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  1. 16 3月, 2016 1 次提交
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      mm/compaction: fix invalid free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn · 623446e4
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn are the pointer that remember
restart position of freepage scanner.  When they are reset or invalid,
we set them to zone_end_pfn because freepage scanner works in reverse
direction.  But, because zone range is defined as [zone_start_pfn,
zone_end_pfn), zone_end_pfn is invalid to access.  Therefore, we should
not store it to free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn.  Instead, we need
to store zone_end_pfn - 1 to them.  There is one more thing we should
consider.  Freepage scanner scan reversely by pageblock unit.  If
free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn are set to middle of pageblock, it
regards that sitiation as that it already scans front part of pageblock
so we lose opportunity to scan there.  To fix-up, this patch do
round_down() to guarantee that reset position will be pageblock aligned.

Note that thanks to the current pageblock_pfn_to_page() implementation,
actual access to zone_end_pfn doesn't happen until now.  But, following
patch will change pageblock_pfn_to_page() so this patch is needed from
now on.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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>
      623446e4
  3. 15 1月, 2016 2 次提交
  5. 06 11月, 2015 3 次提交
  7. 09 9月, 2015 6 次提交
    • J
      mm/compaction: correct to flush migrated pages if pageblock skip happens · 1a16718c
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      We cache isolate_start_pfn before entering isolate_migratepages().  If
pageblock is skipped in isolate_migratepages() due to whatever reason,
cc->migrate_pfn can be far from isolate_start_pfn hence we flush pages
that were freed.  For example, the following scenario can be possible:

- assume order-9 compaction, pageblock order is 9
- start_isolate_pfn is 0x200
- isolate_migratepages()
  - skip a number of pageblocks
  - start to isolate from pfn 0x600
  - cc->migrate_pfn = 0x620
  - return
- last_migrated_pfn is set to 0x200
- check flushing condition
  - current_block_start is set to 0x600
  - last_migrated_pfn < current_block_start then do useless flush

This wrong flush would not help the performance and success rate so this
patch tries to fix it.  One simple way to know the exact position where
we start to isolate migratable pages is that we cache it in
isolate_migratepages() before entering actual isolation.  This patch
implements that and fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1a16718c
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      mm, compaction: skip compound pages by order in free scanner · 9fcd6d2e
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      The compaction free scanner is looking for PageBuddy() pages and
skipping all others.  For large compound pages such as THP or hugetlbfs,
we can save a lot of iterations if we skip them at once using their
compound_order().  This is generally unsafe and we can read a bogus
value of order due to a race, but if we are careful, the only danger is
skipping too much.

When tested with stress-highalloc from mmtests on 4GB system with 1GB
hugetlbfs pages, the vmstat compact_free_scanned count decreased by at
least 15%.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik 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>
      9fcd6d2e
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      mm, compaction: always skip all compound pages by order in migrate scanner · 29c0dde8
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      The compaction migrate scanner tries to skip THP pages by their order,
to reduce number of iterations for pages it cannot isolate.  The check
is only done if PageLRU() is true, which means it applies to THP pages,
but not e.g.  hugetlbfs pages or any other non-LRU compound pages, which
we have to iterate by base pages.

This limitation comes from the assumption that it's only safe to read
compound_order() when we have the zone's lru_lock and THP cannot be
split under us.  But the only danger (after filtering out order values
that are not below MAX_ORDER, to prevent overflows) is that we skip too
much or too little after reading a bogus compound_order() due to a rare
race.  This is the same reasoning as patch 99c0fd5e ("mm,
compaction: skip buddy pages by their order in the migrate scanner")
introduced for unsafely reading PageBuddy() order.

After this patch, all pages are tested for PageCompound() and we skip
them by compound_order().  The test is done after the test for
balloon_page_movable() as we don't want to assume if balloon pages (or
other pages with own isolation and migration implementation if a generic
API gets implemented) are compound or not.

When tested with stress-highalloc from mmtests on 4GB system with 1GB
hugetlbfs pages, the vmstat compact_migrate_scanned count decreased by
15%.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: change PageTransHuge checks to PageCompound for different series was squashed here]
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik 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>
      29c0dde8
    • V
      mm, compaction: encapsulate resetting cached scanner positions · 02333641
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Reseting the cached compaction scanner positions is now open-coded in
__reset_isolation_suitable() and compact_finished().  Encapsulate the
functionality in a new function reset_cached_positions().
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik 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>
      02333641
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      mm, compaction: simplify handling restart position in free pages scanner · f5f61a32
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Handling the position where compaction free scanner should restart
(stored in cc->free_pfn) got more complex with commit e14c720e ("mm,
compaction: remember position within pageblock in free pages scanner").
Currently the position is updated in each loop iteration of
isolate_freepages(), although it should be enough to update it only when
breaking from the loop.  There's also an extra check outside the loop
updates the position in case we have met the migration scanner.

This can be simplified if we move the test for having isolated enough
from the for-loop header next to the test for contention, and
determining the restart position only in these cases.  We can reuse the
isolate_start_pfn variable for this instead of setting cc->free_pfn
directly.  Outside the loop, we can simply set cc->free_pfn to current
value of isolate_start_pfn without any extra check.

Also add a VM_BUG_ON to catch possible mistake in the future, in case we
later add a new condition that terminates isolate_freepages_block()
prematurely without also considering the condition in
isolate_freepages().
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik 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>
      f5f61a32
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      mm, compaction: more robust check for scanners meeting · f2849aa0
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Assorted compaction cleanups and optimizations.  The interesting patches
are 4 and 5.  In 4, skipping of compound pages in single iteration is
improved for migration scanner, so it works also for !PageLRU compound
pages such as hugetlbfs, slab etc.  Patch 5 introduces this kind of
skipping in the free scanner.  The trick is that we can read
compound_order() without any protection, if we are careful to filter out
values larger than MAX_ORDER.  The only danger is that we skip too much.
The same trick was already used for reading the freepage order in the
migrate scanner.

To demonstrate improvements of Patches 4 and 5 I've run stress-highalloc
from mmtests, set to simulate THP allocations (including __GFP_COMP) on
a 4GB system where 1GB was occupied by hugetlbfs pages.  I'll include
just the relevant stats:

                               Patch 3     Patch 4     Patch 5

Compaction stalls                 7523        7529        7515
Compaction success                 323         304         322
Compaction failures               7200        7224        7192
Page migrate success            247778      264395      240737
Page migrate failure             15358       33184       21621
Compaction pages isolated       906928      980192      909983
Compaction migrate scanned     2005277     1692805     1498800
Compaction free scanned       13255284    11539986     9011276
Compaction cost                    288         305         277

With 5 iterations per patch, the results are still noisy, but we can see
that Patch 4 does reduce migrate_scanned by 15% thanks to skipping the
hugetlbfs pages at once.  Interestingly, free_scanned is also reduced
and I have no idea why.  Patch 5 further reduces free_scanned as
expected, by 15%.  Other stats are unaffected modulo noise.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/19/158

This patch (of 5):

Compaction should finish when the migration and free scanner meet, i.e.
they reach the same pageblock.  Currently however, the test in
compact_finished() simply just compares the exact pfns, which may yield
a false negative when the free scanner position is in the middle of a
pageblock and the migration scanner reaches the begining of the same
pageblock.

This hasn't been a problem until commit e14c720e ("mm, compaction:
remember position within pageblock in free pages scanner") allowed the
free scanner position to be in the middle of a pageblock between
invocations.  The hot-fix 1d5bfe1f ("mm, compaction: prevent
infinite loop in compact_zone") prevented the issue by adding a special
check in the migration scanner to satisfy the current detection of
scanners meeting.

However, the proper fix is to make the detection more robust.  This
patch introduces the compact_scanners_met() function that returns true
when the free scanner position is in the same or lower pageblock than
the migration scanner.  The special case in isolate_migratepages()
introduced by 1d5bfe1f is removed.
Suggested-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-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>
      f2849aa0
  9. 16 4月, 2015 3 次提交
  11. 15 4月, 2015 1 次提交
    • J
      mm/compaction: enhance compaction finish condition · 2149cdae
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Compaction has anti fragmentation algorithm.  It is that freepage should
be more than pageblock order to finish the compaction if we don't find any
freepage in requested migratetype buddy list.  This is for mitigating
fragmentation, but, there is a lack of migratetype consideration and it is
too excessive compared to page allocator's anti fragmentation algorithm.

Not considering migratetype would cause premature finish of compaction.
For example, if allocation request is for unmovable migratetype, freepage
with CMA migratetype doesn't help that allocation and compaction should
not be stopped.  But, current logic regards this situation as compaction
is no longer needed, so finish the compaction.

Secondly, condition is too excessive compared to page allocator's logic.
We can steal freepage from other migratetype and change pageblock
migratetype on more relaxed conditions in page allocator.  This is
designed to prevent fragmentation and we can use it here.  Imposing hard
constraint only to the compaction doesn't help much in this case since
page allocator would cause fragmentation again.

To solve these problems, this patch borrows anti fragmentation logic from
page allocator.  It will reduce premature compaction finish in some cases
and reduce excessive compaction work.

stress-highalloc test in mmtests with non movable order 7 allocation shows
considerable increase of compaction success rate.

Compaction success rate (Compaction success * 100 / Compaction stalls, %)
31.82 : 42.20

I tested it on non-reboot 5 runs stress-highalloc benchmark and found that
there is no more degradation on allocation success rate than before.  That
roughly means that this patch doesn't result in more fragmentations.

Vlastimil suggests additional idea that we only test for fallbacks when
migration scanner has scanned a whole pageblock.  It looked good for
fragmentation because chance of stealing increase due to making more free
pages in certain pageblock.  So, I tested it, but, it results in decreased
compaction success rate, roughly 38.00.  I guess the reason that if system
is low memory condition, watermark check could be failed due to not enough
order 0 free page and so, sometimes, we can't reach a fallback check
although migrate_pfn is aligned to pageblock_nr_pages.  I can insert code
to cope with this situation but it makes code more complicated so I don't
include his idea at this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CMA=n build]
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2149cdae
  13. 14 2月, 2015 1 次提交
    • A
      mm: page_alloc: add kasan hooks on alloc and free paths · b8c73fc2
      由 Andrey Ryabinin 提交于 
      Add kernel address sanitizer hooks to mark allocated page's addresses as
accessible in corresponding shadow region.  Mark freed pages as
inaccessible.
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b8c73fc2
  15. 13 2月, 2015 3 次提交
    • H
      mm: fix negative nr_isolated counts · ff59909a
      由 Hugh Dickins 提交于 
      The vmstat interfaces are good at hiding negative counts (at least when
CONFIG_SMP); but if you peer behind the curtain, you find that
nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file soon go negative, and grow ever
more negative: so they can absorb larger and larger numbers of isolated
pages, yet still appear to be zero.

I'm happy to avoid a congestion_wait() when too_many_isolated() myself;
but I guess it's there for a good reason, in which case we ought to get
too_many_isolated() working again.

The imbalance comes from isolate_migratepages()'s ISOLATE_ABORT case:
putback_movable_pages() decrements the NR_ISOLATED counts, but we forgot
to call acct_isolated() to increment them.

It is possible that the bug whcih this patch fixes could cause OOM kills
when the system still has a lot of reclaimable page cache.

Fixes: edc2ca61 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.18+]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ff59909a
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      mm/compaction: stop the isolation when we isolate enough freepage · 932ff6bb
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Currently, freepage isolation in one pageblock doesn't consider how many
freepages we isolate. When I traced flow of compaction, compaction
sometimes isolates more than 256 freepages to migrate just 32 pages.

In this patch, freepage isolation is stopped at the point that we
have more isolated freepage than isolated page for migration. This
results in slowing down free page scanner and make compaction success
rate higher.

stress-highalloc test in mmtests with non movable order 7 allocation shows
increase of compaction success rate.

Compaction success rate (Compaction success * 100 / Compaction stalls, %)
27.13 : 31.82

pfn where both scanners meets on compaction complete
(separate test due to enormous tracepoint buffer)
(zone_start=4096, zone_end=1048576)
586034 : 654378

In fact, I didn't fully understand why this patch results in such good
result. There was a guess that not used freepages are released to pcp list
and on next compaction trial we won't isolate them again so compaction
success rate would decrease. To prevent this effect, I tested with adding
pcp drain code on release_freepages(), but, it has no good effect.

Anyway, this patch reduces waste time to isolate unneeded freepages so
seems reasonable.

Vlastimil said:

: I briefly tried it on top of the pivot-changing series and with order-9
: allocations it reduced free page scanned counter by almost 10%.  No effect
: on success rates (maybe because pivot changing already took care of the
: scanners meeting problem) but the scanning reduction is good on its own.
:
: It also explains why e14c720e ("mm, compaction: remember position
: within pageblock in free pages scanner") had less than expected
: improvements.  It would only actually stop within pageblock in case of
: async compaction detecting contention.  I guess that's also why the
: infinite loop problem fixed by 1d5bfe1f affected so relatively few
: people.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      932ff6bb
    • J
      mm/compaction: fix wrong order check in compact_finished() · 372549c2
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      What we want to check here is whether there is highorder freepage in buddy
list of other migratetype in order to steal it without fragmentation.
But, current code just checks cc->order which means allocation request
order.  So, this is wrong.

Without this fix, non-movable synchronous compaction below pageblock order
would not stopped until compaction is complete, because migratetype of
most pageblocks are movable and high order freepage made by compaction is
usually on movable type buddy list.

There is some report related to this bug. See below link.

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg81666.html

Although the issued system still has load spike comes from compaction,
this makes that system completely stable and responsive according to his
report.

stress-highalloc test in mmtests with non movable order 7 allocation
doesn't show any notable difference in allocation success rate, but, it
shows more compaction success rate.

Compaction success rate (Compaction success * 100 / Compaction stalls, %)
18.47 : 28.94

Fixes: 1fb3f8ca ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available")
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.7+]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      372549c2
  17. 12 2月, 2015 5 次提交
  19. 11 12月, 2014 5 次提交
    • V
      mm, compaction: more focused lru and pcplists draining · fdaf7f5c
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      The goal of memory compaction is to create high-order freepages through
page migration.  Page migration however puts pages on the per-cpu lru_add
cache, which is later flushed to per-cpu pcplists, and only after pcplists
are drained the pages can actually merge.  This can happen due to the
per-cpu caches becoming full through further freeing, or explicitly.

During direct compaction, it is useful to do the draining explicitly so
that pages merge as soon as possible and compaction can detect success
immediately and keep the latency impact at minimum.  However the current
implementation is far from ideal.  Draining is done only in
__alloc_pages_direct_compact(), after all zones were already compacted,
and the decisions to continue or stop compaction in individual zones was
done without the last batch of migrations being merged.  It is also
missing the draining of lru_add cache before the pcplists.

This patch moves the draining for direct compaction into compact_zone().
It adds the missing lru_cache draining and uses the newly introduced
single zone pcplists draining to reduce overhead and avoid impact on
unrelated zones.  Draining is only performed when it can actually lead to
merging of a page of desired order (passed by cc->order).  This means it
is only done when migration occurred in the previously scanned cc->order
aligned block(s) and the migration scanner is now pointing to the next
cc->order aligned block.

The patch has been tested with stress-highalloc benchmark from mmtests.
Although overal allocation success rates of the benchmark were not
affected, the number of detected compaction successes has doubled.  This
suggests that allocations were previously successful due to implicit
merging caused by background activity, making a later allocation attempt
succeed immediately, but not attributing the success to compaction.  Since
stress-highalloc always tries to allocate almost the whole memory, it
cannot show the improvement in its reported success rate metric.  However
after this patch, compaction should detect success and terminate earlier,
reducing the direct compaction latencies in a real scenario.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-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>
      fdaf7f5c
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      mm, compaction: always update cached scanner positions · 6bace090
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction caches the migration and free scanner positions between
compaction invocations, so that the whole zone gets eventually scanned and
there is no bias towards the initial scanner positions at the
beginning/end of the zone.

The cached positions are continuously updated as scanners progress and the
updating stops as soon as a page is successfully isolated.  The reasoning
behind this is that a pageblock where isolation succeeded is likely to
succeed again in near future and it should be worth revisiting it.

However, the downside is that potentially many pages are rescanned without
successful isolation.  At worst, there might be a page where isolation
from LRU succeeds but migration fails (potentially always).  So upon
encountering this page, cached position would always stop being updated
for no good reason.  It might have been useful to let such page be
rescanned with sync compaction after async one failed, but this is now
handled by caching scanner position for async and sync mode separately
since commit 35979ef3 ("mm, compaction: add per-zone migration pfn
cache for async compaction").

After this patch, cached positions are updated unconditionally.  In
stress-highalloc benchmark, this has decreased the numbers of scanned
pages by few percent, without affecting allocation success rates.

To prevent free scanner from leaving free pages behind after they are
returned due to page migration failure, the cached scanner pfn is changed
to point to the pageblock of the returned free page with the highest pfn,
before leaving compact_zone().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-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>
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      mm, compaction: defer only on COMPACT_COMPLETE · f8669795
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Deferred compaction is employed to avoid compacting zone where sync direct
compaction has recently failed.  As such, it makes sense to only defer
when a full zone was scanned, which is when compact_zone returns with
COMPACT_COMPLETE.  It's less useful to defer when compact_zone returns
with apparent success (COMPACT_PARTIAL), followed by a watermark check
failure, which can happen due to parallel allocation activity.  It also
does not make much sense to defer compaction which was completely skipped
(COMPACT_SKIP) for being unsuitable in the first place.

This patch therefore makes deferred compaction trigger only when
COMPACT_COMPLETE is returned from compact_zone().  Results of
stress-highalloc becnmark show the difference is within measurement error,
so the issue is rather cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-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>
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      mm, compaction: simplify deferred compaction · 97d47a65
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Since commit 53853e2d ("mm, compaction: defer each zone individually
instead of preferred zone"), compaction is deferred for each zone where
sync direct compaction fails, and reset where it succeeds.  However, it
was observed that for DMA zone compaction often appeared to succeed
while subsequent allocation attempt would not, due to different outcome
of watermark check.

In order to properly defer compaction in this zone, the candidate zone
has to be passed back to __alloc_pages_direct_compact() and compaction
deferred in the zone after the allocation attempt fails.

The large source of mismatch between watermark check in compaction and
allocation was the lack of alloc_flags and classzone_idx values in
compaction, which has been fixed in the previous patch.  So with this
problem fixed, we can simplify the code by removing the candidate_zone
parameter and deferring in __alloc_pages_direct_compact().

After this patch, the compaction activity during stress-highalloc
benchmark is still somewhat increased, but it's negligible compared to the
increase that occurred without the better watermark checking.  This
suggests that it is still possible to apparently succeed in compaction but
fail to allocate, possibly due to parallel allocation activity.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Suggested-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik 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>
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      mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking · ebff3980
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction relies on zone watermark checks for decisions such as if it's
worth to start compacting in compaction_suitable() or whether compaction
should stop in compact_finished().  The watermark checks take
classzone_idx and alloc_flags parameters, which are related to the memory
allocation request.  But from the context of compaction they are currently
passed as 0, including the direct compaction which is invoked to satisfy
the allocation request, and could therefore know the proper values.

The lack of proper values can lead to mismatch between decisions taken
during compaction and decisions related to the allocation request.  Lack
of proper classzone_idx value means that lowmem_reserve is not taken into
account.  This has manifested (during recent changes to deferred
compaction) when DMA zone was used as fallback for preferred Normal zone.
compaction_suitable() without proper classzone_idx would think that the
watermarks are already satisfied, but watermark check in
get_page_from_freelist() would fail.  Because of this problem, deferring
compaction has extra complexity that can be removed in the following
patch.

The issue (not confirmed in practice) with missing alloc_flags is opposite
in nature.  For allocations that include ALLOC_HIGH, ALLOC_HIGHER or
ALLOC_CMA in alloc_flags (the last includes all MOVABLE allocations on
CMA-enabled systems) the watermark checking in compaction with 0 passed
will be stricter than in get_page_from_freelist().  In these cases
compaction might be running for a longer time than is really needed.

Another issue compaction_suitable() is that the check for "does the zone
need compaction at all?" comes only after the check "does the zone have
enough free free pages to succeed compaction".  The latter considers extra
pages for migration and can therefore in some situations fail and return
COMPACT_SKIPPED, although the high-order allocation would succeed and we
should return COMPACT_PARTIAL.

This patch fixes these problems by adding alloc_flags and classzone_idx to
struct compact_control and related functions involved in direct compaction
and watermark checking.  Where possible, all other callers of
compaction_suitable() pass proper values where those are known.  This is
currently limited to classzone_idx, which is sometimes known in kswapd
context.  However, the direct reclaim callers should_continue_reclaim()
and compaction_ready() do not currently know the proper values, so the
coordination between reclaim and compaction may still not be as accurate
as it could.  This can be fixed later, if it's shown to be an issue.

Additionaly the checks in compact_suitable() are reordered to address the
second issue described above.

The effect of this patch should be slightly better high-order allocation
success rates and/or less compaction overhead, depending on the type of
allocations and presence of CMA.  It allows simplifying deferred
compaction code in a followup patch.

When testing with stress-highalloc, there was some slight improvement
(which might be just due to variance) in success rates of non-THP-like
allocations.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-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>
      ebff3980
  21. 14 11月, 2014 2 次提交
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      mm, compaction: prevent infinite loop in compact_zone · 1d5bfe1f
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Several people have reported occasionally seeing processes stuck in
compact_zone(), even triggering soft lockups, in 3.18-rc2+.

Testing a revert of commit e14c720e ("mm, compaction: remember
position within pageblock in free pages scanner") fixed the issue,
although the stuck processes do not appear to involve the free scanner.

Finally, by code inspection, the bug was found in isolate_migratepages()
which uses a slightly different condition to detect if the migration and
free scanners have met, than compact_finished().  That has not been a
problem until commit e14c720e allowed the free scanner position
between individual invocations to be in the middle of a pageblock.

In a relatively rare case, the migration scanner position can end up at
the beginning of a pageblock, with the free scanner position in the
middle of the same pageblock.  If it's the migration scanner's turn,
isolate_migratepages() exits immediately (without updating the
position), while compact_finished() decides to continue compaction,
resulting in a potentially infinite loop.  The system can recover only
if another process creates enough high-order pages to make the watermark
checks in compact_finished() pass.

This patch fixes the immediate problem by bumping the migration
scanner's position to meet the free scanner in isolate_migratepages(),
when both are within the same pageblock.  This causes compact_finished()
to terminate properly.  A more robust check in compact_finished() is
planned as a cleanup for better future maintainability.

Fixes: e14c720e ("mm, compaction: remember position within pageblock in free pages scanner)
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: NP. Christeas <xrg@linux.gr>
Tested-by: NP. Christeas <xrg@linux.gr>
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141508604232522&w=2Reported-by: NNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Tested-by: NNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/4/904Reported-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/7/164
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>
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      mm/compaction: skip the range until proper target pageblock is met · 58420016
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Commit 7d49d886 ("mm, compaction: reduce zone checking frequency in
the migration scanner") has a side-effect that changes the iteration
range calculation.  Before the change, block_end_pfn is calculated using
start_pfn, but now it blindly adds pageblock_nr_pages to the previous
value.

This causes the problem that isolation_start_pfn is larger than
block_end_pfn when we isolate the page with more than pageblock order.
In this case, isolation would fail due to an invalid range parameter.

To prevent this, this patch implements skipping the range until a proper
target pageblock is met.  Without this patch, CMA with more than
pageblock order always fails but with this patch it will succeed.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.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>
      58420016
  23. 30 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm/compaction.c: avoid premature range skip in isolate_migratepages_range · 6ea41c0c
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Commit edc2ca61 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from
isolate_migratepages_range()") commonizes isolate_migratepages variants
and make them use isolate_migratepages_block().

isolate_migratepages_block() could stop the execution when enough pages
are isolated, but, there is no code in isolate_migratepages_range() to
handle this case.  In the result, even if isolate_migratepages_block()
returns prematurely without checking all pages in the range,

isolate_migratepages_block() is called repeately on the following
pageblock and some pages in the previous range are skipped to check.
Then, CMA is failed frequently due to this fact.

To fix this problem, this patch let isolate_migratepages_range() know
the situation that enough pages are isolated and stop the isolation in
that case.

Note that isolate_migratepages() has no such problem, because, it always
stops the isolation after just one call of isolate_migratepages_block().
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6ea41c0c
  25. 10 10月, 2014 7 次提交