kernel/linux.git/include/linux/mmzone.h, branch v6.12.80

mm/page_alloc: keep track of free highatomic

2024-11-07T22:14:58+00:00

OOM kills due to vastly overestimated free highatomic reserves were observed: ... invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0 ... Node 0 Normal free:1482936kB boost:0kB min:410416kB low:739404kB high:1068392kB reserved_highatomic:1073152KB ... Node 0 Normal: 1292*4kB (ME) 1920*8kB (E) 383*16kB (UE) 220*32kB (ME) 340*64kB (E) 2155*128kB (UE) 3243*256kB (UE) 615*512kB (U) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1477408kB The second line above shows that the OOM kill was due to the following condition: free (1482936kB) - reserved_highatomic (1073152kB) = 409784KB < min (410416kB) And the third line shows there were no free pages in any MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks, which otherwise would show up as type 'H'. Therefore __zone_watermark_unusable_free() underestimated the usable free memory by over 1GB, which resulted in the unnecessary OOM kill above. The comments in __zone_watermark_unusable_free() warns about the potential risk, i.e., If the caller does not have rights to reserves below the min watermark then subtract the high-atomic reserves. This will over-estimate the size of the atomic reserve but it avoids a search. However, it is possible to keep track of free pages in reserved highatomic pageblocks with a new per-zone counter nr_free_highatomic protected by the zone lock, to avoid a search when calculating the usable free memory. And the cost would be minimal, i.e., simple arithmetics in the highatomic alloc/free/move paths. Note that since nr_free_highatomic can be relatively small, using a per-cpu counter might cause too much drift and defeat its purpose, in addition to the extra memory overhead. Dependson e0932b6c1f94 ("mm: page_alloc: consolidate free page accounting") - see [1] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/if/else if/, per Johannes, stealth whitespace tweak] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028182653.3420139-1-yuzhao@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d0ddb33-fcdc-43e2-801f-0c1df2031afb@suse.cz [1] Fixes: 0aaa29a56e4f ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Reported-by: Link Lin Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: multi-gen LRU: use {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify()

2024-11-03T18:47:03+00:00

When the MM_WALK capability is enabled, memory that is mostly accessed by a VM appears younger than it really is, therefore this memory will be less likely to be evicted. Therefore, the presence of a running VM can significantly increase swap-outs for non-VM memory, regressing the performance for the rest of the system. Fix this regression by always calling {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify() whenever we clear the young bits on PMDs/PTEs. [jthoughton@google.com: fix link-time error] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-3-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: James Houghton Reported-by: David Stevens Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: multi-gen LRU: remove MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL stats

2024-11-03T18:47:02+00:00

Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: Have secondary MMUs participate in MM_WALK". Today, the MM_WALK capability causes MGLRU to clear the young bit from PMDs and PTEs during the page table walk before eviction, but MGLRU does not call the clear_young() MMU notifier in this case. By not calling this notifier, the MM walk takes less time/CPU, but it causes pages that are accessed mostly through KVM / secondary MMUs to appear younger than they should be. We do call the clear_young() notifier today, but only when attempting to evict the page, so we end up clearing young/accessed information less frequently for secondary MMUs than for mm PTEs, and therefore they appear younger and are less likely to be evicted. Therefore, memory that is *not* being accessed mostly by KVM will be evicted *more* frequently, worsening performance. ChromeOS observed a tab-open latency regression when enabling MGLRU with a setup that involved running a VM: Tab-open latency histogram (ms) Version p50 mean p95 p99 max base 1315 1198 2347 3454 10319 mglru 2559 1311 7399 12060 43758 fix 1119 926 2470 4211 6947 This series replaces the final non-selftest patchs from this series[1], which introduced a similar change (and a new MMU notifier) with KVM optimizations. I'll send a separate series (to Sean and Paolo) for the KVM optimizations. This series also makes proactive reclaim with MGLRU possible for KVM memory. I have verified that this functions correctly with the selftest from [1], but given that that test is a KVM selftest, I'll send it with the rest of the KVM optimizations later. Andrew, let me know if you'd like to take the test now anyway. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240926013506.860253-18-jthoughton@google.com/ This patch (of 2): The removed stats, MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL, are not very helpful and become more complicated to properly compute when adding test/clear_young() notifiers in MGLRU's mm walk. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-1-jthoughton@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-2-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: James Houghton Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Stevens Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

include/linux/mmzone.h: clean up watermark accessors

2024-09-02T03:25:59+00:00

- we have a helper wmark_pages(). Teach min_wmark_pages(), low_wmark_pages(), high_wmark_pages() and promo_wmark_pages() to use it instead of open-coding its implementation. - there's no reason to implement all these things as macros. Redo them in C. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kaiyang Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: create promo_wmark_pages and clean up open-coded sites

2024-09-02T03:25:58+00:00

Patch series "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo", v2. This patch (of 2): Define promo_wmark_pages and convert current call sites of wmark_pages with fixed WMARK_PROMO to using it instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240801232548.36604-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240801232548.36604-2-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Zhao Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: improve code consistency with zonelist_* helper functions

2024-09-02T03:25:55+00:00

Replace direct access to zoneref->zone, zoneref->zone_idx, or zone_to_nid(zoneref->zone) with the corresponding zonelist_* helper functions for consistency. No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729091717.464-1-shivankg@amd.com Co-developed-by: Shivank Garg Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: don't account memmap per-node

2024-08-16T05:16:14+00:00

Fix invalid access to pgdat during hot-remove operation: ndctl users reported a GPF when trying to destroy a namespace: $ ndctl destroy-namespace all -r all -f Segmentation fault dmesg: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000005650: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x000000000002b280-0x000000000002b287] CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 1868 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1 #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/08HT8T, BIOS 2.20.1 09/13/2023 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x2a/0x110 cxl-test users report a GPF when trying to unload the test module: $ modrpobe -r cxl-test dmesg BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000004200 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1076 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O N 6.11.0-rc1 #197 Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [N]=TEST Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/15 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x6/0x90 Currently, when memory is hot-plugged or hot-removed the accounting is done based on the assumption that memmap is allocated from the same node as the hot-plugged/hot-removed memory, which is not always the case. In addition, there are challenges with keeping the node id of the memory that is being remove to the time when memmap accounting is actually performed: since this is done after remove_pfn_range_from_zone(), and also after remove_memory_block_devices(). Meaning that we cannot use pgdat nor walking though memblocks to get the nid. Given all of that, account the memmap overhead system wide instead. For this we are going to be using global atomic counters, but given that memmap size is rarely modified, and normally is only modified either during early boot when there is only one CPU, or under a hotplug global mutex lock, therefore there is no need for per-cpu optimizations. Also, while we are here rename nr_memmap to nr_memmap_pages, and nr_memmap_boot to nr_memmap_boot_pages to be self explanatory that the units are in page count. [pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: address a few nits from David Hildenbrand] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240808213437.682006-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information") Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reported-by: Yi Zhang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAHj4cs9Ax1=CoJkgBGP_+sNu6-6=6v=_L-ZBZY0bVLD3wUWZQg@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Alison Schofield Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Zq0tPd2h6alFz8XF@aschofie-mobl2/#t Tested-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: David Rientjes Tested-by: Yi Zhang Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Fan Ni Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Li Zhijian Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Sourav Panda Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable to pick up "mm: fix

2024-07-06T18:44:41+00:00

crashes from deferred split racing folio migration", needed by "mm: migrate: split folio_migrate_mapping()".

mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()

2024-07-04T05:40:36+00:00

Commit 5ec8e8ea8b77 ("mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") changed pfn_section_valid() to add a READ_ONCE() call around "ms->usage" to fix a race with section_deactivate() where ms->usage can be cleared. The READ_ONCE() call, by itself, is not enough to prevent NULL pointer dereference. We need to check its value before dereferencing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626001639.1350646-1-longman@redhat.com Fixes: 5ec8e8ea8b77 ("mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Cc: Charan Teja Kalla Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: report per-page metadata information

2024-07-04T02:30:09+00:00

Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata and how much it takes away from the machine capacity. Thus, we want to describe the amount of memory that is going towards per-page metadata, which can vary depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system use. This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown below: Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator: /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator: /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine: (/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot + /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE Utility for userspace: Observability: Describe the amount of memory overhead that is going to per-page metadata on the system at any given time since this overhead is not currently observable. Debugging: Tracking the changes or absolute value in struct pages can help detect anomalies as they can be correlated with other metrics in the machine (e.g., memtotal, number of huge pages, etc). page_ext overheads: Some kernel features such as page_owner page_table_check that use page_ext can be optionally enabled via kernel parameters. Having the total per-page metadata information helps users precisely measure impact. Furthermore, page-metadata metrics will reflect the amount of struct pages reliquished (or overhead reduced) when hugetlbfs pages are reserved which will vary depending on whether hugetlb vmemmap optimization is enabled or not. For background and results see: lore.kernel.org/all/20240220214558.3377482-1-souravpanda@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605222751.1406125-1-souravpanda@google.com Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda Acked-by: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Chen Linxuan Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ivan Babrou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tomas Mudrunka Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yang Yang Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton