kernel/linux.git/mm/percpu-stats.c, branch v6.19.11

mm: remove outdated filename comment in percpu-stats.c

2025-07-13T23:38:23+00:00

The comment had the old filename. It's also unnecessary, so drop it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250702062400.207619-1-liuqiye2025@163.com Signed-off-by: Xuanye Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc for array allocations

2022-03-08T14:30:46+00:00

Instead of using array_size or just a multiply, use a function that takes care of both the multiplication and the overflow checks. Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

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

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: update copyright emails to dennis@kernel.org

2020-04-01T17:09:12+00:00

Currently there are 3 emails tied to me in the kernel tree, I'd rather dennis@kernel.org be the only one. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428

2019-06-05T15:37:16+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this file is released under the gplv2 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 68 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.292346262@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc()

2018-06-12T23:19:22+00:00

The vmalloc() function has no 2-factor argument form, so multiplication factors need to be wrapped in array_size(). This patch replaces cases of: vmalloc(a * b) with: vmalloc(array_size(a, b)) as well as handling cases of: vmalloc(a * b * c) with: vmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c)) This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like: vmalloc(4 * 1024) though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion. Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were dropped, since they're redundant. The Coccinelle script used for this was: // Fix redundant parens around sizeof(). @@ type TYPE; expression THING, E; @@ ( vmalloc( - (sizeof(TYPE)) * E + sizeof(TYPE) * E , ...) | vmalloc( - (sizeof(THING)) * E + sizeof(THING) * E , ...) ) // Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens. @@ expression COUNT; typedef u8; typedef __u8; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) ) // 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant. @@ type TYPE; expression THING; identifier COUNT_ID; constant COUNT_CONST; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID) + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST) + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID) + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST) + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 2-factor product, only identifiers. @@ identifier SIZE, COUNT; @@ vmalloc( - SIZE * COUNT + array_size(COUNT, SIZE) , ...) // 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with // redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING; identifier STRIDE, COUNT; type TYPE; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING1, THING2; identifier COUNT; type TYPE1, TYPE2; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed. @@ identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT; @@ ( vmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) ) // Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products // when they're not all constants... @@ expression E1, E2, E3; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( vmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | vmalloc( - E1 * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) ) // And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants. @@ expression E1, E2; constant C1, C2; @@ ( vmalloc(C1 * C2, ...) | vmalloc( - E1 * E2 + array_size(E1, E2) , ...) ) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook