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2023-01-19mm/damon/paddr: convert damon_pa_*() to use a folioKefeng Wang1-32/+26
With damon_get_folio(), let's convert all the damon_pa_*() to use a folio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221230070849.63358-6-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-19mm/swap: convert deactivate_page() to folio_deactivate()Vishal Moola (Oracle)1-1/+1
Deactivate_page() has already been converted to use folios, this change converts it to take in a folio argument instead of calling page_folio(). It also renames the function folio_deactivate() to be more consistent with other folio functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix left-over comments, per Yu Zhao] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221180848.20774-5-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-19mm/damon: convert damon_pa_mark_accessed_or_deactivate() to use foliosVishal Moola (Oracle)1-6/+8
This change replaces 2 calls to compound_head() from put_page() and 1 call from mark_page_accessed() with one from page_folio(). This is in preparation for the conversion of deactivate_page() to folio_deactivate(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221180848.20774-4-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-19mm/damon/paddr: support DAMOS filtersSeongJae Park1-9/+62
Implement support of the DAMOS filters in the physical address space monitoring operations set, for all DAMOS actions that it supports including 'pageout', 'lru_prio', and 'lru_deprio'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221205230830.144349-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-04mm/damon: rename damon_pageout_score() to damon_cold_score()Kaixu Xia1-2/+2
In the beginning there is only one damos_action 'DAMOS_PAGEOUT' that need to get the coldness score of a region for a scheme, which using damon_pageout_score() to do that. But now there are also other damos_action actions need the coldness score, so rename it to damon_cold_score() to make more sense. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663423014-28907-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-04mm/damon: simplify the parameter passing for 'prepare_access_checks'Kaixu Xia1-3/+2
Patch series "mm/damon: code simplifications and cleanups". This patchset contains some code simplifications and cleanups for DAMON. This patch (of 4): The parameter 'struct damon_ctx *ctx' isn't used in the functions __damon_{p,v}a_prepare_access_check(), so we can remove it and simplify the parameter passing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663060287-30201-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663060287-30201-2-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-04mm/damon/paddr: deduplicate damon_pa_{mark_accessed,deactivate_pages}()SeongJae Park1-14/+12
The bodies of damon_pa_{mark_accessed,deactivate_pages}() contains duplicates. This commit factors out the common part to a separate function and removes the duplicates. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913174449.50645-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-04mm/damon/paddr: make supported DAMOS actions of paddr clearSeongJae Park1-0/+3
Patch series "mm/damon: cleanup code". DAMON code was not so clean from the beginning, but it has been too much nowadays, especially due to the duplicates in DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT. This patchset cleans some of the mess. This patch (of 22): The 'switch-case' statement in 'damon_va_apply_scheme()' function provides a 'case' for every supported DAMOS action while all not-yet-supported DAMOS actions fall through the 'default' case, and comment it so that people can easily know which actions are supported. Its counterpart in 'paddr', 'damon_pa_apply_scheme()', however, doesn't. This commit makes the 'paddr' side function follows the pattern of 'vaddr' for better readability and consistency. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913174449.50645-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913174449.50645-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-12mm/damon: simplify the parameter passing for 'check_accesses'Kaixu Xia1-3/+2
Patch series "mm/damon: Simplify the damon regions access check", v2. This patchset simplifies the operations when checking the damon regions accesses. This patch (of 2): The parameter 'struct damon_ctx *ctx' isn't used in the functions __damon_{p,v}a_check_access(), so we can remove it and simplify the parameter passing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1661590971-20893-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1661590971-20893-2-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-04mm/damon/schemes: add 'LRU_DEPRIO' actionSeongJae Park1-0/+20
This commit adds a new DAMON-based operation scheme action called 'LRU_DEPRIO' for physical address space. The action deprioritizes pages in the memory area of the target access pattern on their LRU lists. This is hence supposed to be used for rarely accessed (cold) memory regions so that cold pages could be more likely reclaimed first under memory pressure. Internally, it simply calls 'lru_deactivate()'. Using this with 'LRU_PRIO' action for hot pages, users can proactively sort LRU lists based on the access pattern. That is, it can make the LRU lists somewhat more trustworthy source of access temperature. As a result, efficiency of LRU-lists based mechanisms including the reclamation target selection could be improved. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-04mm/damon/schemes: add 'LRU_PRIO' DAMOS actionSeongJae Park1-0/+20
This commit adds a new DAMOS action called 'LRU_PRIO' for the physical address space. The action prioritizes pages in the memory regions of the user-specified target access pattern on their LRU lists. This is hence supposed to be used for frequently accessed (hot) memory regions so that hot pages could be more likely protected under memory pressure. Internally, it simply calls 'mark_page_accessed()'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-04mm/damon/paddr: use a separate function for 'DAMOS_PAGEOUT' handlingSeongJae Park1-6/+14
This commit moves code for 'DAMOS_PAGEOUT' handling of the physical address space monitoring operations set to a separate function so that its caller, 'damon_pa_apply_scheme()', can be more easily extended for additional DAMOS actions later. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-20mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZEKefeng Wang1-1/+1
Use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE instead of open coding. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220517145120.118523-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23Merge tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecacheLinus Torvalds1-33/+29
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() ...
2022-03-23mm/damon/paddr,vaddr: remove damon_{p,v}a_{target_valid,set_operations}()SeongJae Park1-19/+1
Because DAMON debugfs interface and DAMON-based proactive reclaim are now using monitoring operations via registration mechanism, damon_{p,v}a_{target_valid,set_operations}() functions have no user. This commit clean them up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23mm/damon/paddr,vaddr: register themselves to DAMON in subsys_initcallSeongJae Park1-0/+20
This commit makes the monitoring operations for the physical address space and virtual address spaces register themselves to DAMON in the subsys_initcall step. Later, in-kernel DAMON user code can use them via damon_select_ops() without have to unnecessarily depend on all possible monitoring operations implementations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23mm/damon: rename damon_primitives to damon_operationsSeongJae Park1-11/+11
Patch series "Allow DAMON user code independent of monitoring primitives". In-kernel DAMON user code is required to configure the monitoring context (struct damon_ctx) with proper monitoring primitives (struct damon_primitive). This makes the user code dependent to all supporting monitoring primitives. For example, DAMON debugfs interface depends on both DAMON_VADDR and DAMON_PADDR, though some users have interest in only one use case. As more monitoring primitives are introduced, the problem will be bigger. To minimize such unnecessary dependency, this patchset makes monitoring primitives can be registered by the implemnting code and later dynamically searched and selected by the user code. In addition to that, this patchset renames monitoring primitives to monitoring operations, which is more easy to intuitively understand what it means and how it would be structed. This patch (of 8): DAMON has a set of callback functions called monitoring primitives and let it can be configured with various implementations for easy extension for different address spaces and usages. However, the word 'primitive' is not so explicit. Meanwhile, many other structs resembles similar purpose calls themselves 'operations'. To make the code easier to be understood, this commit renames 'damon_primitives' to 'damon_operations' before it is too late to rename. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215184603.1479-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-21mm/damon: minor cleanup for damon_pa_youngMiaohe Lin1-1/+1
if need_lock is true but folio_trylock fails, we should return false instead of NULL to match the return value type exactly. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-03-21mm/rmap: Convert rmap_walk() to take a folioMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-8/+7
This ripples all the way through to every calling and called function from rmap. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-03-21mm/damon: Convert damon_pa_young() to use a folioMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-12/+15
Ensure that we're passing the entire folio to rmap_walk(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-03-21mm/damon: Convert damon_pa_mkold() to use a folioMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-7/+9
Ensure that we're passing the entire folio to rmap_walk(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-03-21mm: Add DEFINE_PAGE_VMA_WALK and DEFINE_FOLIO_VMA_WALKMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-10/+2
Instead of declaring a struct page_vma_mapped_walk directly, use these helpers to allow us to transition to a PFN approach in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-01-15mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully appliedSeongJae Park1-6/+7
Patch series "mm/damon/schemes: Extend stats for better online analysis and tuning". To help online access pattern analysis and tuning of DAMON-based Operation Schemes (DAMOS), DAMOS provides simple statistics for each scheme. Introduction of DAMOS time/space quota further made the tuning easier by making the risk management easier. However, that also made understanding of the working schemes a little bit more difficult. For an example, progress of a given scheme can now be throttled by not only the aggressiveness of the target access pattern, but also the time/space quotas. So, when a scheme is showing unexpectedly slow progress, it's difficult to know by what the progress of the scheme is throttled, with currently provided statistics. This patchset extends the statistics to contain some metrics that can be helpful for such online schemes analysis and tuning (patches 1-2), exports those to users (patches 3 and 5), and add documents (patches 4 and 6). This patch (of 6): DAMON-based operation schemes (DAMOS) stats provide only the number and the amount of regions that the action of the scheme has tried to be applied. Because the action could be failed for some reasons, the currently provided information is sometimes not useful or convenient enough for schemes profiling and tuning. To improve this situation, this commit extends the DAMOS stats to provide the number and the amount of regions that the action has successfully applied. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15mm/damon: remove some unneeded function definitions in damon.hXin Hao1-5/+6
In damon.h some func definitions about VA & PA can only be used in its own file, so there no need to define in the header file, and the header file will look cleaner. If other files later need these functions, the prototypes can be added to damon.h at that time. [sj@kernel.org: remove unnecessary function prototype position changes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118114827.20052-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/45fd5b3ef6cce8e28dbc1c92f9dc845ccfc949d7.1636989871.git.xhao@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritizationSeongJae Park1-0/+14
This makes the default monitoring primitives for virtual address spaces and the physical address sapce to support memory regions prioritization for 'PAGEOUT' DAMOS action. It calculates hotness of each region as weighted sum of 'nr_accesses' and 'age' of the region and get the priority score as reverse of the hotness, so that cold regions can be paged out first. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06mm/damon/paddr: support the pageout schemeSeongJae Park1-1/+36
Introduction ============ This patchset 1) makes the engine for general data access pattern-oriented memory management (DAMOS) be more useful for production environments, and 2) implements a static kernel module for lightweight proactive reclamation using the engine. Proactive Reclamation --------------------- On general memory over-committed systems, proactively reclaiming cold pages helps saving memory and reducing latency spikes that incurred by the direct reclaim or the CPU consumption of kswapd, while incurring only minimal performance degradation[2]. A Free Pages Reporting[8] based memory over-commit virtualization system would be one more specific use case. In the system, the guest VMs reports their free memory to host, and the host reallocates the reported memory to other guests. As a result, the system's memory utilization can be maximized. However, the guests could be not so memory-frugal, because some kernel subsystems and user-space applications are designed to use as much memory as available. Then, guests would report only small amount of free memory to host, results in poor memory utilization. Running the proactive reclamation in such guests could help mitigating this problem. Google has also implemented this idea and using it in their data center. They further proposed upstreaming it in LSFMM'19, and "the general consensus was that, while this sort of proactive reclaim would be useful for a number of users, the cost of this particular solution was too high to consider merging it upstream"[3]. The cost mainly comes from the coldness tracking. Roughly speaking, the implementation periodically scans the 'Accessed' bit of each page. For the reason, the overhead linearly increases as the size of the memory and the scanning frequency grows. As a result, Google is known to dedicating one CPU for the work. That's a reasonable option to someone like Google, but it wouldn't be so to some others. DAMON and DAMOS: An engine for data access pattern-oriented memory management ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAMON[4] is a framework for general data access monitoring. Its adaptive monitoring overhead control feature minimizes its monitoring overhead. It also let the upper-bound of the overhead be configurable by clients, regardless of the size of the monitoring target memory. While monitoring 70 GiB memory of a production system every 5 milliseconds, it consumes less than 1% single CPU time. For this, it could sacrify some of the quality of the monitoring results. Nevertheless, the lower-bound of the quality is configurable, and it uses a best-effort algorithm for better quality. Our test results[5] show the quality is practical enough. From the production system monitoring, we were able to find a 4 KiB region in the 70 GiB memory that shows highest access frequency. We normally don't monitor the data access pattern just for fun but to improve something like memory management. Proactive reclamation is one such usage. For such general cases, DAMON provides a feature called DAMon-based Operation Schemes (DAMOS)[6]. It makes DAMON an engine for general data access pattern oriented memory management. Using this, clients can ask DAMON to find memory regions of specific data access pattern and apply some memory management action (e.g., page out, move to head of the LRU list, use huge page, ...). We call the request 'scheme'. Proactive Reclamation on top of DAMON/DAMOS ------------------------------------------- Therefore, by using DAMON for the cold pages detection, the proactive reclamation's monitoring overhead issue can be solved. Actually, we previously implemented a version of proactive reclamation using DAMOS and achieved noticeable improvements with our evaluation setup[5]. Nevertheless, it more for a proof-of-concept, rather than production uses. It supports only virtual address spaces of processes, and require additional tuning efforts for given workloads and the hardware. For the tuning, we introduced a simple auto-tuning user space tool[8]. Google is also known to using a ML-based similar approach for their fleets[2]. But, making it just works with intuitive knobs in the kernel would be helpful for general users. To this end, this patchset improves DAMOS to be ready for such production usages, and implements another version of the proactive reclamation, namely DAMON_RECLAIM, on top of it. DAMOS Improvements: Aggressiveness Control, Prioritization, and Watermarks -------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all, the current version of DAMOS supports only virtual address spaces. This patchset makes it supports the physical address space for the page out action. Next major problem of the current version of DAMOS is the lack of the aggressiveness control, which can results in arbitrary overhead. For example, if huge memory regions having the data access pattern of interest are found, applying the requested action to all of the regions could incur significant overhead. It can be controlled by tuning the target data access pattern with manual or automated approaches[2,7]. But, some people would prefer the kernel to just work with only intuitive tuning or default values. For such cases, this patchset implements a safeguard, namely time/size quota. Using this, the clients can specify up to how much time can be used for applying the action, and/or up to how much memory regions the action can be applied within a user-specified time duration. A followup question is, to which memory regions should the action applied within the limits? We implement a simple regions prioritization mechanism for each action and make DAMOS to apply the action to high priority regions first. It also allows clients tune the prioritization mechanism to use different weights for size, access frequency, and age of memory regions. This means we could use not only LRU but also LFU or some fancy algorithms like CAR[9] with lightweight overhead. Though DAMON is lightweight, someone would want to remove even the cold pages monitoring overhead when it is unnecessary. Currently, it should manually turned on and off by clients, but some clients would simply want to turn it on and off based on some metrics like free memory ratio or memory fragmentation. For such cases, this patchset implements a watermarks-based automatic activation feature. It allows the clients configure the metric of their interest, and three watermarks of the metric. If the metric is higher than the high watermark or lower than the low watermark, the scheme is deactivated. If the metric is lower than the mid watermark but higher than the low watermark, the scheme is activated. DAMON-based Reclaim ------------------- Using the improved version of DAMOS, this patchset implements a static kernel module called 'damon_reclaim'. It finds memory regions that didn't accessed for specific time duration and page out. Consuming too much CPU for the paging out operations, or doing pageout too frequently can be critical for systems configuring their swap devices with software-defined in-memory block devices like zram/zswap or total number of writes limited devices like SSDs, respectively. To avoid the problems, the time/size quotas can be configured. Under the quotas, it pages out memory regions that didn't accessed longer first. Also, to remove the monitoring overhead under peaceful situation, and to fall back to the LRU-list based page granularity reclamation when it doesn't make progress, the three watermarks based activation mechanism is used, with the free memory ratio as the watermark metric. For convenient configurations, it provides several module parameters. Using these, sysadmins can enable/disable it, and tune its parameters including the coldness identification time threshold, the time/size quotas and the three watermarks. Evaluation ========== In short, DAMON_RECLAIM with 50ms/s time quota and regions prioritization on v5.15-rc5 Linux kernel with ZRAM swap device achieves 38.58% memory saving with only 1.94% runtime overhead. For this, DAMON_RECLAIM consumes only 4.97% of single CPU time. Setup ----- We evaluate DAMON_RECLAIM to show how each of the DAMOS improvements make effect. For this, we measure DAMON_RECLAIM's CPU consumption, entire system memory footprint, total number of major page faults, and runtime of 24 realistic workloads in PARSEC3 and SPLASH-2X benchmark suites on my QEMU/KVM based virtual machine. The virtual machine runs on an i3.metal AWS instance, has 130GiB memory, and runs a linux kernel built on latest -mm tree[1] plus this patchset. It also utilizes a 4 GiB ZRAM swap device. We repeats the measurement 5 times and use averages. [1] https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm/tree/v5.15-rc5-mmots-2021-10-13-19-55 Detailed Results ---------------- The results are summarized in the below table. With coldness identification threshold of 5 seconds, DAMON_RECLAIM without the time quota-based speed limit achieves 47.21% memory saving, but incur 4.59% runtime slowdown to the workloads on average. For this, DAMON_RECLAIM consumes about 11.28% single CPU time. Applying time quotas of 200ms/s, 50ms/s, and 10ms/s without the regions prioritization reduces the slowdown to 4.89%, 2.65%, and 1.5%, respectively. Time quota of 200ms/s (20%) makes no real change compared to the quota unapplied version, because the quota unapplied version consumes only 11.28% CPU time. DAMON_RECLAIM's CPU utilization also similarly reduced: 11.24%, 5.51%, and 2.01% of single CPU time. That is, the overhead is proportional to the speed limit. Nevertheless, it also reduces the memory saving because it becomes less aggressive. In detail, the three variants show 48.76%, 37.83%, and 7.85% memory saving, respectively. Applying the regions prioritization (page out regions that not accessed longer first within the time quota) further reduces the performance degradation. Runtime slowdowns and total number of major page faults increase has been 4.89%/218,690% -> 4.39%/166,136% (200ms/s), 2.65%/111,886% -> 1.94%/59,053% (50ms/s), and 1.5%/34,973.40% -> 2.08%/8,781.75% (10ms/s). The runtime under 10ms/s time quota has increased with prioritization, but apparently that's under the margin of error. time quota prioritization memory_saving cpu_util slowdown pgmajfaults overhead N N 47.21% 11.28% 4.59% 194,802% 200ms/s N 48.76% 11.24% 4.89% 218,690% 50ms/s N 37.83% 5.51% 2.65% 111,886% 10ms/s N 7.85% 2.01% 1.5% 34,793.40% 200ms/s Y 50.08% 10.38% 4.39% 166,136% 50ms/s Y 38.58% 4.97% 1.94% 59,053% 10ms/s Y 3.63% 1.73% 2.08% 8,781.75% Baseline and Complete Git Trees =============================== The patches are based on the latest -mm tree (v5.15-rc5-mmots-2021-10-13-19-55). You can also clone the complete git tree from: $ git clone git://github.com/sjp38/linux -b damon_reclaim/patches/v1 The web is also available: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sj/linux.git/tag/?h=damon_reclaim/patches/v1 Sequence Of Patches =================== The first patch makes DAMOS support the physical address space for the page out action. Following five patches (patches 2-6) implement the time/size quotas. Next four patches (patches 7-10) implement the memory regions prioritization within the limit. Then, three following patches (patches 11-13) implement the watermarks-based schemes activation. Finally, the last two patches (patches 14-15) implement and document the DAMON-based reclamation using the advanced DAMOS. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.15-rc1/vm/damon/index.html [2] https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/787611/ [4] https://damonitor.github.io [5] https://damonitor.github.io/doc/html/latest/vm/damon/eval.html [6] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211001125604.29660-1-sj@kernel.org/ [7] https://github.com/awslabs/damoos [8] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/vm/free_page_reporting.html [9] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast-04/car-clock-adaptive-replacement This patch (of 15): This makes the DAMON primitives for physical address space support the pageout action for DAMON-based Operation Schemes. With this commit, hence, users can easily implement system-level data access-aware reclamations using DAMOS. [sj@kernel.org: fix missing-prototype build warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025064220.13904-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06mm/damon: implement primitives for physical address space monitoringSeongJae Park1-0/+224
This implements the monitoring primitives for the physical memory address space. Internally, it uses the PTE Accessed bit, similar to that of the virtual address spaces monitoring primitives. It supports only user memory pages, as idle pages tracking does. If the monitoring target physical memory address range contains non-user memory pages, access check of the pages will do nothing but simply treat the pages as not accessed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012205711.29216-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rienjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>