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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction' - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an implementation which Linus suggested - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the following patch series: mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory' - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab shrinking code - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink' - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups' - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion and unification' - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()' - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct manipulation of hugetlb page frames - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic pages are in use - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the series 'support large folio for mlock' - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful) under memcg v2 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable) prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE without inheritance' - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing functions to use a folio' which does what it says - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across exec() - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT' - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical information from previous scans - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values' - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly used by CRIU - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups and folio conversions - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to providing groundwork for future improvements - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes and improvements' which does those things - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series 'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages' - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and page faults - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups and an optimization to the core pagecache code - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series 'hugetlb memcg accounting' - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()' - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps' - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings' - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations' - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition' - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning' - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios' - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about kmemleak' - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series 'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately' - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some khugepaged folio conversions'" [ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/ with help from Qi Zheng. The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits) mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs selftests: add a sanity check for zswap Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter() zswap: export compression failure stats Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets() ...
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index 8da1b7281827..da94feb97ed1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ DAMON provides below interfaces for different users.
you can write and use your personalized DAMON sysfs wrapper programs that
reads/writes the sysfs files instead of you. The `DAMON user space tool
<https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs.
-- *debugfs interface. (DEPRECATED!)*
- :ref:`This <debugfs_interface>` is almost identical to :ref:`sysfs interface
- <sysfs_interface>`. This is deprecated, so users should move to the
- :ref:`sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>`. If you depend on this and cannot
- move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and
- linux-mm@kvack.org.
- *Kernel Space Programming Interface.*
:doc:`This </mm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers. Using this,
users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by
writing kernel space DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend
DAMON for various address spaces. For detail, please refer to the interface
:doc:`document </mm/damon/api>`.
+- *debugfs interface. (DEPRECATED!)*
+ :ref:`This <debugfs_interface>` is almost identical to :ref:`sysfs interface
+ <sysfs_interface>`. This is deprecated, so users should move to the
+ :ref:`sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>`. If you depend on this and cannot
+ move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and
+ linux-mm@kvack.org.
.. _sysfs_interface:
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ comma (","). ::
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ │ schemes/nr_schemes
- │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/action
+ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/action,apply_interval_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ access_pattern/
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ sz/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ nr_accesses/min,max
@@ -105,14 +105,12 @@ having the root permission could use this directory.
kdamonds/
---------
-The monitoring-related information including request specifications and results
-are called DAMON context. DAMON executes each context with a kernel thread
-called kdamond, and multiple kdamonds could run in parallel.
-
Under the ``admin`` directory, one directory, ``kdamonds``, which has files for
-controlling the kdamonds exist. In the beginning, this directory has only one
-file, ``nr_kdamonds``. Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number
-of child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each
+controlling the kdamonds (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_execution_model_and_data_structures>` for more
+details) exists. In the beginning, this directory has only one file,
+``nr_kdamonds``. Writing a number (``N``) to the file creates the number of
+child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each
kdamond.
kdamonds/<N>/
@@ -150,9 +148,10 @@ kdamonds/<N>/contexts/
In the beginning, this directory has only one file, ``nr_contexts``. Writing a
number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named as
-``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each monitoring context. At the
-moment, only one context per kdamond is supported, so only ``0`` or ``1`` can
-be written to the file.
+``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each monitoring context (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_execution_model_and_data_structures>` for more
+details). At the moment, only one context per kdamond is supported, so only
+``0`` or ``1`` can be written to the file.
.. _sysfs_contexts:
@@ -270,8 +269,8 @@ schemes/<N>/
------------
In each scheme directory, five directories (``access_pattern``, ``quotas``,
-``watermarks``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and one file
-(``action``) exist.
+``watermarks``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and two files
+(``action`` and ``apply_interval``) exist.
The ``action`` file is for setting and getting the scheme's :ref:`action
<damon_design_damos_action>`. The keywords that can be written to and read
@@ -297,6 +296,9 @@ Note that support of each action depends on the running DAMON operations set
- ``stat``: Do nothing but count the statistics.
Supported by all operations sets.
+The ``apply_interval_us`` file is for setting and getting the scheme's
+:ref:`apply_interval <damon_design_damos>` in microseconds.
+
schemes/<N>/access_pattern/
---------------------------
@@ -392,7 +394,7 @@ pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.::
echo N > 1/matching
Note that ``anon`` and ``memcg`` filters are currently supported only when
-``paddr`` `implementation <sysfs_contexts>` is being used.
+``paddr`` :ref:`implementation <sysfs_contexts>` is being used.
Also, memory regions that are filtered out by ``addr`` or ``target`` filters
are not counted as the scheme has tried to those, while regions that filtered
@@ -430,9 +432,9 @@ that reading it returns the total size of the scheme tried regions, and creates
directories named integer starting from ``0`` under this directory. Each
directory contains files exposing detailed information about each of the memory
region that the corresponding scheme's ``action`` has tried to be applied under
-this directory, during next :ref:`aggregation interval
-<sysfs_monitoring_attrs>`. The information includes address range,
-``nr_accesses``, and ``age`` of the region.
+this directory, during next :ref:`apply interval <damon_design_damos>` of the
+corresponding scheme. The information includes address range, ``nr_accesses``,
+and ``age`` of the region.
Writing ``update_schemes_tried_bytes`` to the relevant ``kdamonds/<N>/state``
file will only update the ``total_bytes`` file, and will not create the
@@ -495,6 +497,62 @@ Please note that it's highly recommended to use user space tools like `damo
<https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ rather than manually reading and writing
the files as above. Above is only for an example.
+.. _tracepoint:
+
+Tracepoints for Monitoring Results
+==================================
+
+Users can get the monitoring results via the :ref:`tried_regions
+<sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`. The interface is useful for getting a
+snapshot, but it could be inefficient for fully recording all the monitoring
+results. For the purpose, two trace points, namely ``damon:damon_aggregated``
+and ``damon:damos_before_apply``, are provided. ``damon:damon_aggregated``
+provides the whole monitoring results, while ``damon:damos_before_apply``
+provides the monitoring results for regions that each DAMON-based Operation
+Scheme (:ref:`DAMOS <damon_design_damos>`) is gonna be applied. Hence,
+``damon:damos_before_apply`` is more useful for recording internal behavior of
+DAMOS, or DAMOS target access
+:ref:`pattern <damon_design_damos_access_pattern>` based query-like efficient
+monitoring results recording.
+
+While the monitoring is turned on, you could record the tracepoint events and
+show results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example::
+
+ # echo on > monitor_on
+ # perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated &
+ # sleep 5
+ # kill 9 $(pidof perf)
+ # echo off > monitor_on
+ # perf script
+ kdamond.0 46568 [027] 79357.842179: damon:damon_aggregated: target_id=0 nr_regions=11 122509119488-135708762112: 0 864
+ [...]
+
+Each line of the perf script output represents each monitoring region. The
+first five fields are as usual other tracepoint outputs. The sixth field
+(``target_id=X``) shows the ide of the monitoring target of the region. The
+seventh field (``nr_regions=X``) shows the total number of monitoring regions
+for the target. The eighth field (``X-Y:``) shows the start (``X``) and end
+(``Y``) addresses of the region in bytes. The ninth field (``X``) shows the
+``nr_accesses`` of the region (refer to
+:ref:`design <damon_design_region_based_sampling>` for more details of the
+counter). Finally the tenth field (``X``) shows the ``age`` of the region
+(refer to :ref:`design <damon_design_age_tracking>` for more details of the
+counter).
+
+If the event was ``damon:damos_beofre_apply``, the ``perf script`` output would
+be somewhat like below::
+
+ kdamond.0 47293 [000] 80801.060214: damon:damos_before_apply: ctx_idx=0 scheme_idx=0 target_idx=0 nr_regions=11 121932607488-135128711168: 0 136
+ [...]
+
+Each line of the output represents each monitoring region that each DAMON-based
+Operation Scheme was about to be applied at the traced time. The first five
+fields are as usual. It shows the index of the DAMON context (``ctx_idx=X``)
+of the scheme in the list of the contexts of the context's kdamond, the index
+of the scheme (``scheme_idx=X``) in the list of the schemes of the context, in
+addition to the output of ``damon_aggregated`` tracepoint.
+
+
.. _debugfs_interface:
debugfs Interface (DEPRECATED!)
@@ -790,23 +848,3 @@ directory by putting the name of the context to the ``rm_contexts`` file. ::
Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on`` files are in the
root directory only.
-
-
-.. _tracepoint:
-
-Tracepoint for Monitoring Results
-=================================
-
-Users can get the monitoring results via the :ref:`tried_regions
-<sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>` or a tracepoint, ``damon:damon_aggregated``.
-While the tried regions directory is useful for getting a snapshot, the
-tracepoint is useful for getting a full record of the results. While the
-monitoring is turned on, you could record the tracepoint events and show
-results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example::
-
- # echo on > monitor_on
- # perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated &
- # sleep 5
- # kill 9 $(pidof perf)
- # echo off > monitor_on
- # perf script