kernel/linux.git/mm/percpu-internal.h, branch v5.15.208

Merge branch 'for-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu

2021-07-02T00:17:24+00:00

Pull percpu updates from Dennis Zhou: - percpu chunk depopulation - depopulate backing pages for chunks with empty pages when we exceed a global threshold without those pages. This lets us reclaim a portion of memory that would previously be lost until the full chunk would be freed (possibly never). - memcg accounting cleanup - previously separate chunks were managed for normal allocations and __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations. These are now consolidated which cleans up the code quite a bit. - a few misc clean ups for clang warnings * 'for-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu: percpu: optimize locking in pcpu_balance_workfn() percpu: initialize best_upa variable percpu: rework memcg accounting mm, memcg: introduce mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled() mm, memcg: mark cgroup_memory_nosocket, nokmem and noswap as __ro_after_init percpu: make symbol 'pcpu_free_slot' static percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation percpu: use pcpu_free_slot instead of pcpu_nr_slots - 1 percpu: factor out pcpu_check_block_hint() percpu: split __pcpu_balance_workfn() percpu: fix a comment about the chunks ordering

percpu: rework memcg accounting

2021-06-05T20:43:15+00:00

The current implementation of the memcg accounting of the percpu memory is based on the idea of having two separate sets of chunks for accounted and non-accounted memory. This approach has an advantage of not wasting any extra memory for memcg data for non-accounted chunks, however it complicates the code and leads to a higher chunks number due to a lower chunk utilization. Instead of having two chunk types it's possible to declare all* chunks memcg-aware unless the kernel memory accounting is disabled globally by a boot option. The size of objcg_array is usually small in comparison to chunks themselves (it obviously depends on the number of CPUs), so even if some chunk will have no accounted allocations, the memory waste isn't significant and will likely be compensated by a higher chunk utilization. Also, with time more and more percpu allocations will likely become accounted. * The first chunk is initialized before the memory cgroup subsystem, so we don't know for sure whether we need to allocate obj_cgroups. Because it's small, let's make it free for use. Then we don't need to allocate obj_cgroups for it. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm: fix typos in comments

2021-05-07T07:26:35+00:00

Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few very obvious grammar mistakes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation

2021-04-21T18:17:40+00:00

From Roman ("percpu: partial chunk depopulation"): In our [Facebook] production experience the percpu memory allocator is sometimes struggling with returning the memory to the system. A typical example is a creation of several thousands memory cgroups (each has several chunks of the percpu data used for vmstats, vmevents, ref counters etc). Deletion and complete releasing of these cgroups doesn't always lead to a shrinkage of the percpu memory, so that sometimes there are several GB's of memory wasted. The underlying problem is the fragmentation: to release an underlying chunk all percpu allocations should be released first. The percpu allocator tends to top up chunks to improve the utilization. It means new small-ish allocations (e.g. percpu ref counters) are placed onto almost filled old-ish chunks, effectively pinning them in memory. This patchset solves this problem by implementing a partial depopulation of percpu chunks: chunks with many empty pages are being asynchronously depopulated and the pages are returned to the system. To illustrate the problem the following script can be used: -- cd /sys/fs/cgroup mkdir percpu_test echo "+memory" > percpu_test/cgroup.subtree_control cat /proc/meminfo | grep Percpu for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mkdir percpu_test/cg_"${i}" for j in `seq 1 10`; do mkdir percpu_test/cg_"${i}"_"${j}" done done cat /proc/meminfo | grep Percpu for i in `seq 1 1000`; do for j in `seq 1 10`; do rmdir percpu_test/cg_"${i}"_"${j}" done done sleep 10 cat /proc/meminfo | grep Percpu for i in `seq 1 1000`; do rmdir percpu_test/cg_"${i}" done rmdir percpu_test -- It creates 11000 memory cgroups and removes every 10 out of 11. It prints the initial size of the percpu memory, the size after creating all cgroups and the size after deleting most of them. Results: vanilla: ./percpu_test.sh Percpu: 7488 kB Percpu: 481152 kB Percpu: 481152 kB with this patchset applied: ./percpu_test.sh Percpu: 7488 kB Percpu: 481408 kB Percpu: 135552 kB The total size of the percpu memory was reduced by more than 3.5 times. This patch: This patch implements partial depopulation of percpu chunks. As of now, a chunk can be depopulated only as a part of the final destruction, if there are no more outstanding allocations. However to minimize a memory waste it might be useful to depopulate a partially filed chunk, if a small number of outstanding allocations prevents the chunk from being fully reclaimed. This patch implements the following depopulation process: it scans over the chunk pages, looks for a range of empty and populated pages and performs the depopulation. To avoid races with new allocations, the chunk is previously isolated. After the depopulation the chunk is sidelined to a special list or freed. New allocations prefer using active chunks to sidelined chunks. If a sidelined chunk is used, it is reintegrated to the active lists. The depopulation is scheduled on the free path if the chunk is all of the following: 1) has more than 1/4 of total pages free and populated 2) the system has enough free percpu pages aside of this chunk 3) isn't the reserved chunk 4) isn't the first chunk If it's already depopulated but got free populated pages, it's a good target too. The chunk is moved to a special slot, pcpu_to_depopulate_slot, chunk->isolated is set, and the balance work item is scheduled. On isolation, these pages are removed from the pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages. It is constantly replaced to the to_depopulate_slot when it meets these qualifications. pcpu_reclaim_populated() iterates over the to_depopulate_slot until it becomes empty. The depopulation is performed in the reverse direction to keep populated pages close to the beginning. Depopulated chunks are sidelined to preferentially avoid them for new allocations. When no active chunk can suffice a new allocation, sidelined chunks are first checked before creating a new chunk. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Co-developed-by: Dennis Zhou Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Tested-by: Pratik Sampat Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

percpu: make pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages per chunk type

2021-04-09T13:58:38+00:00

nr_empty_pop_pages is used to guarantee that there are some free populated pages to satisfy atomic allocations. Accounted and non-accounted allocations are using separate sets of chunks, so both need to have a surplus of empty pages. This commit makes pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and the corresponding logic per chunk type. [Dennis] This issue came up as I was reviewing [1] and realized I missed this. Simultaneously, it was reported btrfs was seeing failed atomic allocations in fsstress tests [2] and [3]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210324190626.564297-1-guro@fb.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401185158.3275.409509F4@e16-tech.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAL3q7H5RNBjCi708GH7jnczAOe0BLnacT9C+OBgA-Dx9jhB6SQ@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 3c7be18ac9a0 ("mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+ Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Tested-by: Filipe Manana Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups

2020-08-12T17:57:55+00:00

Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various subsystems, and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu allocator can make a good part of the total memory. As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory, and they are created by a user. Also, some cgroup internals (e.g. memory controller statistics) can be quite large. On a machine with many CPUs and big number of cgroups they can consume hundreds of megabytes. So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory isolation. Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be accounted by default. To implement the perpcu accounting it's possible to take the slab memory accounting as a model to follow. Let's introduce two types of percpu chunks: root and memcg. What makes memcg chunks different is an additional space allocated to store memcg membership information. If __GFP_ACCOUNT is passed on allocation, a memcg chunk should be be used. If it's possible to charge the corresponding size to the target memory cgroup, allocation is performed, and the memcg ownership data is recorded. System-wide allocations are performed using root chunks, so there is no additional memory overhead. To implement a fast reparenting of percpu memory on memcg removal, we don't store mem_cgroup pointers directly: instead we use obj_cgroup API, introduced for slab accounting. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n build errors and warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move unreachable code, per Roman] [cuibixuan@huawei.com: mm/percpu: fix 'defined but not used' warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d41b939-a741-b521-a7a2-e7296ec16219@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Dennis Zhou Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Tobin C. Harding Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Bixuan Cui Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Stephen Rothwell Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623184515.4132564-3-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu: convert chunk hints to be based on pcpu_block_md

2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00

As mentioned in the last patch, a chunk's hints are no different than a block just responsible for more bits. This converts chunk level hints to use a pcpu_block_md to maintain them. This lets us reuse the same hint helper functions as a block. The left_free and right_free are unused by the chunk's pcpu_block_md. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Reviewed-by: Peng Fan

percpu: make pcpu_block_md generic

2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00

In reality, a chunk is just a block covering a larger number of bits. The hints themselves are one in the same. Rather than maintaining the hints separately, first introduce nr_bits to genericize pcpu_block_update() to correctly maintain block->right_free. The next patch will convert chunk hints to be managed as a pcpu_block_md. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Reviewed-by: Peng Fan

percpu: add block level scan_hint

2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00

Fragmentation can cause both blocks and chunks to have an early first_firee bit available, but only able to satisfy allocations much later on. This patch introduces a scan_hint to help mitigate some unnecessary scanning. The scan_hint remembers the largest area prior to the contig_hint. If the contig_hint == scan_hint, then scan_hint_start > contig_hint_start. This is necessary for scan_hint discovery when refreshing a block. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Reviewed-by: Peng Fan

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman