kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/meminfo.c, branch v6.12.91

mm: zswap: optimize zswap pool size tracking

2024-04-26T03:55:47+00:00

Profiling the munmap() of a zswapped memory region shows 60% of the total cycles currently going into updating the zswap_pool_total_size. There are three consumers of this counter: - store, to enforce the globally configured pool limit - meminfo & debugfs, to report the size to the user - shrink, to determine the batch size for each cycle Instead of aggregating everytime an entry enters or exits the zswap pool, aggregate the value from the zpools on-demand: - Stores aggregate the counter anyway upon success. Aggregating to check the limit instead is the same amount of work. - Meminfo & debugfs might benefit somewhat from a pre-aggregated counter, but aren't exactly hotpaths. - Shrinking can aggregate once for every cycle instead of doing it for every freed entry. As the shrinker might work on tens or hundreds of objects per scan cycle, this is a large reduction in aggregations. The paths that benefit dramatically are swapin, swapoff, and unmaps. There could be millions of pages being processed until somebody asks for the pool size again. This eliminates the pool size updates from those paths entirely. Top profile entries for a 24G range munmap(), before: 38.54% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zs_zpool_total_size 12.51% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zpool_get_total_size 9.10% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zswap_update_total_size 2.95% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap 2.88% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free 2.86% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store and after: 7.70% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free 7.16% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] obj_cgroup_uncharge_zswap 6.74% zswap-unmap [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_store It was also briefly considered to move to a single atomic in zswap that is updated by the backends, since zswap only cares about the sum of all pools anyway. However, zram directly needs per-pool information out of zsmalloc. To keep the backend from having to update two atomics every time, I opted for the lazy aggregation instead for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312153901.3441-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: memtest: convert to memtest_report_meminfo()

2023-08-21T20:37:47+00:00

It is better to not expose too many internal variables of memtest, add a helper memtest_report_meminfo() to show memtest results. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808033359.174986-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Tomas Mudrunka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kill frontswap

2023-08-21T20:37:26+00:00

The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org [fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

2023-06-06T14:38:22+00:00

UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance. Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, require memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific to the Virtual Machine platform. There are several ways the kernel can deal with unaccepted memory: 1. Accept all the memory during boot. It is easy to implement and it doesn't have runtime cost once the system is booted. The downside is very long boot time. Accept can be parallelized to multiple CPUs to keep it manageable (i.e. via DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), but it tends to saturate memory bandwidth and does not scale beyond the point. 2. Accept a block of memory on the first use. It requires more infrastructure and changes in page allocator to make it work, but it provides good boot time. On-demand memory accept means latency spikes every time kernel steps onto a new memory block. The spikes will go away once workload data set size gets stabilized or all memory gets accepted. 3. Accept all memory in background. Introduce a thread (or multiple) that gets memory accepted proactively. It will minimize time the system experience latency spikes on memory allocation while keeping low boot time. This approach cannot function on its own. It is an extension of #2: background memory acceptance requires functional scheduler, but the page allocator may need to tap into unaccepted memory before that. The downside of the approach is that these threads also steal CPU cycles and memory bandwidth from the user's workload and may hurt user experience. Implement #1 and #2 for now. #2 is the default. Some workloads may want to use #1 with accept_memory=eager in kernel command line. #3 can be implemented later based on user's demands. Support of unaccepted memory requires a few changes in core-mm code: - memblock accepts memory on allocation. It serves early boot memory allocations and doesn't limit them to pre-accepted pool of memory. - page allocator accepts memory on the first allocation of the page. When kernel runs out of accepted memory, it accepts memory until the high watermark is reached. It helps to minimize fragmentation. EFI code will provide two helpers if the platform supports unaccepted memory: - accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted. - range_contains_unaccepted_memory() checks anything within the range of physical addresses requires acceptance. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mike Rapoport # memblock Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com

mm/memtest: add results of early memtest to /proc/meminfo

2023-04-06T02:42:55+00:00

Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg. When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM status. In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them. This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

proc/meminfo: fix spacing in SecPageTables

2022-11-23T02:50:44+00:00

SecPageTables has a tab after it instead of a space, this can break fragile parsers that depend on spaces after the stat names. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221117043247.133294-1-yosryahmed@google.com Fixes: ebc97a52b5d6cd5f ("mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.") Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-12T18:00:22+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco) - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic (Valentin Schneider) - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei) - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu counters (Jiebin Sun) - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi) - lots of other single patches all over the tree! * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies ia64: update config files nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure fork: remove duplicate included header files init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions proc: mark more files as permanent nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse() checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion() ...

proc: mark more files as permanent

2022-10-03T21:21:45+00:00

Mark /proc/devices /proc/kpagecount /proc/kpageflags /proc/kpagecgroup /proc/loadavg /proc/meminfo /proc/softirqs /proc/uptime /proc/version as permanent /proc entries, saving alloc/free and some list/spinlock ops per use. These files are never removed by the kernel so it is OK to mark them. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yyn527DzDMa+r0Yj@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE to count secondary page table uses.

2022-08-24T20:51:42+00:00

We keep track of several kernel memory stats (total kernel memory, page tables, stack, vmalloc, etc) on multiple levels (global, per-node, per-memcg, etc). These stats give insights to users to how much memory is used by the kernel and for what purposes. Currently, memory used by KVM mmu is not accounted in any of those kernel memory stats. This patch series accounts the memory pages used by KVM for page tables in those stats in a new NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE stat. This stat can be later extended to account for other types of secondary pages tables (e.g. iommu page tables). KVM has a decent number of large allocations that aren't for page tables, but for most of them, the number/size of those allocations scales linearly with either the number of vCPUs or the amount of memory assigned to the VM. KVM's secondary page table allocations do not scale linearly, especially when nested virtualization is in use. From a KVM perspective, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE will scale with KVM's per-VM pages_{4k,2m,1g} stats unless the guest is doing something bizarre (e.g. accessing only 4kb chunks of 2mb pages so that KVM is forced to allocate a large number of page tables even though the guest isn't accessing that much memory). However, someone would need to either understand how KVM works to make that connection, or know (or be told) to go look at KVM's stats if they're running VMs to better decipher the stats. Furthermore, having NR_PAGETABLE side-by-side with NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE is informative. For example, when backing a VM with THP vs. HugeTLB, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE is roughly the same, but NR_PAGETABLE is an order of magnitude higher with THP. So having this stat will at the very least prove to be useful for understanding tradeoffs between VM backing types, and likely even steer folks towards potential optimizations. The original discussion with more details about the rationale: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilqoi77b.wl-maz@kernel.org This stat will be used by subsequent patches to count KVM mmu memory usage. Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823004639.2387269-2-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson

mm: zswap: add basic meminfo and vmstat coverage

2022-05-19T21:08:53+00:00

Currently it requires poking at debugfs to figure out the size and population of the zswap cache on a host. There are no counters for reads and writes against the cache. As a result, it's difficult to understand zswap behavior on production systems. Print zswap memory consumption and how many pages are zswapped out in /proc/meminfo. Count zswapouts and zswapins in /proc/vmstat. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510152847.230957-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton