kernel/linux.git/mm/percpu-vm.c, branch v6.6.132

percpu: flush tlb in pcpu_reclaim_populated()

2021-07-04T18:30:17+00:00

Prior to "percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation", pcpu_depopulate_chunk() was called only on the destruction path. This meant the virtual address range was on its way back to vmalloc which will handle flushing the tlbs for us. However, with pcpu_reclaim_populated(), we are now calling pcpu_depopulate_chunk() during the active lifecycle of a chunk. Therefore, we need to flush the tlb as well otherwise we can end up accessing the wrong page through an invalid tlb mapping as reported in [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210702191140.GA3166599@roeck-us.net/ Fixes: f183324133ea ("percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation") Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

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/vmalloc: remove unmap_kernel_range

2021-04-30T18:20:40+00:00

This is a shim around vunmap_range, get rid of it. Move the main API comment from the _noflush variant to the normal variant, and make _noflush internal to mm/. [npiggin@gmail.com: fix nommu builds and a comment bug per sfr] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1617292598.m6g0knx24s.astroid@bobo.none [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move vunmap_range_noflush() stub inside !CONFIG_MMU, not !CONFIG_NUMA] [npiggin@gmail.com: fix nommu builds] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1617292497.o1uhq5ipxp.astroid@bobo.none Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-5-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Cédric Le Goater Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: remove map_kernel_range

2021-04-30T18:20:40+00:00

Patch series "mm/vmalloc: cleanup after hugepage series", v2. Christoph pointed out some overdue cleanups required after the huge vmalloc series, and I had another failure error message improvement as well. This patch (of 5): This is a shim around vmap_pages_range, get rid of it. Move the main API comment from the _noflush variant to the normal variant, and make _noflush internal to mm/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-1-npiggin@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-2-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Cédric Le Goater 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

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

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: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators

2018-02-18T13:33:01+00:00

The prior patch added support for passing gfp flags through to the underlying allocators. This patch allows users to pass along gfp flags (currently only __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) to the underlying allocators. This should allow users to decide if they are ok with failing allocations recovering in a more graceful way. Additionally, gfp passing was done as additional flags in the previous patch. Instead, change this to caller passed semantics. GFP_KERNEL is also removed as the default flag. It continues to be used for internally caused underlying percpu allocations. V2: Removed gfp_percpu_mask in favor of doing it inline. Removed GFP_KERNEL as a default flag for __alloc_percpu_gfp. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path

2018-02-18T13:33:00+00:00

Percpu memory using the vmalloc area based chunk allocator lazily populates chunks by first requesting the full virtual address space required for the chunk and subsequently adding pages as allocations come through. To ensure atomic allocations can succeed, a workqueue item is used to maintain a minimum number of empty pages. In certain scenarios, such as reported in [1], it is possible that physical memory becomes quite scarce which can result in either a rather long time spent trying to find free pages or worse, a kernel panic. This patch adds support for __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN passing them through to the underlying allocators. This should prevent any unnecessary panics potentially caused by the workqueue item. The passing of gfp around is as additional flags rather than a full set of flags. The next patch will change these to caller passed semantics. V2: Added const modifier to gfp flags in the balance path. Removed an extra whitespace. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/551 Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann Reported-by: syzbot+adb03f3f0bb57ce3acda@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo