswapd spinning on unreclaimable nodes - fixes and
      cleanups".
      
      Jia reported a scenario in which the kswapd of a node indefinitely spins
      at 100% CPU usage.  We have seen similar cases at Facebook.
      
      The kernel's current method of judging its ability to reclaim a node (or
      whether to back off and sleep) is based on the amount of scanned pages
      in proportion to the amount of reclaimable pages.  In Jia's and our
      scenarios, there are no reclaimable pages in the node, however, and the
      condition for backing off is never met.  Kswapd busyloops in an attempt
      to restore the watermarks while having nothing to work with.
      
      This series reworks the definition of an unreclaimable node based not on
      scanning but on whether kswapd is able to actually reclaim pages in
      MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (16) consecutive runs.  This is the same criteria
      the page allocator uses for giving up on direct reclaim and invoking the
      OOM killer.  If it cannot free any pages, kswapd will go to sleep and
      leave further attempts to direct reclaim invocations, which will either
      make progress and re-enable kswapd, or invoke the OOM killer.
      
      Patch #1 fixes the immediate problem Jia reported, the remainder are
      smaller fixlets, cleanups, and overall phasing out of the old method.
      
      Patch #6 is the odd one out.  It's a nice cleanup to get_scan_count(),
      and directly related to #5, but in itself not relevant to the series.
      
      If the whole series is too ambitious for 4.11, I would consider the
      first three patches fixes, the rest cleanups.
      
      This patch (of 9):
      
      Jia He reports a problem with kswapd spinning at 100% CPU when
      requesting more hugepages than memory available in the system:
      
      $ echo 4000 >/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
      
      top - 13:42:59 up  3:37,  1 user,  load average: 1.09, 1.03, 1.01
      Tasks:   1 total,   1 running,   0 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
      %Cpu(s):  0.0 us, 12.5 sy,  0.0 ni, 85.5 id,  2.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
      KiB Mem:  31371520 total, 30915136 used,   456384 free,      320 buffers
      KiB Swap:  6284224 total,   115712 used,  6168512 free.    48192 cached Mem
      
        PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
         76 root      20   0       0      0      0 R 100.0 0.000 217:17.29 kswapd3
      
      At that time, there are no reclaimable pages left in the node, but as
      kswapd fails to restore the high watermarks it refuses to go to sleep.
      
      Kswapd needs to back away from nodes that fail to balance.  Up until
      commit 1d82de61 ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of
      nodes") kswapd had such a mechanism.  It considered zones whose
      theoretically reclaimable pages it had reclaimed six times over as
      unreclaimable and backed away from them.  This guard was erroneously
      removed as the patch changed the definition of a balanced node.
      
      However, simply restoring this code wouldn't help in the case reported
      here: there *are* no reclaimable pages that could be scanned until the
      threshold is met.  Kswapd would stay awake anyway.
      
      Introduce a new and much simpler way of backing off.  If kswapd runs
      through MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (16) cycles without reclaiming a single
      page, make it back off from the node.  This is the same number of shots
      direct reclaim takes before declaring OOM.  Kswapd will go to sleep on
      that node until a direct reclaimer manages to reclaim some pages, thus
      proving the node reclaimable again.
      
      [hannes@cmpxchg.org: check kswapd failure against the cumulative nr_reclaimed count]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306162410.GB2090@cmpxchg.org
      [shakeelb@google.com: fix condition for throttle_direct_reclaim]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314183228.20152-1-shakeelb@google.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-2-hannes@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
      Reported-by: NJia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: NJia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NHillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Acked-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c73322d0
  8. 08 4月, 2017 1 次提交
  9. 25 2月, 2017 1 次提交
  10. 23 2月, 2017 3 次提交
  11. 26 12月, 2016 1 次提交
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      mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit · 62906027
      Nicholas Piggin 提交于
      Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
      tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
      which requires another cacheline load.
      
      This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
      and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
      there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
      wakeup check that will clears the bit.
      
      The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
      Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
      generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
      under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).
      
      This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
      2-3%.
      
      Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
      memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
      bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
      operand widths match and cover both bits).
      Signed-off-by: NNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      62906027
  12. 15 12月, 2016 2 次提交
  13. 08 10月, 2016 2 次提交
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      mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability · 9f7e3387
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations
      (stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7.  In the scenario (parallel kernel
      build and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as
      Unmovable and compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages.
      Joonsoo Kim pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are
      not movable to prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations
      to fallback to other pageblocks.  Such heuristic makes sense to help
      prevent long-term fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more
      urgent problem.  As a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only
      for the ultimate compaction priority.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.czReported-by: NRalf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com>
      Reported-by: NArkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
      Reported-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
      Suggested-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9f7e3387
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      mm, compaction: make whole_zone flag ignore cached scanner positions · 06ed2998
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Patch series "make direct compaction more deterministic")
      
      This is mostly a followup to Michal's oom detection rework, which
      highlighted the need for direct compaction to provide better feedback in
      reclaim/compaction loop, so that it can reliably recognize when
      compaction cannot make further progress, and allocation should invoke
      OOM killer or fail.  We've discussed this at LSF/MM [1] where I proposed
      expanding the async/sync migration mode used in compaction to more
      general "priorities".  This patchset adds one new priority that just
      overrides all the heuristics and makes compaction fully scan all zones.
      I don't currently think that we need more fine-grained priorities, but
      we'll see.  Other than that there's some smaller fixes and cleanups,
      mainly related to the THP-specific hacks.
      
      I've tested this with stress-highalloc in GFP_KERNEL order-4 and
      THP-like order-9 scenarios.  There's some improvement for compaction
      stats for the order-4, which is likely due to the better watermarks
      handling.  In the previous version I reported mostly noise wrt
      compaction stats, and decreased direct reclaim - now the reclaim is
      without difference.  I believe this is due to the less aggressive
      compaction priority increase in patch 6.
      
      "before" is a mmotm tree prior to 4.7 release plus the first part of the
      series that was sent and merged separately
      
                                          before        after
      order-4:
      
      Compaction stalls                    27216       30759
      Compaction success                   19598       25475
      Compaction failures                   7617        5283
      Page migrate success                370510      464919
      Page migrate failure                 25712       27987
      Compaction pages isolated           849601     1041581
      Compaction migrate scanned       143146541   101084990
      Compaction free scanned          208355124   144863510
      Compaction cost                       1403        1210
      
      order-9:
      
      Compaction stalls                     7311        7401
      Compaction success                    1634        1683
      Compaction failures                   5677        5718
      Page migrate success                194657      183988
      Page migrate failure                  4753        4170
      Compaction pages isolated           498790      456130
      Compaction migrate scanned          565371      524174
      Compaction free scanned            4230296     4250744
      Compaction cost                        215         203
      
      [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/684611/
      
      This patch (of 11):
      
      A recent patch has added whole_zone flag that compaction sets when
      scanning starts from the zone boundary, in order to report that zone has
      been fully scanned in one attempt.  For allocations that want to try
      really hard or cannot fail, we will want to introduce a mode where
      scanning whole zone is guaranteed regardless of the cached positions.
      
      This patch reuses the whole_zone flag in a way that if it's already
      passed true to compaction, the cached scanner positions are ignored.
      Employing this flag during reclaim/compaction loop will be done in the
      next patch.  This patch however converts compaction invoked from
      userspace via procfs to use this flag.  Before this patch, the cached
      positions were first reset to zone boundaries and then read back from
      struct zone, so there was a window where a parallel compaction could
      replace the reset values, making the manual compaction less effective.
      Using the flag instead of performing reset is more robust.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-2-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Tested-by: NLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      06ed2998
  14. 29 7月, 2016 4 次提交
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      mm, compaction: simplify contended compaction handling · c3486f53
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Async compaction detects contention either due to failing trylock on
      zone->lock or lru_lock, or by need_resched().  Since 1f9efdef ("mm,
      compaction: khugepaged should not give up due to need_resched()") the
      code got quite complicated to distinguish these two up to the
      __alloc_pages_slowpath() level, so different decisions could be taken
      for khugepaged allocations.
      
      After the recent changes, khugepaged allocations don't check for
      contended compaction anymore, so we again don't need to distinguish lock
      and sched contention, and simplify the current convoluted code a lot.
      
      However, I believe it's also possible to simplify even more and
      completely remove the check for contended compaction after the initial
      async compaction for costly orders, which was originally aimed at THP
      page fault allocations.  There are several reasons why this can be done
      now:
      
      - with the new defaults, THP page faults no longer do reclaim/compaction at
        all, unless the system admin has overridden the default, or application has
        indicated via madvise that it can benefit from THP's. In both cases, it
        means that the potential extra latency is expected and worth the benefits.
      - even if reclaim/compaction proceeds after this patch where it previously
        wouldn't, the second compaction attempt is still async and will detect the
        contention and back off, if the contention persists
      - there are still heuristics like deferred compaction and pageblock skip bits
        in place that prevent excessive THP page fault latencies
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-9-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c3486f53
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      mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy · e6cbd7f2
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      The fair zone allocation policy interleaves allocation requests between
      zones to avoid an age inversion problem whereby new pages are reclaimed
      to balance a zone.  Reclaim is now node-based so this should no longer
      be an issue and the fair zone allocation policy is not free.  This patch
      removes it.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-30-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e6cbd7f2
    • M
      mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim · a5f5f91d
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      As reclaim is now per-node based, convert zone_reclaim to be
      node_reclaim.  It is possible that a node will be reclaimed multiple
      times if it has multiple zones but this is unavoidable without caching
      all nodes traversed so far.  The documentation and interface to
      userspace is the same from a configuration perspective and will will be
      similar in behaviour unless the node-local allocation requests were also
      limited to lower zones.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-24-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a5f5f91d
    • M
      mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node · 599d0c95
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
      as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.
      
      Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
      necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
      logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
      logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
      active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
      per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
      lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.
      
      Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
      that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
      per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
      when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
      later but is easier to review.
      
      In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
      the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions
      
      1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem
      
         When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
         list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
         highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
         keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
         arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
         could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.
      
         That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
         highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.
      
      2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails
      
         This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
         memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      599d0c95
  15. 27 7月, 2016 3 次提交
  16. 25 6月, 2016 1 次提交
  17. 24 5月, 2016 2 次提交
    • M
      mm: make vm_mmap killable · 9fbeb5ab
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      All the callers of vm_mmap seem to check for the failure already and
      bail out in one way or another on the error which means that we can
      change it to use killable version of vm_mmap_pgoff and return -EINTR if
      the current task gets killed while waiting for mmap_sem.  This also
      means that vm_mmap_pgoff can be killable by default and drop the
      additional parameter.
      
      This will help in the OOM conditions when the oom victim might be stuck
      waiting for the mmap_sem for write which in turn can block oom_reaper
      which relies on the mmap_sem for read to make a forward progress and
      reclaim the address space of the victim.
      
      Please note that load_elf_binary is ignoring vm_mmap error for
      current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO case but that shouldn't be a
      problem because the address is not used anywhere and we never return to
      the userspace if we got killed.
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9fbeb5ab
    • M
      mm: make mmap_sem for write waits killable for mm syscalls · dc0ef0df
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      This is a follow up work for oom_reaper [1].  As the async OOM killing
      depends on oom_sem for read we would really appreciate if a holder for
      write didn't stood in the way.  This patchset is changing many of
      down_write calls to be killable to help those cases when the writer is
      blocked and waiting for readers to release the lock and so help
      __oom_reap_task to process the oom victim.
      
      Most of the patches are really trivial because the lock is help from a
      shallow syscall paths where we can return EINTR trivially and allow the
      current task to die (note that EINTR will never get to the userspace as
      the task has fatal signal pending).  Others seem to be easy as well as
      the callers are already handling fatal errors and bail and return to
      userspace which should be sufficient to handle the failure gracefully.
      I am not familiar with all those code paths so a deeper review is really
      appreciated.
      
      As this work is touching more areas which are not directly connected I
      have tried to keep the CC list as small as possible and people who I
      believed would be familiar are CCed only to the specific patches (all
      should have received the cover though).
      
      This patchset is based on linux-next and it depends on
      down_write_killable for rw_semaphores which got merged into tip
      locking/rwsem branch and it is merged into this next tree.  I guess it
      would be easiest to route these patches via mmotm because of the
      dependency on the tip tree but if respective maintainers prefer other
      way I have no objections.
      
      I haven't covered all the mmap_write(mm->mmap_sem) instances here
      
        $ git grep "down_write(.*\<mmap_sem\>)" next/master | wc -l
        98
        $ git grep "down_write(.*\<mmap_sem\>)" | wc -l
        62
      
      I have tried to cover those which should be relatively easy to review in
      this series because this alone should be a nice improvement.  Other
      places can be changed on top.
      
      [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456752417-9626-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
      [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452094975-551-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
      [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456750705-7141-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
      
      This patch (of 18):
      
      This is the first step in making mmap_sem write waiters killable.  It
      focuses on the trivial ones which are taking the lock early after
      entering the syscall and they are not changing state before.
      
      Therefore it is very easy to change them to use down_write_killable and
      immediately return with -EINTR.  This will allow the waiter to pass away
      without blocking the mmap_sem which might be required to make a forward
      progress.  E.g.  the oom reaper will need the lock for reading to
      dismantle the OOM victim address space.
      
      The only tricky function in this patch is vm_mmap_pgoff which has many
      call sites via vm_mmap.  To reduce the risk keep vm_mmap with the
      original non-killable semantic for now.
      
      vm_munmap callers do not bother checking the return value so open code
      it into the munmap syscall path for now for simplicity.
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc0ef0df
  18. 21 5月, 2016 1 次提交
    • M
      mm, compaction: distinguish between full and partial COMPACT_COMPLETE · c8f7de0b
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      COMPACT_COMPLETE now means that compaction and free scanner met.  This
      is not very useful information if somebody just wants to use this
      feedback and make any decisions based on that.  The current caller might
      be a poor guy who just happened to scan tiny portion of the zone and
      that could be the reason no suitable pages were compacted.  Make sure we
      distinguish the full and partial zone walks.
      
      Consumers should treat COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED as a potential success
      and be optimistic in retrying.
      
      The existing users of COMPACT_COMPLETE are conservatively changed to use
      COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED as well but some of them should be probably
      reconsidered and only defer the compaction only for COMPACT_COMPLETE
      with the new semantic.
      
      This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NHillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c8f7de0b
  19. 20 5月, 2016 4 次提交
  20. 26 3月, 2016 1 次提交
    • M
      mm, oom: introduce oom reaper · aac45363
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      This patch (of 5):
      
      This is based on the idea from Mel Gorman discussed during LSFMM 2015
      and independently brought up by Oleg Nesterov.
      
      The OOM killer currently allows to kill only a single task in a good
      hope that the task will terminate in a reasonable time and frees up its
      memory.  Such a task (oom victim) will get an access to memory reserves
      via mark_oom_victim to allow a forward progress should there be a need
      for additional memory during exit path.
      
      It has been shown (e.g.  by Tetsuo Handa) that it is not that hard to
      construct workloads which break the core assumption mentioned above and
      the OOM victim might take unbounded amount of time to exit because it
      might be blocked in the uninterruptible state waiting for an event (e.g.
      lock) which is blocked by another task looping in the page allocator.
      
      This patch reduces the probability of such a lockup by introducing a
      specialized kernel thread (oom_reaper) which tries to reclaim additional
      memory by preemptively reaping the anonymous or swapped out memory owned
      by the oom victim under an assumption that such a memory won't be needed
      when its owner is killed and kicked from the userspace anyway.  There is
      one notable exception to this, though, if the OOM victim was in the
      process of coredumping the result would be incomplete.  This is
      considered a reasonable constrain because the overall system health is
      more important than debugability of a particular application.
      
      A kernel thread has been chosen because we need a reliable way of
      invocation so workqueue context is not appropriate because all the
      workers might be busy (e.g.  allocating memory).  Kswapd which sounds
      like another good fit is not appropriate as well because it might get
      blocked on locks during reclaim as well.
      
      oom_reaper has to take mmap_sem on the target task for reading so the
      solution is not 100% because the semaphore might be held or blocked for
      write but the probability is reduced considerably wrt.  basically any
      lock blocking forward progress as described above.  In order to prevent
      from blocking on the lock without any forward progress we are using only
      a trylock and retry 10 times with a short sleep in between.  Users of
      mmap_sem which need it for write should be carefully reviewed to use
      _killable waiting as much as possible and reduce allocations requests
      done with the lock held to absolute minimum to reduce the risk even
      further.
      
      The API between oom killer and oom reaper is quite trivial.
      wake_oom_reaper updates mm_to_reap with cmpxchg to guarantee only
      NULL->mm transition and oom_reaper clear this atomically once it is done
      with the work.  This means that only a single mm_struct can be reaped at
      the time.  As the operation is potentially disruptive we are trying to
      limit it to the ncessary minimum and the reaper blocks any updates while
      it operates on an mm.  mm_struct is pinned by mm_count to allow parallel
      exit_mmap and a race is detected by atomic_inc_not_zero(mm_users).
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Suggested-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Suggested-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aac45363
  21. 18 3月, 2016 2 次提交
    • J
      mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> · 1170532b
      Joe Perches 提交于
      Most of the mm subsystem uses pr_<level> so make it consistent.
      
      Miscellanea:
      
       - Realign arguments
       - Add missing newline to format
       - kmemleak-test.c has a "kmemleak: " prefix added to the
         "Kmemleak testing" logging message via pr_fmt
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>	[percpu]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1170532b
    • J
      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