kernel/linux.git/Documentation/accounting, branch v6.1.168

delayacct: improve the average delay precision of getdelay tool to microsecond

2024-10-17T13:22:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit eca7de7cdc382eb6e0d344c07b1449ed75f5b435 ] Improve the average delay precision of getdelay tool to microsecond. When using the getdelay tool, it is sometimes found that the average delay except CPU is not 0, but display is 0, because the precison is too low. For example, see delay average of SWAP below when using ZRAM. print delayacct stats ON PID 32915 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average 339202 2793871936 9233585504 7951112 0.000ms IO count delay total delay average 41 419296904 10ms SWAP count delay total delay average 242589 1045792384 0ms This wrong display is misleading, so improve the millisecond precision of the average delay to microsecond just like CPU. Then user would get more accurate information of delay time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202302131408087983857@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Wang Yong Reviewed-by: Yang Yang Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Stable-dep-of: 3840cbe24cf0 ("sched: psi: fix bogus pressure spikes from aggregation race") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/psi: Allow unprivileged polling of N*2s period

2023-07-27T06:50:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit d82caa273565b45fcf103148950549af76c314b0 ] PSI offers 2 mechanisms to get information about a specific resource pressure. One is reading from /proc/pressure/, which gives average pressures aggregated every 2s. The other is creating a pollable fd for a specific resource and cgroup. The trigger creation requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, and gives the possibility to pick specific time window and threshold, spawing an RT thread to aggregate the data. Systemd would like to provide containers the option to monitor pressure on their own cgroup and sub-cgroups. For example, if systemd launches a container that itself then launches services, the container should have the ability to poll() for pressure in individual services. But neither the container nor the services are privileged. This patch implements a mechanism to allow unprivileged users to create pressure triggers. The difference with privileged triggers creation is that unprivileged ones must have a time window that's a multiple of 2s. This is so that we can avoid unrestricted spawning of rt threads, and use instead the same aggregation mechanism done for the averages, which runs independently of any triggers. Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330105418.77061-5-cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Stable-dep-of: aff037078eca ("sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

filemap: make the accounting of thrashing more consistent

2022-09-27T02:46:06+00:00

Once upon a time, we only support accounting thrashing of page cache. Then Joonsoo introduced workingset detection for anonymous pages and we gained the ability to account thrashing of them[1]. So let delayacct account both the thrashing of page cache and anonymous pages, this could make the codes more consistent and simpler. [1] commit aae466b0052e ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220805033838.1714674-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yang Yang Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Yang Yang Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

delayacct: track delays from write-protect copy

2022-06-01T22:55:25+00:00

Delay accounting does not track the delay of write-protect copy. When tasks trigger many write-protect copys(include COW and unsharing of anonymous pages[1]), it may spend a amount of time waiting for them. To get the delay of tasks in write-protect copy, could help users to evaluate the impact of using KSM or fork() or GUP. Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c: / # ./getdelays -dl -p 231 print delayacct stats ON listen forever PID 231 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average 6247 1859000000 2154070021 1674255063 0.268ms IO count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms SWAP count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms RECLAIM count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms THRASHING count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms COMPACT count delay total delay average 3 72758 0ms WPCOPY count delay total delay average 3635 271567604 0ms [1] commit 31cc5bc4af70("mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing of anonymous pages") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220409014342.2505532-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yang Yang Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Jiang Xuexin Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai Reviewed-by: wangyong Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched/psi: report zeroes for CPU full at the system level

2022-04-22T10:14:08+00:00

Martin find it confusing when look at the /proc/pressure/cpu output, and found no hint about that CPU "full" line in psi Documentation. % cat /proc/pressure/cpu some avg10=0.92 avg60=0.91 avg300=0.73 total=933490489 full avg10=0.22 avg60=0.23 avg300=0.16 total=358783277 The PSI_CPU_FULL state is introduced by commit e7fcd7622823 ("psi: Add PSI_CPU_FULL state"), which mainly for cgroup level, but also counted at the system level as a side effect. Naturally, the FULL state doesn't exist for the CPU resource at the system level. These "full" numbers can come from CPU idle schedule latency. For example, t1 is the time when task wakeup on an idle CPU, t2 is the time when CPU pick and switch to it. The delta of (t2 - t1) will be in CPU_FULL state. Another case all processes can be stalled is when all cgroups have been throttled at the same time, which unlikely to happen. Anyway, CPU_FULL metric is meaningless and confusing at the system level. So this patch will report zeroes for CPU full at the system level, and update psi Documentation accordingly. Fixes: e7fcd7622823 ("psi: Add PSI_CPU_FULL state") Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408121914.82855-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com

Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2022-01-23T15:35:27+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov: "A bunch of fixes: forced idle time accounting, utilization values propagation in the sched hierarchies and other minor cleanups and improvements" * tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: kernel/sched: Remove dl_boosted flag comment sched: Avoid double preemption in __cond_resched_*lock*() sched/fair: Fix all kernel-doc warnings sched/core: Accounting forceidle time for all tasks except idle task sched/pelt: Relax the sync of load_sum with load_avg sched/pelt: Relax the sync of runnable_sum with runnable_avg sched/pelt: Continue to relax the sync of util_sum with util_avg sched/pelt: Relax the sync of util_sum with util_avg psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled

Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact

2022-01-20T06:52:55+00:00

Add thrashing page cache and direct compact related descriptions and update the usage of getdelays userspace utility. The following patches modifications have been updated: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190312102002.31737-4-jinpuwang@gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/1638619795-71451-1-git-send-email- wang.yong12@zte.com.cn/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1639583021-92977-1-git-send-email-wang.yong12@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: wangyong Reviewed-by: Yang Yang Reported-by: Zeal Robot Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled

2022-01-18T11:09:57+00:00

With write operation on psi files replacing old trigger with a new one, the lifetime of its waitqueue is totally arbitrary. Overwriting an existing trigger causes its waitqueue to be freed and pending poll() will stumble on trigger->event_wait which was destroyed. Fix this by disallowing to redefine an existing psi trigger. If a write operation is used on a file descriptor with an already existing psi trigger, the operation will fail with EBUSY error. Also bypass a check for psi_disabled in the psi_trigger_destroy as the flag can be flipped after the trigger is created, leading to a memory leak. Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor") Reported-by: syzbot+cdb5dd11c97cc532efad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Analyzed-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220111232309.1786347-1-surenb@google.com

delayacct: Add sysctl to enable at runtime

2021-05-12T09:43:25+00:00

Just like sched_schedstats, allow runtime enabling (and disabling) of delayacct. This is useful if one forgot to add the delayacct boot time option. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YJkhebGJAywaZowX@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

delayacct: Default disabled

2021-05-12T09:43:25+00:00

Assuming this stuff isn't actually used much; disable it by default and avoid allocating and tracking the task_delay_info structure. taskstats is changed to still report the regular sched and sched_info and only skip the missing task_delay_info fields instead of not reporting anything. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505111525.308018373@infradead.org