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2018-04-11page cache: use xa_lockMatthew Wilcox1-11/+11
Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to the radix_tree_root. Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->i_pages, since we don't really care that it's a tree. [willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, truncate: do not check mapping for every page being truncatedMel Gorman1-8/+2
During truncation, the mapping has already been checked for shmem and dax so it's known that workingset_update_node is required. This patch avoids the checks on mapping for each page being truncated. In all other cases, a lookup helper is used to determine if workingset_update_node() needs to be called. The one danger is that the API is slightly harder to use as calling workingset_update_node directly without checking for dax or shmem mappings could lead to surprises. However, the API rarely needs to be used and hopefully the comment is enough to give people the hint. sparsetruncate (tiny) 4.14.0-rc4 4.14.0-rc4 oneirq-v1r1 pickhelper-v1r1 Min Time 141.00 ( 0.00%) 140.00 ( 0.71%) 1st-qrtle Time 142.00 ( 0.00%) 141.00 ( 0.70%) 2nd-qrtle Time 142.00 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 0.00%) 3rd-qrtle Time 143.00 ( 0.00%) 143.00 ( 0.00%) Max-90% Time 144.00 ( 0.00%) 144.00 ( 0.00%) Max-95% Time 147.00 ( 0.00%) 145.00 ( 1.36%) Max-99% Time 195.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 2.05%) Max Time 230.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 10.87%) Amean Time 144.37 ( 0.00%) 143.82 ( 0.38%) Stddev Time 10.44 ( 0.00%) 9.00 ( 13.74%) Coeff Time 7.23 ( 0.00%) 6.26 ( 13.41%) Best99%Amean Time 143.72 ( 0.00%) 143.34 ( 0.26%) Best95%Amean Time 142.37 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 0.26%) Best90%Amean Time 142.19 ( 0.00%) 141.85 ( 0.24%) Best75%Amean Time 141.92 ( 0.00%) 141.58 ( 0.24%) Best50%Amean Time 141.69 ( 0.00%) 141.31 ( 0.27%) Best25%Amean Time 141.38 ( 0.00%) 140.97 ( 0.29%) As you'd expect, the gain is marginal but it can be detected. The differences in bonnie are all within the noise which is not surprising given the impact on the microbenchmark. radix_tree_update_node_t is a callback for some radix operations that optionally passes in a private field. The only user of the callback is workingset_update_node and as it no longer requires a mapping, the private field is removed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-07mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructureJohannes Weiner1-6/+3
lruvecs are at the intersection of the NUMA node and memcg, which is the scope for most paging activity. Introduce a convenient accounting infrastructure that maintains statistics per node, per memcg, and the lruvec itself. Then convert over accounting sites for statistics that are already tracked in both nodes and memcgs and can be easily switched. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix crash in the new cgroup stat keeping code] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531171450.GA10481@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: don't track uncharged pages at all Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605175254.GA8547@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add missing free_percpu()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605175354.GB8547@cmpxchg.org [linux@roeck-us.net: hexagon: fix build error caused by include file order] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170617153721.GA4382@roeck-us.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530181724.27197-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcgJohannes Weiner1-3/+3
The memory controllers stat function names are awkwardly long and arbitrarily different from the zone and node stat functions. The current interface is named: mem_cgroup_read_stat() mem_cgroup_update_stat() mem_cgroup_inc_stat() mem_cgroup_dec_stat() mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat() mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat() This patch renames it to match the corresponding node stat functions: memcg_page_state() [node_page_state()] mod_memcg_state() [mod_node_state()] inc_memcg_state() [inc_node_state()] dec_memcg_state() [dec_node_state()] mod_memcg_page_state() [mod_node_page_state()] inc_memcg_page_state() [inc_node_page_state()] dec_memcg_page_state() [dec_node_page_state()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: memcontrol: re-use node VM page state enumJohannes Weiner1-4/+3
The current duplication is a high-maintenance mess, and it's painful to add new items or query memcg state from the rest of the VM. This increases the size of the stat array marginally, but we should aim to track all these stats on a per-cgroup level anyway. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transitionJohannes Weiner1-1/+6
Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") we noticed bigger IO spikes during changes in cache access patterns. The patch in question shrunk the inactive list size to leave more room for the current workingset in the presence of streaming IO. However, workingset transitions that previously happened on the inactive list are now pushed out of memory and incur more refaults to complete. This patch disables active list protection when refaults are being observed. This accelerates workingset transitions, and allows more of the new set to establish itself from memory, without eating into the ability to protect the established workingset during stable periods. The workloads that were measurably affected for us were hit pretty bad by it, with refault/majfault rates doubling and tripling during cache transitions, and the machines sustaining half-hour periods of 100% IO utilization, where they'd previously have sub-minute peaks at 60-90%. Stateful services that handle user data tend to be more conservative with kernel upgrades. As a result we hit most page cache issues with some delay, as was the case here. The severity seemed to warrant a stable tag. Fixes: 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220052.27593-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.7+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-01mm: workingset: fix premature shadow node shrinking with cgroupsJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
Commit 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware") enabled cgroup-awareness in the shadow node shrinker, but forgot to also enable cgroup-awareness in the list_lru the shadow nodes sit on. Consequently, all shadow nodes are sitting on a global (per-NUMA node) list, while the shrinker applies the limits according to the amount of cache in the cgroup its shrinking. The result is excessive pressure on the shadow nodes from cgroups that have very little cache. Enable memcg-mode on the shadow node LRUs, such that per-cgroup limits are applied to per-cgroup lists. Fixes: 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322005320.8165-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@tarantool.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-01Merge branch 'idr-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-daxLinus Torvalds1-4/+2
Pull IDR rewrite from Matthew Wilcox: "The most significant part of the following is the patch to rewrite the IDR & IDA to be clients of the radix tree. But there's much more, including an enhancement of the IDA to be significantly more space efficient, an IDR & IDA test suite, some improvements to the IDR API (and driver changes to take advantage of those improvements), several improvements to the radix tree test suite and RCU annotations. The IDR & IDA rewrite had a good spin in linux-next and Andrew's tree for most of the last cycle. Coupled with the IDR test suite, I feel pretty confident that any remaining bugs are quite hard to hit. 0-day did a great job of watching my git tree and pointing out problems; as it hit them, I added new test-cases to be sure not to be caught the same way twice" Willy goes on to expand a bit on the IDR rewrite rationale: "The radix tree and the IDR use very similar data structures. Merging the two codebases lets us share the memory allocation pools, and results in a net deletion of 500 lines of code. It also opens up the possibility of exposing more of the features of the radix tree to users of the IDR (and I have some interesting patches along those lines waiting for 4.12) It also shrinks the size of the 'struct idr' from 40 bytes to 24 which will shrink a fair few data structures that embed an IDR" * 'idr-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (32 commits) radix tree test suite: Add config option for map shift idr: Add missing __rcu annotations radix-tree: Fix __rcu annotations radix-tree: Add rcu_dereference and rcu_assign_pointer calls radix tree test suite: Run iteration tests for longer radix tree test suite: Fix split/join memory leaks radix tree test suite: Fix leaks in regression2.c radix tree test suite: Fix leaky tests radix tree test suite: Enable address sanitizer radix_tree_iter_resume: Fix out of bounds error radix-tree: Store a pointer to the root in each node radix-tree: Chain preallocated nodes through ->parent radix tree test suite: Dial down verbosity with -v radix tree test suite: Introduce kmalloc_verbose idr: Return the deleted entry from idr_remove radix tree test suite: Build separate binaries for some tests ida: Use exceptional entries for small IDAs ida: Move ida_bitmap to a percpu variable Reimplement IDR and IDA using the radix tree radix-tree: Add radix_tree_iter_delete ...
2017-02-25mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicatesHugh Dickins1-0/+1
Remove the prototypes for shmem_mapping() and shmem_zero_setup() from linux/mm.h, since they are already provided in linux/shmem_fs.h. But shmem_fs.h must then provide the inline stub for shmem_mapping() when CONFIG_SHMEM is not set, and a few more cfiles now need to #include it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1702081658250.1549@eggly.anvils Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculationsMichal Hocko1-1/+1
lruvec_lru_size returns the full size of the LRU list while we sometimes need a value reduced only to eligible zones (e.g. for lowmem requests). inactive_list_is_low is one such user. Later patches will add more of them. Add a new parameter to lruvec_lru_size and allow it filter out zones which are not eligible for the given context. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-14radix-tree: Store a pointer to the root in each nodeMatthew Wilcox1-4/+2
Instead of having this mysterious private_data in each radix_tree_node, store a pointer to the root, which can be useful for debugging. This also relieves the mm code from the duty of updating it. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
2017-01-08mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinkerJohannes Weiner1-1/+2
Several people report seeing warnings about inconsistent radix tree nodes followed by crashes in the workingset code, which all looked like use-after-free access from the shadow node shrinker. Dave Jones managed to reproduce the issue with a debug patch applied, which confirmed that the radix tree shrinking indeed frees shadow nodes while they are still linked to the shadow LRU: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 53 at lib/radix-tree.c:643 delete_node+0x1e4/0x200 CPU: 2 PID: 53 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc2-think+ #3 Call Trace: delete_node+0x1e4/0x200 __radix_tree_delete_node+0xd/0x10 shadow_lru_isolate+0xe6/0x220 __list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x9b/0x190 list_lru_walk_one+0x23/0x30 scan_shadow_nodes+0x2e/0x40 shrink_slab.part.44+0x23d/0x5d0 shrink_node+0x22c/0x330 kswapd+0x392/0x8f0 This is the WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&node->private_list)) placed in the inlined radix_tree_shrink(). The problem is with 14b468791fa9 ("mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix tree exceptional tracking"), which passes an update callback into the radix tree to link and unlink shadow leaf nodes when tree entries change, but forgot to pass the callback when reclaiming a shadow node. While the reclaimed shadow node itself is unlinked by the shrinker, its deletion from the tree can cause the left-most leaf node in the tree to be shrunk. If that happens to be a shadow node as well, we don't unlink it from the LRU as we should. Consider this tree, where the s are shadow entries: root->rnode | [0 n] | | [s ] [sssss] Now the shadow node shrinker reclaims the rightmost leaf node through the shadow node LRU: root->rnode | [0 ] | [s ] Because the parent of the deleted node is the first level below the root and has only one child in the left-most slot, the intermediate level is shrunk and the node containing the single shadow is put in its place: root->rnode | [s ] The shrinker again sees a single left-most slot in a first level node and thus decides to store the shadow in root->rnode directly and free the node - which is a leaf node on the shadow node LRU. root->rnode | s Without the update callback, the freed node remains on the shadow LRU, where it causes later shrinker runs to crash. Pass the node updater callback into __radix_tree_delete_node() in case the deletion causes the left-most branch in the tree to collapse too. Also add warnings when linked nodes are freed right away, rather than wait for the use-after-free when the list is scanned much later. Fixes: 14b468791fa9 ("mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix tree exceptional tracking") Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-13mm: workingset: update shadow limit to reflect bigger active listJohannes Weiner1-19/+25
Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") the size of the active file list is no longer limited to half of memory. Increase the shadow node limit accordingly to avoid throwing out shadow entries that might still result in eligible refaults. The exact size of the active list now depends on the overall size of the page cache, but converges toward taking up most of the space: In mm/vmscan.c::inactive_list_is_low(), * total target max * memory ratio inactive * ------------------------------------- * 10MB 1 5MB * 100MB 1 50MB * 1GB 3 250MB * 10GB 10 0.9GB * 100GB 31 3GB * 1TB 101 10GB * 10TB 320 32GB It would be possible to apply the same precise ratios when determining the limit for radix tree nodes containing shadow entries, but since it is merely an approximation of the oldest refault distances in the wild and the code also makes assumptions about the node population density, keep it simple and always target the full cache size. While at it, clarify the comment and the formula for memory footprint. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117214701.29000-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-13mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix tree exceptional trackingJohannes Weiner1-13/+43
Currently, we track the shadow entries in the page cache in the upper bits of the radix_tree_node->count, behind the back of the radix tree implementation. Because the radix tree code has no awareness of them, we rely on random subtleties throughout the implementation (such as the node->count != 1 check in the shrinking code, which is meant to exclude multi-entry nodes but also happens to skip nodes with only one shadow entry, as that's accounted in the upper bits). This is error prone and has, in fact, caused the bug fixed in d3798ae8c6f3 ("mm: filemap: don't plant shadow entries without radix tree node"). To remove these subtleties, this patch moves shadow entry tracking from the upper bits of node->count to the existing counter for exceptional entries. node->count goes back to being a simple counter of valid entries in the tree node and can be shrunk to a single byte. This vastly simplifies the page cache code. All accounting happens natively inside the radix tree implementation, and maintaining the LRU linkage of shadow nodes is consolidated into a single function in the workingset code that is called for leaf nodes affected by a change in the page cache tree. This also removes the last user of the __radix_delete_node() return value. Eliminate it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117193211.GE23430@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-13mm: workingset: turn shadow node shrinker bugs into warningsJohannes Weiner1-8/+12
When the shadow page shrinker tries to reclaim a radix tree node but finds it in an unexpected state - it should contain no pages, and non-zero shadow entries - there is no need to kill the executing task or even the entire system. Warn about the invalid state, then leave that tree node be. Simply don't put it back on the shadow LRU for future reclaim and move on. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191138.22769-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-03mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr in count_shadow_nodesMichal Hocko1-1/+1
Commit 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware") has made the workingset shadow nodes shrinker memcg aware. The implementation is not correct though because memcg_kmem_enabled() might become true while we are doing a global reclaim when the sc->memcg might be NULL which is exactly what Marek has seen: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000400 IP: [<ffffffff8122d520>] mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 0 PID: 60 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G O 4.8.10-12.pvops.qubes.x86_64 #1 task: ffff880011863b00 task.stack: ffff880011868000 RIP: mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40 RSP: e02b:ffff88001186bc70 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001186bd20 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88001186bc70 R08: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000006c34 R11: 0000000000000333 R12: 00000000000001f6 R13: ffffffff81c6f6a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880013c00000(0000) knlGS:ffff880013d00000 CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000400 CR3: 00000000122f2000 CR4: 0000000000042660 Call Trace: count_shadow_nodes+0x9a/0xa0 shrink_slab.part.42+0x119/0x3e0 shrink_node+0x22c/0x320 kswapd+0x32c/0x700 kthread+0xd8/0xf0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 Code: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 3b 35 dd eb b1 00 55 48 89 e5 73 2c 89 d2 31 c9 31 c0 4c 63 ce 48 0f a3 ca 73 13 <4a> 8b b4 cf 00 04 00 00 41 89 c8 4a 03 84 c6 80 00 00 00 83 c1 RIP mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages+0x20/0x40 RSP <ffff88001186bc70> CR2: 0000000000000400 ---[ end trace 100494b9edbdfc4d ]--- This patch fixes the issue by checking sc->memcg rather than memcg_kmem_enabled() which is sufficient because shrink_slab makes sure that only memcg aware shrinkers will get non-NULL memcgs and only if memcg_kmem_enabled is true. Fixes: 0a6b76dd23fa ("mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161201132156.21450-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl> Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-01mm: workingset: fix crash in shadow node shrinker caused by ↵Johannes Weiner1-6/+4
replace_page_cache_page() Antonio reports the following crash when using fuse under memory pressure: kernel BUG at /build/linux-a2WvEb/linux-4.4.0/mm/workingset.c:346! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: all of them CPU: 2 PID: 63 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8H67-M PRO, BIOS 3904 04/27/2013 task: ffff88040cae6040 ti: ffff880407488000 task.ti: ffff880407488000 RIP: shadow_lru_isolate+0x181/0x190 Call Trace: __list_lru_walk_one.isra.3+0x8f/0x130 list_lru_walk_one+0x23/0x30 scan_shadow_nodes+0x34/0x50 shrink_slab.part.40+0x1ed/0x3d0 shrink_zone+0x2ca/0x2e0 kswapd+0x51e/0x990 kthread+0xd8/0xf0 ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 which corresponds to the following sanity check in the shadow node tracking: BUG_ON(node->count & RADIX_TREE_COUNT_MASK); The workingset code tracks radix tree nodes that exclusively contain shadow entries of evicted pages in them, and this (somewhat obscure) line checks whether there are real pages left that would interfere with reclaim of the radix tree node under memory pressure. While discussing ways how fuse might sneak pages into the radix tree past the workingset code, Miklos pointed to replace_page_cache_page(), and indeed there is a problem there: it properly accounts for the old page being removed - __delete_from_page_cache() does that - but then does a raw raw radix_tree_insert(), not accounting for the replacement page. Eventually the page count bits in node->count underflow while leaving the node incorrectly linked to the shadow node LRU. To address this, make sure replace_page_cache_page() uses the tracked page insertion code, page_cache_tree_insert(). This fixes the page accounting and makes sure page-containing nodes are properly unlinked from the shadow node LRU again. Also, make the sanity checks a bit less obscure by using the helpers for checking the number of pages and shadows in a radix tree node. Fixes: 449dd6984d0e ("mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160919155822.29498-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@spawn.link> Debugged-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, workingset: make working set detection node-awareMel Gorman1-23/+20
Working set and refault detection is still zone-based, fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-16-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, memcg: move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodesMel Gorman1-3/+3
Memcg needs adjustment after moving LRUs to the node. Limits are tracked per memcg but the soft-limit excess is tracked per zone. As global page reclaim is based on the node, it is easy to imagine a situation where a zone soft limit is exceeded even though the memcg limit is fine. This patch moves the soft limit tree the node. Technically, all the variable names should also change but people are already familiar by the meaning of "mz" even if "mn" would be a more appropriate name now. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-15-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centricMel Gorman1-3/+3
Earlier patches focused on having direct reclaim and kswapd use data that is node-centric for reclaiming but shrink_node() itself still uses too much zone information. This patch removes unnecessary zone-based information with the most important decision being whether to continue reclaim or not. Some memcg APIs are adjusted as a result even though memcg itself still uses some zone information. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: optimization] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468588165-12461-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-14-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to nodeMel Gorman1-2/+2
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking. Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node logic. Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and active sizes. It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks. Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed later but is easier to review. In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions 1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list. That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages. 2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during memory pressure than skipping LRU pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstatsMel Gorman1-4/+5
Patchset: "Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9" This series moves LRUs from the zones to the node. While this is a current rebase, the test results were based on mmotm as of June 23rd. Conceptually, this series is simple but there are a lot of details. Some of the broad motivations for this are; 1. The residency of a page partially depends on what zone the page was allocated from. This is partially combatted by the fair zone allocation policy but that is a partial solution that introduces overhead in the page allocator paths. 2. Currently, reclaim on node 0 behaves slightly different to node 1. For example, direct reclaim scans in zonelist order and reclaims even if the zone is over the high watermark regardless of the age of pages in that LRU. Kswapd on the other hand starts reclaim on the highest unbalanced zone. A difference in distribution of file/anon pages due to when they were allocated results can result in a difference in again. While the fair zone allocation policy mitigates some of the problems here, the page reclaim results on a multi-zone node will always be different to a single-zone node. it was scheduled on as a result. 3. kswapd and the page allocator scan zones in the opposite order to avoid interfering with each other but it's sensitive to timing. This mitigates the page allocator using pages that were allocated very recently in the ideal case but it's sensitive to timing. When kswapd is allocating from lower zones then it's great but during the rebalancing of the highest zone, the page allocator and kswapd interfere with each other. It's worse if the highest zone is small and difficult to balance. 4. slab shrinkers are node-based which makes it harder to identify the exact relationship between slab reclaim and LRU reclaim. The reason we have zone-based reclaim is that we used to have large highmem zones in common configurations and it was necessary to quickly find ZONE_NORMAL pages for reclaim. Today, this is much less of a concern as machines with lots of memory will (or should) use 64-bit kernels. Combinations of 32-bit hardware and 64-bit hardware are rare. Machines that do use highmem should have relatively low highmem:lowmem ratios than we worried about in the past. Conceptually, moving to node LRUs should be easier to understand. The page allocator plays fewer tricks to game reclaim and reclaim behaves similarly on all nodes. The series has been tested on a 16 core UMA machine and a 2-socket 48 core NUMA machine. The UMA results are presented in most cases as the NUMA machine behaved similarly. pagealloc --------- This is a microbenchmark that shows the benefit of removing the fair zone allocation policy. It was tested uip to order-4 but only orders 0 and 1 are shown as the other orders were comparable. 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Min total-odr0-1 490.00 ( 0.00%) 457.00 ( 6.73%) Min total-odr0-2 347.00 ( 0.00%) 329.00 ( 5.19%) Min total-odr0-4 288.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 5.21%) Min total-odr0-8 251.00 ( 0.00%) 239.00 ( 4.78%) Min total-odr0-16 234.00 ( 0.00%) 222.00 ( 5.13%) Min total-odr0-32 223.00 ( 0.00%) 211.00 ( 5.38%) Min total-odr0-64 217.00 ( 0.00%) 208.00 ( 4.15%) Min total-odr0-128 214.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 4.67%) Min total-odr0-256 250.00 ( 0.00%) 230.00 ( 8.00%) Min total-odr0-512 271.00 ( 0.00%) 269.00 ( 0.74%) Min total-odr0-1024 291.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 3.09%) Min total-odr0-2048 303.00 ( 0.00%) 296.00 ( 2.31%) Min total-odr0-4096 311.00 ( 0.00%) 309.00 ( 0.64%) Min total-odr0-8192 316.00 ( 0.00%) 314.00 ( 0.63%) Min total-odr0-16384 317.00 ( 0.00%) 315.00 ( 0.63%) Min total-odr1-1 742.00 ( 0.00%) 712.00 ( 4.04%) Min total-odr1-2 562.00 ( 0.00%) 530.00 ( 5.69%) Min total-odr1-4 457.00 ( 0.00%) 433.00 ( 5.25%) Min total-odr1-8 411.00 ( 0.00%) 381.00 ( 7.30%) Min total-odr1-16 381.00 ( 0.00%) 356.00 ( 6.56%) Min total-odr1-32 372.00 ( 0.00%) 346.00 ( 6.99%) Min total-odr1-64 372.00 ( 0.00%) 343.00 ( 7.80%) Min total-odr1-128 375.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 6.40%) Min total-odr1-256 379.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 7.39%) Min total-odr1-512 385.00 ( 0.00%) 355.00 ( 7.79%) Min total-odr1-1024 386.00 ( 0.00%) 358.00 ( 7.25%) Min total-odr1-2048 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%) Min total-odr1-4096 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%) Min total-odr1-8192 388.00 ( 0.00%) 363.00 ( 6.44%) This shows a steady improvement throughout. The primary benefit is from reduced system CPU usage which is obvious from the overall times; 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 User 189.19 191.80 System 2604.45 2533.56 Elapsed 2855.30 2786.39 The vmstats also showed that the fair zone allocation policy was definitely removed as can be seen here; 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 DMA32 allocs 28794729769 0 Normal allocs 48432501431 77227309877 Movable allocs 0 0 tiobench on ext4 ---------------- tiobench is a benchmark that artifically benefits if old pages remain resident while new pages get reclaimed. The fair zone allocation policy mitigates this problem so pages age fairly. While the benchmark has problems, it is important that tiobench performance remains constant as it implies that page aging problems that the fair zone allocation policy fixes are not re-introduced. 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Min PotentialReadSpeed 89.65 ( 0.00%) 90.21 ( 0.62%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-1 82.68 ( 0.00%) 82.01 ( -0.81%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-2 72.76 ( 0.00%) 72.07 ( -0.95%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-4 75.13 ( 0.00%) 74.92 ( -0.28%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-8 64.91 ( 0.00%) 65.19 ( 0.43%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-16 62.24 ( 0.00%) 62.22 ( -0.03%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-1 0.88 ( 0.00%) 0.88 ( 0.00%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-2 0.95 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( -3.16%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-4 1.43 ( 0.00%) 1.34 ( -6.29%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-8 1.61 ( 0.00%) 1.60 ( -0.62%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-16 1.80 ( 0.00%) 1.90 ( 5.56%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-1 76.41 ( 0.00%) 76.85 ( 0.58%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-2 74.11 ( 0.00%) 73.54 ( -0.77%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-4 80.05 ( 0.00%) 80.13 ( 0.10%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-8 72.88 ( 0.00%) 73.20 ( 0.44%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-16 75.91 ( 0.00%) 76.44 ( 0.70%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-1 1.18 ( 0.00%) 1.14 ( -3.39%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-2 1.02 ( 0.00%) 1.03 ( 0.98%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-4 1.05 ( 0.00%) 0.98 ( -6.67%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-8 0.89 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( 3.37%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-16 0.92 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 1.09%) 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 approx-v9 User 645.72 525.90 System 403.85 331.75 Elapsed 6795.36 6783.67 This shows that the series has little or not impact on tiobench which is desirable and a reduction in system CPU usage. It indicates that the fair zone allocation policy was removed in a manner that didn't reintroduce one class of page aging bug. There were only minor differences in overall reclaim activity 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 Minor Faults 645838 647465 Major Faults 573 640 Swap Ins 0 0 Swap Outs 0 0 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 46041453 44190646 Normal allocs 78053072 79887245 Movable allocs 0 0 Allocation stalls 24 67 Stall zone DMA 0 0 Stall zone DMA32 0 0 Stall zone Normal 0 2 Stall zone HighMem 0 0 Stall zone Movable 0 65 Direct pages scanned 10969 30609 Kswapd pages scanned 93375144 93492094 Kswapd pages reclaimed 93372243 93489370 Direct pages reclaimed 10969 30609 Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 13741.015 13781.934 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 1.614 4.512 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% kswapd activity was roughly comparable. There were differences in direct reclaim activity but negligible in the context of the overall workload (velocity of 4 pages per second with the patches applied, 1.6 pages per second in the baseline kernel). pgbench read-only large configuration on ext4 --------------------------------------------- pgbench is a database benchmark that can be sensitive to page reclaim decisions. This also checks if removing the fair zone allocation policy is safe pgbench Transactions 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 Hmean 1 188.26 ( 0.00%) 189.78 ( 0.81%) Hmean 5 330.66 ( 0.00%) 328.69 ( -0.59%) Hmean 12 370.32 ( 0.00%) 380.72 ( 2.81%) Hmean 21 368.89 ( 0.00%) 369.00 ( 0.03%) Hmean 30 382.14 ( 0.00%) 360.89 ( -5.56%) Hmean 32 428.87 ( 0.00%) 432.96 ( 0.95%) Negligible differences again. As with tiobench, overall reclaim activity was comparable. bonnie++ on ext4 ---------------- No interesting performance difference, negligible differences on reclaim stats. paralleldd on ext4 ------------------ This workload uses varying numbers of dd instances to read large amounts of data from disk. 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Amean Elapsd-1 186.04 ( 0.00%) 189.41 ( -1.82%) Amean Elapsd-3 192.27 ( 0.00%) 191.38 ( 0.46%) Amean Elapsd-5 185.21 ( 0.00%) 182.75 ( 1.33%) Amean Elapsd-7 183.71 ( 0.00%) 182.11 ( 0.87%) Amean Elapsd-12 180.96 ( 0.00%) 181.58 ( -0.35%) Amean Elapsd-16 181.36 ( 0.00%) 183.72 ( -1.30%) 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 User 1548.01 1552.44 System 8609.71 8515.08 Elapsed 3587.10 3594.54 There is little or no change in performance but some drop in system CPU usage. 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Minor Faults 362662 367360 Major Faults 1204 1143 Swap Ins 22 0 Swap Outs 2855 1029 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 31409797 28837521 Normal allocs 46611853 49231282 Movable allocs 0 0 Direct pages scanned 0 0 Kswapd pages scanned 40845270 40869088 Kswapd pages reclaimed 40830976 40855294 Direct pages reclaimed 0 0 Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 11386.711 11369.769 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 0.000 0.000 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Page writes by reclaim 2855 1029 Page writes file 0 0 Page writes anon 2855 1029 Page reclaim immediate 771 1628 Sector Reads 293312636 293536360 Sector Writes 18213568 18186480 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 128257 132747 Direct inode steals 181 56 Kswapd inode steals 59 1131 It basically shows that kswapd was active at roughly the same rate in both kernels. There was also comparable slab scanning activity and direct reclaim was avoided in both cases. There appears to be a large difference in numbers of inodes reclaimed but the workload has few active inodes and is likely a timing artifact. stutter ------- stutter simulates a simple workload. One part uses a lot of anonymous memory, a second measures mmap latency and a third copies a large file. The primary metric is checking for mmap latency. stutter 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 Min mmap 16.6283 ( 0.00%) 13.4258 ( 19.26%) 1st-qrtle mmap 54.7570 ( 0.00%) 34.9121 ( 36.24%) 2nd-qrtle mmap 57.3163 ( 0.00%) 46.1147 ( 19.54%) 3rd-qrtle mmap 58.9976 ( 0.00%) 47.1882 ( 20.02%) Max-90% mmap 59.7433 ( 0.00%) 47.4453 ( 20.58%) Max-93% mmap 60.1298 ( 0.00%) 47.6037 ( 20.83%) Max-95% mmap 73.4112 ( 0.00%) 82.8719 (-12.89%) Max-99% mmap 92.8542 ( 0.00%) 88.8870 ( 4.27%) Max mmap 1440.6569 ( 0.00%) 121.4201 ( 91.57%) Mean mmap 59.3493 ( 0.00%) 42.2991 ( 28.73%) Best99%Mean mmap 57.2121 ( 0.00%) 41.8207 ( 26.90%) Best95%Mean mmap 55.9113 ( 0.00%) 39.9620 ( 28.53%) Best90%Mean mmap 55.6199 ( 0.00%) 39.3124 ( 29.32%) Best50%Mean mmap 53.2183 ( 0.00%) 33.1307 ( 37.75%) Best10%Mean mmap 45.9842 ( 0.00%) 20.4040 ( 55.63%) Best5%Mean mmap 43.2256 ( 0.00%) 17.9654 ( 58.44%) Best1%Mean mmap 32.9388 ( 0.00%) 16.6875 ( 49.34%) This shows a number of improvements with the worst-case outlier greatly improved. Some of the vmstats are interesting 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 Swap Ins 163 502 Swap Outs 0 0 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 618719206 1381662383 Normal allocs 891235743 564138421 Movable allocs 0 0 Allocation stalls 2603 1 Direct pages scanned 216787 2 Kswapd pages scanned 50719775 41778378 Kswapd pages reclaimed 41541765 41777639 Direct pages reclaimed 209159 0 Kswapd efficiency 81% 99% Kswapd velocity 16859.554 14329.059 Direct efficiency 96% 0% Direct velocity 72.061 0.001 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Page writes by reclaim 6215049 0 Page writes file 6215049 0 Page writes anon 0 0 Page reclaim immediate 70673 90 Sector Reads 81940800 81680456 Sector Writes 100158984 98816036 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 1366954 22683 While this is not guaranteed in all cases, this particular test showed a large reduction in direct reclaim activity. It's also worth noting that no page writes were issued from reclaim context. This series is not without its hazards. There are at least three areas that I'm concerned with even though I could not reproduce any problems in that area. 1. Reclaim/compaction is going to be affected because the amount of reclaim is no longer targetted at a specific zone. Compaction works on a per-zone basis so there is no guarantee that reclaiming a few THP's worth page pages will have a positive impact on compaction success rates. 2. The Slab/LRU reclaim ratio is affected because the frequency the shrinkers are called is now different. This may or may not be a problem but if it is, it'll be because shrinkers are not called enough and some balancing is required. 3. The anon/file reclaim ratio may be affected. Pages about to be dirtied are distributed between zones and the fair zone allocation policy used to do something very similar for anon. The distribution is now different but not necessarily in any way that matters but it's still worth bearing in mind. VM statistic counters for reclaim decisions are zone-based. If the kernel is to reclaim on a per-node basis then we need to track per-node statistics but there is no infrastructure for that. The most notable change is that the old node_page_state is renamed to sum_zone_node_page_state. The new node_page_state takes a pglist_data and uses per-node stats but none exist yet. There is some renaming such as vm_stat to vm_zone_stat and the addition of vm_node_stat and the renaming of mod_state to mod_zone_state. Otherwise, this is mostly a mechanical patch with no functional change. There is a lot of similarity between the node and zone helpers which is unfortunate but there was no obvious way of reusing the code and maintaining type safety. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm: fix vm-scalability regression in cgroup-aware workingset codeJohannes Weiner1-4/+6
Commit 23047a96d7cf ("mm: workingset: per-cgroup cache thrash detection") added a page->mem_cgroup lookup to the cache eviction, refault, and activation paths, as well as locking to the activation path, and the vm-scalability tests showed a regression of -23%. While the test in question is an artificial worst-case scenario that doesn't occur in real workloads - reading two sparse files in parallel at full CPU speed just to hammer the LRU paths - there is still some optimizations that can be done in those paths. Inline the lookup functions to eliminate calls. Also, page->mem_cgroup doesn't need to be stabilized when counting an activation; we merely need to hold the RCU lock to prevent the memcg from being freed. This cuts down on overhead quite a bit: 23047a96d7cfcfca 063f6715e77a7be5770d6081fe ---------------- -------------------------- %stddev %change %stddev \ | \ 21621405 +- 0% +11.3% 24069657 +- 2% vm-scalability.throughput [linux@roeck-us.net: drop unnecessary include file] [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add WARN_ON_ONCE()s] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707194024.GA26580@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160624175101.GA3024@cmpxchg.org Reported-by: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-15mm: workingset: printk missing log level, use pr_info()Anton Blanchard1-1/+1
Commit 612e44939c3c ("mm: workingset: eviction buckets for bigmem/lowbit machines") added a printk without a log level. Quieten it by using pr_info(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466982072-29836-2-git-send-email-anton@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-18mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg awareVladimir Davydov1-3/+7
Workingset code was recently made memcg aware, but shadow node shrinker is still global. As a result, one small cgroup can consume all memory available for shadow nodes, possibly hurting other cgroups by reclaiming their shadow nodes, even though reclaim distances stored in its shadow nodes have no effect. To avoid this, we need to make shadow node shrinker memcg aware. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-18mm: workingset: size shadow nodes lru basing on file cache sizeVladimir Davydov1-1/+3
A page is activated on refault if the refault distance stored in the corresponding shadow entry is less than the number of active file pages. Since active file pages can't occupy more than half memory, we assume that the maximal effective refault distance can't be greater than half the number of present pages and size the shadow nodes lru list appropriately. Generally speaking, this assumption is correct, but it can result in wasting a considerable chunk of memory on stale shadow nodes in case the portion of file pages is small, e.g. if a workload mostly uses anonymous memory. To sort this out, we need to compute the size of shadow nodes lru basing not on the maximal possible, but the current size of file cache. We could take the size of active file lru for the maximal refault distance, but active lru is pretty unstable - it can shrink dramatically at runtime possibly disrupting workingset detection logic. Instead we assume that the maximal refault distance equals half the total number of file cache pages. This will protect us against active file lru size fluctuations while still being correct, because size of active lru is normally maintained lower than size of inactive lru. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-16mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()Johannes Weiner1-5/+4
Now that migration doesn't clear page->mem_cgroup of live pages anymore, it's safe to make lock_page_memcg() and the memcg stat functions take pages, and spare the callers from memcg objects. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-16mm: workingset: per-cgroup cache thrash detectionJohannes Weiner1-10/+69
Cache thrash detection (see a528910e12ec "mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing" for details) currently only works on the system level, not inside cgroups. Worse, as the refaults are compared to the global number of active cache, cgroups might wrongfully get all their refaults activated when their pages are hotter than those of others. Move the refault machinery from the zone to the lruvec, and then tag eviction entries with the memcg ID. This makes the thrash detection work correctly inside cgroups. [sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: do not return from workingset_activation() with locked rcu and page] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-16mm: workingset: eviction buckets for bigmem/lowbit machinesJohannes Weiner1-1/+29
For per-cgroup thrash detection, we need to store the memcg ID inside the radix tree cookie as well. However, on 32 bit that doesn't leave enough bits for the eviction timestamp to cover the necessary range of recently evicted pages. The radix tree entry would look like this: [ RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL(2) | ZONEID(2) | MEMCGID(16) | EVICTION(12) ] 12 bits means 4096 pages, means 16M worth of recently evicted pages. But refaults are actionable up to distances covering half of memory. To not miss refaults, we have to stretch out the range at the cost of how precisely we can tell when a page was evicted. This way we can shave off lower bits from the eviction timestamp until the necessary range is covered. E.g. grouping evictions into 1M buckets (256 pages) will stretch the longest representable refault distance to 4G. This patch implements eviction buckets that are automatically sized according to the available bits and the necessary refault range, in preparation for per-cgroup thrash detection. The maximum actionable distance is currently half of memory, but to support memory hotplug of up to 200% of boot-time memory, we size the buckets to cover double the distance. Beyond that, thrashing won't be detectable anymore. During boot, the kernel will print out the exact parameters, like so: [ 0.113929] workingset: timestamp_bits=12 max_order=18 bucket_order=6 In this example, there are 12 radix entry bits available for the eviction timestamp, to cover a maximum distance of 2^18 pages (this is a 1G machine). Consequently, evictions must be grouped into buckets of 2^6 pages, or 256K. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-16mm: workingset: separate shadow unpacking and refault calculationJohannes Weiner1-28/+28
Per-cgroup thrash detection will need to derive a live memcg from the eviction cookie, and doing that inside unpack_shadow() will get nasty with the reference handling spread over two functions. In preparation, make unpack_shadow() clearly about extracting static data, and let workingset_refault() do all the higher-level handling. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-16mm: workingset: #define radix entry eviction maskJohannes Weiner1-4/+6
This is a compile-time constant, no need to calculate it on refault. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-23dax: support dirty DAX entries in radix treeRoss Zwisler1-2/+2
Add support for tracking dirty DAX entries in the struct address_space radix tree. This tree is already used for dirty page writeback, and it already supports the use of exceptional (non struct page*) entries. In order to properly track dirty DAX pages we will insert new exceptional entries into the radix tree that represent dirty DAX PTE or PMD pages. These exceptional entries will also contain the writeback addresses for the PTE or PMD faults that we can use at fsync/msync time. There are currently two types of exceptional entries (shmem and shadow) that can be placed into the radix tree, and this adds a third. We rely on the fact that only one type of exceptional entry can be found in a given radix tree based on its usage. This happens for free with DAX vs shmem but we explicitly prevent shadow entries from being added to radix trees for DAX mappings. The only shadow entries that would be generated for DAX radix trees would be to track zero page mappings that were created for holes. These pages would receive minimal benefit from having shadow entries, and the choice to have only one type of exceptional entry in a given radix tree makes the logic simpler both in clear_exceptional_entry() and in the rest of DAX. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13list_lru: add helpers to isolate itemsVladimir Davydov1-1/+2
Currently, the isolate callback passed to the list_lru_walk family of functions is supposed to just delete an item from the list upon returning LRU_REMOVED or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY, while nr_items counter is fixed by __list_lru_walk_one after the callback returns. Since the callback is allowed to drop the lock after removing an item (it has to return LRU_REMOVED_RETRY then), the nr_items can be less than the actual number of elements on the list even if we check them under the lock. This makes it difficult to move items from one list_lru_one to another, which is required for per-memcg list_lru reparenting - we can't just splice the lists, we have to move entries one by one. This patch therefore introduces helpers that must be used by callback functions to isolate items instead of raw list_del/list_move. These are list_lru_isolate and list_lru_isolate_move. They not only remove the entry from the list, but also fix the nr_items counter, making sure nr_items always reflects the actual number of elements on the list if checked under the appropriate lock. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_{count,walk}Vladimir Davydov1-3/+3
Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker support. That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any chance to recover. What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup. This is what this patch set is intended to do. Basically, it does two things. First, it introduces the notion of per-memcg slab shrinker. A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE. Then it will be passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg. For such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory cgroup. Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg. It's done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru. Then the list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to. This way to make FS shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does. As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit. Handling memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified hierarchy. This patch (of 9): NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists. Whenever such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node, it issues commands like this: count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid); freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func, isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan); where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it from vmscan. To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control structure. This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-04mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in checkJohannes Weiner1-0/+161
Previously, page cache radix tree nodes were freed after reclaim emptied out their page pointers. But now reclaim stores shadow entries in their place, which are only reclaimed when the inodes themselves are reclaimed. This is problematic for bigger files that are still in use after they have a significant amount of their cache reclaimed, without any of those pages actually refaulting. The shadow entries will just sit there and waste memory. In the worst case, the shadow entries will accumulate until the machine runs out of memory. To get this under control, the VM will track radix tree nodes exclusively containing shadow entries on a per-NUMA node list. Per-NUMA rather than global because we expect the radix tree nodes themselves to be allocated node-locally and we want to reduce cross-node references of otherwise independent cache workloads. A simple shrinker will then reclaim these nodes on memory pressure. A few things need to be stored in the radix tree node to implement the shadow node LRU and allow tree deletions coming from the list: 1. There is no index available that would describe the reverse path from the node up to the tree root, which is needed to perform a deletion. To solve this, encode in each node its offset inside the parent. This can be stored in the unused upper bits of the same member that stores the node's height at no extra space cost. 2. The number of shadow entries needs to be counted in addition to the regular entries, to quickly detect when the node is ready to go to the shadow node LRU list. The current entry count is an unsigned int but the maximum number of entries is 64, so a shadow counter can easily be stored in the unused upper bits. 3. Tree modification needs tree lock and tree root, which are located in the address space, so store an address_space backpointer in the node. The parent pointer of the node is in a union with the 2-word rcu_head, so the backpointer comes at no extra cost as well. 4. The node needs to be linked to an LRU list, which requires a list head inside the node. This does increase the size of the node, but it does not change the number of objects that fit into a slab page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export the right function] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-04mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizingJohannes Weiner1-0/+253
The VM maintains cached filesystem pages on two types of lists. One list holds the pages recently faulted into the cache, the other list holds pages that have been referenced repeatedly on that first list. The idea is to prefer reclaiming young pages over those that have shown to benefit from caching in the past. We call the recently usedbut ultimately was not significantly better than a FIFO policy and still thrashed cache based on eviction speed, rather than actual demand for cache. This patch solves one half of the problem by decoupling the ability to detect working set changes from the inactive list size. By maintaining a history of recently evicted file pages it can detect frequently used pages with an arbitrarily small inactive list size, and subsequently apply pressure on the active list based on actual demand for cache, not just overall eviction speed. Every zone maintains a counter that tracks inactive list aging speed. When a page is evicted, a snapshot of this counter is stored in the now-empty page cache radix tree slot. On refault, the minimum access distance of the page can be assessed, to evaluate whether the page should be part of the active list or not. This fixes the VM's blindness towards working set changes in excess of the inactive list. And it's the foundation to further improve the protection ability and reduce the minimum inactive list size of 50%. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>