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2017-07-13mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful ↵Michal Hocko1-4/+4
semantic __GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to the page allocator. This has been true but only for allocations requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. It has been always ignored for smaller sizes. This is a bit unfortunate because there is no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests. Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful semantic. Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a success. This will work independent of the order and overrides the default allocator behavior. Page allocator users have several levels of guarantee vs. cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example) - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_ attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more aggressive reclaim - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when the request is a performance optimization and there is another fallback for a slow path. - (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) - non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh context with an expensive slow path fallback. - GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the _default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers (e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently). - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer is not invoked. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer won't be triggered. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed. This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders. Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL because they already had their semantic. No new users are added. __alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point. This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c] [mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz [mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-11mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is lowDavid Rientjes1-2/+11
The purpose of the code that commit 623762517e23 ("revert 'mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is low'") reintroduces is to prefer swapping anonymous memory rather than trashing the file lru. If the anonymous inactive lru for the set of eligible zones is considered low, however, or the length of the list for the given reclaim priority does not allow for effective anonymous-only reclaiming, then avoid forcing SCAN_ANON. Forcing SCAN_ANON will end up thrashing the small list and leave unreclaimed memory on the file lrus. If the inactive list is insufficient, fallback to balanced reclaim so the file lru doesn't remain untouched. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1705011432220.137835@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
2017-07-07mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node countersJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
Patch series "mm: per-lruvec slab stats" Josef is working on a new approach to balancing slab caches and the page cache. For this to work, he needs slab cache statistics on the lruvec level. These patches implement that by adding infrastructure that allows updating and reading generic VM stat items per lruvec, then switches some existing VM accounting sites, including the slab accounting ones, to this new cgroup-aware API. I'll follow up with more patches on this, because there is actually substantial simplification that can be done to the memory controller when we replace private memcg accounting with making the existing VM accounting sites cgroup-aware. But this is enough for Josef to base his slab reclaim work on, so here goes. This patch (of 5): To re-implement slab cache vs. page cache balancing, we'll need the slab counters at the lruvec level, which, ever since lru reclaim was moved from the zone to the node, is the intersection of the node, not the zone, and the memcg. We could retain the per-zone counters for when the page allocator dumps its memory information on failures, and have counters on both levels - which on all but NUMA node 0 is usually redundant. But let's keep it simple for now and just move them. If anybody complains we can restore the per-zone counters. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix oops] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170605183511.GA8915@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530181724.27197-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>
2017-07-07mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim statsRoman Gushchin1-7/+23
Track the following reclaim counters for every memory cgroup: PGREFILL, PGSCAN, PGSTEAL, PGACTIVATE, PGDEACTIVATE, PGLAZYFREE and PGLAZYFREED. These values are exposed using the memory.stats interface of cgroup v2. The meaning of each value is the same as for global counters, available using /proc/vmstat. Also, for consistency, rename mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() to count_memcg_event_mm(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494530183-30808-1-git-send-email-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm, THP, swap: enable THP swap optimization only if has compound mapHuang Ying1-4/+13
If there is no compound map for a THP (Transparent Huge Page), it is possible that the map count of some sub-pages of the THP is 0. So it is better to split the THP before swapping out. In this way, the sub-pages not mapped will be freed, and we can avoid the unnecessary swap out operations for these sub-pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-6-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm, THP, swap: check whether THP can be split firstlyHuang Ying1-0/+4
To swap out THP (Transparent Huage Page), before splitting the THP, the swap cluster will be allocated and the THP will be added into the swap cache. But it is possible that the THP cannot be split, so that we must delete the THP from the swap cache and free the swap cluster. To avoid that, in this patch, whether the THP can be split is checked firstly. The check can only be done racy, but it is good enough for most cases. With the patch, the swap out throughput improves 3.6% (from about 4.16GB/s to about 4.31GB/s) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes. The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device. To test the sequential swapping out, the test case creates 8 processes, which sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until the RAM and part of the swap device is used up. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-5-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> [for can_split_huge_page()] Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm, THP, swap: move anonymous THP split logic to vmscanMinchan Kim1-1/+16
The add_to_swap aims to allocate swap_space(ie, swap slot and swapcache) so if it fails due to lack of space in case of THP or something(hdd swap but tries THP swapout) *caller* rather than add_to_swap itself should split the THP page and retry it with base page which is more natural. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-4-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm, THP, swap: unify swap slot free functions to put_swap_pageMinchan Kim1-1/+1
Now, get_swap_page takes struct page and allocates swap space according to page size(ie, normal or THP) so it would be more cleaner to introduce put_swap_page which is a counter function of get_swap_page. Then, it calls right swap slot free function depending on page's size. [ying.huang@intel.com: minor cleanup and fix] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-3-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm/vmscan.c: fix unsequenced modification and access warningNick Desaulniers1-7/+6
Clang and its -Wunsequenced emits a warning mm/vmscan.c:2961:25: error: unsequenced modification and access to 'gfp_mask' [-Wunsequenced] .gfp_mask = (gfp_mask = current_gfp_context(gfp_mask)), ^ While it is not clear to me whether the initialization code violates the specification (6.7.8 par 19 (ISO/IEC 9899) looks like it disagrees) the code is quite confusing and worth cleaning up anyway. Fix this by reusing sc.gfp_mask rather than the updated input gfp_mask parameter. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510154030.10720-1-nick.desaulniers@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@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>
2017-05-23mm/vmscan: Adjust system_state checksThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
To enable smp_processor_id() and might_sleep() debug checks earlier, it's required to add system states between SYSTEM_BOOTING and SYSTEM_RUNNING. Adjust the system_state check in kswapd_run() to handle the extra states. Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516184736.119158930@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-13mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pagesMinchan Kim1-6/+15
Although there are a ton of free swap and anonymous LRU page in elgible zones, OOM happened. balloon invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x17080c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOTRACK), nodemask=(null), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 CPU: 7 PID: 1138 Comm: balloon Not tainted 4.11.0-rc6-mm1-zram-00289-ge228d67e9677-dirty #17 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: oom_kill_process+0x21d/0x3f0 out_of_memory+0xd8/0x390 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xbc1/0xc50 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1a5/0x1c0 pte_alloc_one+0x20/0x50 __pte_alloc+0x1e/0x110 __handle_mm_fault+0x919/0x960 handle_mm_fault+0x77/0x120 __do_page_fault+0x27a/0x550 trace_do_page_fault+0x43/0x150 do_async_page_fault+0x2c/0x90 async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 Mem-Info: active_anon:424716 inactive_anon:65314 isolated_anon:0 active_file:52 inactive_file:46 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:27 writeback:0 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:3967 slab_unreclaimable:4125 mapped:133 shmem:43 pagetables:1674 bounce:0 free:4637 free_pcp:225 free_cma:0 Node 0 active_anon:1698864kB inactive_anon:261256kB active_file:208kB inactive_file:184kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:532kB dirty:108kB writeback:0kB shmem:172kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? no DMA free:7316kB min:32kB low:44kB high:56kB active_anon:8064kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15992kB managed:15908kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:464kB slab_unreclaimable:40kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:24kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 992 992 1952 DMA32 free:9088kB min:2048kB low:3064kB high:4080kB active_anon:952176kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:36kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:88kB present:1032192kB managed:1019388kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:13532kB slab_unreclaimable:16460kB kernel_stack:3552kB pagetables:6672kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:56kB local_pcp:24kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 959 Movable free:3644kB min:1980kB low:2960kB high:3940kB active_anon:738560kB inactive_anon:261340kB active_file:188kB inactive_file:640kB unevictable:0kB writepending:20kB present:1048444kB managed:1010816kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:832kB local_pcp:60kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 1*4kB (E) 0*8kB 18*16kB (E) 10*32kB (E) 10*64kB (E) 9*128kB (ME) 8*256kB (E) 2*512kB (E) 2*1024kB (E) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7524kB DMA32: 417*4kB (UMEH) 181*8kB (UMEH) 68*16kB (UMEH) 48*32kB (UMEH) 14*64kB (MH) 3*128kB (M) 1*256kB (H) 1*512kB (M) 2*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 9836kB Movable: 1*4kB (M) 1*8kB (M) 1*16kB (M) 1*32kB (M) 0*64kB 1*128kB (M) 2*256kB (M) 4*512kB (M) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3772kB 378 total pagecache pages 17 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 17325, delete 17302, find 0/27 Free swap = 978940kB Total swap = 1048572kB 524157 pages RAM 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly 12629 pages reserved 0 pages cma reserved 0 pages hwpoisoned [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes nr_pmds swapents oom_score_adj name [ 433] 0 433 4904 5 14 3 82 0 upstart-udev-br [ 438] 0 438 12371 5 27 3 191 -1000 systemd-udevd With investigation, skipping page of isolate_lru_pages makes reclaim void because it returns zero nr_taken easily so LRU shrinking is effectively nothing and just increases priority aggressively. Finally, OOM happens. The problem is that get_scan_count determines nr_to_scan with eligible zones so although priority drops to zero, it couldn't reclaim any pages if the LRU contains mostly ineligible pages. get_scan_count: size = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, lru, sc->reclaim_idx); size = size >> sc->priority; Assumes sc->priority is 0 and LRU list is as follows. N-N-N-N-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H (Ie, small eligible pages are in the head of LRU but others are almost ineligible pages) In that case, size becomes 4 so VM want to scan 4 pages but 4 pages from tail of the LRU are not eligible pages. If get_scan_count counts skipped pages, it doesn't reclaim any pages remained after scanning 4 pages so it ends up OOM happening. This patch makes isolate_lru_pages try to scan pages until it encounters eligible zones's pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up mind-bending `for' statement. Tweak comment text] Fixes: 3db65812d688 ("Revert "mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan"") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494457232-27401-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-09mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}Vlastimil Babka1-6/+11
The previous patch ("mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC") has shown that simply setting and clearing PF_MEMALLOC in current->flags can result in wrongly clearing a pre-existing PF_MEMALLOC flag and potentially lead to recursive reclaim. Let's introduce helpers that support proper nesting by saving the previous stat of the flag, similar to the existing memalloc_noio_* and memalloc_nofs_* helpers. Convert existing setting/clearing of PF_MEMALLOC within mm to the new helpers. There are no known issues with the converted code, but the change makes it more robust. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405074700.29871-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Cc: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> 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/+2
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 Weiner1-3/+2
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: memcontrol: clean up memory.events counting functionJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
We only ever count single events, drop the @nr parameter. Rename the function accordingly. Remove low-information kerneldoc. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-1-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: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transitionJohannes Weiner1-20/+74
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>
2017-05-04mm: make ttu's return booleanMinchan Kim1-6/+1
try_to_unmap() returns SWAP_SUCCESS or SWAP_FAIL so it's suitable for boolean return. This patch changes it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-8-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.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>
2017-05-04mm: remove SWAP_AGAIN in ttuMinchan Kim1-2/+0
In 2002, [1] introduced SWAP_AGAIN. At that time, try_to_unmap_one used spin_trylock(&mm->page_table_lock) so it's really easy to contend and fail to hold a lock so SWAP_AGAIN to keep LRU status makes sense. However, now we changed it to mutex-based lock and be able to block without skip pte so there is few of small window to return SWAP_AGAIN so remove SWAP_AGAIN and just return SWAP_FAIL. [1] c48c43e, minimal rmap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-7-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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>
2017-05-04mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttuMinchan Kim1-13/+7
ttu doesn't need to return SWAP_MLOCK. Instead, just return SWAP_FAIL because it means the page is not-swappable so it should move to another LRU list(active or unevictable). putback friends will move it to right list depending on the page's LRU flag. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-6-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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>
2017-05-04mm: remove SWAP_DIRTY in ttuMinchan Kim1-3/+0
If we found lazyfree page is dirty, try_to_unmap_one can just SetPageSwapBakced in there like PG_mlocked page and just return with SWAP_FAIL which is very natural because the page is not swappable right now so that vmscan can activate it. There is no point to introduce new return value SWAP_DIRTY in try_to_unmap at the moment. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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>
2017-05-04mm/vmscan: more restrictive condition for retry in do_try_to_free_pagesYisheng Xie1-5/+13
By reviewing code, I find that when enter do_try_to_free_pages, the may_thrash is always clear, and it will retry shrink zones to tap cgroup's reserves memory by setting may_thrash when the former shrink_zones reclaim nothing. However, when memcg is disabled or on legacy hierarchy, or there do not have any memcg protected by low limit, it should not do this useless retry at all, for we do not have any cgroup's reserves memory to tap, and we have already done hard work but made no progress, which as Michal pointed out in former version, we are trying hard to control the retry logical of page alloctor, and the current additional round of reclaim is just lame. Therefore, to avoid this unneeded retrying and make code more readable, we remove the may_thrash field in scan_control, instead, introduce memcg_low_reclaim and memcg_low_skipped, and only retry when memcg_low_skipped, by setting memcg_low_reclaim. [xieyisheng1@huawei.com: remove may_thrash field, introduce mem_cgroup_reclaim] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490191893-5923-1-git-send-email-ysxie@foxmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490191893-5923-1-git-send-email-ysxie@foxmail.com Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idxMel Gorman1-54/+66
kswapd is woken to reclaim a node based on a failed allocation request from any eligible zone. Once reclaiming in balance_pgdat(), it will continue reclaiming until there is an eligible zone available for the zone it was woken for. kswapd tracks what zone it was recently woken for in pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx. If it has not been woken recently, this zone will be 0. However, the decision on whether to sleep is made on kswapd_classzone_idx which is 0 without a recent wakeup request and that classzone does not account for lowmem reserves. This allows kswapd to sleep when a low small zone such as ZONE_DMA is balanced for a GFP_DMA request even if a stream of allocations cannot use that zone. While kswapd may be woken again shortly in the near future there are two consequences -- the pgdat bits that control congestion are cleared prematurely and direct reclaim is more likely as kswapd slept prematurely. This patch flips kswapd_classzone_idx to default to MAX_NR_ZONES (an invalid index) when there has been no recent wakeups. If there are no wakeups, it'll decide whether to sleep based on the highest possible zone available (MAX_NR_ZONES - 1). It then becomes critical that the "pgdat balanced" decisions during reclaim and when deciding to sleep are the same. If there is a mismatch, kswapd can stay awake continually trying to balance tiny zones. simoop was used to evaluate it again. Two of the preparation patches regressed the workload so they are included as the second set of results. Otherwise this patch looks artifically excellent 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla clear-v2 keepawake-v2 Amean p50-Read 21670074.18 ( 0.00%) 19786774.76 ( 8.69%) 22668332.52 ( -4.61%) Amean p95-Read 25456267.64 ( 0.00%) 24101956.27 ( 5.32%) 26738688.00 ( -5.04%) Amean p99-Read 29369064.73 ( 0.00%) 27691872.71 ( 5.71%) 30991404.52 ( -5.52%) Amean p50-Write 1390.30 ( 0.00%) 1011.91 ( 27.22%) 924.91 ( 33.47%) Amean p95-Write 412901.57 ( 0.00%) 34874.98 ( 91.55%) 1362.62 ( 99.67%) Amean p99-Write 6668722.09 ( 0.00%) 575449.60 ( 91.37%) 16854.04 ( 99.75%) Amean p50-Allocation 78714.31 ( 0.00%) 84246.26 ( -7.03%) 74729.74 ( 5.06%) Amean p95-Allocation 175533.51 ( 0.00%) 400058.43 (-127.91%) 101609.74 ( 42.11%) Amean p99-Allocation 247003.02 ( 0.00%) 10905600.00 (-4315.17%) 125765.57 ( 49.08%) With this patch on top, write and allocation latencies are massively improved. The read latencies are slightly impaired but it's worth noting that this is mostly due to the IO scheduler and not directly related to reclaim. The vmstats are a bit of a mix but the relevant ones are as follows; 4.10.0-rc7 4.10.0-rc7 4.10.0-rc7 mmots-20170209 clear-v1r25keepawake-v1r25 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 608 0 Direct pages scanned 6910672 3132699 6357298 Kswapd pages scanned 57036946 82488665 56986286 Kswapd pages reclaimed 55993488 63474329 55939113 Direct pages reclaimed 6905990 2964843 6352115 Kswapd efficiency 98% 76% 98% Kswapd velocity 12494.375 17597.507 12488.065 Direct efficiency 99% 94% 99% Direct velocity 1513.835 668.306 1393.148 Page writes by reclaim 0.000 4410243.000 0.000 Page writes file 0 4409635 0 Page writes anon 0 608 0 Page reclaim immediate 1036792 14175203 1042571 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla clear-v2 keepawake-v2 Swap Ins 0 12 0 Swap Outs 0 838 0 Direct pages scanned 6579706 3237270 6256811 Kswapd pages scanned 61853702 79961486 54837791 Kswapd pages reclaimed 60768764 60755788 53849586 Direct pages reclaimed 6579055 2987453 6256151 Kswapd efficiency 98% 75% 98% Page writes by reclaim 0.000 4389496.000 0.000 Page writes file 0 4388658 0 Page writes anon 0 838 0 Page reclaim immediate 1073573 14473009 982507 Swap-outs are equivalent to baseline. Direct reclaim is reduced but not eliminated. It's worth noting that there are two periods of direct reclaim for this workload. The first is when it switches from preparing the files for the actual test itself. It's a lot of file IO followed by a lot of allocs that reclaims heavily for a brief window. While direct reclaim is lower with clear-v2, it is due to kswapd scanning aggressively and trying to reclaim the world which is not the right thing to do. With the patches applied, there is still direct reclaim but the phase change from "creating work files" to starting multiple threads that allocate a lot of anonymous memory faster than kswapd can reclaim. Scanning/reclaim efficiency is restored by this patch. Page writes from reclaim context are back at 0 which is ideal. Pages immediately reclaimed after IO completes is slightly improved but it is expected this will vary slightly. On UMA, there is almost no change so this is not expected to be a universal win. [mgorman@suse.de: fix ->kswapd_classzone_idx initialization] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170406174538.5msrznj6nt6qpbx5@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170309075657.25121-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm, vmscan: only clear pgdat congested/dirty/writeback state when balancedMel Gorman1-9/+11
A pgdat tracks if recent reclaim encountered too many dirty, writeback or congested pages. The flags control whether kswapd writes pages back from reclaim context, tags pages for immediate reclaim when IO completes, whether processes block on wait_iff_congested and whether kswapd blocks when too many pages marked for immediate reclaim are encountered. The state is cleared in a check function with side-effects. With the patch "mm, vmscan: fix zone balance check in prepare_kswapd_sleep", the timing of when the bits get cleared changed. Due to the way the check works, it'll clear the bits if ZONE_DMA is balanced for a GFP_DMA allocation because it does not account for lowmem reserves properly. For the simoop workload, kswapd is not stalling when it should due to the premature clearing, writing pages from reclaim context like crazy and generally being unhelpful. This patch resets the pgdat bits related to page reclaim only when kswapd is going to sleep. The comparison with simoop is then 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla fixcheck-v2 clear-v2 Amean p50-Read 21670074.18 ( 0.00%) 20464344.18 ( 5.56%) 19786774.76 ( 8.69%) Amean p95-Read 25456267.64 ( 0.00%) 25721423.64 ( -1.04%) 24101956.27 ( 5.32%) Amean p99-Read 29369064.73 ( 0.00%) 30174230.76 ( -2.74%) 27691872.71 ( 5.71%) Amean p50-Write 1390.30 ( 0.00%) 1395.28 ( -0.36%) 1011.91 ( 27.22%) Amean p95-Write 412901.57 ( 0.00%) 37737.74 ( 90.86%) 34874.98 ( 91.55%) Amean p99-Write 6668722.09 ( 0.00%) 666489.04 ( 90.01%) 575449.60 ( 91.37%) Amean p50-Allocation 78714.31 ( 0.00%) 86286.22 ( -9.62%) 84246.26 ( -7.03%) Amean p95-Allocation 175533.51 ( 0.00%) 351812.27 (-100.42%) 400058.43 (-127.91%) Amean p99-Allocation 247003.02 ( 0.00%) 6291171.56 (-2447.00%) 10905600.00 (-4315.17%) Read latency is improved, write latency is mostly improved but allocation latency is regressed. kswapd is still reclaiming inefficiently, pages are being written back from writeback context and a host of other issues. However, given the change, it needed to be spelled out why the side-effect was moved. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170309075657.25121-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm, vmscan: fix zone balance check in prepare_kswapd_sleepShantanu Goel1-4/+10
Patch series "Reduce amount of time kswapd sleeps prematurely", v2. The series is unusual in that the first patch fixes one problem and introduces other issues that are noted in the changelog. Patch 2 makes a minor modification that is worth considering on its own but leaves the kernel in a state where it behaves badly. It's not until patch 3 that there is an improvement against baseline. This was mostly motivated by examining Chris Mason's "simoop" benchmark which puts the VM under similar pressure to HADOOP. It has been reported that the benchmark has regressed severely during the last number of releases. While I cannot reproduce all the same problems Chris experienced due to hardware limitations, there was a number of problems on a 2-socket machine with a single disk. simoop latencies 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla keepawake-v2 Amean p50-Read 21670074.18 ( 0.00%) 22668332.52 ( -4.61%) Amean p95-Read 25456267.64 ( 0.00%) 26738688.00 ( -5.04%) Amean p99-Read 29369064.73 ( 0.00%) 30991404.52 ( -5.52%) Amean p50-Write 1390.30 ( 0.00%) 924.91 ( 33.47%) Amean p95-Write 412901.57 ( 0.00%) 1362.62 ( 99.67%) Amean p99-Write 6668722.09 ( 0.00%) 16854.04 ( 99.75%) Amean p50-Allocation 78714.31 ( 0.00%) 74729.74 ( 5.06%) Amean p95-Allocation 175533.51 ( 0.00%) 101609.74 ( 42.11%) Amean p99-Allocation 247003.02 ( 0.00%) 125765.57 ( 49.08%) These are latencies. Read/write are threads reading fixed-size random blocks from a simulated database. The allocation latency is mmaping and faulting regions of memory. The p50, 95 and p99 reports the worst latencies for 50% of the samples, 95% and 99% respectively. For example, the report indicates that while the test was running 99% of writes completed 99.75% faster. It's worth noting that on a UMA machine that no difference in performance with simoop was observed so milage will vary. It's noted that there is a slight impact to read latencies but it's mostly due to IO scheduler decisions and offset by the large reduction in other latencies. This patch (of 3): The check in prepare_kswapd_sleep needs to match the one in balance_pgdat since the latter will return as soon as any one of the zones in the classzone is above the watermark. This is specially important for higher order allocations since balance_pgdat will typically reset the order to zero relying on compaction to create the higher order pages. Without this patch, prepare_kswapd_sleep fails to wake up kcompactd since the zone balance check fails. It was first reported against 4.9.7 that kswapd is failing to wake up kcompactd due to a mismatch in the zone balance check between balance_pgdat() and prepare_kswapd_sleep(). balance_pgdat() returns as soon as a single zone satisfies the allocation but prepare_kswapd_sleep() requires all zones to do +the same. This causes prepare_kswapd_sleep() to never succeed except in the order == 0 case and consequently, wakeup_kcompactd() is never called. For the machine that originally motivated this patch, the state of compaction from /proc/vmstat looked this way after a day and a half +of uptime: compact_migrate_scanned 240496 compact_free_scanned 76238632 compact_isolated 123472 compact_stall 1791 compact_fail 29 compact_success 1762 compact_daemon_wake 0 After applying the patch and about 10 hours of uptime the state looks like this: compact_migrate_scanned 59927299 compact_free_scanned 2021075136 compact_isolated 640926 compact_stall 4 compact_fail 2 compact_success 2 compact_daemon_wake 5160 Further notes from Mel that motivated him to pick this patch up and resend it; It was observed for the simoop workload (pressures the VM similar to HADOOP) that kswapd was failing to keep ahead of direct reclaim. The investigation noted that there was a need to rationalise kswapd decisions to reclaim with kswapd decisions to sleep. With this patch on a 2-socket box, there was a 49% reduction in direct reclaim scanning. However, the impact otherwise is extremely negative. Kswapd reclaim efficiency dropped from 98% to 76%. simoop has three latency-related metrics for read, write and allocation (an anonymous mmap and fault). 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla fixcheck-v2 Amean p50-Read 21670074.18 ( 0.00%) 20464344.18 ( 5.56%) Amean p95-Read 25456267.64 ( 0.00%) 25721423.64 ( -1.04%) Amean p99-Read 29369064.73 ( 0.00%) 30174230.76 ( -2.74%) Amean p50-Write 1390.30 ( 0.00%) 1395.28 ( -0.36%) Amean p95-Write 412901.57 ( 0.00%) 37737.74 ( 90.86%) Amean p99-Write 6668722.09 ( 0.00%) 666489.04 ( 90.01%) Amean p50-Allocation 78714.31 ( 0.00%) 86286.22 ( -9.62%) Amean p95-Allocation 175533.51 ( 0.00%) 351812.27 (-100.42%) Amean p99-Allocation 247003.02 ( 0.00%) 6291171.56 (-2447.00%) Of greater concern is that the patch causes swapping and page writes from kswapd context rose from 0 pages to 4189753 pages during the hour the workload ran for. By and large, the patch has very bad behaviour but easily missed as the impact on a UMA machine is negligible. This patch is included with the data in case a bisection leads to this area. This patch is also a pre-requisite for the rest of the series. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170309075657.25121-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} APIMichal Hocko1-3/+3
GFP_NOFS context is used for the following 5 reasons currently: - to prevent from deadlocks when the lock held by the allocation context would be needed during the memory reclaim - to prevent from stack overflows during the reclaim because the allocation is performed from a deep context already - to prevent lockups when the allocation context depends on other reclaimers to make a forward progress indirectly - just in case because this would be safe from the fs POV - silence lockdep false positives Unfortunately overuse of this allocation context brings some problems to the MM. Memory reclaim is much weaker (especially during heavy FS metadata workloads), OOM killer cannot be invoked because the MM layer doesn't have enough information about how much memory is freeable by the FS layer. In many cases it is far from clear why the weaker context is even used and so it might be used unnecessarily. We would like to get rid of those as much as possible. One way to do that is to use the flag in scopes rather than isolated cases. Such a scope is declared when really necessary, tracked per task and all the allocation requests from within the context will simply inherit the GFP_NOFS semantic. Not only this is easier to understand and maintain because there are much less problematic contexts than specific allocation requests, this also helps code paths where FS layer interacts with other layers (e.g. crypto, security modules, MM etc...) and there is no easy way to convey the allocation context between the layers. Introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API to control the scope of GFP_NOFS allocation context. This is basically copying memalloc_noio_{save,restore} API we have for other restricted allocation context GFP_NOIO. The PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag already exists and it is just an alias for PF_FSTRANS which has been xfs specific until recently. There are no more PF_FSTRANS users anymore so let's just drop it. PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS is now checked in the MM layer and drops __GFP_FS implicitly same as PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO drops __GFP_IO. memalloc_noio_flags is renamed to current_gfp_context because it now cares about both PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS and PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO contexts. Xfs code paths preserve their semantic. kmem_flags_convert() doesn't need to evaluate the flag anymore. This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes. Let's hope that filesystems will drop direct GFP_NOFS (resp. ~__GFP_FS) usage as much as possible and only use a properly documented memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} checkpoints where they are appropriate. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, reflow comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-5-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pagesShaohua Li1-12/+22
When memory pressure is high, we free MADV_FREE pages. If the pages are not dirty in pte, the pages could be freed immediately. Otherwise we can't reclaim them. We put the pages back to anonumous LRU list (by setting SwapBacked flag) and the pages will be reclaimed in normal swapout way. We use normal page reclaim policy. Since MADV_FREE pages are put into inactive file list, such pages and inactive file pages are reclaimed according to their age. This is expected, because we don't want to reclaim too many MADV_FREE pages before used once pages. Based on Minchan's original patch [minchan@kernel.org: clean up lazyfree page handling] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303025237.GB3503@bbox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14b8eb1d3f6bf6cc492833f183ac8c304e560484.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: delete unnecessary TTU_* flagsShaohua Li1-7/+4
Patch series "mm: fix some MADV_FREE issues", v5. We are trying to use MADV_FREE in jemalloc. Several issues are found. Without solving the issues, jemalloc can't use the MADV_FREE feature. - Doesn't support system without swap enabled. Because if swap is off, we can't or can't efficiently age anonymous pages. And since MADV_FREE pages are mixed with other anonymous pages, we can't reclaim MADV_FREE pages. In current implementation, MADV_FREE will fallback to MADV_DONTNEED without swap enabled. But in our environment, a lot of machines don't enable swap. This will prevent our setup using MADV_FREE. - Increases memory pressure. page reclaim bias file pages reclaim against anonymous pages. This doesn't make sense for MADV_FREE pages, because those pages could be freed easily and refilled with very slight penality. Even page reclaim doesn't bias file pages, there is still an issue, because MADV_FREE pages and other anonymous pages are mixed together. To reclaim a MADV_FREE page, we probably must scan a lot of other anonymous pages, which is inefficient. In our test, we usually see oom with MADV_FREE enabled and nothing without it. - Accounting. There are two accounting problems. We don't have a global accounting. If the system is abnormal, we don't know if it's a problem from MADV_FREE side. The other problem is RSS accounting. MADV_FREE pages are accounted as normal anon pages and reclaimed lazily, so application's RSS becomes bigger. This confuses our workloads. We have monitoring daemon running and if it finds applications' RSS becomes abnormal, the daemon will kill the applications even kernel can reclaim the memory easily. To address the first the two issues, we can either put MADV_FREE pages into a separate LRU list (Minchan's previous patches and V1 patches), or put them into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list (suggested by Johannes). The patchset use the second idea. The reason is LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list is tiny nowadays and should be full of used once file pages. So we can still efficiently reclaim MADV_FREE pages there without interference with other anon and active file pages. Putting the pages into inactive file list also has an advantage which allows page reclaim to prioritize MADV_FREE pages and used once file pages. MADV_FREE pages are put into the lru list and clear SwapBacked flag, so PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapBacked(page) will indicate a MADV_FREE pages. These pages will directly freed without pageout if they are clean, otherwise normal swap will reclaim them. For the third issue, the previous post adds global accounting and a separate RSS count for MADV_FREE pages. The problem is we never get accurate accounting for MADV_FREE pages. The pages are mapped to userspace, can be dirtied without notice from kernel side. To get accurate accounting, we could write protect the page, but then there is extra page fault overhead, which people don't want to pay. Jemalloc guys have concerns about the inaccurate accounting, so this post drops the accounting patches temporarily. The info exported to /proc/pid/smaps for MADV_FREE pages are kept, which is the only place we can get accurate accounting right now. This patch (of 6): Johannes pointed out TTU_LZFREE is unnecessary. It's true because we always have the flag set if we want to do an unmap. For cases we don't do an unmap, the TTU_LZFREE part of code should never run. Also the TTU_UNMAP is unnecessary. If no other flags set (for example, TTU_MIGRATION), an unmap is implied. The patch includes Johannes's cleanup and dead TTU_ACTION macro removal code Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4be3ea1bc56b26fd98a54d0a6f70bec63f6d8980.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04Revert "mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan"Johannes Weiner1-18/+4
This reverts commit d7f05528eedb047efe2288cff777676b028747b6. Now that reclaimability of a node is no longer based on the ratio between pages scanned and theoretically reclaimable pages, we can remove accounting tricks for pages skipped due to zone constraints. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: delete NR_PAGES_SCANNED and pgdat_reclaimable()Johannes Weiner1-9/+0
NR_PAGES_SCANNED counts number of pages scanned since the last page free event in the allocator. This was used primarily to measure the reclaimability of zones and nodes, and determine when reclaim should give up on them. In that role, it has been replaced in the preceding patches by a different mechanism. Being implemented as an efficient vmstat counter, it was automatically exported to userspace as well. It's however unlikely that anyone outside the kernel is using this counter in any meaningful way. Remove the counter and the unused pgdat_reclaimable(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-8-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: don't avoid high-priority reclaim on memcg limit reclaimJohannes Weiner1-57/+37
Commit 246e87a93934 ("memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets") sought to avoid high reclaim priorities for memcg by forcing it to scan a minimum amount of pages when lru_pages >> priority yielded nothing. This was done at a time when reclaim decisions like dirty throttling were tied to the priority level. Nowadays, the only meaningful thing still tied to priority dropping below DEF_PRIORITY - 2 is gating whether laptop_mode=1 is generally allowed to write. But that is from an era where direct reclaim was still allowed to call ->writepage, and kswapd nowadays avoids writes until it's scanned every clean page in the system. Potential changes to how quick sc->may_writepage could trigger are of little concern. Remove the force_scan stuff, as well as the ugly multi-pass target calculation that it necessitated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-7-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: don't avoid high-priority reclaim on unreclaimable nodesJohannes Weiner1-14/+5
Commit 246e87a93934 ("memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets") sought to avoid high reclaim priorities for kswapd by forcing it to scan a minimum amount of pages when lru_pages >> priority yielded nothing. Commit b95a2f2d486d ("mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists"), due to switching global reclaim to a round-robin scheme over all cgroups, had to restrict this forceful behavior to unreclaimable zones in order to prevent massive overreclaim with many cgroups. The latter patch effectively neutered the behavior completely for all but extreme memory pressure. But in those situations we might as well drop the reclaimers to lower priority levels. Remove the check. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop_mode gatingJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
Commit 1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") allowed laptop_mode=1 to start writing not just when the priority drops to DEF_PRIORITY - 2 but also when the node is unreclaimable. That appears to be a spurious change in this patch as I doubt the series was tested with laptop_mode, and neither is that particular change mentioned in the changelog. Remove it, it's still recent. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: fix check for reclaimable pages in PF_MEMALLOC reclaim throttlingJohannes Weiner1-2/+4
PF_MEMALLOC direct reclaimers get throttled on a node when the sum of all free pages in each zone fall below half the min watermark. During the summation, we want to exclude zones that don't have reclaimables. Checking the same pgdat over and over again doesn't make sense. Fixes: 599d0c954f91 ("mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-04mm: fix 100% CPU kswapd busyloop on unreclaimable nodesJohannes Weiner1-15/+32
Patch series "mm: kswapd spinning on unreclaimable nodes - fixes and cleanups". Jia reported a scenario in which the kswapd of a node indefinitely spins at 100% CPU usage. We have seen similar cases at Facebook. The kernel's current method of judging its ability to reclaim a node (or whether to back off and sleep) is based on the amount of scanned pages in proportion to the amount of reclaimable pages. In Jia's and our scenarios, there are no reclaimable pages in the node, however, and the condition for backing off is never met. Kswapd busyloops in an attempt to restore the watermarks while having nothing to work with. This series reworks the definition of an unreclaimable node based not on scanning but on whether kswapd is able to actually reclaim pages in MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (16) consecutive runs. This is the same criteria the page allocator uses for giving up on direct reclaim and invoking the OOM killer. If it cannot free any pages, kswapd will go to sleep and leave further attempts to direct reclaim invocations, which will either make progress and re-enable kswapd, or invoke the OOM killer. Patch #1 fixes the immediate problem Jia reported, the remainder are smaller fixlets, cleanups, and overall phasing out of the old method. Patch #6 is the odd one out. It's a nice cleanup to get_scan_count(), and directly related to #5, but in itself not relevant to the series. If the whole series is too ambitious for 4.11, I would consider the first three patches fixes, the rest cleanups. This patch (of 9): Jia He reports a problem with kswapd spinning at 100% CPU when requesting more hugepages than memory available in the system: $ echo 4000 >/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages top - 13:42:59 up 3:37, 1 user, load average: 1.09, 1.03, 1.01 Tasks: 1 total, 1 running, 0 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 12.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 85.5 id, 2.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 31371520 total, 30915136 used, 456384 free, 320 buffers KiB Swap: 6284224 total, 115712 used, 6168512 free. 48192 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 76 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.000 217:17.29 kswapd3 At that time, there are no reclaimable pages left in the node, but as kswapd fails to restore the high watermarks it refuses to go to sleep. Kswapd needs to back away from nodes that fail to balance. Up until commit 1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") kswapd had such a mechanism. It considered zones whose theoretically reclaimable pages it had reclaimed six times over as unreclaimable and backed away from them. This guard was erroneously removed as the patch changed the definition of a balanced node. However, simply restoring this code wouldn't help in the case reported here: there *are* no reclaimable pages that could be scanned until the threshold is met. Kswapd would stay awake anyway. Introduce a new and much simpler way of backing off. If kswapd runs through MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (16) cycles without reclaiming a single page, make it back off from the node. This is the same number of shots direct reclaim takes before declaring OOM. Kswapd will go to sleep on that node until a direct reclaimer manages to reclaim some pages, thus proving the node reclaimable again. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: check kswapd failure against the cumulative nr_reclaimed count] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306162410.GB2090@cmpxchg.org [shakeelb@google.com: fix condition for throttle_direct_reclaim] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314183228.20152-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reported-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare to move the memalloc_noio_*() APIs to <linux/sched/mm.h>Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
Update the .c files that depend on these APIs. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-25mm, vmscan: clear PGDAT_WRITEBACK when zone is balancedMel Gorman1-0/+1
Hillf Danton pointed out that since commit 1d82de618dd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") that PGDAT_WRITEBACK is no longer cleared. It was not noticed as triggering it requires pages under writeback to cycle twice through the LRU and before kswapd gets stalled. Historically, such issues tended to occur on small machines writing heavily to slow storage such as a USB stick. Once kswapd stalls, direct reclaim stalls may be higher but due to the fact that memory pressure is required, it would not be very noticable. Michal Hocko suggested removing the flag entirely but the conservative fix is to restore the intended PGDAT_WRITEBACK behaviour and clear the flag when a suitable zone is balanced. Fixes: 1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203203222.gq7hk66yc36lpgtb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
2017-02-25mm: vmscan: move dirty pages out of the way until they're flushedJohannes Weiner1-3/+12
We noticed a performance regression when moving hadoop workloads from 3.10 kernels to 4.0 and 4.6. This is accompanied by increased pageout activity initiated by kswapd as well as frequent bursts of allocation stalls and direct reclaim scans. Even lowering the dirty ratios to the equivalent of less than 1% of memory would not eliminate the issue, suggesting that dirty pages concentrate where the scanner is looking. This can be traced back to recent efforts of thrash avoidance. Where 3.10 would not detect refaulting pages and continuously supply clean cache to the inactive list, a thrashing workload on 4.0+ will detect and activate refaulting pages right away, distilling used-once pages on the inactive list much more effectively. This is by design, and it makes sense for clean cache. But for the most part our workload's cache faults are refaults and its use-once cache is from streaming writes. We end up with most of the inactive list dirty, and we don't go after the active cache as long as we have use-once pages around. But waiting for writes to avoid reclaiming clean cache that *might* refault is a bad trade-off. Even if the refaults happen, reads are faster than writes. Before getting bogged down on writeback, reclaim should first look at *all* cache in the system, even active cache. To accomplish this, activate pages that are dirty or under writeback when they reach the end of the inactive LRU. The pages are marked for immediate reclaim, meaning they'll get moved back to the inactive LRU tail as soon as they're written back and become reclaimable. But in the meantime, by reducing the inactive list to only immediately reclaimable pages, we allow the scanner to deactivate and refill the inactive list with clean cache from the active list tail to guarantee forward progress. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: update comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170202191957.22872-8-hannes@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 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>
2017-02-25mm: vmscan: only write dirty pages that the scanner has seen twiceJohannes Weiner1-5/+10
Dirty pages can easily reach the end of the LRU while there are still clean pages to reclaim around. Don't let kswapd write them back just because there are a lot of them. It costs more CPU to find the clean pages, but that's almost certainly better than to disrupt writeback from the flushers with LRU-order single-page writes from reclaim. And the flushers have been woken up by that point, so we spend IO capacity on flushing and CPU capacity on finding the clean cache. Only start writing dirty pages if they have cycled around the LRU twice now and STILL haven't been queued on the IO device. It's possible that the dirty pages are so sparsely distributed across different bdis, inodes, memory cgroups, that the flushers take forever to get to the ones we want reclaimed. Once we see them twice on the LRU, we know that's the quicker way to find them, so do LRU writeback. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.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>
2017-02-25mm: vmscan: remove old flusher wakeup from direct reclaim pathJohannes Weiner1-17/+0
Direct reclaim has been replaced by kswapd reclaim in pretty much all common memory pressure situations, so this code most likely doesn't accomplish the described effect anymore. The previous patch wakes up flushers for all reclaimers when we encounter dirty pages at the tail end of the LRU. Remove the crufty old direct reclaim invocation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 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>
2017-02-25mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRUJohannes Weiner1-5/+13
Memory pressure can put dirty pages at the end of the LRU without anybody running into dirty limits. Don't start writing individual pages from kswapd while the flushers might be asleep. Unlike the old direct reclaim flusher wakeup (removed in the next patch) that flushes the number of pages just scanned, this patch wakes the flushers for all outstanding dirty pages. That seemed to perform better in a synthetic test that pushes dirty pages to the end of the LRU and into reclaim, because we know LRU aging outstrips writeback already, and this way we give younger dirty pages a headstart rather than wait until reclaim runs into them as well. It also means less plugging and risk of exhausting the struct request pool from reclaim. There is a concern that this will cause temporary files that used to get dirtied and truncated before writeback to now get written to disk under memory pressure. If this turns out to be a real problem, we'll have to revisit this and tame the reclaim flusher wakeups. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: mention dirty expiration as a condition] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126174739.GA30636@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.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>
2017-02-25mm: vmscan: scan dirty pages even in laptop modeJohannes Weiner1-12/+2
Patch series "mm: vmscan: fix kswapd writeback regression". We noticed a regression on multiple hadoop workloads when moving from 3.10 to 4.0 and 4.6, which involves kswapd getting tangled up in page writeout, causing direct reclaim herds that also don't make progress. I tracked it down to the thrash avoidance efforts after 3.10 that make the kernel better at keeping use-once cache and use-many cache sorted on the inactive and active list, with more aggressive protection of the active list as long as there is inactive cache. Unfortunately, our workload's use-once cache is mostly from streaming writes. Waiting for writes to avoid potential reloads in the future is not a good tradeoff. These patches do the following: 1. Wake the flushers when kswapd sees a lump of dirty pages. It's possible to be below the dirty background limit and still have cache velocity push them through the LRU. So start a-flushin'. 2. Let kswapd only write pages that have been rotated twice. This makes sure we really tried to get all the clean pages on the inactive list before resorting to horrible LRU-order writeback. 3. Move rotating dirty pages off the inactive list. Instead of churning or waiting on page writeback, we'll go after clean active cache. This might lead to thrashing, but in this state memory demand outstrips IO speed anyway, and reads are faster than writes. Mel backported the series to 4.10-rc5 with one minor conflict and ran a couple of tests on it. Mix of read/write random workload didn't show anything interesting. Write-only database didn't show much difference in performance but there were slight reductions in IO -- probably in the noise. simoop did show big differences although not as big as Mel expected. This is Chris Mason's workload that similate the VM activity of hadoop. Mel won't go through the full details but over the samples measured during an hour it reported 4.10.0-rc5 4.10.0-rc5 vanilla johannes-v1r1 Amean p50-Read 21346531.56 ( 0.00%) 21697513.24 ( -1.64%) Amean p95-Read 24700518.40 ( 0.00%) 25743268.98 ( -4.22%) Amean p99-Read 27959842.13 ( 0.00%) 28963271.11 ( -3.59%) Amean p50-Write 1138.04 ( 0.00%) 989.82 ( 13.02%) Amean p95-Write 1106643.48 ( 0.00%) 12104.00 ( 98.91%) Amean p99-Write 1569213.22 ( 0.00%) 36343.38 ( 97.68%) Amean p50-Allocation 85159.82 ( 0.00%) 79120.70 ( 7.09%) Amean p95-Allocation 204222.58 ( 0.00%) 129018.43 ( 36.82%) Amean p99-Allocation 278070.04 ( 0.00%) 183354.43 ( 34.06%) Amean final-p50-Read 21266432.00 ( 0.00%) 21921792.00 ( -3.08%) Amean final-p95-Read 24870912.00 ( 0.00%) 26116096.00 ( -5.01%) Amean final-p99-Read 28147712.00 ( 0.00%) 29523968.00 ( -4.89%) Amean final-p50-Write 1130.00 ( 0.00%) 977.00 ( 13.54%) Amean final-p95-Write 1033216.00 ( 0.00%) 2980.00 ( 99.71%) Amean final-p99-Write 1517568.00 ( 0.00%) 32672.00 ( 97.85%) Amean final-p50-Allocation 86656.00 ( 0.00%) 78464.00 ( 9.45%) Amean final-p95-Allocation 211712.00 ( 0.00%) 116608.00 ( 44.92%) Amean final-p99-Allocation 287232.00 ( 0.00%) 168704.00 ( 41.27%) The latencies are actually completely horrific in comparison to 4.4 (and 4.10-rc5 is worse than 4.9 according to historical data for reasons Mel hasn't analysed yet). Still, 95% of write latency (p95-write) is halved by the series and allocation latency is way down. Direct reclaim activity is one fifth of what it was according to vmstats. Kswapd activity is higher but this is not necessarily surprising. Kswapd efficiency is unchanged at 99% (99% of pages scanned were reclaimed) but direct reclaim efficiency went from 77% to 99% In the vanilla kernel, 627MB of data was written back from reclaim context. With the series, no data was written back. With or without the patch, pages are being immediately reclaimed after writeback completes. However, with the patch, only 1/8th of the pages are reclaimed like this. This patch (of 5): We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback. Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.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>
2017-02-23Revert "mm: bail out in shrink_inactive_list()"Michal Hocko1-27/+0
This reverts commit 91dcade47a3d0e7. inactive_reclaimable_pages shouldn't be needed anymore since that get_scan_count is aware of the eligble zones ("mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpchxg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_countMichal Hocko1-2/+2
get_scan_count() considers the whole node LRU size when - doing SCAN_FILE due to many page cache inactive pages - calculating the number of pages to scan In both cases this might lead to unexpected behavior especially on 32b systems where we can expect lowmem memory pressure very often. A large highmem zone can easily distort SCAN_FILE heuristic because there might be only few file pages from the eligible zones on the node lru and we would still enforce file lru scanning which can lead to trashing while we could still scan anonymous pages. The later use of lruvec_lru_size can be problematic as well. Especially when there are not many pages from the eligible zones. We would have to skip over many pages to find anything to reclaim but shrink_node_memcg would only reduce the remaining number to scan by SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX at maximum. Therefore we can end up going over a large LRU many times without actually having chance to reclaim much if anything at all. The closer we are out of memory on lowmem zone the worse the problem will be. Fix this by filtering out all the ineligible zones when calculating the lru size for both paths and consider only sc->reclaim_idx zones. The patch would need to be tweaked a bit to apply to 4.10 and older but I will do that as soon as it hits the Linus tree in the next merge window. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117103702.28542-3-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: b2e18757f2c9 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+] 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 Hocko1-45/+44
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>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATEMichal Hocko1-3/+1
PGDEACTIVATE represents the number of pages moved from the active list to the inactive list. At least this sounds like the original motivation of the counter. move_active_pages_to_lru, however, counts pages which got freed in the mean time as deactivated as well. This is a very rare event and counting them as deactivation in itself is not harmful but it makes the code more convoluted than necessary - we have to count both all pages and those which are freed which is a bit confusing. After this patch the PGDEACTIVATE should have a slightly more clear semantic and only count those pages which are moved from the active to the inactive list which is a plus. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170112211221.17636-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepointMichal Hocko1-9/+14
Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to age the active list. Without that it is quite hard to diagnose active/inactive lists balancing. Add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint to tell us this information. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-8-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: enhance mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive tracepointMichal Hocko1-0/+14
mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive will currently report the number of scanned and reclaimed pages. This doesn't give us an idea how the reclaim went except for the overall effectiveness though. Export and show other counters which will tell us why we couldn't reclaim some pages. - nr_dirty, nr_writeback, nr_congested and nr_immediate tells us how many pages are blocked due to IO - nr_activate tells us how many pages were moved to the active list - nr_ref_keep reports how many pages are kept on the LRU due to references (mostly for the file pages which are about to go for another round through the inactive list) - nr_unmap_fail - how many pages failed to unmap All these are rather low level so they might change in future but the tracepoint is already implementation specific so no tools should be depending on its stability. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-7-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: extract shrink_page_list reclaim counters into a structMichal Hocko1-31/+30
shrink_page_list returns quite some counters back to its caller. Extract the existing 5 into struct reclaim_stat because this makes the code easier to follow and also allows further counters to be returned. While we are at it, make all of them unsigned rather than unsigned long as we do not really need full 64b for them (we never scan more than SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages at once). This should reduce some stack space. This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-6-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: show LRU name in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate tracepointMichal Hocko1-2/+1
mm_vmscan_lru_isolate currently prints only whether the LRU we isolate from is file or anonymous but we do not know which LRU this is. It is useful to know whether the list is active or inactive, since we are using the same function to isolate pages from both of them and it's hard to distinguish otherwise. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-5-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, vmscan: show the number of skipped pages in mm_vmscan_lru_isolateMichal Hocko1-6/+7
mm_vmscan_lru_isolate shows the number of requested, scanned and taken pages. This is mostly OK but on 32b systems the number of scanned pages is quite misleading because it includes both the scanned and skipped pages. Moreover the skipped part is scaled based on the number of taken pages. Let's report the exact numbers without any additional logic and add the number of skipped pages. This should make the reported data much more easier to interpret. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>