1. 14 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared · 64e45507
      Peter Feiner 提交于
      For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
      have their write bit set.  If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
      cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
      writes.
      
      Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:
      
        char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                       MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
        system("echo 4 > /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
        assert(*m == '\0');     /* new PTE allows write access */
        assert(!soft_dirty(x));
        *m = 'x';               /* should dirty the page */
        assert(soft_dirty(x));  /* fails */
      
      With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
      cleared.  Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
      are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.
      
      As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
      care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
      drivers were zapped on mprotect.  An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
      commit c9d0bf24 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
      Reported-by: NPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
      Suggested-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      64e45507
  2. 10 10月, 2014 15 次提交
  3. 26 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm: softdirty: addresses before VMAs in PTE holes aren't softdirty · 87e6d49a
      Peter Feiner 提交于
      In PTE holes that contain VM_SOFTDIRTY VMAs, unmapped addresses before
      VM_SOFTDIRTY VMAs are reported as softdirty by /proc/pid/pagemap.  This
      bug was introduced in commit 68b5a652 ("mm: softdirty: respect
      VM_SOFTDIRTY in PTE holes").  That commit made /proc/pid/pagemap look at
      VM_SOFTDIRTY in PTE holes but neglected to observe the start of VMAs
      returned by find_vma.
      
      Tested:
        Wrote a selftest that creates a PMD-sized VMA then unmaps the first
        page and asserts that the page is not softdirty. I'm going to send the
        pagemap selftest in a later commit.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
      Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
      Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      87e6d49a
  4. 07 8月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm: softdirty: respect VM_SOFTDIRTY in PTE holes · 68b5a652
      Peter Feiner 提交于
      After a VMA is created with the VM_SOFTDIRTY flag set, /proc/pid/pagemap
      should report that the VMA's virtual pages are soft-dirty until
      VM_SOFTDIRTY is cleared (i.e., by the next write of "4" to
      /proc/pid/clear_refs).  However, pagemap ignores the VM_SOFTDIRTY flag
      for virtual addresses that fall in PTE holes (i.e., virtual addresses
      that don't have a PMD, PUD, or PGD allocated yet).
      
      To observe this bug, use mmap to create a VMA large enough such that
      there's a good chance that the VMA will occupy an unused PMD, then test
      the soft-dirty bit on its pages.  In practice, I found that a VMA that
      covered a PMD's worth of address space was big enough.
      
      This patch adds the necessary VMA lookup to the PTE hole callback in
      /proc/pid/pagemap's page walk and sets soft-dirty according to the VMAs'
      VM_SOFTDIRTY flag.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
      Acked-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Acked-by: NNaoya 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>
      68b5a652
  5. 07 6月, 2014 2 次提交
  6. 05 6月, 2014 1 次提交
  7. 21 5月, 2014 1 次提交
  8. 08 4月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm: per-thread vma caching · 615d6e87
      Davidlohr Bueso 提交于
      This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
      avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
      The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
      largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
      thus further comparison with other approaches were needed.  There are
      two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
      the latency of find_vma().  Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
      translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
      caching schemes can be too high to consider.
      
      We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
      provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
      up to 250%, for workloads with good locality.  On the other hand, this
      simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
      Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
      running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
      below 1%.
      
      The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
      cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
      Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
      number.  The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
      number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
      flushed.  Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
      page number that contains the virtual address in question.  Concretely,
      the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:
      
      1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
         scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
         the cache.
      
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | baseline       | 50.61%   | 19.90            |
      | patched        | 73.45%   | 13.58            |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      
      2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
         approach as we're dealing with good locality.
      
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | baseline       | 75.28%   | 11.03            |
      | patched        | 88.09%   | 9.31             |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      
      3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.
      
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | baseline       | 70.66%   | 17.14            |
      | patched        | 91.15%   | 12.57            |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      
      4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
         approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
         about non-existent.  The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
         anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
         reduces it considerably.  For instance, with 80 threads:
      
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      | baseline       | 1.06%    | 91.54            |
      | patched        | 99.97%   | 14.18            |
      +----------------+----------+------------------+
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
      [hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
      Signed-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      615d6e87
  9. 15 11月, 2013 3 次提交
  10. 13 11月, 2013 2 次提交
  11. 17 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  12. 12 9月, 2013 2 次提交
  13. 14 8月, 2013 3 次提交
  14. 04 7月, 2013 5 次提交
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      pagemap: prepare to reuse constant bits with page-shift · 541c237c
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      In order to reuse bits from pagemap entries gracefully, we leave the
      entries as is but on pagemap open emit a warning in dmesg, that bits
      55-60 are about to change in a couple of releases.  Next, if a user
      issues soft-dirty clear command via the clear_refs file (it was disabled
      before v3.9) we assume that he's aware of the new pagemap format, note
      that fact and report the bits in pagemap in the new manner.
      
      The "migration strategy" looks like this then:
      
      1. existing users are not affected -- they don't touch soft-dirty feature, thus
         see old bits in pagemap, but are warned and have time to fix themselves
      2. those who use soft-dirty know about new pagemap format
      3. some time soon we get rid of any signs of page-shift in pagemap as well as
         this trick with clear-soft-dirty affecting pagemap format.
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      541c237c
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      mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking · 0f8975ec
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
      writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should
      
        1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
        2. Wait some time.
        3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)
      
      To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
      soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
      page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
      soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.
      
      Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
      the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
      fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
      and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
      writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.
      
      Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
      with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
      the virtual memory at mremap's new address.
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0f8975ec
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      pagemap: introduce pagemap_entry_t without pmshift bits · 2b0a9f01
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      These bits are always constant (== PAGE_SHIFT) and just occupy space in
      the entry.  Moreover, in next patch we will need to report one more bit
      in the pagemap, but all bits are already busy on it.
      
      That said, describe the pagemap entry that has 6 more free zero bits.
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2b0a9f01
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      clear_refs: introduce private struct for mm_walk · af9de7eb
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      In the next patch the clear-refs-type will be required in
      clear_refs_pte_range funciton, so prepare the walk->private to carry
      this info.
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      af9de7eb
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      clear_refs: sanitize accepted commands declaration · 040fa020
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      This is the implementation of the soft-dirty bit concept that should
      help keep track of changes in user memory, which in turn is very-very
      required by the checkpoint-restore project (http://criu.org).
      
      To create a dump of an application(s) we save all the information about
      it to files, and the biggest part of such dump is the contents of tasks'
      memory.  However, there are usage scenarios where it's not required to
      get _all_ the task memory while creating a dump.  For example, when
      doing periodical dumps, it's only required to take full memory dump only
      at the first step and then take incremental changes of memory.  Another
      example is live migration.  We copy all the memory to the destination
      node without stopping all tasks, then stop them, check for what pages
      has changed, dump it and the rest of the state, then copy it to the
      destination node.  This decreases freeze time significantly.
      
      That said, some help from kernel to watch how processes modify the
      contents of their memory is required.
      
      The proposal is to track changes with the help of new soft-dirty bit
      this way:
      
      1. First do "echo 4 > /proc/$pid/clear_refs".
         At that point kernel clears the soft dirty _and_ the writable bits from all
         ptes of process $pid. From now on every write to any page will result in #pf
         and the subsequent call to pte_mkdirty/pmd_mkdirty, which in turn will set
         the soft dirty flag.
      
      2. Then read the /proc/$pid/pagemap2 and check the soft-dirty bit reported there
         (the 55'th one). If set, the respective pte was written to since last call
         to clear refs.
      
      The soft-dirty bit is the _PAGE_BIT_HIDDEN one.  Although it's used by
      kmemcheck, the latter one marks kernel pages with it, while the former
      bit is put on user pages so they do not conflict to each other.
      
      This patch:
      
      A new clear-refs type will be added in the next patch, so prepare
      code for that.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't assume that sizeof(enum clear_refs_types) == sizeof(int)]
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      040fa020
  15. 23 2月, 2013 1 次提交