kernel/linux.git/include/linux/vm_event_item.h, branch v6.19.11

mm: vm_event_item: explicit #include for THREAD_SIZE

2025-09-21T21:22:31+00:00

This header uses THREAD_SIZE, which is provided by the thread_info.h header but is not included in this header. Depending on the #include ordering in other files, this can produce preprocessor errors. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250909201419.827638-1-briannorris@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task"

2025-07-10T04:07:56+00:00

This reverts commit ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382. This commit introduces per-memcg/task NUMA balance statistics, but unfortunately it introduced a NULL pointer exception due to the following race condition: After a swap task candidate was chosen, its mm_struct pointer was set to NULL due to task exit. Later, when performing the actual task swapping, the p->mm caused the problem. CPU0 CPU1 : ... task_numa_migrate task_numa_find_cpu task_numa_compare # a normal task p is chosen env->best_task = p # p exit: exit_signals(p); p->flags |= PF_EXITING exit_mm p->mm = NULL; migrate_swap_stop __migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu) count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL task_lock() should be held and the PF_EXITING flag needs to be checked to prevent this from happening. After discussion, the conclusion was that adding a lock is not worthwhile for some statistics calculations. Revert the change and rely on the tracepoint for this purpose. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704135620.685752-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708064917.BBD13C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Reported-by: Jirka Hladky Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal Reported-by: Suneeth D Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Hladky Cc: Libo Chen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task

2025-06-01T05:46:15+00:00

On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial. NUMA balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's preferred nodes. The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in /sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched. However, it lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping. Therefore, relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added. The following two new fields: numa_task_migrated numa_task_swapped will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched and /proc/vmstat. Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and resource utilization of the target workload. For instance, users can first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently adjust the memory policy for that task. In short, although it is possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach. As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on vmstat_text. Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat. In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's activities. The reason for exposing them through the memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related to each other. Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for future reference: The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages on the same NUMA node. There are two strategies: migrate the pages to the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages reside. Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on Node 1. NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint" across nodes. If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on Node 1: 1.Page Migration Attempt: The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Node 0. The numa_page_migrate counter increments. 2.Task Migration Strategies: After the page migration finishes, Numa balance checks every 1 second to see if p1 can be migrated to Node 1. Case 2.1: Idle CPU Available If Node 1 has an idle CPU, p1 is directly scheduled there. This event is logged as numa_task_migrated. Case 2.2: No Idle CPU (Task Swap) If all CPUs on Node1 are busy, direct migration could cause CPU contention or load imbalance. Instead: The Numa balance selects a candidate task p2 on Node 1 that prefers Node 0 (e.g., due to its own page footprint). p1 and p2 are swapped. This cross-node swap is recorded as numa_task_swapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d00edb12ba0f0de3c5222f61487e65f2ac58f5b1.1748493462.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ef90a88602ed536be46eba7152ed0d33bad5790.1748002400.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aubrey Li Cc: Ayush Jain Cc: "Chen, Tim C" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Libo Chen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide compile-time checking of percpu area accesses. This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect. - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code. - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed. - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained. - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime effects are anticipated. - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark. - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan noticed when working on the swap code. - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible output. - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's handling of large folios. - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions. - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields. - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by huge page sizes. - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and file-backed mappings. - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for pte-mapped large folios. - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one microbenchmark. - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON docs. - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed when using CMA on large machines. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the page's mapped/unmapped status. - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression operations preemptibly. - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests. - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to determine whether a particular page is a guard page. - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't being effective. - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this code. - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic. - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for DAMON's aggregation interval tuning. - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize vmalloc. - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code easier to follow. - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which we accidentally added late last year. - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page initialization. - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page balancing code. - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention is updated accordingly. - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc. - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as it claims. - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case checks. - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code. - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped exclusively into a single MM. - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters. - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical. - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs access to DAMON internal data. - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and cmdline options. - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are generated. - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during an xarray split. - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code. - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the page allocator code. - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work. - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation. - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing fragmentation. - The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs. - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages, separately for file and anon pages. - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim statistics. - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits) mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex() x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() ...

mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics

2025-03-22T05:03:16+00:00

Patch series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics". These two patches are related to proactive memory reclaim. Patch 1 Split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim counters and introduces new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive. Patch 2 Adds pswpin and pswpout items to the cgroup-v2 documentation. This patch (of 2): In proactive memory reclaim scenarios, it is necessary to accurately track proactive reclaim statistics to dynamically adjust the frequency and amount of memory being reclaimed proactively. Currently, proactive reclaim is included in direct reclaim statistics, which can make these direct reclaim statistics misleading. Therefore, separate proactive reclaim memory from the direct reclaim counters by introducing new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive, to avoid confusion with direct reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-2-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Jia Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86/mm/pat: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation

2025-02-03T10:46:01+00:00

Change of attributes of the pages may lead to fragmentation of direct mapping over time and performance degradation when these pages contain executable code. With current code it's one way road: kernel tries to avoid splitting large pages, but it doesn't restore them back even if page attributes got compatible again. Any change to the mapping may potentially allow to restore large page. Add a hook to cpa_flush() path that will check if the pages in the range that were just touched can be mapped at PMD level. If the collapse at the PMD level succeeded, also attempt to collapse PUD level. The collapse logic runs only when a set_memory_ method explicitly sets CPA_COLLAPSE flag, for now this is only enabled in set_memory_rox(). CPUs don't like[1] to have to have TLB entries of different size for the same memory, but looks like it's okay as long as these entries have matching attributes[2]. Therefore it's critical to flush TLB before any following changes to the mapping. Note that we already allow for multiple TLB entries of different sizes for the same memory now in split_large_page() path. It's not a new situation. set_memory_4k() provides a way to use 4k pages on purpose. Kernel must not remap such pages as large. Re-use one of software PTE bits to indicate such pages. [1] See Erratum 383 of AMD Family 10h Processors [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1da1b025-cabc-6f04-bde5-e50830d1ecf0@amd.com/ [rppt@kernel.org: * s/restore/collapse/ * update formatting per peterz * use 'struct ptdesc' instead of 'struct page' for list of page tables to be freed * try to collapse PMD first and if it succeeds move on to PUD as peterz suggested * flush TLB twice: for changes done in the original CPA call and after collapsing of large pages * update commit message ] Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Co-developed-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Signed-off-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250126074733.1384926-4-rppt@kernel.org

mm: count zeromap read and set for swapout and swapin

2024-11-11T08:00:37+00:00

When the proportion of folios from the zeromap is small, missing their accounting may not significantly impact profiling. However, it's easy to construct a scenario where this becomes an issue—for example, allocating 1 GB of memory, writing zeros from userspace, followed by MADV_PAGEOUT, and then swapping it back in. In this case, the swap-out and swap-in counts seem to vanish into a black hole, potentially causing semantic ambiguity. On the other hand, Usama reported that zero-filled pages can exceed 10% in workloads utilizing zswap, while Hailong noted that some app in Android have more than 6% zero-filled pages. Before commit 0ca0c24e3211 ("mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap"), both zswap and zRAM implemented similar optimizations, leading to these optimized-out pages being counted in either zswap or zRAM counters (with pswpin/pswpout also increasing for zRAM). With zeromap functioning prior to both zswap and zRAM, userspace will no longer detect these swap-out and swap-in actions. We have three ways to address this: 1. Introduce a dedicated counter specifically for the zeromap. 2. Use pswpin/pswpout accounting, treating the zero map as a standard backend. This approach aligns with zRAM's current handling of same-page fills at the device level. However, it would mean losing the optimized-out page counters previously available in zRAM and would not align with systems using zswap. Additionally, as noted by Nhat Pham, pswpin/pswpout counters apply only to I/O done directly to the backend device. 3. Count zeromap pages under zswap, aligning with system behavior when zswap is enabled. However, this would not be consistent with zRAM, nor would it align with systems lacking both zswap and zRAM. Given the complications with options 2 and 3, this patch selects option 1. We can find these counters from /proc/vmstat (counters for the whole system) and memcg's memory.stat (counters for the interested memcg). For example: $ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /proc/vmstat swpin_zero 1648 swpout_zero 33536 $ grep -E 'swpin_zero|swpout_zero' /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.stat swpin_zero 3905 swpout_zero 3985 This patch does not address any specific zeromap bug, but the missing swpout and swpin counts for zero-filled pages can be highly confusing and may mislead user-space agents that rely on changes in these counters as indicators. Therefore, we add a Fixes tag to encourage the inclusion of this counter in any kernel versions with zeromap. Many thanks to Kanchana for the contribution of changing count_objcg_event() to count_objcg_events() to support large folios[1], which has now been incorporated into this patch. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001053222.6944-5-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241107011246.59137-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Fixes: 0ca0c24e3211 ("mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap") Co-developed-by: Kanchana P Sridhar Signed-off-by: Barry Song Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Hailong Liu Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Chris Li Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: split underused THPs

2024-09-09T23:39:04+00:00

This is an attempt to mitigate the issue of running out of memory when THP is always enabled. During runtime whenever a THP is being faulted in (__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page) or collapsed by khugepaged (collapse_huge_page), the THP is added to _deferred_list. Whenever memory reclaim happens in linux, the kernel runs the deferred_split shrinker which goes through the _deferred_list. If the folio was partially mapped, the shrinker attempts to split it. If the folio is not partially mapped, the shrinker checks if the THP was underused, i.e. how many of the base 4K pages of the entire THP were zero-filled. If this number goes above a certain threshold (decided by /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none), the shrinker will attempt to split that THP. Then at remap time, the pages that were zero-filled are mapped to the shared zeropage, hence saving memory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830100438.3623486-6-usamaarif642@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Usama Arif Suggested-by: Rik van Riel Co-authored-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Alexander Zhu Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuang Zhai Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Shuang Zhai Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

vmstat: kernel stack usage histogram

2024-09-02T03:25:49+00:00

As part of the dynamic kernel stack project, we need to know the amount of data that can be saved by reducing the default kernel stack size [1]. Provide a kernel stack usage histogram to aid in optimizing kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste in large-scale environments. The histogram divides stack usage into power-of-two buckets and reports the results in /proc/vmstat. This information is especially valuable in environments with millions of machines, where even small optimizations can have a significant impact. The histogram data is presented in /proc/vmstat with entries like "kstack_1k", "kstack_2k", and so on, indicating the number of threads that exited with stack usage falling within each respective bucket. Example outputs: Intel: $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat kstack_1k 3 kstack_2k 188 kstack_4k 11391 kstack_8k 243 kstack_16k 0 ARM with 64K page_size: $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat kstack_1k 1 kstack_2k 340 kstack_4k 25212 kstack_8k 1659 kstack_16k 0 kstack_32k 0 kstack_64k 0 Note: once the dynamic kernel stack is implemented it will depend on the implementation the usability of this feature: On hardware that supports faults on kernel stacks, we will have other metrics that show the total number of pages allocated for stacks. On hardware where faults are not supported, we will most likely have some optimization where only some threads are extended, and for those, these metrics will still be very useful. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974367 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730150158.832783-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240724203322.2765486-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Li Zhijian Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add node_reclaim successes to VM event counters

2024-09-02T03:25:43+00:00

/proc/vmstat currently shows the number of node_reclaim() failures when vm.zone_reclaim_mode is set appropriately. It would be convenient to have the number of successes right next to zone_reclaim_failed (similar to compaction and migration). While just a trivially addition to the vmstat file. It was helpful during benchmarking to not have to probe node_reclaim() to observe the success/failure ratio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240722171316.7517-1-mcassell411@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Cassell Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Li Zhijian Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton