kernel/linux.git/mm/workingset.c, branch v6.1

mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation

2022-09-27T02:46:09+00:00

To avoid confusion, the terms "promotion" and "demotion" will be applied to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "activation" and "deactivation" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual. The aging produces young generations. Given an lruvec, it increments max_seq when max_seq-min_seq+1 approaches MIN_NR_GENS. The aging promotes hot pages to the youngest generation when it finds them accessed through page tables; the demotion of cold pages happens consequently when it increments max_seq. Promotion in the aging path does not involve any LRU list operations, only the updates of the gen counter and lrugen->nr_pages[]; demotion, unless as the result of the increment of max_seq, requires LRU list operations, e.g., lru_deactivate_fn(). The aging has the complexity O(nr_hot_pages), since it is only interested in hot pages. The eviction consumes old generations. Given an lruvec, it increments min_seq when lrugen->lists[] indexed by min_seq%MAX_NR_GENS becomes empty. A feedback loop modeled after the PID controller monitors refaults over anon and file types and decides which type to evict when both types are available from the same generation. The protection of pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors takes place in the eviction path. Each generation is divided into multiple tiers. A page accessed N times through file descriptors is in tier order_base_2(N). Tiers do not have dedicated lrugen->lists[], only bits in folio->flags. The aforementioned feedback loop also monitors refaults over all tiers and decides when to protect pages in which tiers (N>1), using the first tier (N=0,1) as a baseline. The first tier contains single-use unmapped clean pages, which are most likely the best choices. In contrast to promotion in the aging path, the protection of a page in the eviction path is achieved by moving this page to the next generation, i.e., min_seq+1, if the feedback loop decides so. This approach has the following advantages: 1. It removes the cost of activation in the buffered access path by inferring whether pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors are statistically hot and thus worth protecting in the eviction path. 2. It takes pages accessed through page tables into account and avoids overprotecting pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors. (Pages accessed through page tables are in the first tier, since N=0.) 3. More tiers provide better protection for pages accessed more than twice through file descriptors, when under heavy buffered I/O workloads. Server benchmark results: Single workload: fio (buffered I/O): +[30, 32]% IOPS BW 5.19-rc1: 2673k 10.2GiB/s patch1-6: 3491k 13.3GiB/s Single workload: memcached (anon): -[4, 6]% Ops/sec KB/sec 5.19-rc1: 1161501.04 45177.25 patch1-6: 1106168.46 43025.04 Configurations: CPU: two Xeon 6154 Mem: total 256G Node 1 was only used as a ram disk to reduce the variance in the results. patch drivers/block/brd.c < gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_THISNODE; > page = alloc_pages_node(1, gfp_flags, 0); EOF cat >>/etc/systemd/system.conf <>/etc/memcached.conf </sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/memory.max echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/cgroup.procs fio -name=mglru --numjobs=72 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \ --buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \ --iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \ --rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \ --time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=5m --group_reporting cat memcached.sh modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=113246208 swapoff -a mkswap /dev/ram0 swapon /dev/ram0 memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000 memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed Client benchmark results: kswapd profiles: 5.19-rc1 40.33% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 21.80% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 7.53% do_raw_spin_lock 3.95% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 2.52% vma_interval_tree_iter_next 2.37% folio_referenced_one 2.28% vma_interval_tree_subtree_search 1.97% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first 1.60% ptep_clear_flush 1.06% __zram_bvec_write patch1-6 39.03% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 18.47% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 6.74% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 3.97% do_raw_spin_lock 2.49% ptep_clear_flush 2.48% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first 1.92% folio_referenced_one 1.88% __zram_bvec_write 1.48% memmove 1.31% vma_interval_tree_iter_next Configurations: CPU: single Snapdragon 7c Mem: total 4G ChromeOS MemoryPressure [1] [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/tast-tests/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-7-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Acked-by: Brian Geffon Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Acked-by: Steven Barrett Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal Tested-by: Daniel Byrne Tested-by: Donald Carr Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov Tested-by: Shuang Zhai Tested-by: Sofia Trinh Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Barry Song Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Larabel Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: shrinkers: provide shrinkers with names

2022-07-04T01:08:40+00:00

Currently shrinkers are anonymous objects. For debugging purposes they can be identified by count/scan function names, but it's not always useful: e.g. for superblock's shrinkers it's nice to have at least an idea of to which superblock the shrinker belongs. This commit adds names to shrinkers. register_shrinker() and prealloc_shrinker() functions are extended to take a format and arguments to master a name. In some cases it's not possible to determine a good name at the time when a shrinker is allocated. For such cases shrinker_debugfs_rename() is provided. The expected format is: -[:]- For some shrinkers an instance can be encoded as (MAJOR:MINOR) pair. After this change the shrinker debugfs directory looks like: $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/shrinker/ $ ls dquota-cache-16 sb-devpts-28 sb-proc-47 sb-tmpfs-42 mm-shadow-18 sb-devtmpfs-5 sb-proc-48 sb-tmpfs-43 mm-zspool:zram0-34 sb-hugetlbfs-17 sb-pstore-31 sb-tmpfs-44 rcu-kfree-0 sb-hugetlbfs-33 sb-rootfs-2 sb-tmpfs-49 sb-aio-20 sb-iomem-12 sb-securityfs-6 sb-tracefs-13 sb-anon_inodefs-15 sb-mqueue-21 sb-selinuxfs-22 sb-xfs:vda1-36 sb-bdev-3 sb-nsfs-4 sb-sockfs-8 sb-zsmalloc-19 sb-bpf-32 sb-pipefs-14 sb-sysfs-26 thp-deferred_split-10 sb-btrfs:vda2-24 sb-proc-25 sb-tmpfs-1 thp-zero-9 sb-cgroup2-30 sb-proc-39 sb-tmpfs-27 xfs-buf:vda1-37 sb-configfs-23 sb-proc-41 sb-tmpfs-29 xfs-inodegc:vda1-38 sb-dax-11 sb-proc-45 sb-tmpfs-35 sb-debugfs-7 sb-proc-46 sb-tmpfs-40 [roman.gushchin@linux.dev: fix build warnings] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yr+ZTnLb9lJk6fJO@castle Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-4-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

memcg: sync flush only if periodic flush is delayed

2022-04-22T03:01:09+00:00

Daniel Dao has reported [1] a regression on workloads that may trigger a lot of refaults (anon and file). The underlying issue is that flushing rstat is expensive. Although rstat flush are batched with (nr_cpus * MEMCG_BATCH) stat updates, it seems like there are workloads which genuinely do stat updates larger than batch value within short amount of time. Since the rstat flush can happen in the performance critical codepaths like page faults, such workload can suffer greatly. This patch fixes this regression by making the rstat flushing conditional in the performance critical codepaths. More specifically, the kernel relies on the async periodic rstat flusher to flush the stats and only if the periodic flusher is delayed by more than twice the amount of its normal time window then the kernel allows rstat flushing from the performance critical codepaths. Now the question: what are the side-effects of this change? The worst that can happen is the refault codepath will see 4sec old lruvec stats and may cause false (or missed) activations of the refaulted page which may under-or-overestimate the workingset size. Though that is not very concerning as the kernel can already miss or do false activations. There are two more codepaths whose flushing behavior is not changed by this patch and we may need to come to them in future. One is the writeback stats used by dirty throttling and second is the deactivation heuristic in the reclaim. For now keeping an eye on them and if there is report of regression due to these codepaths, we will reevaluate then. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+wXwBSyO87ZX5PVwdHm-=dBjZYECGmfnydUicUyrQqndgX2MQ@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220304184040.1304781-1-shakeelb@google.com Fixes: 1f828223b799 ("memcg: flush lruvec stats in the refault") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Reported-by: Daniel Dao Tested-by: Ivan Babrou Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Frank Hofmann Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache

2022-03-23T00:03:12+00:00

Pull folio updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Rewrite how munlock works to massively reduce the contention on i_mmap_rwsem (Hugh Dickins): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8e4356d-9622-a7f0-b2c-f116b5f2efea@google.com/ - Sort out the page refcount mess for ZONE_DEVICE pages (Christoph Hellwig): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220210072828.2930359-1-hch@lst.de/ - Convert GUP to use folios and make pincount available for order-1 pages. (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert a few more truncation functions to use folios (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert page_vma_mapped_walk to use PFNs instead of pages (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert rmap_walk to use folios (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert most of shrink_page_list() to use a folio (Matthew Wilcox) - Add support for creating large folios in readahead (Matthew Wilcox) * tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (114 commits) mm/damon: minor cleanup for damon_pa_young selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: Support file-backed PMD folios mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings mm/readahead: Switch to page_cache_ra_order mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead mm: Support arbitrary THP sizes mm: Make large folios depend on THP mm: Fix READ_ONLY_THP warning mm/filemap: Allow large folios to be added to the page cache mm: Turn can_split_huge_page() into can_split_folio() mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio mm/vmscan: Turn page_check_references() into folio_check_references() mm/vmscan: Account large folios correctly mm/vmscan: Optimise shrink_page_list for non-PMD-sized folios mm/vmscan: Free non-shmem folios without splitting them mm/rmap: Constify the rmap_walk_control argument mm/rmap: Convert rmap_walk() to take a folio mm: Turn page_anon_vma() into folio_anon_vma() mm/rmap: Turn page_lock_anon_vma_read() into folio_lock_anon_vma_read() ...

mm: workingset: replace IRQ-off check with a lockdep assert.

2022-03-22T22:57:08+00:00

Commit 68d48e6a2df57 ("mm: workingset: add vmstat counter for shadow nodes") introduced an IRQ-off check to ensure that a lock is held which also disabled interrupts. This does not work the same way on PREEMPT_RT because none of the locks, that are held, disable interrupts. Replace this check with a lockdep assert which ensures that the lock is held. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301122143.1521823-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Zefan Li Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node

2022-03-22T22:57:03+00:00

The workingset will add the xa_node to the shadow_nodes list. So the allocation of xa_node should be done by kmem_cache_alloc_lru(). Using xas_set_lru() to pass the list_lru which we want to insert xa_node into to set up the xa_node reclaim context correctly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-9-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Fam Zheng Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Kari Argillander Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Xiongchun Duan Cc: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/workingset: Convert workingset_eviction() to take a folio

2022-03-21T16:59:01+00:00

This removes an assumption that THPs are the only kind of compound pages and removes a few hidden calls to compound_head(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-09T18:11:53+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "87 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (pagecache and hugetlb), procfs, misc, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, kallsyms, ramfs, init, codafs, nilfs2, hfs, crash_dump, signals, seq_file, fork, sysvfs, kcov, gdb, resource, selftests, and ipc" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (87 commits) ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem kernel/resource: disallow access to exclusive system RAM regions kernel/resource: clean up and optimize iomem_is_exclusive() scripts/gdb: handle split debug for vmlinux kcov: replace local_irq_save() with a local_lock_t kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task() kcov: allocate per-CPU memory on the relevant node Documentation/kcov: define `ip' in the example Documentation/kcov: include types.h in the example sysv: use BUILD_BUG_ON instead of runtime check kernel/fork.c: unshare(): use swap() to make code cleaner seq_file: fix passing wrong private data seq_file: move seq_escape() to a header signal: remove duplicate include in signal.h crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check ...

vfs: keep inodes with page cache off the inode shrinker LRU

2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00

Historically (pre-2.5), the inode shrinker used to reclaim only empty inodes and skip over those that still contained page cache. This caused problems on highmem hosts: struct inode could put fill lowmem zones before the cache was getting reclaimed in the highmem zones. To address this, the inode shrinker started to strip page cache to facilitate reclaiming lowmem. However, this comes with its own set of problems: the shrinkers may drop actively used page cache just because the inodes are not currently open or dirty - think working with a large git tree. It further doesn't respect cgroup memory protection settings and can cause priority inversions between containers. Nowadays, the page cache also holds non-resident info for evicted cache pages in order to detect refaults. We've come to rely heavily on this data inside reclaim for protecting the cache workingset and driving swap behavior. We also use it to quantify and report workload health through psi. The latter in turn is used for fleet health monitoring, as well as driving automated memory sizing of workloads and containers, proactive reclaim and memory offloading schemes. The consequences of dropping page cache prematurely is that we're seeing subtle and not-so-subtle failures in all of the above-mentioned scenarios, with the workload generally entering unexpected thrashing states while losing the ability to reliably detect it. To fix this on non-highmem systems at least, going back to rotating inodes on the LRU isn't feasible. We've tried (commit a76cf1a474d7 ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")) and failed (commit 69056ee6a8a3 ("Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages"")). The issue is mostly that shrinker pools attract pressure based on their size, and when objects get skipped the shrinkers remember this as deferred reclaim work. This accumulates excessive pressure on the remaining inodes, and we can quickly eat into heavily used ones, or dirty ones that require IO to reclaim, when there potentially is plenty of cold, clean cache around still. Instead, this patch keeps populated inodes off the inode LRU in the first place - just like an open file or dirty state would. An otherwise clean and unused inode then gets queued when the last cache entry disappears. This solves the problem without reintroducing the reclaim issues, and generally is a bit more scalable than having to wade through potentially hundreds of thousands of busy inodes. Locking is a bit tricky because the locks protecting the inode state (i_lock) and the inode LRU (lru_list.lock) don't nest inside the irq-safe page cache lock (i_pages.xa_lock). Page cache deletions are serialized through i_lock, taken before the i_pages lock, to make sure depopulated inodes are queued reliably. Additions may race with deletions, but we'll check again in the shrinker. If additions race with the shrinker itself, we're protected by the i_lock: if find_inode() or iput() win, the shrinker will bail on the elevated i_count or I_REFERENCED; if the shrinker wins and goes ahead with the inode, it will set I_FREEING and inhibit further igets(), which will cause the other side to create a new instance of the inode instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614211904.14420-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/workingset: Convert workingset_refault() to take a folio

2021-10-18T11:49:40+00:00

This nets us 178 bytes of savings from removing calls to compound_head. The three callers all grow a little, but each of them will be converted to use folios soon, so that's fine. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: David Howells Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka