1. 28 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 27 10月, 2010 1 次提交
    • Y
      oom: add per-mm oom disable count · 3d5992d2
      Ying Han 提交于
      It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
      killed to allow future memory freeing.  A subsequent patch will prevent
      kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
      that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
      additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
      function.
      
      This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
      many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
      They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
      oom conditions.
      
      This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
      does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
      operation is atomic.
      
      [rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
      [rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
      [rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
      Signed-off-by: NYing Han <yinghan@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
      3d5992d2
  3. 23 9月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 21 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  5. 18 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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      fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock · 2a4419b5
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
      
      struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
      pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
      typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
      Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
      dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
      real parallelism increase.
      
      Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
      path lookup fastpath.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      2a4419b5
  6. 10 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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      oom: badness heuristic rewrite · a63d83f4
      David Rientjes 提交于
      This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
      used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
      make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
      understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
      memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.
      
      Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
      rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
      amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
      and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
      GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
      hogging task.
      
      The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
      currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
      memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
      unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
      attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
      proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
      roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
      consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
      space.
      
      The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
      not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
      operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
      machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
      nodes or mems, respectively.
      
      Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
      provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
      memory, it is generally better to save root's task.
      
      Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
      necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
      to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
      ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
      /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
      be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
      considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
      is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
      example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
      other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
      or sharing the same memory controller.
      
      /proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
      units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
      these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
      equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
      a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
      /proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
      so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
      be deprecated for future removal.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a63d83f4
  7. 09 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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      sched: add hooks for workqueue · 21aa9af0
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to
      sleep and waking up.  Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the
      current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's
      too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes
      too low.
      
      This patch introduces PF_WQ_WORKER to identify workqueue workers and
      adds the following two hooks.
      
      * wq_worker_waking_up(): called when a worker is woken up.
      
      * wq_worker_sleeping(): called when a worker is going to sleep and may
        return a pointer to a local task which should be woken up.  The
        returned task is woken up using try_to_wake_up_local() which is
        simplified ttwu which is called under rq lock and can only wake up
        local tasks.
      
      Both hooks are currently defined as noop in kernel/workqueue_sched.h.
      Later cmwq implementation will replace them with proper
      implementation.
      
      These hooks are hard coded as they'll always be enabled.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      21aa9af0
  8. 31 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  9. 28 5月, 2010 8 次提交
  10. 12 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits · 34441427
      Robin Holt 提交于
      Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
      threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
      threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
      stack.
      
      Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
      applied to fix the NO_MMU case.
      
      Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
      64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.
      
      Commit 9ebd4eba ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel
      threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
      userland stack address.
      
      Commit 1306d603 ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
      information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
      being used to solve a significant performance regression.
      
      This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.
      
      The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
      field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
      value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
      start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
      it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
      space a thread has.
      
      Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
      gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
      stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.
      
      I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
      on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
      mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
      configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
      I decided to not change mm/Makefile.
      
      I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
      information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
      place as that seemed worthwhile.
      Signed-off-by: NRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
      Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      34441427
  11. 07 4月, 2010 1 次提交
  12. 26 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code · faa4602e
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
      v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
      as Linus noticed it not so long ago.
      
      It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
      regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
      needed for perf either.
      
      Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
      was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
      much simpler approach.
      
      So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
      APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.
      Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      faa4602e
  13. 13 3月, 2010 2 次提交
  14. 07 3月, 2010 3 次提交
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      kernel core: use helpers for rlimits · 78d7d407
      Jiri Slaby 提交于
      Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits.  E.g.  fetching them
      twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented.
      
      I.e.  either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716 ("resource:
      add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable.
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      78d7d407
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      mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue · 5beb4930
      Rik van Riel 提交于
      The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
      workloads.  Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
      process and all its child processes.
      
      In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
      pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
      anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
      of the 1000 processes.  However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
      all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.
      
      This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
      1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
      the anon_vma lock.  This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
      like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
      thousands.  Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
      than AIM7, but they are catching up.
      
      This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
      to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA.  At fork time, each child
      process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
      instantiated.  The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
      non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.
      
      This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
      child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
       This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
      O(N) to 2.
      
      The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
      VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations.  This means vma_adjust
      can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures.  This in
      turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.
      
      A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
      anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
      "the" anon_vma lock.  To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
      incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag.  This bit
      flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
      to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
      values for the same bitflag.
      
      Some test results:
      
      Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
      box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
      >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
      pageout code.
      
      With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
      This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
      system time.  The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5beb4930
    • K
      mm: clean up mm_counter · d559db08
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h
      
      This patch modifies it to
        - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions
        - use array instead of macro's name creation.
      
      This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify
      implementation of per-mm counter.
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.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>
      d559db08
  15. 04 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  16. 25 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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      sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference() · d11c563d
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new
      lockdep-based checking.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
      Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
      Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
      Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
      Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
      Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
      Cc: peterz@infradead.org
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
      Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      [ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d11c563d
  17. 22 1月, 2010 1 次提交
    • P
      sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces · fabf318e
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      There are a number of issues:
      
      1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)
      
      copy_process():
      
        sched_fork()
          child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
        if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
           ns_cgroup_clone()
             cgroup_clone()
               mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
               mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
               cgroup_attach_task()
      	   ss->can_attach()
                 ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
                   cpuset_attach_task()
                     set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                       while (child->state == TASK_WAKING)
                         cpu_relax();
      will deadlock the system.
      
      
      2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process
      
      So even if the above would work we still have:
      
      copy_process():
      
        if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
           ns_cgroup_clone()
             cgroup_clone()
               mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
               mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
               cgroup_attach_task()
      	   ss->can_attach()
                 ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
                   cpuset_attach_task()
                     set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
        ...
      
        p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed
      
      over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.
      
      
      3) fork() vs hotplug
      
        if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
        gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
        will meet with fan.
      
      Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
      wake_up_new_task().
      Reported-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      fabf318e
  18. 18 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct->children list · 9cd80bbb
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues.
      
      Currently we add sub-threads to ->real_parent->children list.  This buys
      nothing but slows down do_wait().
      
      With this patch ->children contains only main threads (group leaders).
      The only complication is that forget_original_parent() should iterate over
      sub-threads by hand, and de_thread() needs another list_replace() when it
      changes ->group_leader.
      
      Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() && !EXIT_DEAD
      tasks, we can remove this check (and we can unify do_wait_thread() and
      ptrace_do_wait()).
      
      This change can confuse the optimistic search in mm_update_next_owner(),
      but this is fixable and minor.
      
      Perhaps badness() and oom_kill_process() should be updated, but they
      should be fixed in any case.
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
      Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@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>
      9cd80bbb
  19. 16 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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      ptrace: copy_process() should disable stepping · 6580807d
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child
      starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent.
      This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in
      this case it is killed by SIGTRAP.
      
      Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86.
      
      Test-case:
      
      	#include <stdio.h>
      	#include <unistd.h>
      	#include <signal.h>
      	#include <sys/ptrace.h>
      	#include <sys/wait.h>
      	#include <assert.h>
      
      	int main(void)
      	{
      		int pid, status;
      
      		if (!(pid = fork())) {
      			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0);
      			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
      
      			if (!fork()) {
      				/* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */
      				printf("Hello world\n");
      				return 43;
      			}
      
      			wait(&status);
      			return WEXITSTATUS(status);
      		}
      
      		for (;;) {
      			assert(pid == wait(&status));
      			if (WIFEXITED(status))
      				break;
      			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0);
      		}
      
      		assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43);
      		return 0;
      	}
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6580807d
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      memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate · 569b846d
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance
      bottleneck.  One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing
      calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one.
      
      Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic,
      	- charge is done one by one via demand-paging.
      	- uncharge is done by
      		- in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve...
      		- one by one via vmscan/paging.
      
      It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability
      at unmap/truncation.
      
      This patch is a for coalescing uncharge.  For avoiding scattering memcg's
      structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge
      information to the task.  A reason for per-task batching is for making use
      of caller's context information.  We do batched uncharge (deleyed
      uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when
      uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c).
      
      The degree of coalescing depends on callers
        - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size
        - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE
      (memory itself will be freed in this degree.)
      Then, we'll not coalescing too much.
      
      On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
      running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
      a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
      in 60secs.
      
      [without memcg config]
        40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
        27.67 cache-miss/faults
      [root cgroup]
        36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
        31.58 miss/faults
      [in a child cgroup]
        18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
        69.96 miss/faults
      [child with this patch]
        27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
        47.16 miss/faults
      
      We can see some amounts of improvement.
      (root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch)
      Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more.
      
      Changelog(since 2009/10/02):
       - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes)
       - some clean up and commentary/description updates.
       - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix)
      
      Changelog(old):
       - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case.
       - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches.
       - unified patch for callers
       - added commetns.
       - make ->do_batch as bool.
       - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it.
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      569b846d
  20. 15 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  21. 04 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  22. 03 12月, 2009 2 次提交
    • H
      sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times() · 0cf55e1e
      Hidetoshi Seto 提交于
      This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing
      described in the thread:
      
         http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522
      
      Now cputime is accounted in the following way:
      
       - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread
         is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt).
      
       - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time,
         after adjusted by task_times().
      
       - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time
         (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time
         in signal struct of the group's parent.
      
      So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while
      {u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values.
      
      And accounted values are used by:
      
       - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread:
         This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw
         {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS.
      
       - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group:
         This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in
         the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of
         adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group.
      
      The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(),
      because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value:
      
        group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time)
      
      This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity.
      Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater
      than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times
      but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g.
      -5ms).
      
      To fix this, we could do:
      
        group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time)
      
      But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for
      every thread should be avoided.
      
      This patch fixes the above problem in the following way:
      
       - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times().
         It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead
         of adjusted values.  As the result it makes thread_group_cputime()
         to return pure sum of "raw" values.
      
       - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime)
         that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted"
         values, in same calculation procedure as task_times().
      
       - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced
         thread_group_times().  It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to
         have adjusted values like before this patch.
      
       - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times().
         This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted"
         cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it.
         (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.)
      
      This patch have a positive side effect:
      
       - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads
         (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's
         cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated
         after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime),
           {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0.
         After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is
         applied after accumulated.
      
      v2:
       - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct.
      Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
      Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0cf55e1e
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      sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times() · d99ca3b9
      Hidetoshi Seto 提交于
      - Remove if({u,s}t)s because no one call it with NULL now.
      - Use cputime_{add,sub}().
      - Add ifndef-endif for prev_{u,s}time since they are used
        only when !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.
      Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
      Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4B1624C7.7040302@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d99ca3b9
  23. 30 11月, 2009 1 次提交
    • A
      core: Fix user return notifier on fork() · 8e7cac79
      Avi Kivity 提交于
      fork() clones all thread_info flags, including
      TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY; if the new task is first scheduled on a cpu
      which doesn't have user return notifiers set, this causes user
      return notifiers to trigger without any way of clearing itself.
      
      This is easy to trigger with a forky workload on the host in
      parallel with kvm, resulting in a cpu in an endless loop on the
      verge of returning to userspace.
      
      Fix by dropping the TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY immediately after fork.
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1259505288-16559-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8e7cac79
  24. 03 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unplugged · 1d510750
      Ian Campbell 提交于
      nr_processes() returns the sum of the per cpu counter process_counts for
      all online CPUs. This counter is incremented for the current CPU on
      fork() and decremented for the current CPU on exit(). Since a process
      does not necessarily fork and exit on the same CPU the process_count for
      an individual CPU can be either positive or negative and effectively has
      no meaning in isolation.
      
      Therefore calculating the sum of process_counts over only the online
      CPUs omits the processes which were started or stopped on any CPU which
      has since been unplugged. Only the sum of process_counts across all
      possible CPUs has meaning.
      
      The only caller of nr_processes() is proc_root_getattr() which
      calculates the number of links to /proc as
              stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes();
      
      You don't have to be all that unlucky for the nr_processes() to return a
      negative value leading to a negative number of links (or rather, an
      apparently enormous number of links). If this happens then you can get
      failures where things like "ls /proc" start to fail because they got an
      -EOVERFLOW from some stat() call.
      
      Example with some debugging inserted to show what goes on:
              # ps haux|wc -l
              nr_processes: CPU0:     90
              nr_processes: CPU1:     1030
              nr_processes: CPU2:     -900
              nr_processes: CPU3:     -136
              nr_processes: TOTAL:    84
              proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() 84 = 96
              84
              # echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
              # ps haux|wc -l
              nr_processes: CPU0:     85
              nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
              nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
              nr_processes: TOTAL:    -953
              proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -953 = -941
              75
              # stat /proc/
              nr_processes: CPU0:     84
              nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
              nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
              nr_processes: TOTAL:    -954
              proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -954 = -942
                File: `/proc/'
                Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
              Device: 3h/3d   Inode: 1           Links: 4294966354
              Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
              Access: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
              Modify: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
              Change: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
      
      I'm not 100% convinced that the per_cpu regions remain valid for offline
      CPUs, although my testing suggests that they do. If not then I think the
      correct solution would be to aggregate the process_count for a given CPU
      into a global base value in cpu_down().
      
      This bug appears to pre-date the transition to git and it looks like it
      may even have been present in linux-2.6.0-test7-bk3 since it looks like
      the code Rusty patched in http://lwn.net/Articles/64773/ was already
      wrong.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1d510750
  25. 06 10月, 2009 2 次提交
  26. 24 9月, 2009 2 次提交