From 3f49584b262cf8f42b25f4c1ad9f5bfd3bdc1bca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:56:44 -0700 Subject: mm/damon: implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces This commit introduces a reference implementation of the address space specific low level primitives for the virtual address space, so that users of DAMON can easily monitor the data accesses on virtual address spaces of specific processes by simply configuring the implementation to be used by DAMON. The low level primitives for the fundamental access monitoring are defined in two parts: 1. Identification of the monitoring target address range for the address space. 2. Access check of specific address range in the target space. The reference implementation for the virtual address space does the works as below. PTE Accessed-bit Based Access Check ----------------------------------- The implementation uses PTE Accessed-bit for basic access checks. That is, it clears the bit for the next sampling target page and checks whether it is set again after one sampling period. This could disturb the reclaim logic. DAMON uses ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags to solve the conflict, as Idle page tracking does. VMA-based Target Address Range Construction ------------------------------------------- Only small parts in the super-huge virtual address space of the processes are mapped to physical memory and accessed. Thus, tracking the unmapped address regions is just wasteful. However, because DAMON can deal with some level of noise using the adaptive regions adjustment mechanism, tracking every mapping is not strictly required but could even incur a high overhead in some cases. That said, too huge unmapped areas inside the monitoring target should be removed to not take the time for the adaptive mechanism. For the reason, this implementation converts the complex mappings to three distinct regions that cover every mapped area of the address space. Also, the two gaps between the three regions are the two biggest unmapped areas in the given address space. The two biggest unmapped areas would be the gap between the heap and the uppermost mmap()-ed region, and the gap between the lowermost mmap()-ed region and the stack in most of the cases. Because these gaps are exceptionally huge in usual address spaces, excluding these will be sufficient to make a reasonable trade-off. Below shows this in detail:: (small mmap()-ed regions and munmap()-ed regions) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm/damon/vaddr.c needs highmem.h for kunmap_atomic()] [sjpark@amazon.de: remove unnecessary PAGE_EXTENSION setup] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806095153.6444-2-sj38.park@gmail.com [sjpark@amazon.de: safely walk page table] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210831161800.29419-1-sj38.park@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716081449.22187-6-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Fan Du Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Markus Boehme Cc: Maximilian Heyne Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/damon.h | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h index ce2a84b26cd7..edb350e52b93 100644 --- a/include/linux/damon.h +++ b/include/linux/damon.h @@ -249,4 +249,17 @@ int damon_stop(struct damon_ctx **ctxs, int nr_ctxs); #endif /* CONFIG_DAMON */ +#ifdef CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR + +/* Monitoring primitives for virtual memory address spaces */ +void damon_va_init(struct damon_ctx *ctx); +void damon_va_update(struct damon_ctx *ctx); +void damon_va_prepare_access_checks(struct damon_ctx *ctx); +unsigned int damon_va_check_accesses(struct damon_ctx *ctx); +bool damon_va_target_valid(void *t); +void damon_va_cleanup(struct damon_ctx *ctx); +void damon_va_set_primitives(struct damon_ctx *ctx); + +#endif /* CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR */ + #endif /* _DAMON_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3