1. 06 3月, 2019 1 次提交
  2. 29 12月, 2018 3 次提交
  3. 07 11月, 2018 1 次提交
  4. 27 10月, 2018 2 次提交
  5. 21 10月, 2018 3 次提交
  6. 23 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  7. 09 7月, 2018 1 次提交
  8. 17 4月, 2018 1 次提交
  9. 06 4月, 2018 2 次提交
  10. 22 2月, 2018 1 次提交
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      mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs · 9c4e6b1a
      Shakeel Butt 提交于
      When a thread mlocks an address space backed either by file pages which
      are currently not present in memory or swapped out anon pages (not in
      swapcache), a new page is allocated and added to the local pagevec
      (lru_add_pvec), I/O is triggered and the thread then sleeps on the page.
      On I/O completion, the thread can wake on a different CPU, the mlock
      syscall will then sets the PageMlocked() bit of the page but will not be
      able to put that page in unevictable LRU as the page is on the pagevec
      of a different CPU.  Even on drain, that page will go to evictable LRU
      because the PageMlocked() bit is not checked on pagevec drain.
      
      The page will eventually go to right LRU on reclaim but the LRU stats
      will remain skewed for a long time.
      
      This patch puts all the pages, even unevictable, to the pagevecs and on
      the drain, the pages will be added on their LRUs correctly by checking
      their evictability.  This resolves the mlocked pages on pagevec of other
      CPUs issue because when those pagevecs will be drained, the mlocked file
      pages will go to unevictable LRU.  Also this makes the race with munlock
      easier to resolve because the pagevec drains happen in LRU lock.
      
      However there is still one place which makes a page evictable and does
      PageLRU check on that page without LRU lock and needs special attention.
      TestClearPageMlocked() and isolate_lru_page() in clear_page_mlock().
      
      	#0: __pagevec_lru_add_fn	#1: clear_page_mlock
      
      	SetPageLRU()			if (!TestClearPageMlocked())
      					  return
      	smp_mb() // <--required
      					// inside does PageLRU
      	if (!PageMlocked())		if (isolate_lru_page())
      	  move to evictable LRU		  putback_lru_page()
      	else
      	  move to unevictable LRU
      
      In '#1', TestClearPageMlocked() provides full memory barrier semantics
      and thus the PageLRU check (inside isolate_lru_page) can not be
      reordered before it.
      
      In '#0', without explicit memory barrier, the PageMlocked() check can be
      reordered before SetPageLRU().  If that happens, '#0' can put a page in
      unevictable LRU and '#1' might have just cleared the Mlocked bit of that
      page but fails to isolate as PageLRU fails as '#0' still hasn't set
      PageLRU bit of that page.  That page will be stranded on the unevictable
      LRU.
      
      There is one (good) side effect though.  Without this patch, the pages
      allocated for System V shared memory segment are added to evictable LRUs
      even after shmctl(SHM_LOCK) on that segment.  This patch will correctly
      put such pages to unevictable LRU.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121211241.18877-1-shakeelb@google.comSigned-off-by: NShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9c4e6b1a
  11. 01 2月, 2018 2 次提交
  12. 16 11月, 2017 5 次提交
  13. 03 11月, 2017 1 次提交
    • H
      mm, swap: fix race between swap count continuation operations · 2628bd6f
      Huang Ying 提交于
      One page may store a set of entries of the sis->swap_map
      (swap_info_struct->swap_map) in multiple swap clusters.
      
      If some of the entries has sis->swap_map[offset] > SWAP_MAP_MAX,
      multiple pages will be used to store the set of entries of the
      sis->swap_map.  And the pages are linked with page->lru.  This is called
      swap count continuation.  To access the pages which store the set of
      entries of the sis->swap_map simultaneously, previously, sis->lock is
      used.  But to improve the scalability of __swap_duplicate(), swap
      cluster lock may be used in swap_count_continued() now.  This may race
      with add_swap_count_continuation() which operates on a nearby swap
      cluster, in which the sis->swap_map entries are stored in the same page.
      
      The race can cause wrong swap count in practice, thus cause unfreeable
      swap entries or software lockup, etc.
      
      To fix the race, a new spin lock called cont_lock is added to struct
      swap_info_struct to protect the swap count continuation page list.  This
      is a lock at the swap device level, so the scalability isn't very well.
      But it is still much better than the original sis->lock, because it is
      only acquired/released when swap count continuation is used.  Which is
      considered rare in practice.  If it turns out that the scalability
      becomes an issue for some workloads, we can split the lock into some
      more fine grained locks.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017081320.28133-1-ying.huang@intel.com
      Fixes: 235b6217 ("mm/swap: add cluster lock")
      Signed-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.11+]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2628bd6f
  14. 02 11月, 2017 1 次提交
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      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      Reviewed-by: NKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  15. 09 9月, 2017 1 次提交
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      mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory · 5042db43
      Jérôme Glisse 提交于
      HMM (heterogeneous memory management) need struct page to support
      migration from system main memory to device memory.  Reasons for HMM and
      migration to device memory is explained with HMM core patch.
      
      This patch deals with device memory that is un-addressable memory (ie CPU
      can not access it).  Hence we do not want those struct page to be manage
      like regular memory.  That is why we extend ZONE_DEVICE to support
      different types of memory.
      
      A persistent memory type is define for existing user of ZONE_DEVICE and a
      new device un-addressable type is added for the un-addressable memory
      type.  There is a clear separation between what is expected from each
      memory type and existing user of ZONE_DEVICE are un-affected by new
      requirement and new use of the un-addressable type.  All specific code
      path are protect with test against the memory type.
      
      Because memory is un-addressable we use a new special swap type for when a
      page is migrated to device memory (this reduces the number of maximum swap
      file).
      
      The main two additions beside memory type to ZONE_DEVICE is two callbacks.
      First one, page_free() is call whenever page refcount reach 1 (which
      means the page is free as ZONE_DEVICE page never reach a refcount of 0).
      This allow device driver to manage its memory and associated struct page.
      
      The second callback page_fault() happens when there is a CPU access to an
      address that is back by a device page (which are un-addressable by the
      CPU).  This callback is responsible to migrate the page back to system
      main memory.  Device driver can not block migration back to system memory,
      HMM make sure that such page can not be pin into device memory.
      
      If device is in some error condition and can not migrate memory back then
      a CPU page fault to device memory should end with SIGBUS.
      
      [arnd@arndb.de: fix warning]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823133213.712917-1-arnd@arndb.de
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-8-jglisse@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NJérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaskakov@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Sherry Cheung <SCheung@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Subhash Gutti <sgutti@nvidia.com>
      Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
      Cc: Bob Liu <liubo95@huawei.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5042db43
  16. 07 9月, 2017 7 次提交
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      swap: choose swap device according to numa node · a2468cc9
      Aaron Lu 提交于
      If the system has more than one swap device and swap device has the node
      information, we can make use of this information to decide which swap
      device to use in get_swap_pages() to get better performance.
      
      The current code uses a priority based list, swap_avail_list, to decide
      which swap device to use and if multiple swap devices share the same
      priority, they are used round robin.  This patch changes the previous
      single global swap_avail_list into a per-numa-node list, i.e.  for each
      numa node, it sees its own priority based list of available swap
      devices.  Swap device's priority can be promoted on its matching node's
      swap_avail_list.
      
      The current swap device's priority is set as: user can set a >=0 value,
      or the system will pick one starting from -1 then downwards.  The
      priority value in the swap_avail_list is the negated value of the swap
      device's due to plist being sorted from low to high.  The new policy
      doesn't change the semantics for priority >=0 cases, the previous
      starting from -1 then downwards now becomes starting from -2 then
      downwards and -1 is reserved as the promoted value.
      
      Take 4-node EX machine as an example, suppose 4 swap devices are
      available, each sit on a different node:
      swapA on node 0
      swapB on node 1
      swapC on node 2
      swapD on node 3
      
      After they are all swapped on in the sequence of ABCD.
      
      Current behaviour:
      their priorities will be:
      swapA: -1
      swapB: -2
      swapC: -3
      swapD: -4
      And their position in the global swap_avail_list will be:
      swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4
      
      New behaviour:
      their priorities will be(note that -1 is skipped):
      swapA: -2
      swapB: -3
      swapC: -4
      swapD: -5
      And their positions in the 4 swap_avail_lists[nid] will be:
      swap_avail_lists[0]: /* node 0's available swap device list */
      swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:3     prio:4     prio:5
      swap_avali_lists[1]: /* node 1's available swap device list */
      swapB   -> swapA   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:4     prio:5
      swap_avail_lists[2]: /* node 2's available swap device list */
      swapC   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:5
      swap_avail_lists[3]: /* node 3's available swap device list */
      swapD   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4
      
      To see the effect of the patch, a test that starts N process, each mmap
      a region of anonymous memory and then continually write to it at random
      position to trigger both swap in and out is used.
      
      On a 2 node Skylake EP machine with 64GiB memory, two 170GB SSD drives
      are used as swap devices with each attached to a different node, the
      result is:
      
      runtime=30m/processes=32/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=4G
      kernel         throughput
      vanilla        13306
      auto-binding   15169 +14%
      
      runtime=30m/processes=64/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=2G
      kernel         throughput
      vanilla        11885
      auto-binding   14879 +25%
      
      [aaron.lu@intel.com: v2]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmalloc_array()]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.comSigned-off-by: NAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
      Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a2468cc9
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      mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap · 81a0298b
      Huang Ying 提交于
      VMA based swap readahead will readahead the virtual pages that is
      continuous in the virtual address space.  While the original swap
      readahead will readahead the swap slots that is continuous in the swap
      device.  Although VMA based swap readahead is more correct for the swap
      slots to be readahead, it will trigger more small random readings, which
      may cause the performance of HDD (hard disk) to degrade heavily, and may
      finally exceed the benefit.
      
      To avoid the issue, in this patch, if the HDD is used as swap, the VMA
      based swap readahead will be disabled, and the original swap readahead
      will be used instead.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-6-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      81a0298b
    • H
      mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead · ec560175
      Huang Ying 提交于
      The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in
      latency.  Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very
      popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered
      valid.
      
      In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in
      swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation.
      But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page
      reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual
      memory.  And the different tasks in the system may have different access
      patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation incorrect.
      
      In this patch, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the fault
      address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault swap
      slot in swap device.  This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap slots.
      At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on per-VMA from
      globally.  So that the different access patterns of the different VMAs
      could be distinguished, and the different readahead policy could be
      applied accordingly.  The original core readahead detection and scaling
      algorithm is reused, because it is an effect algorithm to detect the
      space locality.
      
      The test and result is as follow,
      
      Common test condition
      =====================
      
      Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM) Swap device:
      NVMe disk
      
      Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern
      ============================================
      
      vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G
      virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300
      seconds.  The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following
      rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out.
      
      At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in
      background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the
      random memory write until 300 seconds.  This will trigger random swap-in
      in the background.
      
      This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing
      at the same time.  The result (for sequential workload) is as follow,
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      throughput		345413 KB/s	414029 KB/s (+19.9%)
      latency.average		97.14 us	61.06 us (-37.1%)
      latency.50th		2 us		1 us
      latency.60th		2 us		1 us
      latency.70th		98 us		2 us
      latency.80th		160 us		2 us
      latency.90th		260 us		217 us
      latency.95th		346 us		369 us
      latency.99th		1.34 ms		1.09 ms
      ra_hit%			52.69%		99.98%
      
      The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background
      random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower.  The VMA-base
      readahead algorithm works much better.
      
      Linpack
      =======
      
      The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping.
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      elapsed_time		393.49 s	329.88 s (-16.2%)
      ra_hit%			86.21%		98.82%
      
      The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes.  But the
      elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized
      kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages.  And the absolute
      value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is
      still valid in some practical workloads.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-4-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ec560175
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      mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state · c41f012a
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1].
      It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it
      gets suggests.  We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename
      global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here.
      All existing users seems to be correct:
      
      $ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c
            2 NR_BOUNCE
            2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES
           11 NR_FREE_PAGES
            1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB
            1 NR_MLOCK
            2 NR_PAGETABLE
      
      This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.
      
      [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
      Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c41f012a
    • H
      mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out · 59807685
      Huang Ying 提交于
      After adding swapping out support for THP (Transparent Huge Page), it is
      possible that a THP in swap cache (partly swapped out) need to be split.
      To split such a THP, the swap cluster backing the THP need to be split
      too, that is, the CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE flag need to be cleared for the swap
      cluster.  The patch implemented this.
      
      And because the THP swap writing needs the THP keeps as huge page during
      writing.  The PageWriteback flag is checked before splitting.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-8-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@intel.com> [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
      Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      59807685
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      mm, THP, swap: make reuse_swap_page() works for THP swapped out · ba3c4ce6
      Huang Ying 提交于
      After supporting to delay THP (Transparent Huge Page) splitting after
      swapped out, it is possible that some page table mappings of the THP are
      turned into swap entries.  So reuse_swap_page() need to check the swap
      count in addition to the map count as before.  This patch done that.
      
      In the huge PMD write protect fault handler, in addition to the page map
      count, the swap count need to be checked too, so the page lock need to
      be acquired too when calling reuse_swap_page() in addition to the page
      table lock.
      
      [ying.huang@intel.com: silence a compiler warning]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnzizjy.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-4-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@intel.com> [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
      Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba3c4ce6
    • H
      mm, THP, swap: support to reclaim swap space for THP swapped out · e0709829
      Huang Ying 提交于
      The normal swap slot reclaiming can be done when the swap count reaches
      SWAP_HAS_CACHE.  But for the swap slot which is backing a THP, all swap
      slots backing one THP must be reclaimed together, because the swap slot
      may be used again when the THP is swapped out again later.  So the swap
      slots backing one THP can be reclaimed together when the swap count for
      all swap slots for the THP reached SWAP_HAS_CACHE.  In the patch, the
      functions to check whether the swap count for all swap slots backing one
      THP reached SWAP_HAS_CACHE are implemented and used when checking
      whether a swap slot can be reclaimed.
      
      To make it easier to determine whether a swap slot is backing a THP, a
      new swap cluster flag named CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE is added to mark a swap
      cluster which is backing a THP (Transparent Huge Page).  Because THP
      swap in as a whole isn't supported now.  After deleting the THP from the
      swap cache (for example, swapping out finished), the CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE
      flag will be cleared.  So that, the normal pages inside THP can be
      swapped in individually.
      
      [ying.huang@intel.com: fix swap_page_trans_huge_swapped on HDD]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/874ltsm0bi.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-3-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@intel.com> [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
      Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
      Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e0709829
  17. 11 7月, 2017 2 次提交
    • T
      mm: swap: provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() · a47fed5b
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The rework of the cpu hotplug locking unearthed potential deadlocks with
      the memory hotplug locking code.
      
      The solution for these is to rework the memory hotplug locking code as
      well and take the cpu hotplug lock before the memory hotplug lock in
      mem_hotplug_begin(), but this will cause a recursive locking of the cpu
      hotplug lock when the memory hotplug code calls lru_add_drain_all().
      
      Split out the inner workings of lru_add_drain_all() into
      lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() so this function can be invoked from the
      memory hotplug code with the cpu hotplug lock held.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170704093421.419329357@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reported-by: NAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a47fed5b
    • S
      swap: add block io poll in swapin path · 23955622
      Shaohua Li 提交于
      For fast flash disk, async IO could introduce overhead because of
      context switch.  block-mq now supports IO poll, which improves
      performance and latency a lot.  swapin is a good place to use this
      technique, because the task is waiting for the swapin page to continue
      execution.
      
      In my virtual machine, directly read 4k data from a NVMe with iopoll is
      about 60% better than that without poll.  With iopoll support in swapin
      patch, my microbenchmark (a task does random memory write) is about
      10%~25% faster.  CPU utilization increases a lot though, 2x and even 3x
      CPU utilization.  This will depend on disk speed.
      
      While iopoll in swapin isn't intended for all usage cases, it's a win
      for latency sensistive workloads with high speed swap disk.  block layer
      has knob to control poll in runtime.  If poll isn't enabled in block
      layer, there should be no noticeable change in swapin.
      
      I got a chance to run the same test in a NVMe with DRAM as the media.
      In simple fio IO test, blkpoll boosts 50% performance in single thread
      test and ~20% in 8 threads test.  So this is the base line.  In above
      swap test, blkpoll boosts ~27% performance in single thread test.
      blkpoll uses 2x CPU time though.
      
      If we enable hybid polling, the performance gain has very slight drop
      but CPU time is only 50% worse than that without blkpoll.  Also we can
      adjust parameter of hybid poll, with it, the CPU time penality is
      reduced further.  In 8 threads test, blkpoll doesn't help though.  The
      performance is similar to that without blkpoll, but cpu utilization is
      similar too.  There is lock contention in swap path.  The cpu time
      spending on blkpoll isn't high.  So overall, blkpoll swapin isn't worse
      than that without it.
      
      The swapin readahead might read several pages in in the same time and
      form a big IO request.  Since the IO will take longer time, it doesn't
      make sense to do poll, so the patch only does iopoll for single page
      swapin.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/070c3c3e40b711e7b1390002c991e86a-b5408f0@7511894063d3764ff01ea8111f5a004d7dd700ed078797c204a24e620ddb965cSigned-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.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>
      23955622
  18. 07 7月, 2017 3 次提交
    • M
      mm, THP, swap: move anonymous THP split logic to vmscan · 0f074658
      Minchan Kim 提交于
      The add_to_swap aims to allocate swap_space(ie, swap slot and swapcache)
      so if it fails due to lack of space in case of THP or something(hdd swap
      but tries THP swapout) *caller* rather than add_to_swap itself should
      split the THP page and retry it with base page which is more natural.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-4-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0f074658
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      mm, THP, swap: unify swap slot free functions to put_swap_page · 75f6d6d2
      Minchan Kim 提交于
      Now, get_swap_page takes struct page and allocates swap space according
      to page size(ie, normal or THP) so it would be more cleaner to introduce
      put_swap_page which is a counter function of get_swap_page.  Then, it
      calls right swap slot free function depending on page's size.
      
      [ying.huang@intel.com: minor cleanup and fix]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-3-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      75f6d6d2
    • H
      mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out · 38d8b4e6
      Huang Ying 提交于
      Patch series "THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out", v11.
      
      This patchset is to optimize the performance of Transparent Huge Page
      (THP) swap.
      
      Recently, the performance of the storage devices improved so fast that
      we cannot saturate the disk bandwidth with single logical CPU when do
      page swap out even on a high-end server machine.  Because the
      performance of the storage device improved faster than that of single
      logical CPU.  And it seems that the trend will not change in the near
      future.  On the other hand, the THP becomes more and more popular
      because of increased memory size.  So it becomes necessary to optimize
      THP swap performance.
      
      The advantages of the THP swap support include:
      
       - Batch the swap operations for the THP to reduce lock
         acquiring/releasing, including allocating/freeing the swap space,
         adding/deleting to/from the swap cache, and writing/reading the swap
         space, etc. This will help improve the performance of the THP swap.
      
       - The THP swap space read/write will be 2M sequential IO. It is
         particularly helpful for the swap read, which are usually 4k random
         IO. This will improve the performance of the THP swap too.
      
       - It will help the memory fragmentation, especially when the THP is
         heavily used by the applications. The 2M continuous pages will be
         free up after THP swapping out.
      
       - It will improve the THP utilization on the system with the swap
         turned on. Because the speed for khugepaged to collapse the normal
         pages into the THP is quite slow. After the THP is split during the
         swapping out, it will take quite long time for the normal pages to
         collapse back into the THP after being swapped in. The high THP
         utilization helps the efficiency of the page based memory management
         too.
      
      There are some concerns regarding THP swap in, mainly because possible
      enlarged read/write IO size (for swap in/out) may put more overhead on
      the storage device.  To deal with that, the THP swap in should be turned
      on only when necessary.  For example, it can be selected via
      "always/never/madvise" logic, to be turned on globally, turned off
      globally, or turned on only for VMA with MADV_HUGEPAGE, etc.
      
      This patchset is the first step for the THP swap support.  The plan is
      to delay splitting THP step by step, finally avoid splitting THP during
      the THP swapping out and swap out/in the THP as a whole.
      
      As the first step, in this patchset, the splitting huge page is delayed
      from almost the first step of swapping out to after allocating the swap
      space for the THP and adding the THP into the swap cache.  This will
      reduce lock acquiring/releasing for the locks used for the swap cache
      management.
      
      With the patchset, the swap out throughput improves 15.5% (from about
      3.73GB/s to about 4.31GB/s) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case
      with 8 processes.  The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system.  The swap
      device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device.  To test
      the sequential swapping out, the test case creates 8 processes, which
      sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until the RAM and
      part of the swap device is used up.
      
      This patch (of 5):
      
      In this patch, splitting huge page is delayed from almost the first step
      of swapping out to after allocating the swap space for the THP
      (Transparent Huge Page) and adding the THP into the swap cache.  This
      will batch the corresponding operation, thus improve THP swap out
      throughput.
      
      This is the first step for the THP swap optimization.  The plan is to
      delay splitting the THP step by step and avoid splitting the THP
      finally.
      
      In this patch, one swap cluster is used to hold the contents of each THP
      swapped out.  So, the size of the swap cluster is changed to that of the
      THP (Transparent Huge Page) on x86_64 architecture (512).  For other
      architectures which want such THP swap optimization,
      ARCH_USES_THP_SWAP_CLUSTER needs to be selected in the Kconfig file for
      the architecture.  In effect, this will enlarge swap cluster size by 2
      times on x86_64.  Which may make it harder to find a free cluster when
      the swap space becomes fragmented.  So that, this may reduce the
      continuous swap space allocation and sequential write in theory.  The
      performance test in 0day shows no regressions caused by this.
      
      In the future of THP swap optimization, some information of the swapped
      out THP (such as compound map count) will be recorded in the
      swap_cluster_info data structure.
      
      The mem cgroup swap accounting functions are enhanced to support charge
      or uncharge a swap cluster backing a THP as a whole.
      
      The swap cluster allocate/free functions are added to allocate/free a
      swap cluster for a THP.  A fair simple algorithm is used for swap
      cluster allocation, that is, only the first swap device in priority list
      will be tried to allocate the swap cluster.  The function will fail if
      the trying is not successful, and the caller will fallback to allocate a
      single swap slot instead.  This works good enough for normal cases.  If
      the difference of the number of the free swap clusters among multiple
      swap devices is significant, it is possible that some THPs are split
      earlier than necessary.  For example, this could be caused by big size
      difference among multiple swap devices.
      
      The swap cache functions is enhanced to support add/delete THP to/from
      the swap cache as a set of (HPAGE_PMD_NR) sub-pages.  This may be
      enhanced in the future with multi-order radix tree.  But because we will
      split the THP soon during swapping out, that optimization doesn't make
      much sense for this first step.
      
      The THP splitting functions are enhanced to support to split THP in swap
      cache during swapping out.  The page lock will be held during allocating
      the swap cluster, adding the THP into the swap cache and splitting the
      THP.  So in the code path other than swapping out, if the THP need to be
      split, the PageSwapCache(THP) will be always false.
      
      The swap cluster is only available for SSD, so the THP swap optimization
      in this patchset has no effect for HDD.
      
      [ying.huang@intel.com: fix two issues in THP optimize patch]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k25ed8zo.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
      [hannes@cmpxchg.org: extensive cleanups and simplifications, reduce code size]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-2-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [for config option]
      Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> [for changes in huge_memory.c and huge_mm.h]
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@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>
      38d8b4e6
  19. 04 5月, 2017 2 次提交