mm/migrate: add sysfs interface to enable reclaim migration

Some method is obviously needed to enable reclaim-based migration.

Just like traditional autonuma, there will be some workloads that will
benefit like workloads with more "static" configurations where hot pages
stay hot and cold pages stay cold.  If pages come and go from the hot and
cold sets, the benefits of this approach will be more limited.

The benefits are truly workload-based and *not* hardware-based.  We do not
believe that there is a viable threshold where certain hardware
configurations should have this mechanism enabled while others do not.

To be conservative, earlier work defaulted to disable reclaim- based
migration and did not include a mechanism to enable it.  This proposes add
a new sysfs file

  /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled

as a method to enable it.

We are open to any alternative that allows end users to enable this
mechanism or disable it if workload harm is detected (just like
traditional autonuma).

Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node that does
not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process.  This could be
construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets.  However, since this is an
opt-in mechanism, the assumption is that anyone enabling it is content to
relax the guarantees.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-10-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 939eabcaf488..e675bfb856da 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -3021,3 +3021,64 @@ void mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol)
 		p += scnprintf(p, buffer + maxlen - p, ":%*pbl",
 			       nodemask_pr_args(&nodes));
 }
+
+bool numa_demotion_enabled = false;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
+static ssize_t numa_demotion_enabled_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+					  struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n",
+			  numa_demotion_enabled? "true" : "false");
+}
+
+static ssize_t numa_demotion_enabled_store(struct kobject *kobj,
+					   struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+					   const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	if (!strncmp(buf, "true", 4) || !strncmp(buf, "1", 1))
+		numa_demotion_enabled = true;
+	else if (!strncmp(buf, "false", 5) || !strncmp(buf, "0", 1))
+		numa_demotion_enabled = false;
+	else
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return count;
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute numa_demotion_enabled_attr =
+	__ATTR(demotion_enabled, 0644, numa_demotion_enabled_show,
+	       numa_demotion_enabled_store);
+
+static struct attribute *numa_attrs[] = {
+	&numa_demotion_enabled_attr.attr,
+	NULL,
+};
+
+static const struct attribute_group numa_attr_group = {
+	.attrs = numa_attrs,
+};
+
+static int __init numa_init_sysfs(void)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct kobject *numa_kobj;
+
+	numa_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("numa", mm_kobj);
+	if (!numa_kobj) {
+		pr_err("failed to create numa kobject\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	err = sysfs_create_group(numa_kobj, &numa_attr_group);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_err("failed to register numa group\n");
+		goto delete_obj;
+	}
+	return 0;
+
+delete_obj:
+	kobject_put(numa_kobj);
+	return err;
+}
+subsys_initcall(numa_init_sysfs);
+#endif