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2017-12-15mm/page_alloc.c: avoid excessive IRQ disabled times in free_unref_page_list()Lucas Stach1-0/+11
Since commit 9cca35d42eb6 ("mm, page_alloc: enable/disable IRQs once when freeing a list of pages") we see excessive IRQ disabled times of up to 25ms on an embedded ARM system (tracing overhead included). This is due to graphics buffers being freed back to the system via release_pages(). Graphics buffers can be huge, so it's not hard to hit cases where the list of pages to free has 2048 entries. Disabling IRQs while freeing all those pages is clearly not a good idea. Introduce a batch limit, which allows IRQ servicing once every few pages. The batch count is the same as used in other parts of the MM subsystem when dealing with IRQ disabled regions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171207170314.4419-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de Fixes: 9cca35d42eb6 ("mm, page_alloc: enable/disable IRQs once when freeing a list of pages") Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
2017-11-30mm/cma: fix alloc_contig_range ret code/potential leakMike Kravetz1-1/+8
If the call __alloc_contig_migrate_range() in alloc_contig_range returns -EBUSY, processing continues so that test_pages_isolated() is called where there is a tracepoint to identify the busy pages. However, it is possible for busy pages to become available between the calls to these two routines. In this case, the range of pages may be allocated. Unfortunately, the original return code (ret == -EBUSY) is still set and returned to the caller. Therefore, the caller believes the pages were not allocated and they are leaked. Update the comment to indicate that allocation is still possible even if __alloc_contig_migrate_range returns -EBUSY. Also, clear return code in this case so that it is not accidentally used or returned to caller. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171122185214.25285-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Fixes: 8ef5849fa8a2 ("mm/cma: always check which page caused allocation failure") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-30mm, memory_hotplug: do not back off draining pcp free pages from kworker contextMichal Hocko1-4/+0
drain_all_pages backs off when called from a kworker context since commit 0ccce3b92421 ("mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context") because the original IPI based pcp draining has been replaced by a WQ based one and the check wanted to prevent from recursion and inter workers dependencies. This has made some sense at the time because the system WQ has been used and one worker holding the lock could be blocked while waiting for new workers to emerge which can be a problem under OOM conditions. Since then commit ce612879ddc7 ("mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wq") has moved draining to a dedicated (mm_percpu_wq) WQ with a rescuer so we shouldn't depend on any other WQ activity to make a forward progress so calling drain_all_pages from a worker context is safe as long as this doesn't happen from mm_percpu_wq itself which is not the case because all workers are required to _not_ depend on any MM locks. Why is this a problem in the first place? ACPI driven memory hot-remove (acpi_device_hotplug) is executed from the worker context. We end up calling __offline_pages to free all the pages and that requires both lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked and drain_all_pages to do their job otherwise we can have dangling pages on pcp lists and fail the offline operation (__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock would see a page with 0 ref count but without PageBuddy set). Fix the issue by removing the worker check in drain_all_pages. lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked doesn't have this restriction so it works as expected. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828093341.26341-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: 0ccce3b924212 ("mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.11+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-18mm, compaction: split off flag for not updating skip hintsVlastimil Babka1-0/+1
Pageblock skip hints were added as a heuristic for compaction, which shares core code with CMA. Since CMA reliability would suffer from the heuristics, compact_control flag ignore_skip_hint was added for the CMA use case. Since 6815bf3f233e ("mm/compaction: respect ignore_skip_hint in update_pageblock_skip") the flag also means that CMA won't *update* the skip hints in addition to ignoring them. Today, direct compaction can also ignore the skip hints in the last resort attempt, but there's no reason not to set them when isolation fails in such case. Thus, this patch splits off a new no_set_skip_hint flag to avoid the updating, which only CMA sets. This should improve the heuristics a bit, and allow us to simplify the persistent skip bit handling as the next step. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102121706.21504-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> 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>
2017-11-16mm: make alloc_node_mem_map a void call if we don't have ↵Oscar Salvador1-7/+7
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP free_area_init_node() calls alloc_node_mem_map(), but this function does nothing unless we have CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP. As a cleanup, we can move the "#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP" within alloc_node_mem_map() out of the function, and define a alloc_node_mem_map() { } when CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP is not present. This also moves the printk that lays within the "#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP" block from free_area_init_node() to alloc_node_mem_map(), getting rid of the "#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP" in free_area_init_node(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up the printk while we're there] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114111935.GA11758@techadventures.net Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: simplify nodemask printingMichal Hocko1-9/+3
alloc_warn() and dump_header() have to explicitly handle NULL nodemask which forces both paths to use pr_cont. We can do better. printk already handles NULL pointers properly so all we need is to teach nodemask_pr_args to handle NULL nodemask carefully. This allows simplification of both alloc_warn() and dump_header() and gets rid of pr_cont altogether. This patch has been motivated by patch from Joe Perches http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b31236dfe3fc924054fd7842bde678e71d193638.1509991345.git.joe@perches.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix tile warning, per Arnd] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109100531.3cn2hcqnuj7mjaju@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculationPavel Tatashin1-9/+18
In reset_deferred_meminit() we determine number of pages that must not be deferred. We initialize pages for at least 2G of memory, but also pages for reserved memory in this node. The reserved memory is determined in this function: memblock_reserved_memory_within(), which operates over physical addresses, and returns size in bytes. However, reset_deferred_meminit() assumes that that this function operates with pfns, and returns page count. The result is that in the best case machine boots slower than expected due to initializing more pages than needed in single thread, and in the worst case panics because fewer than needed pages are initialized early. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171021011707.15191-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Fixes: 864b9a393dcb ("mm: consider memblock reservations for deferred memory initialization sizing") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too longTetsuo Handa1-10/+0
Commit 63f53dea0c98 ("mm: warn about allocations which stall for too long") was a great step for reducing possibility of silent hang up problem caused by memory allocation stalls. But this commit reverts it, for it is possible to trigger OOM lockup and/or soft lockups when many threads concurrently called warn_alloc() (in order to warn about memory allocation stalls) due to current implementation of printk(), and it is difficult to obtain useful information due to limitation of synchronous warning approach. Current printk() implementation flushes all pending logs using the context of a thread which called console_unlock(). printk() should be able to flush all pending logs eventually unless somebody continues appending to printk() buffer. Since warn_alloc() started appending to printk() buffer while waiting for oom_kill_process() to make forward progress when oom_kill_process() is processing pending logs, it became possible for warn_alloc() to force oom_kill_process() loop inside printk(). As a result, warn_alloc() significantly increased possibility of preventing oom_kill_process() from making forward progress. ---------- Pseudo code start ---------- Before warn_alloc() was introduced: retry: if (mutex_trylock(&oom_lock)) { while (atomic_read(&printk_pending_logs) > 0) { atomic_dec(&printk_pending_logs); print_one_log(); } // Send SIGKILL here. mutex_unlock(&oom_lock) } goto retry; After warn_alloc() was introduced: retry: if (mutex_trylock(&oom_lock)) { while (atomic_read(&printk_pending_logs) > 0) { atomic_dec(&printk_pending_logs); print_one_log(); } // Send SIGKILL here. mutex_unlock(&oom_lock) } else if (waited_for_10seconds()) { atomic_inc(&printk_pending_logs); } goto retry; ---------- Pseudo code end ---------- Although waited_for_10seconds() becomes true once per 10 seconds, unbounded number of threads can call waited_for_10seconds() at the same time. Also, since threads doing waited_for_10seconds() keep doing almost busy loop, the thread doing print_one_log() can use little CPU resource. Therefore, this situation can be simplified like ---------- Pseudo code start ---------- retry: if (mutex_trylock(&oom_lock)) { while (atomic_read(&printk_pending_logs) > 0) { atomic_dec(&printk_pending_logs); print_one_log(); } // Send SIGKILL here. mutex_unlock(&oom_lock) } else { atomic_inc(&printk_pending_logs); } goto retry; ---------- Pseudo code end ---------- when printk() is called faster than print_one_log() can process a log. One of possible mitigation would be to introduce a new lock in order to make sure that no other series of printk() (either oom_kill_process() or warn_alloc()) can append to printk() buffer when one series of printk() (either oom_kill_process() or warn_alloc()) is already in progress. Such serialization will also help obtaining kernel messages in readable form. ---------- Pseudo code start ---------- retry: if (mutex_trylock(&oom_lock)) { mutex_lock(&oom_printk_lock); while (atomic_read(&printk_pending_logs) > 0) { atomic_dec(&printk_pending_logs); print_one_log(); } // Send SIGKILL here. mutex_unlock(&oom_printk_lock); mutex_unlock(&oom_lock) } else { if (mutex_trylock(&oom_printk_lock)) { atomic_inc(&printk_pending_logs); mutex_unlock(&oom_printk_lock); } } goto retry; ---------- Pseudo code end ---------- But this commit does not go that direction, for we don't want to introduce a new lock dependency, and we unlikely be able to obtain useful information even if we serialized oom_kill_process() and warn_alloc(). Synchronous approach is prone to unexpected results (e.g. too late [1], too frequent [2], overlooked [3]). As far as I know, warn_alloc() never helped with providing information other than "something is going wrong". I want to consider asynchronous approach which can obtain information during stalls with possibly relevant threads (e.g. the owner of oom_lock and kswapd-like threads) and serve as a trigger for actions (e.g. turn on/off tracepoints, ask libvirt daemon to take a memory dump of stalling KVM guest for diagnostic purpose). This commit temporarily loses ability to report e.g. OOM lockup due to unable to invoke the OOM killer due to !__GFP_FS allocation request. But asynchronous approach will be able to detect such situation and emit warning. Thus, let's remove warn_alloc(). [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192981 [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAM_iQpWuPVGc2ky8M-9yukECtS+zKjiDasNymX7rMcBjBFyM_A@mail.gmail.com [3] commit db73ee0d46379922 ("mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever")) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509017339-4802-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reported-by: yuwang.yuwang <yuwang.yuwang@alibaba-inc.com> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, page_alloc: fix potential false positive in __zone_watermark_okVlastimil Babka1-3/+3
Since commit 97a16fc82a7c ("mm, page_alloc: only enforce watermarks for order-0 allocations"), __zone_watermark_ok() check for high-order allocations will shortcut per-migratetype free list checks for ALLOC_HARDER allocations, and return true as long as there's free page of any migratetype. The intention is that ALLOC_HARDER can allocate from MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC free lists, while normal allocations can't. However, as a side effect, the watermark check will then also return true when there are pages only on the MIGRATE_ISOLATE list, or (prior to CMA conversion to ZONE_MOVABLE) on the MIGRATE_CMA list. Since the allocation cannot actually obtain isolated pages, and might not be able to obtain CMA pages, this can result in a false positive. The condition should be rare and perhaps the outcome is not a fatal one. Still, it's better if the watermark check is correct. There also shouldn't be a performance tradeoff here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102125001.23708-1-vbabka@suse.cz Fixes: 97a16fc82a7c ("mm, page_alloc: only enforce watermarks for order-0 allocations") Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurableKemi Wang1-0/+6
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, page_alloc: simplify list handling in rmqueue_bulk()Vlastimil Babka1-9/+9
rmqueue_bulk() fills an empty pcplist with pages from the free list. It tries to preserve increasing order by pfn to the caller, because it leads to better performance with some I/O controllers, as explained in commit e084b2d95e48 ("page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set"). To preserve the order, it's sufficient to add pages to the tail of the list as they are retrieved. The current code instead adds to the head of the list, but then updates the list head pointer to the last added page, in each step. This does result in the same order, but is needlessly confusing and potentially wasteful, with no apparent benefit. This patch simplifies the code and adjusts comment accordingly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6505442-98a9-12e4-b2cd-0fa83874c159@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@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>
2017-11-16mm: remove __GFP_COLDMel Gorman1-14/+6
As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that allocation requests can take advantage of. Juding from the users of __GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying other sites instead of actually measuring the impact. Remove the __GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page allocator. This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu list can often fit in the L3 cache. Hence, there is only a potential benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop. It's even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway. The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the allocation path and not the free path. A page fault microbenchmark was tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the fault path. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@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>
2017-11-16mm: remove cold parameter from free_hot_cold_page*Mel Gorman1-17/+12
Most callers users of free_hot_cold_page claim the pages being released are cache hot. The exception is the page reclaim paths where it is likely that enough pages will be freed in the near future that the per-cpu lists are going to be recycled and the cache hotness information is lost. As no one really cares about the hotness of pages being released to the allocator, just ditch the parameter. The APIs are renamed to indicate that it's no longer about hot/cold pages. It should also be less confusing as there are subtle differences between them. __free_pages drops a reference and frees a page when the refcount reaches zero. free_hot_cold_page handled pages whose refcount was already zero which is non-obvious from the name. free_unref_page should be more obvious. No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal. The parameter is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless parameter copied everywhere. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: add pages to head, not tail] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019154321.qtpzaeftoyyw4iey@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@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>
2017-11-16mm, page_alloc: enable/disable IRQs once when freeing a list of pagesMel Gorman1-14/+44
Patch series "Follow-up for speed up page cache truncation", v2. This series is a follow-on for Jan Kara's series "Speed up page cache truncation" series. We both ended up looking at the same problem but saw different problems based on the same data. This series builds upon his work. A variety of workloads were compared on four separate machines but each machine showed gains albeit at different levels. Minimally, some of the differences are due to NUMA where truncating data from a remote node is slower than a local node. The workloads checked were o sparse truncate microbenchmark, tiny o sparse truncate microbenchmark, large o reaim-io disk workfile o dbench4 (modified by mmtests to produce more stable results) o filebench varmail configuration for small memory size o bonnie, directory operations, working set size 2*RAM reaim-io, dbench and filebench all showed minor gains. Truncation does not dominate those workloads but were tested to ensure no other regressions. They will not be reported further. The sparse truncate microbench was written by Jan. It creates a number of files and then times how long it takes to truncate each one. The "tiny" configuraiton creates a number of files that easily fits in memory and times how long it takes to truncate files with page cache. The large configuration uses enough files to have data that is twice the size of memory and so timings there include truncating page cache and working set shadow entries in the radix tree. Patches 1-4 are the most relevant parts of this series. Patches 5-8 are optional as they are deleting code that is essentially useless but has a negligible performance impact. The changelogs have more information on performance but just for bonnie delete options, the main comparison is bonnie 4.14.0-rc5 4.14.0-rc5 4.14.0-rc5 jan-v2 vanilla mel-v2 Hmean SeqCreate ops 76.20 ( 0.00%) 75.80 ( -0.53%) 76.80 ( 0.79%) Hmean SeqCreate read 85.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 ( 0.00%) Hmean SeqCreate del 13752.31 ( 0.00%) 12090.23 ( -12.09%) 15304.84 ( 11.29%) Hmean RandCreate ops 76.00 ( 0.00%) 75.60 ( -0.53%) 77.00 ( 1.32%) Hmean RandCreate read 96.80 ( 0.00%) 96.80 ( 0.00%) 97.00 ( 0.21%) Hmean RandCreate del 13233.75 ( 0.00%) 11525.35 ( -12.91%) 14446.61 ( 9.16%) Jan's series is the baseline and the vanilla kernel is 12% slower where as this series on top gains another 11%. This is from a different machine than the data in the changelogs but the detailed data was not collected as there was no substantial change in v2. This patch (of 8): Freeing a list of pages current enables/disables IRQs for each page freed. This patch splits freeing a list of pages into two operations -- preparing the pages for freeing and the actual freeing. This is a tradeoff - we're taking two passes of the list to free in exchange for avoiding multiple enable/disable of IRQs. sparsetruncate (tiny) 4.14.0-rc4 4.14.0-rc4 janbatch-v1r1 oneirq-v1r1 Min Time 149.00 ( 0.00%) 141.00 ( 5.37%) 1st-qrtle Time 150.00 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 5.33%) 2nd-qrtle Time 151.00 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 5.96%) 3rd-qrtle Time 151.00 ( 0.00%) 143.00 ( 5.30%) Max-90% Time 153.00 ( 0.00%) 144.00 ( 5.88%) Max-95% Time 155.00 ( 0.00%) 147.00 ( 5.16%) Max-99% Time 201.00 ( 0.00%) 195.00 ( 2.99%) Max Time 236.00 ( 0.00%) 230.00 ( 2.54%) Amean Time 152.65 ( 0.00%) 144.37 ( 5.43%) Stddev Time 9.78 ( 0.00%) 10.44 ( -6.72%) Coeff Time 6.41 ( 0.00%) 7.23 ( -12.84%) Best99%Amean Time 152.07 ( 0.00%) 143.72 ( 5.50%) Best95%Amean Time 150.75 ( 0.00%) 142.37 ( 5.56%) Best90%Amean Time 150.59 ( 0.00%) 142.19 ( 5.58%) Best75%Amean Time 150.36 ( 0.00%) 141.92 ( 5.61%) Best50%Amean Time 150.04 ( 0.00%) 141.69 ( 5.56%) Best25%Amean Time 149.85 ( 0.00%) 141.38 ( 5.65%) With a tiny number of files, each file truncated has resident page cache and it shows that time to truncate is roughtly 5-6% with some minor jitter. 4.14.0-rc4 4.14.0-rc4 janbatch-v1r1 oneirq-v1r1 Hmean SeqCreate ops 65.27 ( 0.00%) 81.86 ( 25.43%) Hmean SeqCreate read 39.48 ( 0.00%) 47.44 ( 20.16%) Hmean SeqCreate del 24963.95 ( 0.00%) 26319.99 ( 5.43%) Hmean RandCreate ops 65.47 ( 0.00%) 82.01 ( 25.26%) Hmean RandCreate read 42.04 ( 0.00%) 51.75 ( 23.09%) Hmean RandCreate del 23377.66 ( 0.00%) 23764.79 ( 1.66%) As expected, there is a small gain for the delete operation. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: use page_private and set_page_private helpers] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018101547.mjycw7zreb66jzpa@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: 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>
2017-11-16mm/page_alloc: make sure __rmqueue() etc are always inlineAaron Lu1-5/+5
__rmqueue(), __rmqueue_fallback(), __rmqueue_smallest() and __rmqueue_cma_fallback() are all in page allocator's hot path and better be finished as soon as possible. One way to make them faster is by making them inline. But as Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen pointed out: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1252 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1279 To make sure they are inlined, we should use __always_inline for them. With the will-it-scale/page_fault1/process benchmark, when using nr_cpu processes to stress buddy, the results for will-it-scale.processes with and without the patch are: On a 2-sockets Intel-Skylake machine: compiler base head gcc-4.4.7 6496131 6911823 +6.4% gcc-4.9.4 7225110 7731072 +7.0% gcc-5.4.1 7054224 7688146 +9.0% gcc-6.2.0 7059794 7651675 +8.4% On a 4-sockets Intel-Skylake machine: compiler base head gcc-4.4.7 13162890 13508193 +2.6% gcc-4.9.4 14997463 15484353 +3.2% gcc-5.4.1 14708711 15449805 +5.0% gcc-6.2.0 14574099 15349204 +5.3% The above 4 compilers are used because I've done the tests through Intel's Linux Kernel Performance(LKP) infrastructure and they are the available compilers there. The benefit being less on 4 sockets machine is due to the lock contention there(perf-profile/native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath=81%) is less severe than on the 2 sockets machine(85%). What the benchmark does is: it forks nr_cpu processes and then each process does the following: 1 mmap() 128M anonymous space; 2 writes to each page there to trigger actual page allocation; 3 munmap() it. in a loop. https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/page_fault1.c Binary size wise, I have locally built them with different compilers: [aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/mm/page_alloc.o text data bss dec hex filename 37409 9904 8524 55837 da1d gcc-4.9.4/base/mm/page_alloc.o 38273 9904 8524 56701 dd7d gcc-4.9.4/head/mm/page_alloc.o 37465 9840 8428 55733 d9b5 gcc-5.5.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o 38169 9840 8428 56437 dc75 gcc-5.5.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o 37573 9840 8428 55841 da21 gcc-6.4.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o 38261 9840 8428 56529 dcd1 gcc-6.4.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o 36863 9840 8428 55131 d75b gcc-7.2.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o 37711 9840 8428 55979 daab gcc-7.2.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o Text size increased about 800 bytes for mm/page_alloc.o. [aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/base/vmlinux 10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/head/vmlinux 10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/base/vmlinux 10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/head/vmlinux 10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/base/vmlinux 10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/head/vmlinux 10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/base/vmlinux 10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/head/vmlinux Text size for vmlinux has no change though, probably due to function alignment. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013063111.GA26032@intel.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Cc: 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>
2017-11-16mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmapPavel Tatashin1-0/+1
vmemmap_alloc_block() will no longer zero the block, so zero memory at its call sites for everything except struct pages. Struct page memory is zero'd by struct page initialization. Replace allocators in sparse-vmemmap to use the non-zeroing version. So, we will get the performance improvement by zeroing the memory in parallel when struct pages are zeroed. Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in __init_single_page(). This single thread performance collected on: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895 v3 @ 2.60GHz with 1T of memory (268400646 pages in 8 nodes): BASE FIX sparse_init 11.244671836s 0.007199623s zone_sizes_init 4.879775891s 8.355182299s -------------------------- Total 16.124447727s 8.362381922s sparse_init is where memory for struct pages is zeroed, and the zeroing part is moved later in this patch into __init_single_page(), which is called from zone_sizes_init(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make vmemmap_alloc_block_zero() private to sparse-vmemmap.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-10-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: zero reserved and unavailable struct pagesPavel Tatashin1-0/+40
Some memory is reserved but unavailable: not present in memblock.memory (because not backed by physical pages), but present in memblock.reserved. Such memory has backing struct pages, but they are not initialized by going through __init_single_page(). In some cases these struct pages are accessed even if they do not contain any data. One example is page_to_pfn() might access page->flags if this is where section information is stored (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS). One example of such memory: trim_low_memory_range() unconditionally reserves from pfn 0, but e820__memblock_setup() might provide the exiting memory from pfn 1 (i.e. KVM). Since struct pages are zeroed in __init_single_page(), and not during allocation time, we must zero such struct pages explicitly. The patch involves adding a new memblock iterator: for_each_resv_unavail_range(i, p_start, p_end) Which iterates through reserved && !memory lists, and we zero struct pages explicitly by calling mm_zero_struct_page(). === Here is more detailed example of problem that this patch is addressing: Run tested on qemu with the following arguments: -enable-kvm -cpu kvm64 -m 512 -smp 2 This patch reports that there are 98 unavailable pages. They are: pfn 0 and pfns in range [159, 255]. Note, trim_low_memory_range() reserves only pfns in range [0, 15], it does not reserve [159, 255] ones. e820__memblock_setup() reports linux that the following physical ranges are available: [1 , 158] [256, 130783] Notice, that exactly unavailable pfns are missing! Now, lets check what we have in zone 0: [1, 131039] pfn 0, is not part of the zone, but pfns [1, 158], are. However, the bigger problem we have if we do not initialize these struct pages is with memory hotplug. Because, that path operates at 2M boundaries (section_nr). And checks if 2M range of pages is hot removable. It starts with first pfn from zone, rounds it down to 2M boundary (sturct pages are allocated at 2M boundaries when vmemmap is created), and checks if that section is hot removable. In this case start with pfn 1 and convert it down to pfn 0. Later pfn is converted to struct page, and some fields are checked. Now, if we do not zero struct pages, we get unpredictable results. In fact when CONFIG_VM_DEBUG is enabled, and we explicitly set all vmemmap memory to ones, the following panic is observed with kernel test without this patch applied: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT ... task: ffff88001f4e2900 task.stack: ffffc90000314000 RIP: 0010:is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90 Call Trace: ? is_mem_section_removable+0x5a/0xd0 show_mem_removable+0x6b/0xa0 dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x50 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa1/0x100 kernfs_seq_show+0x22/0x30 seq_read+0x1ac/0x3a0 kernfs_fop_read+0x36/0x190 ? security_file_permission+0x90/0xb0 __vfs_read+0x16/0x30 vfs_read+0x81/0x130 SyS_read+0x44/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-7-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: define memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_rawPavel Tatashin1-8/+7
* A new variant of memblock_virt_alloc_* allocations: memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw() - Does not zero the allocated memory - Does not panic if request cannot be satisfied * optimize early system hash allocations Clients can call alloc_large_system_hash() with flag: HASH_ZERO to specify that memory that was allocated for system hash needs to be zeroed, otherwise the memory does not need to be zeroed, and client will initialize it. If memory does not need to be zero'd, call the new memblock_virt_alloc_raw() interface, and thus improve the boot performance. * debug for raw alloctor When CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, this patch sets all the memory that is returned by memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw() to ones to ensure that no places excpect zeroed memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-6-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: deferred_init_memmap improvementsPavel Tatashin1-83/+105
Patch series "complete deferred page initialization", v12. SMP machines can benefit from the DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT config option, which defers initializing struct pages until all cpus have been started so it can be done in parallel. However, this feature is sub-optimal, because the deferred page initialization code expects that the struct pages have already been zeroed, and the zeroing is done early in boot with a single thread only. Also, we access that memory and set flags before struct pages are initialized. All of this is fixed in this patchset. In this work we do the following: - Never read access struct page until it was initialized - Never set any fields in struct pages before they are initialized - Zero struct page at the beginning of struct page initialization ========================================================================== Performance improvements on x86 machine with 8 nodes: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895 v3 @ 2.60GHz and 1T of memory: TIME SPEED UP base no deferred: 95.796233s fix no deferred: 79.978956s 19.77% base deferred: 77.254713s fix deferred: 55.050509s 40.34% ========================================================================== SPARC M6 3600 MHz with 15T of memory TIME SPEED UP base no deferred: 358.335727s fix no deferred: 302.320936s 18.52% base deferred: 237.534603s fix deferred: 182.103003s 30.44% ========================================================================== Raw dmesg output with timestamps: x86 base no deferred: https://hastebin.com/ofunepurit.scala x86 base deferred: https://hastebin.com/ifazegeyas.scala x86 fix no deferred: https://hastebin.com/pegocohevo.scala x86 fix deferred: https://hastebin.com/ofupevikuk.scala sparc base no deferred: https://hastebin.com/ibobeteken.go sparc base deferred: https://hastebin.com/fariqimiyu.go sparc fix no deferred: https://hastebin.com/muhegoheyi.go sparc fix deferred: https://hastebin.com/xadinobutu.go This patch (of 11): deferred_init_memmap() is called when struct pages are initialized later in boot by slave CPUs. This patch simplifies and optimizes this function, and also fixes a couple issues (described below). The main change is that now we are iterating through free memblock areas instead of all configured memory. Thus, we do not have to check if the struct page has already been initialized. ===== In deferred_init_memmap() where all deferred struct pages are initialized we have a check like this: if (page->flags) { VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page) != zone); goto free_range; } This way we are checking if the current deferred page has already been initialized. It works, because memory for struct pages has been zeroed, and the only way flags are not zero if it went through __init_single_page() before. But, once we change the current behavior and won't zero the memory in memblock allocator, we cannot trust anything inside "struct page"es until they are initialized. This patch fixes this. The deferred_init_memmap() is re-written to loop through only free memory ranges provided by memblock. Note, this first issue is relevant only when the following change is merged: ===== This patch fixes another existing issue on systems that have holes in zones i.e CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is defined. In for_each_mem_pfn_range() we have code like this: if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn) goto free_range; Note: 'page' is not set to NULL and is not incremented but 'pfn' advances. Thus means if deferred struct pages are enabled on systems with these kind of holes, linux would get memory corruptions. I have fixed this issue by defining a new macro that performs all the necessary operations when we free the current set of pages. [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: buddy page accessed before initialized] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102170221.7401-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16kmemcheck: remove annotationsLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)1-14/+0
Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2. As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck. KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream. We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider KASan as a suitable replacement). The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2 years, and try again. Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons. This patch (of 4): Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel. [alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, page_alloc: fail has_unmovable_pages when seeing reserved pagesMichal Hocko1-0/+3
Reserved pages should be completely ignored by the core mm because they have a special meaning for their owners. has_unmovable_pages doesn't check those so we rely on other tests (reference count, or PageLRU) to fail on such pages. Althought this happens to work it is safer to simply check for those explicitly and do not rely on the owner of the page to abuse those fields for special purposes. Please note that this is more of a further fortification of the code rahter than a fix of an existing issue. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013120756.jeopthigbmm3c7bl@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: distinguish CMA and MOVABLE isolation in has_unmovable_pages()Michal Hocko1-1/+11
Joonsoo has noticed that "mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pages" would break CMA allocator because it relies on has_unmovable_pages returning false even for CMA pageblocks which in fact don't have to be movable: alloc_contig_range start_isolate_page_range set_migratetype_isolate has_unmovable_pages This is a result of the code sharing between CMA and memory hotplug while each one has a different idea of what has_unmovable_pages should return. This is unfortunate but fixing it properly would require a lot of code duplication. Fix the issue by introducing the requested migrate type argument and special case MIGRATE_CMA case where CMA page blocks are handled properly. This will work for memory hotplug because it requires MIGRATE_MOVABLE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019122118.y6cndierwl2vnguj@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> Tested-by: Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@nxp.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pagesMichal Hocko1-4/+0
Michael has noticed that the memory offline tries to migrate kernel code pages when doing echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/online The current implementation will fail the operation after several failed page migration attempts but we shouldn't even attempt to migrate that memory and fail right away because this memory is clearly not migrateable. This will become a real problem when we drop the retry loop counter resp. timeout. The real problem is in has_unmovable_pages in fact. We should fail if there are any non migrateable pages in the area. In orther to guarantee that remove the migrate type checks because MIGRATE_MOVABLE is not guaranteed to contain only migrateable pages. It is merely a heuristic. Similarly MIGRATE_CMA does guarantee that the page allocator doesn't allocate any non-migrateable pages from the block but CMA allocations themselves are unlikely to migrateable. Therefore remove both checks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused local `mt'] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013120013.698-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Tested-by: Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@nxp.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-04mm, page_alloc: add scheduling point to memmap_init_zoneMichal Hocko1-0/+1
memmap_init_zone gets a pfn range to initialize and it can be really large resulting in a soft lockup on non-preemptible kernels NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#31 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u642:5:1720] [...] task: ffff88ecd7e902c0 ti: ffff88eca4e50000 task.ti: ffff88eca4e50000 RIP: move_pfn_range_to_zone+0x185/0x1d0 [...] Call Trace: devm_memremap_pages+0x2c7/0x430 pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm] driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420 bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80 __device_attach+0xb0/0x130 bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0 device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0 nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm] async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150 process_one_work+0x14e/0x410 worker_thread+0x116/0x490 kthread+0xc7/0xe0 ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 Fix this by adding a scheduling point once per page block. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-04mm: meminit: mark init_reserved_page as __meminitArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
The function is called from __meminit context and calls other __meminit functions but isn't it self mark as such today: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x4516): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_reserved_page() to the function .meminit.text:early_pfn_to_nid() The function init_reserved_page() references the function __meminit early_pfn_to_nid(). This is often because init_reserved_page lacks a __meminit annotation or the annotation of early_pfn_to_nid is wrong. On most compilers, we don't notice this because the function gets inlined all the time. Adding __meminit here fixes the harmless warning for the old versions and is generally the correct annotation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170915193149.901180-1-arnd@arndb.de Fixes: 7e18adb4f80b ("mm: meminit: initialise remaining struct pages in parallel with kswapd") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-09mm/page_alloc.c: apply gfp_allowed_mask before the first allocation attemptTetsuo Handa1-1/+2
We are by error initializing alloc_flags before gfp_allowed_mask is applied. This could cause problems after pm_restrict_gfp_mask() is called during suspend operation. Apply gfp_allowed_mask before initializing alloc_flags so that the first allocation attempt uses correct flags. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201709020016.ADJ21342.OFLJHOOSMFVtFQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Fixes: 83d4ca8148fd9092 ("mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.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 Wang1-5/+5
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, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves accessMichal Hocko1-19/+57
For ages we have been relying on TIF_MEMDIE thread flag to mark OOM victims and then, among other things, to give these threads full access to memory reserves. There are few shortcomings of this implementation, though. First of all and the most serious one is that the full access to memory reserves is quite dangerous because we leave no safety room for the system to operate and potentially do last emergency steps to move on. Secondly this flag is per task_struct while the OOM killer operates on mm_struct granularity so all processes sharing the given mm are killed. Giving the full access to all these task_structs could lead to a quick memory reserves depletion. We have tried to reduce this risk by giving TIF_MEMDIE only to the main thread and the currently allocating task but that doesn't really solve this problem while it surely opens up a room for corner cases - e.g. GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests might loop inside the allocator without access to memory reserves because a particular thread was not the group leader. Now that we have the oom reaper and that all oom victims are reapable after 1b51e65eab64 ("oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the kthreads") we can be more conservative and grant only partial access to memory reserves because there are reasonable chances of the parallel memory freeing. We still want some access to reserves because we do not want other consumers to eat up the victim's freed memory. oom victims will still contend with __GFP_HIGH users but those shouldn't be so aggressive to starve oom victims completely. Introduce ALLOC_OOM flag and give all tsk_is_oom_victim tasks access to the half of the reserves. This makes the access to reserves independent on which task has passed through mark_oom_victim. Also drop any usage of TIF_MEMDIE from the page allocator proper and replace it by tsk_is_oom_victim as well which will make page_alloc.c completely TIF_MEMDIE free finally. CONFIG_MMU=n doesn't have oom reaper so let's stick to the original ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS approach. There is a demand to make the oom killer memcg aware which will imply many tasks killed at once. This change will allow such a usecase without worrying about complete memory reserves depletion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810075019.28998-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> 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 Hocko1-6/+6
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, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutexMichal Hocko1-9/+9
zonelists_mutex was introduced by commit 4eaf3f64397c ("mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone") to protect zonelist building from races. This is no longer needed though because both memory online and offline are fully serialized. New users have grown since then. Notably setup_per_zone_wmarks wants to prevent from races between memory hotplug, khugepaged setup and manual min_free_kbytes update via sysctl (see cfd3da1e49bb ("mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes"). Let's add a private lock for that purpose. This will not prevent from seeing halfway through memory hotplug operation but that shouldn't be a big deal becuse memory hotplug will update watermarks explicitly so we will eventually get a full picture. The lock just makes sure we won't race when updating watermarks leading to weird results. Also __build_all_zonelists manipulates global data so add a private lock for it as well. This doesn't seem to be necessary today but it is more robust to have a lock there. While we are at it make sure we document that memory online/offline depends on a full serialization either via mem_hotplug_begin() or device_lock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-9-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, page_alloc: remove stop_machine from build_all_zonelistsMichal Hocko1-7/+2
build_all_zonelists has been (ab)using stop_machine to make sure that zonelists do not change while somebody is looking at them. This is is just a gross hack because a) it complicates the context from which we can call build_all_zonelists (see 3f906ba23689 ("mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsem")) and b) is is not really necessary especially after "mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization" and c) it doesn't really provide the protection it claims (see below). Updates of the zonelists happen very seldom, basically only when a zone becomes populated during memory online or when it loses all the memory during offline. A racing iteration over zonelists could either miss a zone or try to work on one zone twice. Both of these are something we can live with occasionally because there will always be at least one zone visible so we are not likely to fail allocation too easily for example. Please note that the original stop_machine approach doesn't really provide a better exclusion because the iteration might be interrupted half way (unless the whole iteration is preempt disabled which is not the case in most cases) so the some zones could still be seen twice or a zone missed. I have run the pathological online/offline of the single memblock in the movable zone while stressing the same small node with some memory pressure. Node 1, zone DMA pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 943, 943, 943) Node 1, zone DMA32 pages free 227310 min 8294 low 10367 high 12440 spanned 262112 present 262112 managed 241436 protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) Node 1, zone Normal pages free 0 min 0 low 0 high 0 spanned 0 present 0 managed 0 protection: (0, 0, 0, 1024) Node 1, zone Movable pages free 32722 min 85 low 117 high 149 spanned 32768 present 32768 managed 32768 protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) root@test1:/sys/devices/system/node/node1# while true do echo offline > memory34/state echo online_movable > memory34/state done root@test1:/mnt/data/test/linux-3.7-rc5# numactl --preferred=1 make -j4 and it survived without any unexpected behavior. While this is not really a great testing coverage it should exercise the allocation path quite a lot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-8-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initializationMichal Hocko1-40/+41
build_zonelists gradually builds zonelists from the nearest to the most distant node. As we do not know how many populated zones we will have in each node we rely on the _zoneref to terminate initialized part of the zonelist by a NULL zone. While this is functionally correct it is quite suboptimal because we cannot allow updaters to race with zonelists users because they could see an empty zonelist and fail the allocation or hit the OOM killer in the worst case. We can do much better, though. We can store the node ordering into an already existing node_order array and then give this array to build_zonelists_in_node_order and do the whole initialization at once. zonelists consumers still might see halfway initialized state but that should be much more tolerateable because the list will not be empty and they would either see some zone twice or skip over some zone(s) in the worst case which shouldn't lead to immediate failures. While at it let's simplify build_zonelists_node which is rather confusing now. It gets an index into the zoneref array and returns the updated index for the next iteration. Let's rename the function to build_zonerefs_node to better reflect its purpose and give it zoneref array to update. The function doesn't the index anymore. It just returns the number of added zones so that the caller can advance the zonered array start for the next update. This patch alone doesn't introduce any functional change yet, though, it is merely a preparatory work for later changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-7-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelistsMichal Hocko1-10/+3
build_all_zonelists gets a zone parameter to initialize zone's pagesets. There is only a single user which gives a non-NULL zone parameter and that one doesn't really need the rest of the build_all_zonelists (see commit 6dcd73d7011b ("memory-hotplug: allocate zone's pcp before onlining pages")). Therefore remove setup_zone_pageset from build_all_zonelists and call it from its only user directly. This will also remove a pointless zonlists rebuilding which is always good. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-5-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, page_alloc: do not set_cpu_numa_mem on empty nodes initializationMichal Hocko1-4/+2
__build_all_zonelists reinitializes each online cpu local node for CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES. This makes sense because previously memory less nodes could gain some memory during memory hotplug and so the local node should be changed for CPUs close to such a node. It makes less sense to do that unconditionally for a newly creaded NUMA node which is still offline and without any memory. Let's also simplify the cpu loop and use for_each_online_cpu instead of an explicit cpu_online check for all possible cpus. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, page_alloc: remove boot pageset initialization from memory hotplugMichal Hocko1-18/+22
boot_pageset is a boot time hack which gets superseded by normal pagesets later in the boot process. It makes zero sense to reinitialize it again and again during memory hotplug. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONEMichal Hocko1-158/+21
Patch series "cleanup zonelists initialization", v1. This is aimed at cleaning up the zonelists initialization code we have but the primary motivation was bug report [2] which got resolved but the usage of stop_machine is just too ugly to live. Most patches are straightforward but 3 of them need a special consideration. Patch 1 removes zone ordered zonelists completely. I am CCing linux-api because this is a user visible change. As I argue in the patch description I do not think we have a strong usecase for it these days. I have kept sysctl in place and warn into the log if somebody tries to configure zone lists ordering. If somebody has a real usecase for it we can revert this patch but I do not expect anybody will actually notice runtime differences. This patch is not strictly needed for the rest but it made patch 6 easier to implement. Patch 7 removes stop_machine from build_all_zonelists without adding any special synchronization between iterators and updater which I _believe_ is acceptable as explained in the changelog. I hope I am not missing anything. Patch 8 then removes zonelists_mutex which is kind of ugly as well and not really needed AFAICS but a care should be taken when double checking my thinking. This patch (of 9): Supporting zone ordered zonelists costs us just a lot of code while the usefulness is arguable if existent at all. Mel has already made node ordering default on 64b systems. 32b systems are still using ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE because it is considered better to fallback to a different NUMA node rather than consume precious lowmem zones. This argument is, however, weaken by the fact that the memory reclaim has been reworked to be node rather than zone oriented. This means that lowmem requests have to skip over all highmem pages on LRUs already and so zone ordering doesn't save the reclaim time much. So the only advantage of the zone ordering is under a light memory pressure when highmem requests do not ever hit into lowmem zones and the lowmem pressure doesn't need to reclaim. Considering that 32b NUMA systems are rather suboptimal already and it is generally advisable to use 64b kernel on such a HW I believe we should rather care about the code maintainability and just get rid of ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE altogether. Keep systcl in place and warn if somebody tries to set zone ordering either from kernel command line or the sysctl. [mhocko@suse.com: reading vm.numa_zonelist_order will never terminate] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-07mm/memory_hotplug: just build zonelist for newly added nodeWei Yang1-5/+9
Commit 9adb62a5df9c ("mm/hotplug: correctly setup fallback zonelists when creating new pgdat") tries to build the correct zonelist for a newly added node, while it is not necessary to rebuild it for already exist nodes. In build_zonelists(), it will iterate on nodes with memory. For a newly added node, it will have memory until node_states_set_node() is called in online_pages(). This patch avoids rebuilding the zonelists for already existing nodes. build_zonelists_node() uses managed_zone(zone) checks, so it should not include empty zones anyway. So effectively we avoid some pointless work under stop_machine(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak, per Vlastimil] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626035822.50155-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-04Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to fix up conflictsIngo Molnar1-5/+24
Conflicts: mm/page_alloc.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-01mm,page_alloc: don't call __node_reclaim() with oom_lock held.Tetsuo Handa1-3/+6
We are doing a last second memory allocation attempt before calling out_of_memory(). But since slab shrinker functions might indirectly wait for other thread's __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM && !__GFP_NORETRY memory allocations via sleeping locks, calling slab shrinker functions from node_reclaim() from get_page_from_freelist() with oom_lock held has possibility of deadlock. Therefore, make sure that last second memory allocation attempt does not call slab shrinker functions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503577106-9196-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-26PM/hibernate: touch NMI watchdog when creating snapshotChen Yu1-2/+18
There is a problem that when counting the pages for creating the hibernation snapshot will take significant amount of time, especially on system with large memory. Since the counting job is performed with irq disabled, this might lead to NMI lockup. The following warning were found on a system with 1.5TB DRAM: Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.002 seconds) done. OOM killer disabled. PM: Preallocating image memory... NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 27 CPU: 27 PID: 3128 Comm: systemd-sleep Not tainted 4.13.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc27.x86_64 #1 task: ffff9f01971ac000 task.stack: ffffb1a3f325c000 RIP: 0010:memory_bm_find_bit+0xf4/0x100 Call Trace: swsusp_set_page_free+0x2b/0x30 mark_free_pages+0x147/0x1c0 count_data_pages+0x41/0xa0 hibernate_preallocate_memory+0x80/0x450 hibernation_snapshot+0x58/0x410 hibernate+0x17c/0x310 state_store+0xdf/0xf0 kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20 sysfs_kf_write+0x37/0x40 kernfs_fop_write+0x11c/0x1a0 __vfs_write+0x37/0x170 vfs_write+0xb1/0x1a0 SyS_write+0x55/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5 ... done (allocated 6590003 pages) PM: Allocated 26360012 kbytes in 19.89 seconds (1325.28 MB/s) It has taken nearly 20 seconds(2.10GHz CPU) thus the NMI lockup was triggered. In case the timeout of the NMI watch dog has been set to 1 second, a safe interval should be 6590003/20 = 320k pages in theory. However there might also be some platforms running at a lower frequency, so feed the watchdog every 100k pages. [yu.c.chen@intel.com: simplification] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503460079-29721-1-git-send-email-yu.c.chen@intel.com [yu.c.chen@intel.com: use interval of 128k instead of 100k to avoid modulus] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503328098-5120-1-git-send-email-yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Reported-by: Jan Filipcewicz <jan.filipcewicz@intel.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-25Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-19mm: discard memblock data laterPavel Tatashin1-0/+4
There is existing use after free bug when deferred struct pages are enabled: The memblock_add() allocates memory for the memory array if more than 128 entries are needed. See comment in e820__memblock_setup(): * The bootstrap memblock region count maximum is 128 entries * (INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS), but EFI might pass us more E820 entries * than that - so allow memblock resizing. This memblock memory is freed here: free_low_memory_core_early() We access the freed memblock.memory later in boot when deferred pages are initialized in this path: deferred_init_memmap() for_each_mem_pfn_range() __next_mem_pfn_range() type = &memblock.memory; One possible explanation for why this use-after-free hasn't been hit before is that the limit of INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS has never been exceeded at least on systems where deferred struct pages were enabled. Tested by reducing INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS down to 4 from the current 128, and verifying in qemu that this code is getting excuted and that the freed pages are sane. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502485554-318703-2-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Fixes: 7e18adb4f80b ("mm: meminit: initialise remaining struct pages in parallel with kswapd") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-11Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar1-5/+6
Conflicts: include/linux/mm_types.h mm/huge_memory.c I removed the smp_mb__before_spinlock() like the following commit does: 8b1b436dd1cc ("mm, locking: Rework {set,clear,mm}_tlb_flush_pending()") and fixed up the affected commits. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-11mm: ratelimit PFNs busy info messageJonathan Toppins1-1/+1
The RDMA subsystem can generate several thousand of these messages per second eventually leading to a kernel crash. Ratelimit these messages to prevent this crash. Doug said: "I've been carrying a version of this for several kernel versions. I don't remember when they started, but we have one (and only one) class of machines: Dell PE R730xd, that generate these errors. When it happens, without a rate limit, we get rcu timeouts and kernel oopses. With the rate limit, we just get a lot of annoying kernel messages but the machine continues on, recovers, and eventually the memory operations all succeed" And: "> Well... why are all these EBUSY's occurring? It sounds inefficient > (at least) but if it is expected, normal and unavoidable then > perhaps we should just remove that message altogether? I don't have an answer to that question. To be honest, I haven't looked real hard. We never had this at all, then it started out of the blue, but only on our Dell 730xd machines (and it hits all of them), but no other classes or brands of machines. And we have our 730xd machines loaded up with different brands and models of cards (for instance one dedicated to mlx4 hardware, one for qib, one for mlx5, an ocrdma/cxgb4 combo, etc), so the fact that it hit all of the machines meant it wasn't tied to any particular brand/model of RDMA hardware. To me, it always smelled of a hardware oddity specific to maybe the CPUs or mainboard chipsets in these machines, so given that I'm not an mm expert anyway, I never chased it down. A few other relevant details: it showed up somewhere around 4.8/4.9 or thereabouts. It never happened before, but the prinkt has been there since the 3.18 days, so possibly the test to trigger this message was changed, or something else in the allocator changed such that the situation started happening on these machines? And, like I said, it is specific to our 730xd machines (but they are all identical, so that could mean it's something like their specific ram configuration is causing the allocator to hit this on these machine but not on other machines in the cluster, I don't want to say it's necessarily the model of chipset or CPU, there are other bits of identicalness between these machines)" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/499c0f6cc10d6eb829a67f2a4d75b4228a9b356e.1501695897.git.jtoppins@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Tested-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-11mm: fix global NR_SLAB_.*CLAIMABLE counter readsJohannes Weiner1-4/+5
As Tetsuo points out: "Commit 385386cff4c6 ("mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters") broke "Slab:" field of /proc/meminfo . It shows nearly 0kB" In addition to /proc/meminfo, this problem also affects the slab counters OOM/allocation failure info dumps, can cause early -ENOMEM from overcommit protection, and miscalculate image size requirements during suspend-to-disk. This is because the patch in question switched the slab counters from the zone level to the node level, but forgot to update the global accessor functions to read the aggregate node data instead of the aggregate zone data. Use global_node_page_state() to access the global slab counters. Fixes: 385386cff4c6 ("mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-10locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotationPeter Zijlstra1-3/+46
A while ago someone, and I cannot find the email just now, asked if we could not implement the RECLAIM_FS inversion stuff with a 'fake' lock like we use for other things like workqueues etc. I think this should be possible which allows reducing the 'irq' states and will reduce the amount of __bfs() lookups we do. Removing the 1 IRQ state results in 4 less __bfs() walks per dependency, improving lockdep performance. And by moving this annotation out of the lockdep code it becomes easier for the mm people to extend. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Cc: kirill@shutemov.name Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-03mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler()Heiko Carstens1-0/+2
Andre Wild reported the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1205 at kernel/cpu.c:240 lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x4c/0x60 Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 1205 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.13.0-rc2-00022-gfd2b2c57ec20 #10 Hardware name: IBM 2964 N96 702 (z/VM 6.4.0) task: 00000000701d8100 task.stack: 0000000073594000 Krnl PSW : 0704f00180000000 0000000000145e24 (lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x4c/0x60) ... Call Trace: lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x42/0x60) stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x62/0xf0 build_all_zonelists+0x92/0x150 numa_zonelist_order_handler+0x102/0x150 proc_sys_call_handler.isra.12+0xda/0x118 proc_sys_write+0x34/0x48 __vfs_write+0x3c/0x178 vfs_write+0xbc/0x1a0 SyS_write+0x66/0xc0 system_call+0xc4/0x2b0 locks held by bash/1205: #0: (sb_writers#4){.+.+.+}, at: vfs_write+0xa6/0x1a0 #1: (zl_order_mutex){+.+...}, at: numa_zonelist_order_handler+0x44/0x150 #2: (zonelists_mutex){+.+...}, at: numa_zonelist_order_handler+0xf4/0x150 Last Breaking-Event-Address: lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x48/0x60 This can be easily triggered with e.g. echo n > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order In commit 3f906ba23689a ("mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsem") memory hotplug locking was changed to fix a potential deadlock. This also switched the stop_machine() invocation within build_all_zonelists() to stop_machine_cpuslocked() which now expects that online cpus are locked when being called. This assumption is not true if build_all_zonelists() is being called from numa_zonelist_order_handler(). In order to fix this simply add a mem_hotplug_begin()/mem_hotplug_done() pair to numa_zonelist_order_handler(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726111738.38768-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Fixes: 3f906ba23689a ("mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsem") Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reported-by: Andre Wild <wild@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-13mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful ↵Michal Hocko1-3/+11
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/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsemThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
Andrey reported a potential deadlock with the memory hotplug lock and the cpu hotplug lock. The reason is that memory hotplug takes the memory hotplug lock and then calls stop_machine() which calls get_online_cpus(). That's the reverse lock order to get_online_cpus(); get_online_mems(); in mm/slub_common.c The problem has been there forever. The reason why this was never reported is that the cpu hotplug locking had this homebrewn recursive reader writer semaphore construct which due to the recursion evaded the full lock dep coverage. The memory hotplug code copied that construct verbatim and therefor has similar issues. Three steps to fix this: 1) Convert the memory hotplug locking to a per cpu rwsem so the potential issues get reported proper by lockdep. 2) Lock the online cpus in mem_hotplug_begin() before taking the memory hotplug rwsem and use stop_machine_cpuslocked() in the page_alloc code to avoid recursive locking. 3) The cpu hotpluck locking in #2 causes a recursive locking of the cpu hotplug lock via __offline_pages() -> lru_add_drain_all(). Solve this by invoking lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170704093421.506836322@linutronix.de Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-11mm/page_alloc.c: eliminate unsigned confusion in __rmqueue_fallbackRasmus Villemoes1-4/+7
Since current_order starts as MAX_ORDER-1 and is then only decremented, the second half of the loop condition seems superfluous. However, if order is 0, we may decrement current_order past 0, making it UINT_MAX. This is obviously too subtle ([1], [2]). Since we need to add some comment anyway, change the two variables to signed, making the counting-down for loop look more familiar, and apparently also making gcc generate slightly smaller code. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/20/493 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/19/345 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up reject fixupping] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170621185529.2265-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reported-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> 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>