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2018-05-16proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}Christoph Hellwig1-52/+4
Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers. All trivial callers converted over. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2018-05-12mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstatRoman Gushchin1-1/+5
Don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat, because there is no need to export this vm counter to userspace, and some changes are expected in reclaimable object accounting, which can alter this counter. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180425191422.9159-1-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTESRoman Gushchin1-0/+1
Patch series "indirectly reclaimable memory", v2. This patchset introduces the concept of indirectly reclaimable memory and applies it to fix the issue of when a big number of dentries with external names can significantly affect the MemAvailable value. This patch (of 3): Introduce a concept of indirectly reclaimable memory and adds the corresponding memory counter and /proc/vmstat item. Indirectly reclaimable memory is any sort of memory, used by the kernel (except of reclaimable slabs), which is actually reclaimable, i.e. will be released under memory pressure. The counter is in bytes, as it's not always possible to count such objects in pages. The name contains BYTES by analogy to NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180305133743.12746-2-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: 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>
2018-03-29mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUGSteven J. Hill1-0/+2
Attempting to hotplug CPUs with CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS enabled can cause vmstat_update() to report a BUG due to preemption not being disabled around smp_processor_id(). Discovered on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Pro with Cavium Octeon II processor. BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kworker/1:1/269 caller is vmstat_update+0x50/0xa0 CPU: 0 PID: 269 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc4-Cavium-Octeon-00009-gf83bbd5-dirty #1 Workqueue: mm_percpu_wq vmstat_update Call Trace: show_stack+0x94/0x128 dump_stack+0xa4/0xe0 check_preemption_disabled+0x118/0x120 vmstat_update+0x50/0xa0 process_one_work+0x144/0x348 worker_thread+0x150/0x4b8 kthread+0x110/0x140 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520881552-25659-1-git-send-email-steven.hill@cavium.com Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurableKemi Wang1-0/+71
This is the second step which introduces a tunable interface that allow numa stats configurable for optimizing zone_statistics(), as suggested by Dave Hansen and Ying Huang. ========================================================================= When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat In this case, numa counter update is ignored. We can see about *4.8%*(185->176) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench01 (single thread) and *8.1%*(343->315) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 (88 threads) running on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based server (88 threads, 126G memory). Benchmark link provided by Jesper D Brouer (increase loop times to 10000000): https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench ========================================================================= When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all tooling to work, you can do: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat This is system default setting. Many thanks to Michal Hocko, Dave Hansen, Ying Huang and Vlastimil Babka for comments to help improve the original patch. [keescook@chromium.org: make sure mutex is a global static] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107213809.GA4314@beast Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508290927-8518-1-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Suggested-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: remove unused pgdat->inactive_ratioAndrey Ryabinin1-4/+2
Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") 'pgdat->inactive_ratio' is not used, except for printing "node_inactive_ratio: 0" in /proc/zoneinfo output. Remove it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003152611.27483-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-09mm: consider the number in local CPUs when reading NUMA statsKemi Wang1-2/+7
To avoid deviation, the per cpu number of NUMA stats in vm_numa_stat_diff[] is included when a user *reads* the NUMA stats. Since NUMA stats does not be read by users frequently, and kernel does not need it to make a decision, it will not be a problem to make the readers more expensive. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-4-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-09mm: update NUMA counter threshold sizeKemi Wang1-18/+10
There is significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone counters (NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded page allocation (suggested by Dave Hansen). This patch updates NUMA counter threshold to a fixed size of MAX_U16 - 2, as a small threshold greatly increases the update frequency of the global counter from local per cpu counter(suggested by Ying Huang). The rationality is that these statistics counters don't affect the kernel's decision, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem to use a large threshold. With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369) for per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark. Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000): https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/ bench Threshold CPU cycles Throughput(88 threads) 32 799 241760478 64 640 301628829 125 537 358906028 <==> system by default (base) 256 468 412397590 512 428 450550704 4096 399 482520943 20000 394 489009617 30000 395 488017817 65533 369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset N/A 342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-3-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Suggested-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-09mm: change the call sites of numa statistics itemsKemi Wang1-6/+155
Patch series "Separate NUMA statistics from zone statistics", v2. Each page allocation updates a set of per-zone statistics with a call to zone_statistics(). As discussed in 2017 MM summit, these are a substantial source of overhead in the page allocator and are very rarely consumed. This significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone counters (NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded page allocation (pointed out by Dave Hansen). A link to the MM summit slides: http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2017/MM-summit2017-JesperBrouer.pdf To mitigate this overhead, this patchset separates NUMA statistics from zone statistics framework, and update NUMA counter threshold to a fixed size of MAX_U16 - 2, as a small threshold greatly increases the update frequency of the global counter from local per cpu counter (suggested by Ying Huang). The rationality is that these statistics counters don't need to be read often, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem to use a large threshold and make readers more expensive. With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369, see below) for per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark. Meanwhile, this patchset keeps the same style of virtual memory statistics with little end-user-visible effects (only move the numa stats to show behind zone page stats, see the first patch for details). I did an experiment of single page allocation and reclaim concurrently using Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based server (88 processors with 126G memory) with different size of threshold of pcp counter. Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000): https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench Threshold CPU cycles Throughput(88 threads) 32 799 241760478 64 640 301628829 125 537 358906028 <==> system by default 256 468 412397590 512 428 450550704 4096 399 482520943 20000 394 489009617 30000 395 488017817 65533 369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset N/A 342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics This patch (of 3): In this patch, NUMA statistics is separated from zone statistics framework, all the call sites of NUMA stats are changed to use numa-stats-specific functions, it does not have any functionality change except that the number of NUMA stats is shown behind zone page stats when users *read* the zone info. E.g. cat /proc/zoneinfo ***Base*** ***With this patch*** nr_free_pages 3976 nr_free_pages 3976 nr_zone_inactive_anon 0 nr_zone_inactive_anon 0 nr_zone_active_anon 0 nr_zone_active_anon 0 nr_zone_inactive_file 0 nr_zone_inactive_file 0 nr_zone_active_file 0 nr_zone_active_file 0 nr_zone_unevictable 0 nr_zone_unevictable 0 nr_zone_write_pending 0 nr_zone_write_pending 0 nr_mlock 0 nr_mlock 0 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_kernel_stack 0 nr_kernel_stack 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_zspages 0 nr_zspages 0 numa_hit 0 *nr_free_cma 0* numa_miss 0 numa_hit 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_miss 0 numa_interleave 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_local 0 numa_interleave 0 numa_other 0 numa_local 0 *nr_free_cma 0* numa_other 0 ... ... vm stats threshold: 10 vm stats threshold: 10 ... ... The next patch updates the numa stats counter size and threshold. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-2-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statisticsHuang Ying1-0/+4
Patch series "mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead", v4. The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in latency. Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered valid. In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation. But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual memory space. And the different tasks in the system may have different access patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation incorrect. In this patchset, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the fault address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault swap slot in swap device. This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap slots. At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on per-VMA from globally. So that the different access patterns of the different VMAs could be distinguished, and the different readahead policy could be applied accordingly. The original core readahead detection and scaling algorithm is reused, because it is an effect algorithm to detect the space locality. In addition to the swap readahead changes, some new sysfs interface is added to show the efficiency of the readahead algorithm and some other swap statistics. This new implementation will incur more small random read, on SSD, the improved correctness of estimation and readahead target should beat the potential increased overhead, this is also illustrated in the test results below. But on HDD, the overhead may beat the benefit, so the original implementation will be used by default. The test and result is as follow, Common test condition ===================== Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM) Swap device: NVMe disk Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern ============================================ vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300 seconds. The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out. At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the random memory write until 300 seconds. This will trigger random swap-in in the background. This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing at the same time. The result (for sequential workload) is as follow, Base Optimized ---- --------- throughput 345413 KB/s 414029 KB/s (+19.9%) latency.average 97.14 us 61.06 us (-37.1%) latency.50th 2 us 1 us latency.60th 2 us 1 us latency.70th 98 us 2 us latency.80th 160 us 2 us latency.90th 260 us 217 us latency.95th 346 us 369 us latency.99th 1.34 ms 1.09 ms ra_hit% 52.69% 99.98% The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower. The VMA-base readahead algorithm works much better. Linpack ======= The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping. Base Optimized ---- --------- elapsed_time 393.49 s 329.88 s (-16.2%) ra_hit% 86.21% 98.82% The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes. But the elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages. And the absolute value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is still valid in some practical workloads. This patch (of 5): The statistics for total readahead pages and total readahead hits are recorded and exported via the following sysfs interface. /sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_hits /sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_total With them, the efficiency of the swap readahead could be measured, so that the swap readahead algorithm and parameters could be tuned accordingly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't display swap stats if CONFIG_SWAP=n] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong commentSeongJae Park1-1/+1
Comment for pagetypeinfo_showblockcount() is mistakenly duplicated from pagetypeinfo_show_free()'s comment. This commit fixes it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809185816.11244-1-sj38.park@gmail.com Fixes: 467c996c1e19 ("Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@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>
2017-09-07mm/vmstat: fix divide error at __fragmentation_indexWen Yang1-0/+3
When order is -1 or too big, *1UL << order* will be 0, which will cause a divide error. Although it seems that all callers of __fragmentation_index() will only do so with a valid order, the patch can make it more robust. Should prevent reoccurrences of https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196555 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501751520-2598-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_stateMichal Hocko1-2/+2
global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1]. It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it gets suggests. We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here. All existing users seems to be correct: $ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c 2 NR_BOUNCE 2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES 11 NR_FREE_PAGES 1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB 1 NR_MLOCK 2 NR_PAGETABLE This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, THP, swap: add THP swapping out fallback countingHuang Ying1-0/+1
When swapping out THP (Transparent Huge Page), instead of swapping out the THP as a whole, sometimes we have to fallback to split the THP into normal pages before swapping, because no free swap clusters are available, or cgroup limit is exceeded, etc. To count the number of the fallback, a new VM event THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK is added, and counted when we fallback to split the THP. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-13-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@intel.com> [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c] Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm: test code to write THP to swap device as a wholeHuang Ying1-0/+1
To support delay splitting THP (Transparent Huge Page) after swapped out, we need to enhance swap writing code to support to write a THP as a whole. This will improve swap write IO performance. As Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> pointed out, this should be based on multipage bvec support, which hasn't been merged yet. So this patch is only for testing the functionality of the other patches in the series. And will be reimplemented after multipage bvec support is merged. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-7-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@intel.com> [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c] Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-11mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed()Vinayak Menon1-10/+14
pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print is found to take a lot of time to complete and it does this holding the zone lock and disabling interrupts. In some cases it is found to take more than a second (On a 2.4GHz,8Gb RAM,arm64 cpu). Avoid taking the zone lock similar to what is done by read_page_owner, which means possibility of inaccurate results. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498045643-12257-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> 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 Weiner1-2/+2
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/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom killsKonstantin Khlebnikov1-0/+1
Show count of oom killer invocations in /proc/vmstat and count of processes killed in memory cgroup in knob "memory.events" (in memory.oom_control for v1 cgroup). Also describe difference between "oom" and "oom_kill" in memory cgroup documentation. Currently oom in memory cgroup kills tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault. These counters helps in monitoring oom kills - for now the only way is grepping for magic words in kernel log. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() rename] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Konstantin] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149570810989.203600.9492483715840752937.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Roman Guschin <guroan@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm, vmstat: skip reporting offline pages in pagetypeinfoMichal Hocko1-3/+2
pagetypeinfo_showblockcount_print skips over invalid pfns but it would report pages which are offline because those have a valid pfn. Their migrate type is misleading at best. Now that we have pfn_to_online_page() we can use it instead of pfn_valid() and fix this. [mhocko@suse.com: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519072225.GA13041@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515085827.16474-11-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tobias Regnery <tobias.regnery@gmail.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07mm/vmstat.c: standardize file operations variable namesAnshuman Khandual1-8/+8
Standardize the file operation variable names related to all four memory management /proc interface files. Also change all the symbol permissions (S_IRUGO) into octal permissions (0444) as it got complaints from checkpatch.pl. This does not create any functional change to the interface. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170427030632.8588-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-13mm, vmstat: Remove spurious WARN() during zoneinfo printReza Arbab1-2/+0
After commit e2ecc8a79ed4 ("mm, vmstat: print non-populated zones in zoneinfo"), /proc/zoneinfo will show unpopulated zones. A memoryless node, having no populated zones at all, was previously ignored, but will now trigger the WARN() in is_zone_first_populated(). Remove this warning, as its only purpose was to warn of a situation that has since been enabled. Aside: The "per-node stats" are still printed under the first populated zone, but that's not necessarily the first stanza any more. I'm not sure which criteria is more important with regard to not breaking parsers, but it looks a little weird to the eye. Fixes: e2ecc8a79ed4 ("mm, vmstat: print node-based stats in zoneinfo file") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493854905-10918-1-git-send-email-arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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, vmstat: suppress pcp stats for unpopulated zones in zoneinfoDavid Rientjes1-7/+13
After "mm, vmstat: print non-populated zones in zoneinfo", /proc/zoneinfo will show unpopulated zones. The per-cpu pageset statistics are not relevant for unpopulated zones and can be potentially lengthy, so supress them when they are not interesting. Also moves lowmem reserve protection information above pcp stats since it is relevant for all zones per vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1703061400500.46428@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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, vmstat: print non-populated zones in zoneinfoDavid Rientjes1-10/+17
Initscripts can use the information (protection levels) from /proc/zoneinfo to configure vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio at boot. vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array of ratios for each configured zone on the system. If a zone is not populated on an arch, /proc/zoneinfo suppresses its output. This results in there not being a 1:1 mapping between the set of zones emitted by /proc/zoneinfo and the zones configured by vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio. This patch shows statistics for non-populated zones in /proc/zoneinfo. The zones exist and hold a spot in the vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio array. Without this patch, it is not possible to determine which index in the array controls which zone if one or more zones on the system are not populated. Remaining users of walk_zones_in_node() are unchanged. Files such as /proc/pagetypeinfo require certain zone data to be initialized properly for display, which is not done for unpopulated zones. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1703031451310.98023@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: 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>
2017-05-04mm: move MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE listShaohua Li1-0/+1
madv()'s MADV_FREE indicate pages are 'lazyfree'. They are still anonymous pages, but they can be freed without pageout. To distinguish these from normal anonymous pages, we clear their SwapBacked flag. MADV_FREE pages could be freed without pageout, so they pretty much like used once file pages. For such pages, we'd like to reclaim them once there is memory pressure. Also it might be unfair reclaiming MADV_FREE pages always before used once file pages and we definitively want to reclaim the pages before other anonymous and file pages. To speed up MADV_FREE pages reclaim, we put the pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list. The rationale is LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list is tiny nowadays and should be full of used once file pages. Reclaiming MADV_FREE pages will not have much interfere of anonymous and active file pages. And the inactive file pages and MADV_FREE pages will be reclaimed according to their age, so we don't reclaim too many MADV_FREE pages too. Putting the MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE_LIST also means we can reclaim the pages without swap support. This idea is suggested by Johannes. This patch doesn't move MADV_FREE pages to LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list yet to avoid bisect failure, next patch will do it. The patch is based on Minchan's original patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f87063c1e9354677b7618c647abde77b07561e5.1487965799.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: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> 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 NR_PAGES_SCANNED and pgdat_reclaimable()Johannes Weiner1-19/+3
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: fix 100% CPU kswapd busyloop on unreclaimable nodesJohannes Weiner1-1/+1
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>
2017-04-20mm: make mm_percpu_wq non freezableMichal Hocko1-2/+1
Geert has reported a freeze during PM resume and some additional debugging has shown that the device_resume worker cannot make a forward progress because it waits for an event which is stuck waiting in drain_all_pages: INFO: task kworker/u4:0:5 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 4.11.0-rc7-koelsch-00029-g005882e53d62f25d-dirty #3476 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kworker/u4:0 D 0 5 2 0x00000000 Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn __schedule schedule schedule_timeout wait_for_common dpm_wait_for_superior device_resume async_resume async_run_entry_fn process_one_work worker_thread kthread [...] bash D 0 1703 1694 0x00000000 __schedule schedule schedule_timeout wait_for_common flush_work drain_all_pages start_isolate_page_range alloc_contig_range cma_alloc __alloc_from_contiguous cma_allocator_alloc __dma_alloc arm_dma_alloc sh_eth_ring_init sh_eth_open sh_eth_resume dpm_run_callback device_resume dpm_resume dpm_resume_end suspend_devices_and_enter pm_suspend state_store kernfs_fop_write __vfs_write vfs_write SyS_write [...] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: [...] workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0xc pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0 delayed: drain_local_pages_wq, vmstat_update pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0 delayed: drain_local_pages_wq BAR(1703), vmstat_update Tetsuo has properly noted that mm_percpu_wq is created as WQ_FREEZABLE so it is frozen this early during resume so we are effectively deadlocked. Fix this by dropping WQ_FREEZABLE when creating mm_percpu_wq. We really want to have it operational all the time. Fixes: ce612879ddc7 ("mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wq") Reported-and-tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-08mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wqMichal Hocko1-6/+9
We currently have 2 specific WQ_RECLAIM workqueues in the mm code. vmstat_wq for updating pcp stats and lru_add_drain_wq dedicated to drain per cpu lru caches. This seems more than necessary because both can run on a single WQ. Both do not block on locks requiring a memory allocation nor perform any allocations themselves. We will save one rescuer thread this way. On the other hand drain_all_pages() queues work on the system wq which doesn't have rescuer and so this depend on memory allocation (when all workers are stuck allocating and new ones cannot be created). Initially we thought this would be more of a theoretical problem but Hugh Dickins has reported: : 4.11-rc has been giving me hangs after hours of swapping load. At : first they looked like memory leaks ("fork: Cannot allocate memory"); : but for no good reason I happened to do "cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh" : before looking at /proc/meminfo one time, and the stat_refresh stuck : in D state, waiting for completion of flush_work like many kworkers. : kthreadd waiting for completion of flush_work in drain_all_pages(). This worker should be using WQ_RECLAIM as well in order to guarantee a forward progress. We can reuse the same one as for lru draining and vmstat. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131751.24936-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Yang Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-01mm: move mm_percpu_wq initialization earlierMichal Hocko1-3/+1
Yang Li has reported that drain_all_pages triggers a WARN_ON which means that this function is called earlier than the mm_percpu_wq is initialized on arm64 with CMA configured: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:2423 drain_all_pages+0x244/0x25c Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc1-next-20170310-00027-g64dfbc5 #127 Hardware name: Freescale Layerscape 2088A RDB Board (DT) task: ffffffc07c4a6d00 task.stack: ffffffc07c4a8000 PC is at drain_all_pages+0x244/0x25c LR is at start_isolate_page_range+0x14c/0x1f0 [...] drain_all_pages+0x244/0x25c start_isolate_page_range+0x14c/0x1f0 alloc_contig_range+0xec/0x354 cma_alloc+0x100/0x1fc dma_alloc_from_contiguous+0x3c/0x44 atomic_pool_init+0x7c/0x208 arm64_dma_init+0x44/0x4c do_one_initcall+0x38/0x128 kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x240 kernel_init+0x10/0xfc ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Fix this by moving the whole setup_vmstat which is an initcall right now to init_mm_internals which will be called right after the WQ subsystem is initialized. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315164021.28532-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Yang Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Yang Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-10mm/vmstats: add thp_split_pud event for clarityYisheng Xie1-0/+3
We added support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages, however we count the event "thp split pud" into thp_split_pmd event. To separate the event count of thp split pud from pmd, add a new event named thp_split_pud. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488282380-5076-1-git-send-email-xieyisheng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-23mm, compaction: add vmstats for kcompactd workDavid Rientjes1-0/+2
A "compact_daemon_wake" vmstat exists that represents the number of times kcompactd has woken up. This doesn't represent how much work it actually did, though. It's useful to understand how much compaction work is being done by kcompactd versus other methods such as direct compaction and explicitly triggered per-node (or system) compaction. This adds two new vmstats: "compact_daemon_migrate_scanned" and "compact_daemon_free_scanned" to represent the number of pages kcompactd has scanned as part of its migration scanner and freeing scanner, respectively. These values are still accounted for in the general "compact_migrate_scanned" and "compact_free_scanned" for compatibility. It could be argued that explicitly triggered compaction could also be tracked separately, and that could be added if others find it useful. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1612071749390.69852@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-02mm/vmstat: Convert to hotplug state machineSebastian Andrzej Siewior1-41/+35
Install the callbacks via the state machine, but do not invoke them as we can initialize the node state without calling the callbacks on all online CPUs. start_shepherd_timer() is now called outside the get_online_cpus() block which is safe as it only operates on cpu possible mask. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: rt@linutronix.de Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129145221.ffc3kg3hd7lxiwj6@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-02mm/vmstat: Avoid on each online CPU loopsSebastian Andrzej Siewior1-7/+9
Both iterations over online cpus can be replaced by the proper node specific functions. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: rt@linutronix.de Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129145113.fn3lw5aazjjvdrr3@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-02mm/vmstat: Drop get_online_cpus() from init_cpu_node_state/vmstat_cpu_dead()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior1-6/+1
Both functions are called with protection against cpu hotplug already so *_online_cpus() could be dropped. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: rt@linutronix.de Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126231350.10321-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-10-08seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not charJoe Perches1-1/+1
Allow some seq_puts removals by taking a string instead of a single char. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update vmstat_show(), per Joe] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/667e1cf3d436de91a5698170a1e98d882905e956.1470704995.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08proc: much faster /proc/vmstatAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+4
Every current KDE system has process named ksysguardd polling files below once in several seconds: $ strace -e trace=open -p $(pidof ksysguardd) Process 1812 attached open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8 open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8 open("/proc/net/dev", O_RDONLY) = 8 open("/proc/net/wireless", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY) = 8 open("/proc/vmstat", O_RDONLY) = 8 Hell knows what it is doing but speed up reading /proc/vmstat by 33%! Benchmark is open+read+close 1.000.000 times. BEFORE $ perf stat -r 10 taskset -c 3 ./proc-vmstat Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 3 ./proc-vmstat' (10 runs): 13146.768464 task-clock (msec) # 0.960 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.60% ) 15 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 1.41% ) 1 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 11.11% ) 104 page-faults # 0.008 K/sec ( +- 0.57% ) 45,489,799,349 cycles # 3.460 GHz ( +- 0.03% ) 9,970,175,743 stalled-cycles-frontend # 21.92% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.10% ) 2,800,298,015 stalled-cycles-backend # 6.16% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.32% ) 79,241,190,850 instructions # 1.74 insn per cycle # 0.13 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.00% ) 17,616,096,146 branches # 1339.956 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) 176,106,232 branch-misses # 1.00% of all branches ( +- 0.18% ) 13.691078109 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.03% ) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ AFTER $ perf stat -r 10 taskset -c 3 ./proc-vmstat Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 3 ./proc-vmstat' (10 runs): 8688.353749 task-clock (msec) # 0.950 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.25% ) 10 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 2.13% ) 1 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 104 page-faults # 0.012 K/sec ( +- 0.56% ) 30,384,010,730 cycles # 3.497 GHz ( +- 0.07% ) 12,296,259,407 stalled-cycles-frontend # 40.47% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.13% ) 3,370,668,651 stalled-cycles-backend # 11.09% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.69% ) 28,969,052,879 instructions # 0.95 insn per cycle # 0.42 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.01% ) 6,308,245,891 branches # 726.058 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) 214,685,502 branch-misses # 3.40% of all branches ( +- 0.26% ) 9.146081052 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.07% ) ^^^^^^^^^^^ vsnprintf() is slow because: 1. format_decode() is busy looking for format specifier: 2 branches per character (not in this case, but in others) 2. approximately million branches while parsing format mini language and everywhere 3. just look at what string() does /proc/vmstat is good case because most of its content are strings Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160806125455.GA1187@p183.telecom.by Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08cpu: fix node state for whether it contains CPUTim Chen1-0/+11
In current kernel code, we only call node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU) when a cpu is hot plugged. But we do not set the node state for N_CPU when the cpus are brought online during boot. So this could lead to failure when we check to see if a node contains cpu with node_state(node_id, N_CPU). One use case is in the node_reclaime function: /* * Only run node reclaim on the local node or on nodes that do * not * have associated processors. This will favor the local * processor * over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations * as wide as possible. */ if (node_state(pgdat->node_id, N_CPU) && pgdat->node_id != numa_node_id()) return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN; I instrumented the kernel to call this function after boot and it always returns 0 on a x86 desktop machine until I apply the attached patch. int num_cpu_node(void) { int i, nr_cpu_nodes = 0; for_each_node(i) { if (node_state(i, N_CPU)) ++ nr_cpu_nodes; } return nr_cpu_nodes; } Fix this by checking each node for online CPU when we initialize vmstat that's responsible for maintaining node state. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160829175922.GA21775@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <Huang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm/page_owner: move page_owner specific function to page_owner.cJoonsoo Kim1-79/+0
There is no reason that page_owner specific function resides on vmstat.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.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>
2016-07-29mm: remove reclaim and compaction retry approximationsMel Gorman1-0/+1
If per-zone LRU accounting is available then there is no point approximating whether reclaim and compaction should retry based on pgdat statistics. This is effectively a revert of "mm, vmstat: remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retries" with the difference that inactive/active stats are still available. This preserves the history of why the approximation was retried and why it had to be reverted to handle OOM kills on 32-bit systems. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469110261-7365-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> 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: add per-zone lru list statMinchan Kim1-0/+5
When I did stress test with hackbench, I got OOM message frequently which didn't ever happen in zone-lru. gfp_mask=0x26004c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOTRACK), order=0 .. .. __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xe52/0xe60 ? new_slab+0x39c/0x3b0 new_slab+0x39c/0x3b0 ___slab_alloc.constprop.87+0x6da/0x840 ? __alloc_skb+0x3c/0x260 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x27/0x60 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xec/0x1b0 ? finish_task_switch+0xa6/0x220 ? poll_select_copy_remaining+0x140/0x140 __slab_alloc.isra.81.constprop.86+0x40/0x6d ? __alloc_skb+0x3c/0x260 kmem_cache_alloc+0x22c/0x260 ? __alloc_skb+0x3c/0x260 __alloc_skb+0x3c/0x260 alloc_skb_with_frags+0x4e/0x1a0 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x16a/0x1b0 ? wait_for_unix_gc+0x31/0x90 ? alloc_set_pte+0x2ad/0x310 unix_stream_sendmsg+0x28d/0x340 sock_sendmsg+0x2d/0x40 sock_write_iter+0x6c/0xc0 __vfs_write+0xc0/0x120 vfs_write+0x9b/0x1a0 ? __might_fault+0x49/0xa0 SyS_write+0x44/0x90 do_fast_syscall_32+0xa6/0x1e0 sysenter_past_esp+0x45/0x74 Mem-Info: active_anon:104698 inactive_anon:105791 isolated_anon:192 active_file:433 inactive_file:283 isolated_file:22 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:296 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:6389 slab_unreclaimable:78927 mapped:474 shmem:0 pagetables:101426 bounce:0 free:10518 free_pcp:334 free_cma:0 Node 0 active_anon:418792kB inactive_anon:423164kB active_file:1732kB inactive_file:1132kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):768kB isolated(file):88kB mapped:1896kB dirty:0kB writeback:1184kB shmem:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB pages_scanned:1478632 all_unreclaimable? yes DMA free:3304kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB present:15992kB managed:15916kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:4088kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:2480kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 809 1965 1965 Normal free:3436kB min:3604kB low:4504kB high:5404kB present:897016kB managed:858460kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:25556kB slab_unreclaimable:311712kB kernel_stack:164608kB pagetables:30844kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:620kB local_pcp:104kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 9247 9247 HighMem free:33808kB min:512kB low:1796kB high:3080kB present:1183736kB managed:1183736kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:372252kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:428kB local_pcp:72kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 2*4kB (UM) 2*8kB (UM) 0*16kB 1*32kB (U) 1*64kB (U) 2*128kB (UM) 1*256kB (U) 1*512kB (M) 0*1024kB 1*2048kB (U) 0*4096kB = 3192kB Normal: 33*4kB (MH) 79*8kB (ME) 11*16kB (M) 4*32kB (M) 2*64kB (ME) 2*128kB (EH) 7*256kB (EH) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3244kB HighMem: 2590*4kB (UM) 1568*8kB (UM) 491*16kB (UM) 60*32kB (UM) 6*64kB (M) 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 33064kB Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB 25121 total pagecache pages 24160 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 86371, delete 62211, find 42865/60187 Free swap = 4015560kB Total swap = 4192252kB 524186 pages RAM 295934 pages HighMem/MovableOnly 9658 pages reserved 0 pages cma reserved The order-0 allocation for normal zone failed while there are a lot of reclaimable memory(i.e., anonymous memory with free swap). I wanted to analyze the problem but it was hard because we removed per-zone lru stat so I couldn't know how many of anonymous memory there are in normal/dma zone. When we investigate OOM problem, reclaimable memory count is crucial stat to find a problem. Without it, it's hard to parse the OOM message so I believe we should keep it. With per-zone lru stat, gfp_mask=0x26004c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOTRACK), order=0 Mem-Info: active_anon:101103 inactive_anon:102219 isolated_anon:0 active_file:503 inactive_file:544 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:34 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:6298 slab_unreclaimable:74669 mapped:863 shmem:0 pagetables:100998 bounce:0 free:23573 free_pcp:1861 free_cma:0 Node 0 active_anon:404412kB inactive_anon:409040kB active_file:2012kB inactive_file:2176kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:3452kB dirty:0kB writeback:136kB shmem:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB pages_scanned:1320845 all_unreclaimable? yes DMA free:3296kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active_anon:5540kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB present:15992kB managed:15916kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:248kB slab_unreclaimable:2628kB kernel_stack:792kB pagetables:2316kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 809 1965 1965 Normal free:3600kB min:3604kB low:4504kB high:5404kB active_anon:86304kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:160kB inactive_file:376kB present:897016kB managed:858524kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:24944kB slab_unreclaimable:296048kB kernel_stack:163832kB pagetables:35892kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:3076kB local_pcp:656kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 9247 9247 HighMem free:86156kB min:512kB low:1796kB high:3080kB active_anon:312852kB inactive_anon:410024kB active_file:1924kB inactive_file:2012kB present:1183736kB managed:1183736kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:365784kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:3868kB local_pcp:720kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 8*4kB (UM) 8*8kB (UM) 4*16kB (M) 2*32kB (UM) 2*64kB (UM) 1*128kB (M) 3*256kB (UME) 2*512kB (UE) 1*1024kB (E) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3296kB Normal: 240*4kB (UME) 160*8kB (UME) 23*16kB (ME) 3*32kB (UE) 3*64kB (UME) 2*128kB (ME) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3408kB HighMem: 10942*4kB (UM) 3102*8kB (UM) 866*16kB (UM) 76*32kB (UM) 11*64kB (UM) 4*128kB (UM) 1*256kB (M) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 86344kB Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB 54409 total pagecache pages 53215 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 300982, delete 247765, find 157978/226539 Free swap = 3803244kB Total swap = 4192252kB 524186 pages RAM 295934 pages HighMem/MovableOnly 9642 pages reserved 0 pages cma reserved With that, we can see normal zone has a 86M reclaimable memory so we can know something goes wrong(I will fix the problem in next patch) in reclaim. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: rename zone LRU stats in /proc/vmstat] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160725072300.GK10438@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469110261-7365-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> 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, vmstat: remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retriesMel Gorman1-3/+0
The number of LRU pages, dirty pages and writeback pages must be accounted for on both zones and nodes because of the reclaim retry logic, compaction retry logic and highmem calculations all depending on per-zone stats. Many lowmem allocations are immune from OOM kill due to a check in __alloc_pages_may_oom for (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL) since commit 03668b3ceb0c ("oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations"). The exception is costly high-order allocations or allocations that cannot fail. If the __alloc_pages_may_oom avoids OOM-kill for low-order lowmem allocations then it would fall through to __alloc_pages_direct_compact. This patch will blindly retry reclaim for zone-constrained allocations in should_reclaim_retry up to MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES. This is not ideal but without per-zone stats there are not many alternatives. The impact it that zone-constrained allocations may delay before considering the OOM killer. As there is no guarantee enough memory can ever be freed to satisfy compaction, this patch avoids retrying compaction for zone-contrained allocations. In combination, that means that the per-node stats can be used when deciding whether to continue reclaim using a rough approximation. While it is possible this will make the wrong decision on occasion, it will not infinite loop as the number of reclaim attempts is capped by MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES. The final step is calculating the number of dirtyable highmem pages. As those calculations only care about the global count of file pages in highmem. This patch uses a global counter used instead of per-zone stats as it is sufficient. In combination, this allows the per-zone LRU and dirty state counters to be removed. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix acct_highmem_file_pages()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468853426-12858-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-35-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Suggested by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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> 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, vmstat: print node-based stats in zoneinfo fileMel Gorman1-0/+24
There are a number of stats that were previously accessible via zoneinfo that are now invisible. While it is possible to create a new file for the node stats, this may be missed by users. Instead this patch prints the stats under the first populated zone in /proc/zoneinfo. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-34-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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: account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaimMel Gorman1-1/+2
The vmstat allocstall was fairly useful in the general sense but node-based LRUs change that. It's important to know if a stall was for an address-limited allocation request as this will require skipping pages from other zones. This patch adds pgstall_* counters to replace allocstall. The sum of the counters will equal the old allocstall so it can be trivially recalculated. A high number of address-limited allocation requests may result in a lot of useless LRU scanning for suitable pages. As address-limited allocations require pages to be skipped, it's important to know how much useless LRU scanning took place so this patch adds pgskip* counters. This yields the following model 1. The number of address-space limited stalls can be accounted for (pgstall) 2. The amount of useless work required to reclaim the data is accounted (pgskip) 3. The total number of scans is available from pgscan_kswapd and pgscan_direct so from that the ratio of useful to useless scans can be calculated. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: s/pgstall/allocstall/] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404004-5085-3-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-33-git-send-email-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> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policyMel Gorman1-3/+1
The fair zone allocation policy interleaves allocation requests between zones to avoid an age inversion problem whereby new pages are reclaimed to balance a zone. Reclaim is now node-based so this should no longer be an issue and the fair zone allocation policy is not free. This patch removes it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-30-git-send-email-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> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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: move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the nodeMel Gorman1-4/+4
As reclaim is now node-based, it follows that page write activity due to page reclaim should also be accounted for on the node. For consistency, also account page writes and page dirtying on a per-node basis. After this patch, there are a few remaining zone counters that may appear strange but are fine. NUMA stats are still per-zone as this is a user-space interface that tools consume. NR_MLOCK, NR_SLAB_*, NR_PAGETABLE, NR_KERNEL_STACK and NR_BOUNCE are all allocations that potentially pin low memory and cannot trivially be reclaimed on demand. This information is still useful for debugging a page allocation failure warning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-21-git-send-email-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> 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: move most file-based accounting to the nodeMel Gorman1-9/+10
There are now a number of accounting oddities such as mapped file pages being accounted for on the node while the total number of file pages are accounted on the zone. This can be coped with to some extent but it's confusing so this patch moves the relevant file-based accounted. Due to throttling logic in the page allocator for reliable OOM detection, it is still necessary to track dirty and writeback pages on a per-zone basis. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING accounting] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404004-5085-5-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-20-git-send-email-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> 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: move page mapped accounting to the nodeMel Gorman1-2/+2
Reclaim makes decisions based on the number of pages that are mapped but it's mixing node and zone information. Account NR_FILE_MAPPED and NR_ANON_PAGES pages on the node. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-18-git-send-email-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> 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, workingset: make working set detection node-awareMel Gorman1-17/+3
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, vmscan: move LRU lists to nodeMel Gorman1-22/+25
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 Gorman1-23/+272
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>