kernel/linux.git/mm/vmscan.c, branch v6.4

Revert "mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"

2023-06-19T20:19:34+00:00

This reverts commit f95bdb700bc6bb74e1199b1f5f90c613e152cfa7. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-8-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm: vmscan: make memcg slab shrink lockless"

2023-06-19T20:19:34+00:00

This reverts commit caa05325c9126c77ebf114edce51536a0d0a9a08. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-7-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm: vmscan: add shrinker_srcu_generation"

2023-06-19T20:19:34+00:00

This reverts commit 475733dda5aedba9e086379aafe6b5ffd53e8f5e. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. We will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-6-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm: vmscan: hold write lock to reparent shrinker nr_deferred"

2023-06-19T20:19:33+00:00

This reverts commit b3cabea3c9153fd42fe5cb851ac58b51ea2b32b8. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. We will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. Because there will be other readers after reverting the shrinker_srcu related changes, so it is better to restore to hold read lock to reparent shrinker nr_deferred. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-4-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()"

2023-06-19T20:19:33+00:00

This reverts commit 1643db98d9b314e0a592d152603094fbf7ab906e. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. We will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So we still need shrinker_rwsem in synchronize_shrinkers() after reverting the shrinker_srcu related changes. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-3-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Revert "mm: shrinkers: convert shrinker_rwsem to mutex"

2023-06-19T20:19:33+00:00

Patch series "revert shrinker_srcu related changes". This patch (of 7): This reverts commit cf2e309ebca7bb0916771839f9b580b06c778530. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_mutex back to shrinker_rwsem first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-2-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yujie Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: shrinkers: fix race condition on debugfs cleanup

2023-05-17T22:24:33+00:00

When something registers and unregisters many shrinkers, such as: for x in $(seq 10000); do unshare -Ui true; done Sometimes the following error is printed to the kernel log: debugfs: Directory '...' with parent 'shrinker' already present! This occurs since commit badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") / v6.2: Since the call to `debugfs_remove_recursive` was moved outside the `shrinker_rwsem`/`shrinker_mutex` lock, but the call to `ida_free` stayed inside, a newly registered shrinker can be re-assigned that ID and attempt to create the debugfs directory before the directory from the previous shrinker has been removed. The locking changes in commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless") made the race condition more likely, though it existed before then. Commit badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") could be reverted since the issue is addressed should no longer occur since the count and scan operations are lockless since commit 20cd1892fcc3 ("mm: shrinkers: make count and scan in shrinker debugfs lockless"). However, since this is a contended lock, prefer instead moving `ida_free` outside the lock to avoid the race. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013232.299211-1-joanbrugueram@gmail.com Fixes: badc28d4924b ("mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs") Signed-off-by: Joan Bruguera Micó Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: do not reclaim private data from pinned page

2023-05-06T17:10:07+00:00

If the page is pinned, there's no point in trying to reclaim it. Furthermore if the page is from the page cache we don't want to reclaim fs-private data from the page because the pinning process may be writing to the page at any time and reclaiming fs private info on a dirty page can upset the filesystem (see link below). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428124140.30166-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: John Hubbard Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Peter Xu Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...

mm: Multi-gen LRU: remove wait_event_killable()

2023-04-18T23:30:11+00:00

Android 14 and later default to MGLRU [1] and field telemetry showed occasional long tail latency (>100ms) in the reclaim path. Tracing revealed priority inversion in the reclaim path. In try_to_inc_max_seq(), when high priority tasks were blocked on wait_event_killable(), the preemption of the low priority task to call wake_up_all() caused those high priority tasks to wait longer than necessary. In general, this problem is not different from others of its kind, e.g., one caused by mutex_lock(). However, it is specific to MGLRU because it introduced the new wait queue lruvec->mm_state.wait. The purpose of this new wait queue is to avoid the thundering herd problem. If many direct reclaimers rush into try_to_inc_max_seq(), only one can succeed, i.e., the one to wake up the rest, and the rest who failed might cause premature OOM kills if they do not wait. So far there is no evidence supporting this scenario, based on how often the wait has been hit. And this begs the question how useful the wait queue is in practice. Based on Minchan's recommendation, which is in line with his commit 6d4675e60135 ("mm: don't be stuck to rmap lock on reclaim path") and the rest of the MGLRU code which also uses trylock when possible, remove the wait queue. [1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/I7ed7fbfd6ef9ce10053347528125dd98c39e50bf Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230413214326.2147568-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh Suggested-by: Minchan Kim Reported-by: Wei Wang Acked-by: Yu Zhao Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko Cc: Suleiman Souhlal Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton