1. 21 5月, 2014 1 次提交
  2. 08 4月, 2014 5 次提交
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      numa: use LAST_CPUPID_SHIFT to calculate LAST_CPUPID_MASK · 834a964a
      Srikar Dronamraju 提交于
      LAST_CPUPID_MASK is calculated using LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH.  However
      LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH itself can be 0.  (when LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is
      set).  In such a case LAST_CPUPID_MASK turns out to be 0.
      
      But with recent commit 1ae71d03: (mm: numa: bugfix for
      LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS) if LAST_CPUPID_MASK is 0,
      page_cpupid_xchg_last() and page_cpupid_reset_last() causes
      page->_last_cpupid to be set to 0.
      
      This causes performance regression. Its almost as if numa_balancing is
      off.
      
      Fix LAST_CPUPID_MASK by using LAST_CPUPID_SHIFT instead of
      LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH.
      
      Some performance numbers and perf stats with and without the fix.
      
      (3.14-rc6)
      ----------
      numa01
      
       Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa01':
      
               12,27,462 cs                                                           [100.00%]
                2,41,957 migrations                                                   [100.00%]
             1,68,01,713 faults                                                       [100.00%]
          7,99,35,29,041 cache-misses
                  98,808 migrate:mm_migrate_pages                                     [100.00%]
      
          1407.690148814 seconds time elapsed
      
      numa02
      
       Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa02':
      
                  63,065 cs                                                           [100.00%]
                  14,364 migrations                                                   [100.00%]
                2,08,118 faults                                                       [100.00%]
            25,32,59,404 cache-misses
                      12 migrate:mm_migrate_pages                                     [100.00%]
      
            63.840827219 seconds time elapsed
      
      (3.14-rc6 with fix)
      -------------------
      numa01
      
       Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa01':
      
                9,68,911 cs                                                           [100.00%]
                1,01,414 migrations                                                   [100.00%]
               88,38,697 faults                                                       [100.00%]
          4,42,92,51,042 cache-misses
                4,25,060 migrate:mm_migrate_pages                                     [100.00%]
      
           685.965331189 seconds time elapsed
      
      numa02
      
       Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa02':
      
                  17,543 cs                                                           [100.00%]
                   2,962 migrations                                                   [100.00%]
                1,17,843 faults                                                       [100.00%]
            11,80,61,644 cache-misses
                  12,358 migrate:mm_migrate_pages                                     [100.00%]
      
            20.380132343 seconds time elapsed
      Signed-off-by: NSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      834a964a
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      mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit · 29f175d1
      Fabian Frederick 提交于
      Commit f9acc8c7 ("readahead: sanify file_ra_state names") left
      ra_submit with a single function call.
      
      Move ra_submit to internal.h and inline it to save some stack.  Thanks
      to Andrew Morton for commenting different versions.
      Signed-off-by: NFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
      Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      29f175d1
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      mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache · f1820361
      Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于
      filemap_map_pages() is generic implementation of ->map_pages() for
      filesystems who uses page cache.
      
      It should be safe to use filemap_map_pages() for ->map_pages() if
      filesystem use filemap_fault() for ->fault().
      Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f1820361
    • K
      mm: introduce vm_ops->map_pages() · 8c6e50b0
      Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于
      Here's new version of faultaround patchset.  It took a while to tune it
      and collect performance data.
      
      First patch adds new callback ->map_pages to vm_operations_struct.
      
      ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
      Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from
      "pgoff" till "max_pgoff".  ->map_pages() is called with page table
      locked and must not block.  If it's not possible to reach a page without
      blocking, filesystem should skip it.  Filesystem should use do_set_pte()
      to setup page table entry.  Pointer to entry associated with offset
      "pgoff" is passed in "pte" field in vm_fault structure.  Pointers to
      entries for other offsets should be calculated relative to "pte".
      
      Currently VM use ->map_pages only on read page fault path.  We try to
      map FAULT_AROUND_PAGES a time.  FAULT_AROUND_PAGES is 16 for now.
      Performance data for different FAULT_AROUND_ORDER is below.
      
      TODO:
       - implement ->map_pages() for shmem/tmpfs;
       - modify get_user_pages() to be able to use ->map_pages() and implement
         mmap(MAP_POPULATE|MAP_NONBLOCK) on top.
      
      =========================================================================
      Tested on 4-socket machine (120 threads) with 128GiB of RAM.
      
      Few real-world workloads. The sweet spot for FAULT_AROUND_ORDER here is
      somewhere between 3 and 5. Let's say 4 :)
      
      Linux build (make -j60)
      FAULT_AROUND_ORDER		Baseline	1		3		4		5		7		9
      	minor-faults		283,301,572	247,151,987	212,215,789	204,772,882	199,568,944	194,703,779	193,381,485
      	time, seconds		151.227629483	153.920996480	151.356125472	150.863792049	150.879207877	151.150764954	151.450962358
      Linux rebuild (make -j60)
      FAULT_AROUND_ORDER		Baseline	1		3		4		5		7		9
      	minor-faults		5,396,854	4,148,444	2,855,286	2,577,282	2,361,957	2,169,573	2,112,643
      	time, seconds		27.404543757	27.559725591	27.030057426	26.855045126	26.678618635	26.974523490	26.761320095
      Git test suite (make -j60 test)
      FAULT_AROUND_ORDER		Baseline	1		3		4		5		7		9
      	minor-faults		129,591,823	99,200,751	66,106,718	57,606,410	51,510,808	45,776,813	44,085,515
      	time, seconds		66.087215026	64.784546905	64.401156567	65.282708668	66.034016829	66.793780811	67.237810413
      
      Two synthetic tests: access every word in file in sequential/random order.
      It doesn't improve much after FAULT_AROUND_ORDER == 4.
      
      Sequential access 16GiB file
      FAULT_AROUND_ORDER		Baseline	1		3		4		5		7		9
       1 thread
      	minor-faults		4,195,437	2,098,275	525,068		262,251		131,170		32,856		8,282
      	time, seconds		7.250461742	6.461711074	5.493859139	5.488488147	5.707213983	5.898510832	5.109232856
       8 threads
      	minor-faults		33,557,540	16,892,728	4,515,848	2,366,999	1,423,382	442,732		142,339
      	time, seconds		16.649304881	9.312555263	6.612490639	6.394316732	6.669827501	6.75078944	6.371900528
       32 threads
      	minor-faults		134,228,222	67,526,810	17,725,386	9,716,537	4,763,731	1,668,921	537,200
      	time, seconds		49.164430543	29.712060103	12.938649729	10.175151004	11.840094583	9.594081325	9.928461797
       60 threads
      	minor-faults		251,687,988	126,146,952	32,919,406	18,208,804	10,458,947	2,733,907	928,217
      	time, seconds		86.260656897	49.626551828	22.335007632	17.608243696	16.523119035	16.339489186	16.326390902
       120 threads
      	minor-faults		503,352,863	252,939,677	67,039,168	35,191,827	19,170,091	4,688,357	1,471,862
      	time, seconds		124.589206333	79.757867787	39.508707872	32.167281632	29.972989292	28.729834575	28.042251622
      Random access 1GiB file
       1 thread
      	minor-faults		262,636		132,743		34,369		17,299		8,527		3,451		1,222
      	time, seconds		15.351890914	16.613802482	16.569227308	15.179220992	16.557356122	16.578247824	15.365266994
       8 threads
      	minor-faults		2,098,948	1,061,871	273,690		154,501		87,110		25,663		7,384
      	time, seconds		15.040026343	15.096933500	14.474757288	14.289129964	14.411537468	14.296316837	14.395635804
       32 threads
      	minor-faults		8,390,734	4,231,023	1,054,432	528,847		269,242		97,746		26,881
      	time, seconds		20.430433109	21.585235358	22.115062928	14.872878951	14.880856305	14.883370649	14.821261690
       60 threads
      	minor-faults		15,733,258	7,892,809	1,973,393	988,266		594,789		164,994		51,691
      	time, seconds		26.577302548	25.692397770	18.728863715	20.153026398	21.619101933	17.745086260	17.613215273
       120 threads
      	minor-faults		31,471,111	15,816,616	3,959,209	1,978,685	1,008,299	264,635		96,010
      	time, seconds		41.835322703	40.459786095	36.085306105	35.313894834	35.814445675	36.552633793	34.289210594
      
      Touch only one page in page table in 16GiB file
      FAULT_AROUND_ORDER		Baseline	1		3		4		5		7		9
       1 thread
      	minor-faults		8,372		8,324		8,270		8,260		8,249		8,239		8,237
      	time, seconds		0.039892712	0.045369149	0.051846126	0.063681685	0.079095975	0.17652406	0.541213386
       8 threads
      	minor-faults		65,731		65,681		65,628		65,620		65,608		65,599		65,596
      	time, seconds		0.124159196	0.488600638	0.156854426	0.191901957	0.242631486	0.543569456	1.677303984
       32 threads
      	minor-faults		262,388		262,341		262,285		262,276		262,266		262,257		263,183
      	time, seconds		0.452421421	0.488600638	0.565020946	0.648229739	0.789850823	1.651584361	5.000361559
       60 threads
      	minor-faults		491,822		491,792		491,723		491,711		491,701		491,691		491,825
      	time, seconds		0.763288616	0.869620515	0.980727360	1.161732354	1.466915814	3.04041448	9.308612938
       120 threads
      	minor-faults		983,466		983,655		983,366		983,372		983,363		984,083		984,164
      	time, seconds		1.595846553	1.667902182	2.008959376	2.425380942	2.941368804	5.977807890	18.401846125
      
      This patch (of 2):
      
      Introduce new vm_ops callback ->map_pages() and uses it for mapping easy
      accessible pages around fault address.
      
      On read page fault, if filesystem provides ->map_pages(), we try to map up
      to FAULT_AROUND_PAGES pages around page fault address in hope to reduce
      number of minor page faults.
      
      We call ->map_pages first and use ->fault() as fallback if page by the
      offset is not ready to be mapped (cold page cache or something).
      Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8c6e50b0
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      mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE · a0715cc2
      Alex Thorlton 提交于
      Add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK, to allow us to set the default flags for VMs.  It
      also adds a prctl control which allows us to set the THP disable bit in
      mm->def_flags so that VMs will pick up the setting as they are created.
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
      Suggested-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a0715cc2
  3. 04 4月, 2014 3 次提交
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      include/linux/mm.h: remove ifdef condition · c558784f
      Rashika Kheria 提交于
      The ifdef conditions in include/linux/mm.h presents three cases:
      
       - !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP) && !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID)
      
         There is no actual definition of function but include/linux/mm.h has a
         static inline stub defined.
      
       - defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP) && !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID)
      
         linux/mm.h does not define a prototype, but mm/page_alloc.c defines
         the function.
      
         Hence, compiler reports the following warning:
      
           mm/page_alloc.c:4300:15: warning: no previous prototype for `__early_pfn_to_nid' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
      
       - defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID)
      
         The architecture defines the function, and linux/mm.h has a
         prototype.
      
      Thus, join the conditions of Case 2 and 3 ie eliminate the ifdef
      condition of CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID to eliminate the missing
      prototype warning from file mm/page_alloc.c.
      Signed-off-by: NRashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
      c558784f
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      mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache · 91b0abe3
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
      evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
      iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
      reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
      code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.
      
      Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
      under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
      for this flag before installing shadow pages.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
      Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      91b0abe3
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      mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees · 0cd6144a
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      shmem mappings already contain exceptional entries where swap slot
      information is remembered.
      
      To be able to store eviction information for regular page cache, prepare
      every site dealing with the radix trees directly to handle entries other
      than pages.
      
      The common lookup functions will filter out non-page entries and return
      NULL for page cache holes, just as before.  But provide a raw version of
      the API which returns non-page entries as well, and switch shmem over to
      use it.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
      Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0cd6144a
  4. 19 3月, 2014 1 次提交
  5. 08 3月, 2014 1 次提交
  6. 04 3月, 2014 3 次提交
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      mm: numa: bugfix for LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS · 1ae71d03
      Liu Ping Fan 提交于
      When doing some numa tests on powerpc, I triggered an oops bug.  I find
      it is caused by using page->_last_cpupid.  It should be initialized as
      "-1 & LAST_CPUPID_MASK", but not "-1".  Otherwise, in task_numa_fault(),
      we will miss the checking (last_cpupid == (-1 & LAST_CPUPID_MASK)).  And
      finally cause an oops bug in task_numa_group(), since the online cpu is
      less than possible cpu.  This happen with CONFIG_SPARSE_VMEMMAP disabled
      
      Call trace:
      
        SMP NR_CPUS=64 NUMA PowerNV
        Modules linked in:
        CPU: 24 PID: 804 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted3.13.0-rc1+ #32
        task: c000001e2746aa80 ti: c000001e32c50000 task.ti:c000001e32c50000
        REGS: c000001e32c53510 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted(3.13.0-rc1+)
        MSR: 9000000000009032 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR:28024424  XER: 20000000
        CFAR: c000000000009324 DAR: 7265717569726857 DSISR:40000000 SOFTE: 1
        NIP  .task_numa_fault+0x1470/0x2370
        LR  .task_numa_fault+0x1468/0x2370
        Call Trace:
         .task_numa_fault+0x1468/0x2370 (unreliable)
         .do_numa_page+0x480/0x4a0
         .handle_mm_fault+0x4ec/0xc90
         .do_page_fault+0x3a8/0x890
         handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30
        Instruction dump:
        3c82fefb 3884b138 48d9cff1 60000000 48000574 3c62fefb3863af78 3c82fefb
        3884b138 48d9cfd5 60000000 e93f0100 <812902e4> 7d2907b45529063e 7d2a07b4
        ---[ end trace 15f2510da5ae07cf ]---
      Signed-off-by: NLiu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1ae71d03
    • V
      mm: include VM_MIXEDMAP flag in the VM_SPECIAL list to avoid m(un)locking · 9050d7eb
      Vlastimil Babka 提交于
      Daniel Borkmann reported a VM_BUG_ON assertion failing:
      
        ------------[ cut here ]------------
        kernel BUG at mm/mlock.c:528!
        invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
        Modules linked in: ccm arc4 iwldvm [...]
         video
        CPU: 3 PID: 2266 Comm: netsniff-ng Not tainted 3.14.0-rc2+ #8
        Hardware name: LENOVO 2429BP3/2429BP3, BIOS G4ET37WW (1.12 ) 05/29/2012
        task: ffff8801f87f9820 ti: ffff88002cb44000 task.ti: ffff88002cb44000
        RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81171ad0>]  [<ffffffff81171ad0>] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
        Call Trace:
          do_munmap+0x18f/0x3b0
          vm_munmap+0x41/0x60
          SyS_munmap+0x22/0x30
          system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
        RIP   munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
        ---[ end trace a0088dcf07ae10f2 ]---
      
      because munlock_vma_pages_range() thinks it's unexpectedly in the middle
      of a THP page.  This can be reproduced with default config since 3.11
      kernels.  A reproducer can be found in the kernel's selftest directory
      for networking by running ./psock_tpacket.
      
      The problem is that an order=2 compound page (allocated by
      alloc_one_pg_vec_page() is part of the munlocked VM_MIXEDMAP vma (mapped
      by packet_mmap()) and mistaken for a THP page and assumed to be order=9.
      
      The checks for THP in munlock came with commit ff6a6da6 ("mm:
      accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages"), i.e.  since 3.9, but did
      not trigger a bug.  It just makes munlock_vma_pages_range() skip such
      compound pages until the next 512-pages-aligned page, when it encounters
      a head page.  This is however not a problem for vma's where mlocking has
      no effect anyway, but it can distort the accounting.
      
      Since commit 7225522b ("mm: munlock: batch non-THP page isolation
      and munlock+putback using pagevec") this can trigger a VM_BUG_ON in
      PageTransHuge() check.
      
      This patch fixes the issue by adding VM_MIXEDMAP flag to VM_SPECIAL, a
      list of flags that make vma's non-mlockable and non-mergeable.  The
      reasoning is that VM_MIXEDMAP vma's are similar to VM_PFNMAP, which is
      already on the VM_SPECIAL list, and both are intended for non-LRU pages
      where mlocking makes no sense anyway.  Related Lkml discussion can be
      found in [2].
      
       [1] tools/testing/selftests/net/psock_tpacket
       [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/10/427Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Reported-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
      Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
      Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.11.x+]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9050d7eb
    • D
      mm: close PageTail race · 668f9abb
      David Rientjes 提交于
      Commit bf6bddf1 ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for
      ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction
      which dereferences page->first_page if PageTail(page).
      
      This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the
      aforementioned page_count(page).  Indeed, anything that does
      compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with
      prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page->first_page
      pointer.
      
      This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that
      deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head()
      implementation.  This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that
      if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither
      NULL nor dangling.  The patch then adds a store memory barrier to
      prep_compound_page() to ensure page->first_page is set.
      
      This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are
      expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the
      memory barriers are unfortunately required.
      
      Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier
      during init since no race is possible.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      668f9abb
  7. 21 2月, 2014 1 次提交
    • M
      mm: mask bits from pmd in pmd_lockptr/pmd_huge_pte · 634391ac
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      The pmd pointer passed to pmd_lockptr/pmd_huge_pte can point to any
      entry in a pmd table. With USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS==1 the code uses
      virt_to_page to get a struct page for the pmd table. The virt_to_page
      function automatically masks the lower PAGE_SHIFT bits from the
      address. But if the size of a pmd table is larger than PAGE_SIZE the
      additional bits are not removed from the pmd address and the wrong
      page struct is used.
      
      Fix this by explicitely masking the offset in the pmd table from
      the pmd pointer.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      634391ac
  8. 24 1月, 2014 2 次提交
    • S
      mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE · 309381fe
      Sasha Levin 提交于
      Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page.  Usually, when
      one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and
      the registers.
      
      I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code
      that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is
      quite useful to people debugging issues in mm.
      
      This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what
      VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual
      BUG_ON.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes]
      Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      309381fe
    • D
      mm: print more details for bad_page() · f0b791a3
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
      But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
      or whether ->index or ->mapping is required to be NULL.
      
      This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
      they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
      places.  It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
      then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.
      
      This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
      *specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
      flag combination which was the problem.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to pr_alert]
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0b791a3
  9. 22 1月, 2014 6 次提交
    • J
      mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable · 49f0ce5f
      Jerome Marchand 提交于
      Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
      availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
      maximum usage of memory without swapping.  With growing memory, the
      1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
      for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).
      
      This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
      much finer grain.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
      Signed-off-by: NJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      49f0ce5f
    • M
      mm, show_mem: remove SHOW_MEM_FILTER_PAGE_COUNT · aec6a888
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Commit 4b59e6c4 ("mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in
      non-blockable contexts") introduced SHOW_MEM_FILTER_PAGE_COUNT to
      suppress PFN walks on large memory machines.  Commit c78e9363 ("mm:
      do not walk all of system memory during show_mem") avoided a PFN walk in
      the generic show_mem helper which removes the requirement for
      SHOW_MEM_FILTER_PAGE_COUNT in that case.
      
      This patch removes PFN walkers from the arch-specific implementations
      that report on a per-node or per-zone granularity.  ARM and unicore32
      still do a PFN walk as they report memory usage on each bank which is a
      much finer granularity where the debugging information may still be of
      use.  As the remaining arches doing PFN walks have relatively small
      amounts of memory, this patch simply removes SHOW_MEM_FILTER_PAGE_COUNT.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix parisc]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aec6a888
    • K
      mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation · b35f1819
      Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于
      If DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled spinlock_t on x86_64
      is 72 bytes.  For page->ptl they will be allocated from kmalloc-96 slab,
      so we loose 24 on each.  An average system can easily allocate few tens
      thousands of page->ptl and overhead is significant.
      
      Let's create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation to solve this.
      
      To make sure that it really works this time, some numbers from my test
      machine (just booted, no load):
      
      Before:
        # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo
        kmalloc-96         31987  32190    128   30    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1073   1073     92
      After:
        # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo
        page->ptl          27516  28143     72   53    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    531    531      9
        kmalloc-96          3853   5280    128   30    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    176    176      0
      
      Note that the patch is useful not only for debug case, but also for
      PREEMPT_RT, where spinlock_t is always bloated.
      Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b35f1819
    • O
      mm: thp: turn compound_head() into BUG_ON(!PageTail) in get_huge_page_tail() · 5eaf1a9e
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      get_huge_page_tail()->compound_head() looks confusing.  Every caller
      must check PageTail(page), otherwise atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount) is
      simply wrong if this page is compound-trans-head.
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5eaf1a9e
    • A
      mm: tail page refcounting optimization for slab and hugetlbfs · 44518d2b
      Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
      This skips the _mapcount mangling for slab and hugetlbfs pages.
      
      The main trouble in doing this is to guarantee that PageSlab and
      PageHeadHuge remains constant for all get_page/put_page run on the tail
      of slab or hugetlbfs compound pages.  Otherwise if they're set during
      get_page but not set during put_page, the _mapcount of the tail page
      would underflow.
      
      PageHeadHuge will remain true until the compound page is released and
      enters the buddy allocator so it won't risk to change even if the tail
      page is the last reference left on the page.
      
      PG_slab instead is cleared before the slab frees the head page with
      put_page, so if the tail pin is released after the slab freed the page,
      we would have a problem.  But in the slab case the tail pin cannot be
      the last reference left on the page.  This is because the slab code is
      free to reuse the compound page after a kfree/kmem_cache_free without
      having to check if there's any tail pin left.  In turn all tail pins
      must be always released while the head is still pinned by the slab code
      and so we know PG_slab will be still set too.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKhalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      44518d2b
    • G
      mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL · f92f455f
      Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
      {,set}page_address() are macros if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL.  If
      !WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, they're plain C functions.
      
      If someone calls them with a void *, this pointer is auto-converted to
      struct page * if !WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, but causes a build failure on
      architectures using WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (arc, m68k and sparc64):
      
        drivers/md/bcache/bset.c: In function `__btree_sort':
        drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
        drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: error: request for member `virtual' in something not a structure or union
      
      Convert them to static inline functions to fix this.  There are already
      plenty of users of struct page members inside <linux/mm.h>, so there's
      no reason to keep them as macros.
      Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Acked-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
      Tested-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f92f455f
  10. 21 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  11. 09 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  12. 21 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  13. 15 11月, 2013 8 次提交
  14. 13 11月, 2013 1 次提交
    • T
      mm/memblock.c: introduce bottom-up allocation mode · 79442ed1
      Tang Chen 提交于
      The Linux kernel cannot migrate pages used by the kernel.  As a result,
      kernel pages cannot be hot-removed.  So we cannot allocate hotpluggable
      memory for the kernel.
      
      ACPI SRAT (System Resource Affinity Table) contains the memory hotplug
      info.  But before SRAT is parsed, memblock has already started to allocate
      memory for the kernel.  So we need to prevent memblock from doing this.
      
      In a memory hotplug system, any numa node the kernel resides in should be
      unhotpluggable.  And for a modern server, each node could have at least
      16GB memory.  So memory around the kernel image is highly likely
      unhotpluggable.
      
      So the basic idea is: Allocate memory from the end of the kernel image and
      to the higher memory.  Since memory allocation before SRAT is parsed won't
      be too much, it could highly likely be in the same node with kernel image.
      
      The current memblock can only allocate memory top-down.  So this patch
      introduces a new bottom-up allocation mode to allocate memory bottom-up.
      And later when we use this allocation direction to allocate memory, we
      will limit the start address above the kernel.
      Signed-off-by: NTang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: NToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
      Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      79442ed1
  15. 11 10月, 2013 1 次提交
    • A
      powerpc: Prepare to support kernel handling of IOMMU map/unmap · 8e0861fa
      Alexey Kardashevskiy 提交于
      The current VFIO-on-POWER implementation supports only user mode
      driven mapping, i.e. QEMU is sending requests to map/unmap pages.
      However this approach is really slow, so we want to move that to KVM.
      Since H_PUT_TCE can be extremely performance sensitive (especially with
      network adapters where each packet needs to be mapped/unmapped) we chose
      to implement that as a "fast" hypercall directly in "real
      mode" (processor still in the guest context but MMU off).
      
      To be able to do that, we need to provide some facilities to
      access the struct page count within that real mode environment as things
      like the sparsemem vmemmap mappings aren't accessible.
      
      This adds an API function realmode_pfn_to_page() to get page struct when
      MMU is off.
      
      This adds to MM a new function put_page_unless_one() which drops a page
      if counter is bigger than 1. It is going to be used when MMU is off
      (for example, real mode on PPC64) and we want to make sure that page
      release will not happen in real mode as it may crash the kernel in
      a horrible way.
      
      CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and CONFIG_FLATMEM are supported.
      
      Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      8e0861fa
  16. 09 10月, 2013 3 次提交
    • P
      sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults · 8c8a743c
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      While parallel applications tend to align their data on the cache
      boundary, they tend not to align on the page or THP boundary.
      Consequently tasks that partition their data can still "false-share"
      pages presenting a problem for optimal NUMA placement.
      
      This patch uses NUMA hinting faults to chain tasks together into
      numa_groups. As well as storing the NID a task was running on when
      accessing a page a truncated representation of the faulting PID is
      stored. If subsequent faults are from different PIDs it is reasonable
      to assume that those two tasks share a page and are candidates for
      being grouped together. Note that this patch makes no scheduling
      decisions based on the grouping information.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-44-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      8c8a743c
    • P
      mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} · 90572890
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Change the per page last fault tracking to use cpu,pid instead of
      nid,pid. This will allow us to try and lookup the alternate task more
      easily. Note that even though it is the cpu that is store in the page
      flags that the mpol_misplaced decision is still based on the node.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-43-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
      [ Fixed build failure on 32-bit systems. ]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      90572890
    • M
      sched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults · b795854b
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that
      are private to a task and those that are shared. If treated identically
      there is a risk that shared pages bounce between nodes depending on
      the order they are referenced by tasks. Ultimately what is desirable is
      that task private pages remain local to the task while shared pages are
      interleaved between sharing tasks running on different nodes to give good
      average performance. This is further complicated by THP as even
      applications that partition their data may not be partitioning on a huge
      page boundary.
      
      To start with, this patch assumes that multi-threaded or multi-process
      applications partition their data and that in general the private accesses
      are more important for cpu->memory locality in the general case. Also,
      no new infrastructure is required to treat private pages properly but
      interleaving for shared pages requires additional infrastructure.
      
      To detect private accesses the pid of the last accessing task is required
      but the storage requirements are a high. This patch borrows heavily from
      Ingo Molnar's patch "numa, mm, sched: Implement last-CPU+PID hash tracking"
      to encode some bits from the last accessing task in the page flags as
      well as the node information. Collisions will occur but it is better than
      just depending on the node information. Node information is then used to
      determine if a page needs to migrate. The PID information is used to detect
      private/shared accesses. The preferred NUMA node is selected based on where
      the maximum number of approximately private faults were measured. Shared
      faults are not taken into consideration for a few reasons.
      
      First, if there are many tasks sharing the page then they'll all move
      towards the same node. The node will be compute overloaded and then
      scheduled away later only to bounce back again. Alternatively the shared
      tasks would just bounce around nodes because the fault information is
      effectively noise. Either way accounting for shared faults the same as
      private faults can result in lower performance overall.
      
      The second reason is based on a hypothetical workload that has a small
      number of very important, heavily accessed private pages but a large shared
      array. The shared array would dominate the number of faults and be selected
      as a preferred node even though it's the wrong decision.
      
      The third reason is that multiple threads in a process will race each
      other to fault the shared page making the fault information unreliable.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      [ Fix complication error when !NUMA_BALANCING. ]
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-30-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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  17. 13 9月, 2013 1 次提交