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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* Memory merging support.
*
* This code enables dynamic sharing of identical pages found in different
* memory areas, even if they are not shared by fork()
*
* Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* Authors:
* Izik Eidus
* Andrea Arcangeli
* Chris Wright
* Hugh Dickins
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
#include <linux/errno.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/fs.h>
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
#include <linux/mman.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/sched/coredump.h>
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
#include <linux/sched/cputime.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/xxhash.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
#include <linux/memory.h>
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/hashtable.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/oom.h>
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
#include <linux/numa.h>
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "mm_slot.h"
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/ksm.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
#define NUMA(x) (x)
#define DO_NUMA(x) do { (x); } while (0)
#else
#define NUMA(x) (0)
#define DO_NUMA(x) do { } while (0)
#endif
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
typedef u8 rmap_age_t;
/**
* DOC: Overview
*
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* A few notes about the KSM scanning process,
* to make it easier to understand the data structures below:
*
* In order to reduce excessive scanning, KSM sorts the memory pages by their
* contents into a data structure that holds pointers to the pages' locations.
*
* Since the contents of the pages may change at any moment, KSM cannot just
* insert the pages into a normal sorted tree and expect it to find anything.
* Therefore KSM uses two data structures - the stable and the unstable tree.
*
* The stable tree holds pointers to all the merged pages (ksm pages), sorted
* by their contents. Because each such page is write-protected, searching on
* this tree is fully assured to be working (except when pages are unmapped),
* and therefore this tree is called the stable tree.
*
* The stable tree node includes information required for reverse
* mapping from a KSM page to virtual addresses that map this page.
*
* In order to avoid large latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages,
* KSM maintains two types of nodes in the stable tree:
*
* * the regular nodes that keep the reverse mapping structures in a
* linked list
* * the "chains" that link nodes ("dups") that represent the same
* write protected memory content, but each "dup" corresponds to a
* different KSM page copy of that content
*
* Internally, the regular nodes, "dups" and "chains" are represented
* using the same struct ksm_stable_node structure.
*
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* In addition to the stable tree, KSM uses a second data structure called the
* unstable tree: this tree holds pointers to pages which have been found to
* be "unchanged for a period of time". The unstable tree sorts these pages
* by their contents, but since they are not write-protected, KSM cannot rely
* upon the unstable tree to work correctly - the unstable tree is liable to
* be corrupted as its contents are modified, and so it is called unstable.
*
* KSM solves this problem by several techniques:
*
* 1) The unstable tree is flushed every time KSM completes scanning all
* memory areas, and then the tree is rebuilt again from the beginning.
* 2) KSM will only insert into the unstable tree, pages whose hash value
* has not changed since the previous scan of all memory areas.
* 3) The unstable tree is a RedBlack Tree - so its balancing is based on the
* colors of the nodes and not on their contents, assuring that even when
* the tree gets "corrupted" it won't get out of balance, so scanning time
* remains the same (also, searching and inserting nodes in an rbtree uses
* the same algorithm, so we have no overhead when we flush and rebuild).
* 4) KSM never flushes the stable tree, which means that even if it were to
* take 10 attempts to find a page in the unstable tree, once it is found,
* it is secured in the stable tree. (When we scan a new page, we first
* compare it against the stable tree, and then against the unstable tree.)
*
* If the merge_across_nodes tunable is unset, then KSM maintains multiple
* stable trees and multiple unstable trees: one of each for each NUMA node.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
/**
* struct ksm_mm_slot - ksm information per mm that is being scanned
* @slot: hash lookup from mm to mm_slot
* @rmap_list: head for this mm_slot's singly-linked list of rmap_items
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
struct ksm_mm_slot {
struct mm_slot slot;
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_list;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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};
/**
* struct ksm_scan - cursor for scanning
* @mm_slot: the current mm_slot we are scanning
* @address: the next address inside that to be scanned
* @rmap_list: link to the next rmap to be scanned in the rmap_list
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* @seqnr: count of completed full scans (needed when removing unstable node)
*
* There is only the one ksm_scan instance of this cursor structure.
*/
struct ksm_scan {
struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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unsigned long address;
struct ksm_rmap_item **rmap_list;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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unsigned long seqnr;
};
/**
* struct ksm_stable_node - node of the stable rbtree
* @node: rb node of this ksm page in the stable tree
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
* @head: (overlaying parent) &migrate_nodes indicates temporarily on that list
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
* @hlist_dup: linked into the stable_node->hlist with a stable_node chain
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
* @list: linked into migrate_nodes, pending placement in the proper node tree
* @hlist: hlist head of rmap_items using this ksm page
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
* @kpfn: page frame number of this ksm page (perhaps temporarily on wrong nid)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
* @chain_prune_time: time of the last full garbage collection
* @rmap_hlist_len: number of rmap_item entries in hlist or STABLE_NODE_CHAIN
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
* @nid: NUMA node id of stable tree in which linked (may not match kpfn)
*/
struct ksm_stable_node {
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
union {
struct rb_node node; /* when node of stable tree */
struct { /* when listed for migration */
struct list_head *head;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
struct {
struct hlist_node hlist_dup;
struct list_head list;
};
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
};
};
struct hlist_head hlist;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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union {
unsigned long kpfn;
unsigned long chain_prune_time;
};
/*
* STABLE_NODE_CHAIN can be any negative number in
* rmap_hlist_len negative range, but better not -1 to be able
* to reliably detect underflows.
*/
#define STABLE_NODE_CHAIN -1024
int rmap_hlist_len;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
int nid;
#endif
};
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/**
* struct ksm_rmap_item - reverse mapping item for virtual addresses
* @rmap_list: next rmap_item in mm_slot's singly-linked rmap_list
* @anon_vma: pointer to anon_vma for this mm,address, when in stable tree
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* @nid: NUMA node id of unstable tree in which linked (may not match page)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* @mm: the memory structure this rmap_item is pointing into
* @address: the virtual address this rmap_item tracks (+ flags in low bits)
* @oldchecksum: previous checksum of the page at that virtual address
* @node: rb node of this rmap_item in the unstable tree
* @head: pointer to stable_node heading this list in the stable tree
* @hlist: link into hlist of rmap_items hanging off that stable_node
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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* @age: number of scan iterations since creation
* @remaining_skips: how many scans to skip
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
struct ksm_rmap_item {
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_list;
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union {
struct anon_vma *anon_vma; /* when stable */
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
int nid; /* when node of unstable tree */
#endif
};
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct mm_struct *mm;
unsigned long address; /* + low bits used for flags below */
unsigned int oldchecksum; /* when unstable */
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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rmap_age_t age;
rmap_age_t remaining_skips;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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union {
struct rb_node node; /* when node of unstable tree */
struct { /* when listed from stable tree */
struct ksm_stable_node *head;
struct hlist_node hlist;
};
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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};
};
#define SEQNR_MASK 0x0ff /* low bits of unstable tree seqnr */
#define UNSTABLE_FLAG 0x100 /* is a node of the unstable tree */
#define STABLE_FLAG 0x200 /* is listed from the stable tree */
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/* The stable and unstable tree heads */
static struct rb_root one_stable_tree[1] = { RB_ROOT };
static struct rb_root one_unstable_tree[1] = { RB_ROOT };
static struct rb_root *root_stable_tree = one_stable_tree;
static struct rb_root *root_unstable_tree = one_unstable_tree;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
/* Recently migrated nodes of stable tree, pending proper placement */
static LIST_HEAD(migrate_nodes);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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#define STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD ((struct list_head *)&migrate_nodes.prev)
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
#define MM_SLOTS_HASH_BITS 10
static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(mm_slots_hash, MM_SLOTS_HASH_BITS);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static struct ksm_mm_slot ksm_mm_head = {
.slot.mm_node = LIST_HEAD_INIT(ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node),
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
};
static struct ksm_scan ksm_scan = {
.mm_slot = &ksm_mm_head,
};
static struct kmem_cache *rmap_item_cache;
static struct kmem_cache *stable_node_cache;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static struct kmem_cache *mm_slot_cache;
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
/* Default number of pages to scan per batch */
#define DEFAULT_PAGES_TO_SCAN 100
/* The number of pages scanned */
static unsigned long ksm_pages_scanned;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* The number of nodes in the stable tree */
static unsigned long ksm_pages_shared;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* The number of page slots additionally sharing those nodes */
static unsigned long ksm_pages_sharing;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* The number of nodes in the unstable tree */
static unsigned long ksm_pages_unshared;
/* The number of rmap_items in use: to calculate pages_volatile */
static unsigned long ksm_rmap_items;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/* The number of stable_node chains */
static unsigned long ksm_stable_node_chains;
/* The number of stable_node dups linked to the stable_node chains */
static unsigned long ksm_stable_node_dups;
/* Delay in pruning stale stable_node_dups in the stable_node_chains */
static unsigned int ksm_stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs = 2000;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/* Maximum number of page slots sharing a stable node */
static int ksm_max_page_sharing = 256;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* Number of pages ksmd should scan in one batch */
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
static unsigned int ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = DEFAULT_PAGES_TO_SCAN;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* Milliseconds ksmd should sleep between batches */
static unsigned int ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
/* Checksum of an empty (zeroed) page */
static unsigned int zero_checksum __read_mostly;
/* Whether to merge empty (zeroed) pages with actual zero pages */
static bool ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly;
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
/* Skip pages that couldn't be de-duplicated previously */
/* Default to true at least temporarily, for testing */
static bool ksm_smart_scan = true;
/* The number of zero pages which is placed by KSM */
unsigned long ksm_zero_pages;
/* The number of pages that have been skipped due to "smart scanning" */
static unsigned long ksm_pages_skipped;
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
/* Don't scan more than max pages per batch. */
static unsigned long ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan = 30000;
/* Min CPU for scanning pages per scan */
#define KSM_ADVISOR_MIN_CPU 10
/* Max CPU for scanning pages per scan */
static unsigned int ksm_advisor_max_cpu = 70;
/* Target scan time in seconds to analyze all KSM candidate pages. */
static unsigned long ksm_advisor_target_scan_time = 200;
/* Exponentially weighted moving average. */
#define EWMA_WEIGHT 30
/**
* struct advisor_ctx - metadata for KSM advisor
* @start_scan: start time of the current scan
* @scan_time: scan time of previous scan
* @change: change in percent to pages_to_scan parameter
* @cpu_time: cpu time consumed by the ksmd thread in the previous scan
*/
struct advisor_ctx {
ktime_t start_scan;
unsigned long scan_time;
unsigned long change;
unsigned long long cpu_time;
};
static struct advisor_ctx advisor_ctx;
/* Define different advisor's */
enum ksm_advisor_type {
KSM_ADVISOR_NONE,
KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME,
};
static enum ksm_advisor_type ksm_advisor;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/*
* Only called through the sysfs control interface:
*/
/* At least scan this many pages per batch. */
static unsigned long ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan = 500;
static void set_advisor_defaults(void)
{
if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_NONE) {
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = DEFAULT_PAGES_TO_SCAN;
} else if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME) {
advisor_ctx = (const struct advisor_ctx){ 0 };
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan;
}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
static inline void advisor_start_scan(void)
{
if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME)
advisor_ctx.start_scan = ktime_get();
}
/*
* Use previous scan time if available, otherwise use current scan time as an
* approximation for the previous scan time.
*/
static inline unsigned long prev_scan_time(struct advisor_ctx *ctx,
unsigned long scan_time)
{
return ctx->scan_time ? ctx->scan_time : scan_time;
}
/* Calculate exponential weighted moving average */
static unsigned long ewma(unsigned long prev, unsigned long curr)
{
return ((100 - EWMA_WEIGHT) * prev + EWMA_WEIGHT * curr) / 100;
}
/*
* The scan time advisor is based on the current scan rate and the target
* scan rate.
*
* new_pages_to_scan = pages_to_scan * (scan_time / target_scan_time)
*
* To avoid perturbations it calculates a change factor of previous changes.
* A new change factor is calculated for each iteration and it uses an
* exponentially weighted moving average. The new pages_to_scan value is
* multiplied with that change factor:
*
* new_pages_to_scan *= change facor
*
* The new_pages_to_scan value is limited by the cpu min and max values. It
* calculates the cpu percent for the last scan and calculates the new
* estimated cpu percent cost for the next scan. That value is capped by the
* cpu min and max setting.
*
* In addition the new pages_to_scan value is capped by the max and min
* limits.
*/
static void scan_time_advisor(void)
{
unsigned int cpu_percent;
unsigned long cpu_time;
unsigned long cpu_time_diff;
unsigned long cpu_time_diff_ms;
unsigned long pages;
unsigned long per_page_cost;
unsigned long factor;
unsigned long change;
unsigned long last_scan_time;
unsigned long scan_time;
/* Convert scan time to seconds */
scan_time = div_s64(ktime_ms_delta(ktime_get(), advisor_ctx.start_scan),
MSEC_PER_SEC);
scan_time = scan_time ? scan_time : 1;
/* Calculate CPU consumption of ksmd background thread */
cpu_time = task_sched_runtime(current);
cpu_time_diff = cpu_time - advisor_ctx.cpu_time;
cpu_time_diff_ms = cpu_time_diff / 1000 / 1000;
cpu_percent = (cpu_time_diff_ms * 100) / (scan_time * 1000);
cpu_percent = cpu_percent ? cpu_percent : 1;
last_scan_time = prev_scan_time(&advisor_ctx, scan_time);
/* Calculate scan time as percentage of target scan time */
factor = ksm_advisor_target_scan_time * 100 / scan_time;
factor = factor ? factor : 1;
/*
* Calculate scan time as percentage of last scan time and use
* exponentially weighted average to smooth it
*/
change = scan_time * 100 / last_scan_time;
change = change ? change : 1;
change = ewma(advisor_ctx.change, change);
/* Calculate new scan rate based on target scan rate. */
pages = ksm_thread_pages_to_scan * 100 / factor;
/* Update pages_to_scan by weighted change percentage. */
pages = pages * change / 100;
/* Cap new pages_to_scan value */
per_page_cost = ksm_thread_pages_to_scan / cpu_percent;
per_page_cost = per_page_cost ? per_page_cost : 1;
pages = min(pages, per_page_cost * ksm_advisor_max_cpu);
pages = max(pages, per_page_cost * KSM_ADVISOR_MIN_CPU);
pages = min(pages, ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan);
/* Update advisor context */
advisor_ctx.change = change;
advisor_ctx.scan_time = scan_time;
advisor_ctx.cpu_time = cpu_time;
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = pages;
trace_ksm_advisor(scan_time, pages, cpu_percent);
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
}
static void advisor_stop_scan(void)
{
if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME)
scan_time_advisor();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
/* Zeroed when merging across nodes is not allowed */
static unsigned int ksm_merge_across_nodes = 1;
static int ksm_nr_node_ids = 1;
#else
#define ksm_merge_across_nodes 1U
#define ksm_nr_node_ids 1
#endif
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#define KSM_RUN_STOP 0
#define KSM_RUN_MERGE 1
#define KSM_RUN_UNMERGE 2
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
#define KSM_RUN_OFFLINE 4
static unsigned long ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
static void wait_while_offlining(void);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(ksm_thread_wait);
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(ksm_iter_wait);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static DEFINE_MUTEX(ksm_thread_mutex);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ksm_mmlist_lock);
#define KSM_KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags) kmem_cache_create(#__struct,\
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
sizeof(struct __struct), __alignof__(struct __struct),\
(__flags), NULL)
static int __init ksm_slab_init(void)
{
rmap_item_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(ksm_rmap_item, 0);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!rmap_item_cache)
goto out;
stable_node_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(ksm_stable_node, 0);
if (!stable_node_cache)
goto out_free1;
mm_slot_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(ksm_mm_slot, 0);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!mm_slot_cache)
goto out_free2;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return 0;
out_free2:
kmem_cache_destroy(stable_node_cache);
out_free1:
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
kmem_cache_destroy(rmap_item_cache);
out:
return -ENOMEM;
}
static void __init ksm_slab_free(void)
{
kmem_cache_destroy(mm_slot_cache);
kmem_cache_destroy(stable_node_cache);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
kmem_cache_destroy(rmap_item_cache);
mm_slot_cache = NULL;
}
static __always_inline bool is_stable_node_chain(struct ksm_stable_node *chain)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
{
return chain->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN;
}
static __always_inline bool is_stable_node_dup(struct ksm_stable_node *dup)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
return dup->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD;
}
static inline void stable_node_chain_add_dup(struct ksm_stable_node *dup,
struct ksm_stable_node *chain)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_dup(dup));
dup->head = STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD;
VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_chain(chain));
hlist_add_head(&dup->hlist_dup, &chain->hlist);
ksm_stable_node_dups++;
}
static inline void __stable_node_dup_del(struct ksm_stable_node *dup)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
{
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_dup(dup));
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hlist_del(&dup->hlist_dup);
ksm_stable_node_dups--;
}
static inline void stable_node_dup_del(struct ksm_stable_node *dup)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_chain(dup));
if (is_stable_node_dup(dup))
__stable_node_dup_del(dup);
else
rb_erase(&dup->node, root_stable_tree + NUMA(dup->nid));
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
dup->head = NULL;
#endif
}
static inline struct ksm_rmap_item *alloc_rmap_item(void)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
mm,ksm: fix endless looping in allocating memory when ksm enable I hit the following hung task when runing a OOM LTP test case with 4.1 kernel. Call trace: [<ffffffc000086a88>] __switch_to+0x74/0x8c [<ffffffc000a1bae0>] __schedule+0x23c/0x7bc [<ffffffc000a1c09c>] schedule+0x3c/0x94 [<ffffffc000a1eb84>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x214/0x350 [<ffffffc000a1e32c>] down_write+0x64/0x80 [<ffffffc00021f794>] __ksm_exit+0x90/0x19c [<ffffffc0000be650>] mmput+0x118/0x11c [<ffffffc0000c3ec4>] do_exit+0x2dc/0xa74 [<ffffffc0000c46f8>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xe4 [<ffffffc0000d0f34>] get_signal+0x444/0x5e0 [<ffffffc000089fcc>] do_signal+0x1d8/0x450 [<ffffffc00008a35c>] do_notify_resume+0x70/0x78 The oom victim cannot terminate because it needs to take mmap_sem for write while the lock is held by ksmd for read which loops in the page allocator ksm_do_scan scan_get_next_rmap_item down_read get_next_rmap_item alloc_rmap_item #ksmd will loop permanently. There is no way forward because the oom victim cannot release any memory in 4.1 based kernel. Since 4.6 we have the oom reaper which would solve this problem because it would release the memory asynchronously. Nevertheless we can relax alloc_rmap_item requirements and use __GFP_NORETRY because the allocation failure is acceptable as ksm_do_scan would just retry later after the lock got dropped. Such a patch would be also easy to backport to older stable kernels which do not have oom_reaper. While we are at it add GFP_NOWARN so the admin doesn't have to be alarmed by the allocation failure. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474165570-44398-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-28 22:22:30 +00:00
rmap_item = kmem_cache_zalloc(rmap_item_cache, GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (rmap_item)
ksm_rmap_items++;
return rmap_item;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static inline void free_rmap_item(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
ksm_rmap_items--;
ksm: count allocated ksm rmap_items for each process Patch series "ksm: count allocated rmap_items and update documentation", v5. KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. To determine how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise), they are using brings, so we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process The value "ksm_rmap_items" in it indicates the total allocated ksm rmap_items of this process. The detailed description can be seen in the following patches' commit message. This patch (of 2): KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. Some of these pages may be merged, but some may not be abled to be merged after being checked several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed. The information about whether KSM save memory or consume memory in system-wide range can be determined by the comprehensive calculation of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. A simple approximate calculation: profit =~ pages_sharing * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * sizeof(rmap_item); where all_rmap_items equals to the sum of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. But we cannot calculate this kind of ksm profit inner single-process wide because the information of ksm rmap_item's number of a process is lacked. For user applications, if this kind of information could be obtained, it helps upper users know how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise) they are using brings, and then optimize their app code. For example, one application madvise 1000 pages as MERGEABLE, while only a few pages are really merged, then it's not cost-efficient. So we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process in which the value of ksm_rmap_itmes is only shown now and so more values can be added in future. So similarly, we can calculate the ksm profit approximately for a single process by: profit =~ ksm_merging_pages * sizeof(page) - ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item); where ksm_merging_pages is shown at /proc/<pid>/ksm_merging_pages, and ksm_rmap_items is shown in /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143731.299702-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143838.299758-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-08-30 14:38:38 +00:00
rmap_item->mm->ksm_rmap_items--;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
rmap_item->mm = NULL; /* debug safety */
kmem_cache_free(rmap_item_cache, rmap_item);
}
static inline struct ksm_stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
{
/*
* The allocation can take too long with GFP_KERNEL when memory is under
* pressure, which may lead to hung task warnings. Adding __GFP_HIGH
* grants access to memory reserves, helping to avoid this problem.
*/
return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
}
static inline void free_stable_node(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
{
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len &&
!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node));
kmem_cache_free(stable_node_cache, stable_node);
}
/*
* ksmd, and unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(), must not touch an mm's
* page tables after it has passed through ksm_exit() - which, if necessary,
* takes mmap_lock briefly to serialize against them. ksm_exit() does not set
* a special flag: they can just back out as soon as mm_users goes to zero.
* ksm_test_exit() is used throughout to make this test for exit: in some
* places for correctness, in some places just to avoid unnecessary work.
*/
static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
}
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
static int break_ksm_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long next,
struct mm_walk *walk)
{
struct page *page = NULL;
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t *pte;
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
pte_t ptent;
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
int ret;
pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
mm/various: give up if pte_offset_map[_lock]() fails Following the examples of nearby code, various functions can just give up if pte_offset_map() or pte_offset_map_lock() fails. And there's no need for a preliminary pmd_trans_unstable() or other such check, since such cases are now safely handled inside. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b9bd85d-1652-cbf2-159d-f503b45e5b@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09 01:29:22 +00:00
if (!pte)
return 0;
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
ptent = ptep_get(pte);
if (pte_present(ptent)) {
page = vm_normal_page(walk->vma, addr, ptent);
} else if (!pte_none(ptent)) {
swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(ptent);
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
/*
* As KSM pages remain KSM pages until freed, no need to wait
* here for migration to end.
*/
if (is_migration_entry(entry))
page = pfn_swap_entry_to_page(entry);
}
ksm: support unsharing KSM-placed zero pages Patch series "ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages", v10. The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM. The motivations to do this is seen at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@zte.com.cn/ In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled. This patch (of 5): When use_zero_pages of ksm is enabled, madvise(addr, len, MADV_UNMERGEABLE) and other ways (like write 2 to /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run) to trigger unsharing will *not* actually unshare the shared zeropage as placed by KSM (which is against the MADV_UNMERGEABLE documentation). As these KSM-placed zero pages are out of the control of KSM, the related counts of ksm pages don't expose how many zero pages are placed by KSM (these special zero pages are different from those initially mapped zero pages, because the zero pages mapped to MADV_UNMERGEABLE areas are expected to be a complete and unshared page). To not blindly unshare all shared zero_pages in applicable VMAs, the patch use pte_mkdirty (related with architecture) to mark KSM-placed zero pages. Thus, MADV_UNMERGEABLE will only unshare those KSM-placed zero pages. In addition, we'll reuse this mechanism to reliably identify KSM-placed ZeroPages to properly account for them (e.g., calculating the KSM profit that includes zeropages) in the latter patches. The patch will not degrade the performance of use_zero_pages as it doesn't change the way of merging empty pages in use_zero_pages's feature. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202306131104554703428@zte.com.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030928.185882-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-13 03:09:28 +00:00
/* return 1 if the page is an normal ksm page or KSM-placed zero page */
ret = (page && PageKsm(page)) || is_ksm_zero_pte(ptent);
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
return ret;
}
static const struct mm_walk_ops break_ksm_ops = {
.pmd_entry = break_ksm_pmd_entry,
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
.walk_lock = PGWALK_RDLOCK,
};
static const struct mm_walk_ops break_ksm_lock_vma_ops = {
.pmd_entry = break_ksm_pmd_entry,
.walk_lock = PGWALK_WRLOCK,
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
};
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE Let's stop breaking COW via a fake write fault and let's use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE instead. This avoids any wrong side effects of the fake write fault, such as mapping the PTE writable and marking the pte dirty/softdirty. Consequently, we will no longer trigger a fake write fault and break COW without any such side-effects. Also, this fixes KSM interaction with userfaultfd-wp: when we have a KSM page that's write-protected by userfaultfd, break_ksm()->handle_mm_fault() will fail with VM_FAULT_SIGBUS and will simply return in break_ksm() with 0 instead of actually breaking COW. For now, the KSM unmerge tests can trigger that: $ sudo ./ksm_functional_tests TAP version 13 1..3 # [RUN] test_unmerge ok 1 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_discarded ok 2 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_uffd_wp not ok 3 Pages were unmerged Bail out! 1 out of 3 tests failed # Planned tests != run tests (2 != 3) # Totals: pass:2 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 The warning in dmesg also indicates this wrong handling: [ 230.096368] FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 881 [ 230.100822] CPU: 1 PID: 1643 Comm: ksm-uffd-wp [...] [ 230.110124] Hardware name: [...] [ 230.117775] Call Trace: [ 230.120227] <TASK> [ 230.122334] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 230.126010] handle_userfault.cold+0x14/0x19 [ 230.130281] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x65/0x170 [ 230.134207] ? uffd_wp_range+0x65/0xa0 [ 230.137959] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 [ 230.141972] ? do_wp_page+0x50/0x590 [ 230.145551] __handle_mm_fault+0x9f5/0xf50 [ 230.149652] ? mmput+0x1f/0x40 [ 230.152712] handle_mm_fault+0xb9/0x2a0 [ 230.156550] break_ksm+0x141/0x180 [ 230.159964] unmerge_ksm_pages+0x60/0x90 [ 230.163890] ksm_madvise+0x3c/0xb0 [ 230.167295] do_madvise.part.0+0x10c/0xeb0 [ 230.171396] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.175157] __x64_sys_madvise+0x5a/0x70 [ 230.179082] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 230.182661] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.186413] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This is primarily a fix for KSM+userfaultfd-wp, however, the fake write fault was always questionable. As this fix is not easy to backport and it's not very critical, let's not cc stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-6-david@redhat.com Fixes: 529b930b87d9 ("userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:37 +00:00
* We use break_ksm to break COW on a ksm page by triggering unsharing,
* such that the ksm page will get replaced by an exclusive anonymous page.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE Let's stop breaking COW via a fake write fault and let's use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE instead. This avoids any wrong side effects of the fake write fault, such as mapping the PTE writable and marking the pte dirty/softdirty. Consequently, we will no longer trigger a fake write fault and break COW without any such side-effects. Also, this fixes KSM interaction with userfaultfd-wp: when we have a KSM page that's write-protected by userfaultfd, break_ksm()->handle_mm_fault() will fail with VM_FAULT_SIGBUS and will simply return in break_ksm() with 0 instead of actually breaking COW. For now, the KSM unmerge tests can trigger that: $ sudo ./ksm_functional_tests TAP version 13 1..3 # [RUN] test_unmerge ok 1 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_discarded ok 2 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_uffd_wp not ok 3 Pages were unmerged Bail out! 1 out of 3 tests failed # Planned tests != run tests (2 != 3) # Totals: pass:2 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 The warning in dmesg also indicates this wrong handling: [ 230.096368] FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 881 [ 230.100822] CPU: 1 PID: 1643 Comm: ksm-uffd-wp [...] [ 230.110124] Hardware name: [...] [ 230.117775] Call Trace: [ 230.120227] <TASK> [ 230.122334] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 230.126010] handle_userfault.cold+0x14/0x19 [ 230.130281] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x65/0x170 [ 230.134207] ? uffd_wp_range+0x65/0xa0 [ 230.137959] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 [ 230.141972] ? do_wp_page+0x50/0x590 [ 230.145551] __handle_mm_fault+0x9f5/0xf50 [ 230.149652] ? mmput+0x1f/0x40 [ 230.152712] handle_mm_fault+0xb9/0x2a0 [ 230.156550] break_ksm+0x141/0x180 [ 230.159964] unmerge_ksm_pages+0x60/0x90 [ 230.163890] ksm_madvise+0x3c/0xb0 [ 230.167295] do_madvise.part.0+0x10c/0xeb0 [ 230.171396] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.175157] __x64_sys_madvise+0x5a/0x70 [ 230.179082] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 230.182661] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.186413] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This is primarily a fix for KSM+userfaultfd-wp, however, the fake write fault was always questionable. As this fix is not easy to backport and it's not very critical, let's not cc stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-6-david@redhat.com Fixes: 529b930b87d9 ("userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:37 +00:00
* We take great care only to touch a ksm page, in a VM_MERGEABLE vma,
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* in case the application has unmapped and remapped mm,addr meanwhile.
* Could a ksm page appear anywhere else? Actually yes, in a VM_PFNMAP
drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. 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* mmap of /dev/mem, where we would not want to touch it.
mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access We try to enforce protection keys in software the same way that we do in hardware. (See long example below). But, we only want to do this when accessing our *own* process's memory. If GDB set PKRU[6].AD=1 (disable access to PKEY 6), then tried to PTRACE_POKE a target process which just happened to have some mprotect_pkey(pkey=6) memory, we do *not* want to deny the debugger access to that memory. PKRU is fundamentally a thread-local structure and we do not want to enforce it on access to _another_ thread's data. This gets especially tricky when we have workqueues or other delayed-work mechanisms that might run in a random process's context. We can check that we only enforce pkeys when operating on our *own* mm, but delayed work gets performed when a random user context is active. We might end up with a situation where a delayed-work gup fails when running randomly under its "own" task but succeeds when running under another process. We want to avoid that. To avoid that, we use the new GUP flag: FOLL_REMOTE and add a fault flag: FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE. They indicate that we are walking an mm which is not guranteed to be the same as current->mm and should not be subject to protection key enforcement. Thanks to Jerome Glisse for pointing out this scenario. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-12 21:02:21 +00:00
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mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE Let's stop breaking COW via a fake write fault and let's use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE instead. This avoids any wrong side effects of the fake write fault, such as mapping the PTE writable and marking the pte dirty/softdirty. Consequently, we will no longer trigger a fake write fault and break COW without any such side-effects. Also, this fixes KSM interaction with userfaultfd-wp: when we have a KSM page that's write-protected by userfaultfd, break_ksm()->handle_mm_fault() will fail with VM_FAULT_SIGBUS and will simply return in break_ksm() with 0 instead of actually breaking COW. For now, the KSM unmerge tests can trigger that: $ sudo ./ksm_functional_tests TAP version 13 1..3 # [RUN] test_unmerge ok 1 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_discarded ok 2 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_uffd_wp not ok 3 Pages were unmerged Bail out! 1 out of 3 tests failed # Planned tests != run tests (2 != 3) # Totals: pass:2 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 The warning in dmesg also indicates this wrong handling: [ 230.096368] FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 881 [ 230.100822] CPU: 1 PID: 1643 Comm: ksm-uffd-wp [...] [ 230.110124] Hardware name: [...] [ 230.117775] Call Trace: [ 230.120227] <TASK> [ 230.122334] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 230.126010] handle_userfault.cold+0x14/0x19 [ 230.130281] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x65/0x170 [ 230.134207] ? uffd_wp_range+0x65/0xa0 [ 230.137959] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 [ 230.141972] ? do_wp_page+0x50/0x590 [ 230.145551] __handle_mm_fault+0x9f5/0xf50 [ 230.149652] ? mmput+0x1f/0x40 [ 230.152712] handle_mm_fault+0xb9/0x2a0 [ 230.156550] break_ksm+0x141/0x180 [ 230.159964] unmerge_ksm_pages+0x60/0x90 [ 230.163890] ksm_madvise+0x3c/0xb0 [ 230.167295] do_madvise.part.0+0x10c/0xeb0 [ 230.171396] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.175157] __x64_sys_madvise+0x5a/0x70 [ 230.179082] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 230.182661] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.186413] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This is primarily a fix for KSM+userfaultfd-wp, however, the fake write fault was always questionable. As this fix is not easy to backport and it's not very critical, let's not cc stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-6-david@redhat.com Fixes: 529b930b87d9 ("userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:37 +00:00
* FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE/FOLL_REMOTE are because we do this outside the context
mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access We try to enforce protection keys in software the same way that we do in hardware. (See long example below). But, we only want to do this when accessing our *own* process's memory. If GDB set PKRU[6].AD=1 (disable access to PKEY 6), then tried to PTRACE_POKE a target process which just happened to have some mprotect_pkey(pkey=6) memory, we do *not* want to deny the debugger access to that memory. PKRU is fundamentally a thread-local structure and we do not want to enforce it on access to _another_ thread's data. This gets especially tricky when we have workqueues or other delayed-work mechanisms that might run in a random process's context. We can check that we only enforce pkeys when operating on our *own* mm, but delayed work gets performed when a random user context is active. We might end up with a situation where a delayed-work gup fails when running randomly under its "own" task but succeeds when running under another process. We want to avoid that. To avoid that, we use the new GUP flag: FOLL_REMOTE and add a fault flag: FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE. They indicate that we are walking an mm which is not guranteed to be the same as current->mm and should not be subject to protection key enforcement. Thanks to Jerome Glisse for pointing out this scenario. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-12 21:02:21 +00:00
* of the process that owns 'vma'. We also do not want to enforce
* protection keys here anyway.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, bool lock_vma)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
mm: convert return type of handle_mm_fault() caller to vm_fault_t Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler. For now, this is just documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno. Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type. Ref-> commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t") In this patch all the caller of handle_mm_fault() are changed to return vm_fault_t type. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617084810.GA6730@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 22:44:47 +00:00
vm_fault_t ret = 0;
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = lock_vma ?
&break_ksm_lock_vma_ops : &break_ksm_ops;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
do {
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
int ksm_page;
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page (including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE. Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the result. While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010 MiB/s). I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep it simple for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:34 +00:00
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
cond_resched();
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
ksm_page = walk_page_range_vma(vma, addr, addr + 1, ops, NULL);
mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma() FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page. Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need to even grab a reference. So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in the future. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s). I don't think we particularly care for now. Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by another 100-200 MiB/s. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:40 +00:00
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ksm_page < 0))
return ksm_page;
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page (including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE. Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the result. While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010 MiB/s). I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep it simple for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:34 +00:00
if (!ksm_page)
return 0;
ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr,
mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE Let's stop breaking COW via a fake write fault and let's use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE instead. This avoids any wrong side effects of the fake write fault, such as mapping the PTE writable and marking the pte dirty/softdirty. Consequently, we will no longer trigger a fake write fault and break COW without any such side-effects. Also, this fixes KSM interaction with userfaultfd-wp: when we have a KSM page that's write-protected by userfaultfd, break_ksm()->handle_mm_fault() will fail with VM_FAULT_SIGBUS and will simply return in break_ksm() with 0 instead of actually breaking COW. For now, the KSM unmerge tests can trigger that: $ sudo ./ksm_functional_tests TAP version 13 1..3 # [RUN] test_unmerge ok 1 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_discarded ok 2 Pages were unmerged # [RUN] test_unmerge_uffd_wp not ok 3 Pages were unmerged Bail out! 1 out of 3 tests failed # Planned tests != run tests (2 != 3) # Totals: pass:2 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 The warning in dmesg also indicates this wrong handling: [ 230.096368] FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 881 [ 230.100822] CPU: 1 PID: 1643 Comm: ksm-uffd-wp [...] [ 230.110124] Hardware name: [...] [ 230.117775] Call Trace: [ 230.120227] <TASK> [ 230.122334] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 230.126010] handle_userfault.cold+0x14/0x19 [ 230.130281] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x65/0x170 [ 230.134207] ? uffd_wp_range+0x65/0xa0 [ 230.137959] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 [ 230.141972] ? do_wp_page+0x50/0x590 [ 230.145551] __handle_mm_fault+0x9f5/0xf50 [ 230.149652] ? mmput+0x1f/0x40 [ 230.152712] handle_mm_fault+0xb9/0x2a0 [ 230.156550] break_ksm+0x141/0x180 [ 230.159964] unmerge_ksm_pages+0x60/0x90 [ 230.163890] ksm_madvise+0x3c/0xb0 [ 230.167295] do_madvise.part.0+0x10c/0xeb0 [ 230.171396] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.175157] __x64_sys_madvise+0x5a/0x70 [ 230.179082] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 230.182661] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 230.186413] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This is primarily a fix for KSM+userfaultfd-wp, however, the fake write fault was always questionable. As this fix is not easy to backport and it's not very critical, let's not cc stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-6-david@redhat.com Fixes: 529b930b87d9 ("userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:37 +00:00
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE | FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE,
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page (including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE. Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the result. While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010 MiB/s). I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep it simple for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:34 +00:00
NULL);
} while (!(ret & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | VM_FAULT_OOM)));
/*
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page (including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE. Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the result. While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010 MiB/s). I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep it simple for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-21 10:11:34 +00:00
* We must loop until we no longer find a KSM page because
* handle_mm_fault() may back out if there's any difficulty e.g. if
* pte accessed bit gets updated concurrently.
*
* VM_FAULT_SIGBUS could occur if we race with truncation of the
* backing file, which also invalidates anonymous pages: that's
* okay, that truncation will have unmapped the PageKsm for us.
*
* VM_FAULT_OOM: at the time of writing (late July 2009), setting
* aside mem_cgroup limits, VM_FAULT_OOM would only be set if the
* current task has TIF_MEMDIE set, and will be OOM killed on return
* to user; and ksmd, having no mm, would never be chosen for that.
*
* But if the mm is in a limited mem_cgroup, then the fault may fail
* with VM_FAULT_OOM even if the current task is not TIF_MEMDIE; and
* even ksmd can fail in this way - though it's usually breaking ksm
* just to undo a merge it made a moment before, so unlikely to oom.
*
* That's a pity: we might therefore have more kernel pages allocated
* than we're counting as nodes in the stable tree; but ksm_do_scan
* will retry to break_cow on each pass, so should recover the page
* in due course. The important thing is to not let VM_MERGEABLE
* be cleared while any such pages might remain in the area.
*/
return (ret & VM_FAULT_OOM) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
static bool vma_ksm_compatible(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE | VM_PFNMAP |
VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_HUGETLB |
VM_MIXEDMAP))
return false; /* just ignore the advice */
if (vma_is_dax(vma))
return false;
#ifdef VM_SAO
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SAO)
return false;
#endif
#ifdef VM_SPARC_ADI
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SPARC_ADI)
return false;
#endif
return true;
}
static struct vm_area_struct *find_mergeable_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
return NULL;
vma = vma_lookup(mm, addr);
if (!vma || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE) || !vma->anon_vma)
return NULL;
return vma;
}
static void break_cow(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
/*
* It is not an accident that whenever we want to break COW
* to undo, we also need to drop a reference to the anon_vma.
*/
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr);
if (vma)
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
break_ksm(vma, addr, false);
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static struct page *get_mergeable_page(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct page *page;
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr);
if (!vma)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out;
page = follow_page(vma, addr, FOLL_GET);
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page))
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out;
if (is_zone_device_page(page))
goto out_putpage;
if (PageAnon(page)) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
flush_anon_page(vma, page, addr);
flush_dcache_page(page);
} else {
out_putpage:
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
put_page(page);
out:
page = NULL;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return page;
}
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
/*
* This helper is used for getting right index into array of tree roots.
* When merge_across_nodes knob is set to 1, there are only two rb-trees for
* stable and unstable pages from all nodes with roots in index 0. Otherwise,
* every node has its own stable and unstable tree.
*/
static inline int get_kpfn_nid(unsigned long kpfn)
{
return ksm_merge_across_nodes ? 0 : NUMA(pfn_to_nid(kpfn));
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
}
static struct ksm_stable_node *alloc_stable_node_chain(struct ksm_stable_node *dup,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
struct rb_root *root)
{
struct ksm_stable_node *chain = alloc_stable_node();
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_chain(dup));
if (likely(chain)) {
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&chain->hlist);
chain->chain_prune_time = jiffies;
chain->rmap_hlist_len = STABLE_NODE_CHAIN;
#if defined (CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA)
mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE Patch series "Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE", v3. All these places for replacement were found by running the following grep patterns on the entire kernel code. Please let me know if this might have missed some instances. This might also have replaced some false positives. I will appreciate suggestions, inputs and review. 1. git grep "nid == -1" 2. git grep "node == -1" 3. git grep "nid = -1" 4. git grep "node = -1" This patch (of 2): At present there are multiple places where invalid node number is encoded as -1. Even though implicitly understood it is always better to have macros in there. Replace these open encodings for an invalid node number with the global macro NUMA_NO_NODE. This helps remove NUMA related assumptions like 'invalid node' from various places redirecting them to a common definition. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545127933-10711-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> [ixgbe] Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> [mtip32xx] Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> [dmaengine.c] Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> [drivers/infiniband] Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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chain->nid = NUMA_NO_NODE; /* debug */
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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#endif
ksm_stable_node_chains++;
/*
* Put the stable node chain in the first dimension of
* the stable tree and at the same time remove the old
* stable node.
*/
rb_replace_node(&dup->node, &chain->node, root);
/*
* Move the old stable node to the second dimension
* queued in the hlist_dup. The invariant is that all
* dup stable_nodes in the chain->hlist point to pages
* that are write protected and have the exact same
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* content.
*/
stable_node_chain_add_dup(dup, chain);
}
return chain;
}
static inline void free_stable_node_chain(struct ksm_stable_node *chain,
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struct rb_root *root)
{
rb_erase(&chain->node, root);
free_stable_node(chain);
ksm_stable_node_chains--;
}
static void remove_node_from_stable_tree(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/* check it's not STABLE_NODE_CHAIN or negative */
BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len < 0);
hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28 01:06:00 +00:00
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
if (rmap_item->hlist.next) {
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ksm_pages_sharing--;
trace_ksm_remove_rmap_item(stable_node->kpfn, rmap_item, rmap_item->mm);
} else {
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ksm_pages_shared--;
}
ksm: count ksm merging pages for each process Some applications or containers want to use KSM by calling madvise() to advise areas of address space to be MERGEABLE. But they may not know which applications are more likely to cause real merges in the deployment. If this patch is applied, it helps them know their corresponding number of merged pages, and then optimize their app code. As current KSM only counts the number of KSM merging pages(e.g. ksm_pages_sharing and ksm_pages_shared) of the whole system, we cannot see the more fine-grained KSM merging, for the upper application optimization, the merging area cannot be set easily according to the KSM page merging probability of each process. Therefore, it is necessary to add extra statistical means so that the upper level users can know the detailed KSM merging information of each process. We add a new proc file named as ksm_merging_pages under /proc/<pid>/ to indicate the involved ksm merging pages of this process. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, remove BUG_ON()s] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325082318.2352853-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-29 06:16:16 +00:00
rmap_item->mm->ksm_merging_pages--;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len <= 0);
stable_node->rmap_hlist_len--;
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
cond_resched();
}
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/*
* We need the second aligned pointer of the migrate_nodes
* list_head to stay clear from the rb_parent_color union
* (aligned and different than any node) and also different
* from &migrate_nodes. This will verify that future list.h changes
* don't break STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD. Only recent gcc can handle it.
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD <= &migrate_nodes);
BUILD_BUG_ON(STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD >= &migrate_nodes + 1);
trace_ksm_remove_ksm_page(stable_node->kpfn);
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
if (stable_node->head == &migrate_nodes)
list_del(&stable_node->list);
else
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_node_dup_del(stable_node);
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
free_stable_node(stable_node);
}
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
enum get_ksm_page_flags {
GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK,
GET_KSM_PAGE_LOCK,
GET_KSM_PAGE_TRYLOCK
};
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
/*
* get_ksm_page: checks if the page indicated by the stable node
* is still its ksm page, despite having held no reference to it.
* In which case we can trust the content of the page, and it
* returns the gotten page; but if the page has now been zapped,
* remove the stale node from the stable tree and return NULL.
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
* But beware, the stable node's page might be being migrated.
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
*
* You would expect the stable_node to hold a reference to the ksm page.
* But if it increments the page's count, swapping out has to wait for
* ksmd to come around again before it can free the page, which may take
* seconds or even minutes: much too unresponsive. So instead we use a
* "keyhole reference": access to the ksm page from the stable node peeps
* out through its keyhole to see if that page still holds the right key,
* pointing back to this stable node. This relies on freeing a PageAnon
* page to reset its page->mapping to NULL, and relies on no other use of
* a page to put something that might look like our key in page->mapping.
* is on its way to being freed; but it is an anomaly to bear in mind.
*/
static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
enum get_ksm_page_flags flags)
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
{
struct page *page;
void *expected_mapping;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
unsigned long kpfn;
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. enhance compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page, reserved memory, vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of non-movable pages in system, their solutions are void in the long run. So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages with movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related to migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags. If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three functions which are function pointers of struct address_space_operations. 1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode); What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true* if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the page as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the page for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should return *false*. Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields. 2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode); After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page. The function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should indicate to the VM the oldpage is no longer movable via __ClearPageMovable() under page_lock if you migrated the oldpage successfully and returns 0. If driver cannot migrate the page at the moment, driver can return -EAGAIN. On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page migration in a short time because VM interprets -EAGAIN as "temporal migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN, VM will give up the page migration without retrying in this time. Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions. 3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *); If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed page. In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the own data structure. 4. non-lru movable page flags There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page. * PG_movable Driver should use the below function to make page movable under page_lock. void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family functions which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is not a real flag of struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's lower bits to represent it. #define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2 page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE; so driver shouldn't access page->mapping directly. Instead, driver should use page_mapping which mask off the low two bits of page->mapping so it can get right struct address_space. For testing of non-lru movable page, VM supports __PageMovable function. However, it doesn't guarantee to identify non-lru movable page because page->mapping field is unified with other variables in struct page. As well, if driver releases the page after isolation by VM, page->mapping doesn't have stable value although it has PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE (Look at __ClearPageMovable). But __PageMovable is cheap to catch whether page is LRU or non-lru movable once the page has been isolated. Because LRU pages never can have PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE in page->mapping. It is also good for just peeking to test non-lru movable pages before more expensive checking with lock_page in pfn scanning to select victim. For guaranteeing non-lru movable page, VM provides PageMovable function. Unlike __PageMovable, PageMovable functions validates page->mapping and mapping->a_ops->isolate_page under lock_page. The lock_page prevents sudden destroying of page->mapping. Driver using __SetPageMovable should clear the flag via __ClearMovablePage under page_lock before the releasing the page. * PG_isolated To prevent concurrent isolation among several CPUs, VM marks isolated page as PG_isolated under lock_page. So if a CPU encounters PG_isolated non-lru movable page, it can skip it. Driver doesn't need to manipulate the flag because VM will set/clear it automatically. Keep in mind that if driver sees PG_isolated page, it means the page have been isolated by VM so it shouldn't touch page.lru field. PG_isolated is alias with PG_reclaim flag so driver shouldn't use the flag for own purpose. [opensource.ganesh@gmail.com: mm/compaction: remove local variable is_lru] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160618014841.GA7422@leo-test Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464736881-24886-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: John Einar Reitan <john.reitan@foss.arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 22:23:05 +00:00
expected_mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)stable_node |
PAGE_MAPPING_KSM);
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
again:
kpfn = READ_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn); /* Address dependency. */
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
page = pfn_to_page(kpfn);
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping)
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
goto stale;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
/*
* We cannot do anything with the page while its refcount is 0.
* Usually 0 means free, or tail of a higher-order page: in which
* case this node is no longer referenced, and should be freed;
* however, it might mean that the page is under page_ref_freeze().
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
* The __remove_mapping() case is easy, again the node is now stale;
mm: reuse only-pte-mapped KSM page in do_wp_page() Add an optimization for KSM pages almost in the same way that we have for ordinary anonymous pages. If there is a write fault in a page, which is mapped to an only pte, and it is not related to swap cache; the page may be reused without copying its content. [ Note that we do not consider PageSwapCache() pages at least for now, since we don't want to complicate __get_ksm_page(), which has nice optimization based on this (for the migration case). Currenly it is spinning on PageSwapCache() pages, waiting for when they have unfreezed counters (i.e., for the migration finish). But we don't want to make it also spinning on swap cache pages, which we try to reuse, since there is not a very high probability to reuse them. So, for now we do not consider PageSwapCache() pages at all. ] So in reuse_ksm_page() we check for 1) PageSwapCache() and 2) page_stable_node(), to skip a page, which KSM is currently trying to link to stable tree. Then we do page_ref_freeze() to prohibit KSM to merge one more page into the page, we are reusing. After that, nobody can refer to the reusing page: KSM skips !PageSwapCache() pages with zero refcount; and the protection against of all other participants is the same as for reused ordinary anon pages pte lock, page lock and mmap_sem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace BUG_ON()s with WARN_ON()s] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154471491016.31352.1168978849911555609.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:43:06 +00:00
* the same is in reuse_ksm_page() case; but if page is swapcache
* in folio_migrate_mapping(), it might still be our page,
mm: reuse only-pte-mapped KSM page in do_wp_page() Add an optimization for KSM pages almost in the same way that we have for ordinary anonymous pages. If there is a write fault in a page, which is mapped to an only pte, and it is not related to swap cache; the page may be reused without copying its content. [ Note that we do not consider PageSwapCache() pages at least for now, since we don't want to complicate __get_ksm_page(), which has nice optimization based on this (for the migration case). Currenly it is spinning on PageSwapCache() pages, waiting for when they have unfreezed counters (i.e., for the migration finish). But we don't want to make it also spinning on swap cache pages, which we try to reuse, since there is not a very high probability to reuse them. So, for now we do not consider PageSwapCache() pages at all. ] So in reuse_ksm_page() we check for 1) PageSwapCache() and 2) page_stable_node(), to skip a page, which KSM is currently trying to link to stable tree. Then we do page_ref_freeze() to prohibit KSM to merge one more page into the page, we are reusing. After that, nobody can refer to the reusing page: KSM skips !PageSwapCache() pages with zero refcount; and the protection against of all other participants is the same as for reused ordinary anon pages pte lock, page lock and mmap_sem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace BUG_ON()s with WARN_ON()s] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154471491016.31352.1168978849911555609.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:43:06 +00:00
* in which case it's essential to keep the node.
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
*/
while (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
/*
* Another check for page->mapping != expected_mapping would
* work here too. We have chosen the !PageSwapCache test to
* optimize the common case, when the page is or is about to
* be freed: PageSwapCache is cleared (under spin_lock_irq)
* in the ref_freeze section of __remove_mapping(); but Anon
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
* page->mapping reset to NULL later, in free_pages_prepare().
*/
if (!PageSwapCache(page))
goto stale;
cpu_relax();
}
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) {
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
put_page(page);
goto stale;
}
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
if (flags == GET_KSM_PAGE_TRYLOCK) {
if (!trylock_page(page)) {
put_page(page);
return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
}
} else if (flags == GET_KSM_PAGE_LOCK)
ksm: get_ksm_page locked In some places where get_ksm_page() is used, we need the page to be locked. When KSM migration is fully enabled, we shall want that to make sure that the page just acquired cannot be migrated beneath us (raised page count is only effective when there is serialization to make sure migration notices). Whereas when navigating through the stable tree, we certainly do not want to lock each node (raised page count is enough to guarantee the memcmps, even if page is migrated to another node). Since we're about to add another use case, add the locked argument to get_ksm_page() now. Hmm, what's that rcu_read_lock() about? Complete misunderstanding, I really got the wrong end of the stick on that! There's a configuration in which page_cache_get_speculative() can do something cheaper than get_page_unless_zero(), relying on its caller's rcu_read_lock() to have disabled preemption for it. There's no need for rcu_read_lock() around get_page_unless_zero() (and mapping checks) here. Cut out that silliness before making this any harder to understand. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
lock_page(page);
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
if (flags != GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK) {
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) {
ksm: get_ksm_page locked In some places where get_ksm_page() is used, we need the page to be locked. When KSM migration is fully enabled, we shall want that to make sure that the page just acquired cannot be migrated beneath us (raised page count is only effective when there is serialization to make sure migration notices). Whereas when navigating through the stable tree, we certainly do not want to lock each node (raised page count is enough to guarantee the memcmps, even if page is migrated to another node). Since we're about to add another use case, add the locked argument to get_ksm_page() now. Hmm, what's that rcu_read_lock() about? Complete misunderstanding, I really got the wrong end of the stick on that! There's a configuration in which page_cache_get_speculative() can do something cheaper than get_page_unless_zero(), relying on its caller's rcu_read_lock() to have disabled preemption for it. There's no need for rcu_read_lock() around get_page_unless_zero() (and mapping checks) here. Cut out that silliness before making this any harder to understand. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
goto stale;
}
}
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
return page;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
stale:
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
/*
* We come here from above when page->mapping or !PageSwapCache
* suggests that the node is stale; but it might be under migration.
* We need smp_rmb(), matching the smp_wmb() in folio_migrate_ksm(),
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
* before checking whether node->kpfn has been changed.
*/
smp_rmb();
if (READ_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn) != kpfn)
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
goto again;
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
return NULL;
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* Removing rmap_item from stable or unstable tree.
* This function will clean the information from the stable/unstable tree.
*/
static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
if (rmap_item->address & STABLE_FLAG) {
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node;
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
struct page *page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
stable_node = rmap_item->head;
page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, GET_KSM_PAGE_LOCK);
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
if (!page)
goto out;
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
hlist_del(&rmap_item->hlist);
unlock_page(page);
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
put_page(page);
if (!hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist))
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ksm_pages_sharing--;
else
ksm_pages_shared--;
ksm: count ksm merging pages for each process Some applications or containers want to use KSM by calling madvise() to advise areas of address space to be MERGEABLE. But they may not know which applications are more likely to cause real merges in the deployment. If this patch is applied, it helps them know their corresponding number of merged pages, and then optimize their app code. As current KSM only counts the number of KSM merging pages(e.g. ksm_pages_sharing and ksm_pages_shared) of the whole system, we cannot see the more fine-grained KSM merging, for the upper application optimization, the merging area cannot be set easily according to the KSM page merging probability of each process. Therefore, it is necessary to add extra statistical means so that the upper level users can know the detailed KSM merging information of each process. We add a new proc file named as ksm_merging_pages under /proc/<pid>/ to indicate the involved ksm merging pages of this process. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, remove BUG_ON()s] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325082318.2352853-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-29 06:16:16 +00:00
rmap_item->mm->ksm_merging_pages--;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len <= 0);
stable_node->rmap_hlist_len--;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
rmap_item->head = NULL;
rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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} else if (rmap_item->address & UNSTABLE_FLAG) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
unsigned char age;
/*
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
* Usually ksmd can and must skip the rb_erase, because
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* root_unstable_tree was already reset to RB_ROOT.
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
* But be careful when an mm is exiting: do the rb_erase
* if this rmap_item was inserted by this scan, rather
* than left over from before.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
age = (unsigned char)(ksm_scan.seqnr - rmap_item->address);
BUG_ON(age > 1);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!age)
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
rb_erase(&rmap_item->node,
root_unstable_tree + NUMA(rmap_item->nid));
ksm_pages_unshared--;
rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
out:
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cond_resched(); /* we're called from many long loops */
}
static void remove_trailing_rmap_items(struct ksm_rmap_item **rmap_list)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
while (*rmap_list) {
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item = *rmap_list;
*rmap_list = rmap_item->rmap_list;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
free_rmap_item(rmap_item);
}
}
/*
* Though it's very tempting to unmerge rmap_items from stable tree rather
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* than check every pte of a given vma, the locking doesn't quite work for
* that - an rmap_item is assigned to the stable tree after inserting ksm
* page and upping mmap_lock. Nor does it fit with the way we skip dup'ing
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* rmap_items from parent to child at fork time (so as not to waste time
* if exit comes before the next scan reaches it).
*
* Similarly, although we'd like to remove rmap_items (so updating counts
* and freeing memory) when unmerging an area, it's easier to leave that
* to the next pass of ksmd - consider, for example, how ksmd might be
* in cmp_and_merge_page on one of the rmap_items we would be removing.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
static int unmerge_ksm_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool lock_vma)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
unsigned long addr;
int err = 0;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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for (addr = start; addr < end && !err; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (ksm_test_exit(vma->vm_mm))
break;
if (signal_pending(current))
err = -ERESTARTSYS;
else
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
err = break_ksm(vma, addr, lock_vma);
}
return err;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static inline struct ksm_stable_node *folio_stable_node(struct folio *folio)
{
return folio_test_ksm(folio) ? folio_raw_mapping(folio) : NULL;
}
static inline struct ksm_stable_node *page_stable_node(struct page *page)
{
return folio_stable_node(page_folio(page));
}
static inline void set_page_stable_node(struct page *page,
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
{
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(page) && PageAnonExclusive(page), page);
page->mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)stable_node | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/*
* Only called through the sysfs control interface:
*/
static int remove_stable_node(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
{
struct page *page;
int err;
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, GET_KSM_PAGE_LOCK);
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
if (!page) {
/*
* get_ksm_page did remove_node_from_stable_tree itself.
*/
return 0;
}
/*
* Page could be still mapped if this races with __mmput() running in
* between ksm_exit() and exit_mmap(). Just refuse to let
* merge_across_nodes/max_page_sharing be switched.
*/
err = -EBUSY;
if (!page_mapped(page)) {
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
/*
* The stable node did not yet appear stale to get_ksm_page(),
* since that allows for an unmapped ksm page to be recognized
* right up until it is freed; but the node is safe to remove.
* This page might be in an LRU cache waiting to be freed,
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
* or it might be PageSwapCache (perhaps under writeback),
* or it might have been removed from swapcache a moment ago.
*/
set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
err = 0;
}
unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
return err;
}
static int remove_stable_node_chain(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct rb_root *root)
{
struct ksm_stable_node *dup;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct hlist_node *hlist_safe;
if (!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node)) {
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_dup(stable_node));
if (remove_stable_node(stable_node))
return true;
else
return false;
}
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(dup, hlist_safe,
&stable_node->hlist, hlist_dup) {
VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_dup(dup));
if (remove_stable_node(dup))
return true;
}
BUG_ON(!hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist));
free_stable_node_chain(stable_node, root);
return false;
}
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
static int remove_all_stable_nodes(void)
{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *next;
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
int nid;
int err = 0;
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++) {
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
while (root_stable_tree[nid].rb_node) {
stable_node = rb_entry(root_stable_tree[nid].rb_node,
struct ksm_stable_node, node);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (remove_stable_node_chain(stable_node,
root_stable_tree + nid)) {
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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err = -EBUSY;
break; /* proceed to next nid */
}
cond_resched();
}
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next, &migrate_nodes, list) {
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
if (remove_stable_node(stable_node))
err = -EBUSY;
cond_resched();
}
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
return err;
}
static int unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(void)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int err = 0;
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
slot = list_entry(ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node.next,
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
for (mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot; mm_slot != &ksm_mm_head;
mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot) {
VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm_slot->slot.mm, 0);
mm = mm_slot->slot.mm;
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
/*
* Exit right away if mm is exiting to avoid lockdep issue in
* the maple tree
*/
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
goto mm_exiting;
for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE) || !vma->anon_vma)
continue;
err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma,
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, false);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (err)
goto error;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
mm_exiting:
remove_trailing_rmap_items(&mm_slot->rmap_list);
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
slot = list_entry(mm_slot->slot.mm_node.next,
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) {
hash_del(&mm_slot->slot.hash);
list_del(&mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
mmdrop(mm);
ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item. task A (ksmd): |task B (the mm's task): | mm = slot->mm; | down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | | ... | | spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | | ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot; | | spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | |mmput() -> | ksm_exit(): | |spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); |if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) { | if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) { | easy_to_free = 1; | ... | |if (easy_to_free) { | mmdrop(mm); | ... | |So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput(). | up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already been freed to the kmem_cache. Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&mm->mmap_sem), will cause mmap_sem.count to become -1. As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has the same SMP race condition, so fix it too. My prev fix in function scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
} else
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
/* Clean up stable nodes, but don't worry if some are still busy */
remove_all_stable_nodes();
ksm_scan.seqnr = 0;
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
return 0;
error:
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = &ksm_mm_head;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
return err;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static u32 calc_checksum(struct page *page)
{
u32 checksum;
void *addr = kmap_local_page(page);
checksum = xxhash(addr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
kunmap_local(addr);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return checksum;
}
static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
pte_t *orig_pte)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
DEFINE_PAGE_VMA_WALK(pvmw, page, vma, 0, 0);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int swapped;
int err = -EFAULT;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
bool anon_exclusive;
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
pte_t entry;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
pvmw.address = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
if (pvmw.address == -EFAULT)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out;
BUG_ON(PageTransCompound(page));
mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, mm, pvmw.address,
pvmw.address + PAGE_SIZE);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
if (!page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw))
goto out_mn;
if (WARN_ONCE(!pvmw.pte, "Unexpected PMD mapping?"))
goto out_unlock;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
anon_exclusive = PageAnonExclusive(page);
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
entry = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
if (pte_write(entry) || pte_dirty(entry) ||
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
anon_exclusive || mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm)) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
swapped = PageSwapCache(page);
flush_cache_page(vma, pvmw.address, page_to_pfn(page));
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* Ok this is tricky, when get_user_pages_fast() run it doesn't
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* take any lock, therefore the check that we are going to make
* with the pagecount against the mapcount is racy and
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* O_DIRECT can happen right after the check.
* So we clear the pte and flush the tlb before the check
* this assure us that no O_DIRECT can happen after the check
* or in the middle of the check.
mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ... and it is an optimization for those users. Everyone else is unaffected by it. When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range). But that notification is not necessary in all cases. This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end. It also adds documentation in all those cases explaining why. Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this: For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page table to access a process virtual address space). There is only 2 cases when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table lock when clearing a pte/pmd: A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault on zero page, __replace_page(), ...) Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write to a page that might now be used by something completely different. Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence to happen: - take page table lock - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify()) - set page table entry to point to new page If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for the device. Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/ PASID): Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too). [Time N] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {try to write to addrA} CPU-thread-1 {try to write to addrB} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA and populate device TLB} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB and populate device TLB} [Time N+1] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+2] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {write to addrA which is a write to new page} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {write to addrB which is a write to new page} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+4] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+5] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA from old page} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB from new page} So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value for addrB before seing the new value for addrA. This break total memory ordering for the device. When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock. This is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right after releasing page table lock before calling mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW. [jglisse@redhat.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16 01:34:07 +00:00
*
* No need to notify as we are downgrading page table to read
* only not changing it to point to a new page.
*
* See Documentation/mm/mmu_notifier.rst
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ... and it is an optimization for those users. Everyone else is unaffected by it. When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range). But that notification is not necessary in all cases. This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end. It also adds documentation in all those cases explaining why. Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this: For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page table to access a process virtual address space). There is only 2 cases when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table lock when clearing a pte/pmd: A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault on zero page, __replace_page(), ...) Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write to a page that might now be used by something completely different. Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence to happen: - take page table lock - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify()) - set page table entry to point to new page If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for the device. Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/ PASID): Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too). [Time N] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {try to write to addrA} CPU-thread-1 {try to write to addrB} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA and populate device TLB} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB and populate device TLB} [Time N+1] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+2] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {write to addrA which is a write to new page} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {write to addrB which is a write to new page} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+4] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+5] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA from old page} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB from new page} So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value for addrB before seing the new value for addrA. This break total memory ordering for the device. When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock. This is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right after releasing page table lock before calling mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW. [jglisse@redhat.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16 01:34:07 +00:00
entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* Check that no O_DIRECT or similar I/O is in progress on the
* page
*/
if (page_mapcount(page) + 1 + swapped != page_count(page)) {
set_pte_at(mm, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte, entry);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out_unlock;
}
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
mm: fix PageAnonExclusive clearing racing with concurrent RCU GUP-fast commit 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") made sure that when PageAnonExclusive() has to be cleared during temporary unmapping of a page, that the PTE is cleared/invalidated and that the TLB is flushed. What we want to achieve in all cases is that we cannot end up with a pin on an anonymous page that may be shared, because such pins would be unreliable and could result in memory corruptions when the mapped page and the pin go out of sync due to a write fault. That TLB flush handling was inspired by an outdated comment in mm/ksm.c:write_protect_page(), which similarly required the TLB flush in the past to synchronize with GUP-fast. However, ever since general RCU GUP fast was introduced in commit 2667f50e8b81 ("mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()"), a TLB flush is no longer sufficient to handle concurrent GUP-fast in all cases -- it only handles traditional IPI-based GUP-fast correctly. Peter Xu (thankfully) questioned whether that TLB flush is really required. On architectures that send an IPI broadcast on TLB flush, it works as expected. To synchronize with RCU GUP-fast properly, we're conceptually fine, however, we have to enforce a certain memory order and are missing memory barriers. Let's document that, avoid the TLB flush where possible and use proper explicit memory barriers where required. We shouldn't really care about the additional memory barriers here, as we're not on extremely hot paths -- and we're getting rid of some TLB flushes. We use a smp_mb() pair for handling concurrent pinning and a smp_rmb()/smp_wmb() pair for handling the corner case of only temporary PTE changes but permanent PageAnonExclusive changes. One extreme example, whereby GUP-fast takes a R/O pin and KSM wants to convert an exclusive anonymous page to a KSM page, and that page is already mapped write-protected (-> no PTE change) would be: Thread 0 (KSM) Thread 1 (GUP-fast) (B1) Read the PTE # (B2) skipped without FOLL_WRITE (A1) Clear PTE smp_mb() (A2) Check pinned (B3) Pin the mapped page smp_mb() (A3) Clear PageAnonExclusive smp_wmb() (A4) Restore PTE (B4) Check if the PTE changed smp_rmb() (B5) Check PageAnonExclusive Thread 1 will properly detect that PageAnonExclusive was cleared and back off. Note that we don't need a memory barrier between checking if the page is pinned and clearing PageAnonExclusive, because stores are not speculated. The possible issues due to reordering are of theoretical nature so far and attempts to reproduce the race failed. Especially the "no PTE change" case isn't the common case, because we'd need an exclusive anonymous page that's mapped R/O and the PTE is clean in KSM code -- and using KSM with page pinning isn't extremely common. Further, the clear+TLB flush we used for now implies a memory barrier. So the problematic missing part should be the missing memory barrier after pinning but before checking if the PTE changed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901083559.67446-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-01 08:35:59 +00:00
/* See page_try_share_anon_rmap(): clear PTE first. */
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
if (anon_exclusive && page_try_share_anon_rmap(page)) {
set_pte_at(mm, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte, entry);
goto out_unlock;
}
if (pte_dirty(entry))
set_page_dirty(page);
mm/autonuma: use can_change_(pte|pmd)_writable() to replace savedwrite commit b191f9b106ea ("mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault") added remembering write permissions using ordinary pte_write() for PROT_NONE mapped pages to avoid write faults when remapping the page !PROT_NONE on NUMA hinting faults. That commit noted: The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse. The tidest was to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex than this approach and the performance was worse. It's not generally safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was discarded. Later, commit 288bc54949fc ("mm/autonuma: let architecture override how the write bit should be stashed in a protnone pte.") introduced a family of savedwrite PTE functions that didn't necessarily improve the whole situation. One confusing thing is that nowadays, if a page is pte_protnone() and pte_savedwrite() then also pte_write() is true. Another source of confusion is that there is only a single pte_mk_savedwrite() call in the kernel. All other write-protection code seems to silently rely on pte_wrprotect(). Ever since PageAnonExclusive was introduced and we started using it in mprotect context via commit 64fe24a3e05e ("mm/mprotect: try avoiding write faults for exclusive anonymous pages when changing protection"), we do have machinery in place to avoid write faults when changing protection, which is exactly what we want to do here. Let's similarly do what ordinary mprotect() does nowadays when upgrading write permissions and reuse can_change_pte_writable() and can_change_pmd_writable() to detect if we can upgrade PTE permissions to be writable. For anonymous pages there should be absolutely no change: if an anonymous page is not exclusive, it could not have been mapped writable -- because only exclusive anonymous pages can be mapped writable. However, there *might* be a change for writable shared mappings that require writenotify: if they are not dirty, we cannot map them writable. While it might not matter in practice, we'd need a different way to identify whether writenotify is actually required -- and ordinary mprotect would benefit from that as well. Note that we don't optimize for the actual migration case: (1) When migration succeeds the new PTE will not be writable because the source PTE was not writable (protnone); in the future we might just optimize that case similarly by reusing can_change_pte_writable()/can_change_pmd_writable() when removing migration PTEs. (2) When migration fails, we'd have to recalculate the "writable" flag because we temporarily dropped the PT lock; for now keep it simple and set "writable=false". We'll remove all savedwrite leftovers next. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221108174652.198904-6-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-08 17:46:50 +00:00
entry = pte_mkclean(entry);
if (pte_write(entry))
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
set_pte_at_notify(mm, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte, entry);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
*orig_pte = entry;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
err = 0;
out_unlock:
page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
out_mn:
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
out:
return err;
}
/**
* replace_page - replace page in vma by new ksm page
* @vma: vma that holds the pte pointing to page
* @page: the page we are replacing by kpage
* @kpage: the ksm page we replace page by
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* @orig_pte: the original value of the pte
*
* Returns 0 on success, -EFAULT on failure.
*/
static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
struct page *kpage, pte_t orig_pte)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
struct folio *folio;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
pmd_t *pmd;
mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage When scanning an anon pmd to see if it's eligible for collapse, return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED if the pmd already maps a hugepage. Note that SCAN_PMD_MAPPED is different from SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND used in the file-collapse path, since the latter might identify pte-mapped compound pages. This is required by MADV_COLLAPSE which necessarily needs to know what hugepage-aligned/sized regions are already pmd-mapped. In order to determine if a pmd already maps a hugepage, refactor mm_find_pmd(): Return mm_find_pmd() to it's pre-commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") behavior. ksm was the only caller that explicitly wanted a pte-mapping pmd, so open code the pte-mapping logic there (pmd_present() and pmd_trans_huge() checks). Undo revert change in commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") that open-coded split_huge_pmd_address() pmd lookup and use mm_find_pmd() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706235936.2197195-9-zokeefe@google.com Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@google.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Souptick Joarder (HPE)" <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-06 23:59:26 +00:00
pmd_t pmde;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
pte_t *ptep;
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
pte_t newpte;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spinlock_t *ptl;
unsigned long addr;
int err = -EFAULT;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
addr = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (addr == -EFAULT)
goto out;
pmd = mm_find_pmd(mm, addr);
if (!pmd)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out;
mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage When scanning an anon pmd to see if it's eligible for collapse, return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED if the pmd already maps a hugepage. Note that SCAN_PMD_MAPPED is different from SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND used in the file-collapse path, since the latter might identify pte-mapped compound pages. This is required by MADV_COLLAPSE which necessarily needs to know what hugepage-aligned/sized regions are already pmd-mapped. In order to determine if a pmd already maps a hugepage, refactor mm_find_pmd(): Return mm_find_pmd() to it's pre-commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") behavior. ksm was the only caller that explicitly wanted a pte-mapping pmd, so open code the pte-mapping logic there (pmd_present() and pmd_trans_huge() checks). Undo revert change in commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") that open-coded split_huge_pmd_address() pmd lookup and use mm_find_pmd() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706235936.2197195-9-zokeefe@google.com Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@google.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Souptick Joarder (HPE)" <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-06 23:59:26 +00:00
/*
* Some THP functions use the sequence pmdp_huge_clear_flush(), set_pmd_at()
* without holding anon_vma lock for write. So when looking for a
* genuine pmde (in which to find pte), test present and !THP together.
*/
mm: use pmdp_get_lockless() without surplus barrier() Patch series "mm: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail", v2. What is it all about? Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e. latency reduction. Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs; but likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g. freeing of empty page tables (but that's not work I'm doing). mmap_write_lock avoidance when collapsing to anon THPs? Perhaps, but again that's not work I've done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case. I would much prefer not to have to make these small but wide-ranging changes for such a niche case; but failed to find another way, and have heard that shmem MADV_COLLAPSE's usefulness is being limited by that mmap_write_lock it currently requires. These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them. What is this preparatory series about? The current mmap locking will not be enough to guard against that tricky transition between pmd entry pointing to page table, and empty pmd entry, and pmd entry pointing to huge page: pte_offset_map() will have to validate the pmd entry for itself, returning NULL if no page table is there. What to do about that varies: sometimes nearby error handling indicates just to skip it; but in many cases an ACTION_AGAIN or "goto again" is appropriate (and if that risks an infinite loop, then there must have been an oops, or pfn 0 mistaken for page table, before). Given the likely extension to freeing empty page tables, I have not limited this set of changes to a THP config; and it has been easier, and sets a better example, if each site is given appropriate handling: even where deeper study might prove that failure could only happen if the pmd table were corrupted. Several of the patches are, or include, cleanup on the way; and by the end, pmd_trans_unstable() and suchlike are deleted: pte_offset_map() and pte_offset_map_lock() then handle those original races and more. Most uses of pte_lockptr() are deprecated, with pte_offset_map_nolock() taking its place. This patch (of 32): Use pmdp_get_lockless() in preference to READ_ONCE(*pmdp), to get a more reliable result with PAE (or READ_ONCE as before without PAE); and remove the unnecessary extra barrier()s which got left behind in its callers. HOWEVER: Note the small print in linux/pgtable.h, where it was designed specifically for fast GUP, and depends on interrupts being disabled for its full guarantee: most callers which have been added (here and before) do NOT have interrupts disabled, so there is still some need for caution. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f35279a9-9ac0-de22-d245-591afbfb4dc@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09 01:06:53 +00:00
pmde = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd);
mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage When scanning an anon pmd to see if it's eligible for collapse, return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED if the pmd already maps a hugepage. Note that SCAN_PMD_MAPPED is different from SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND used in the file-collapse path, since the latter might identify pte-mapped compound pages. This is required by MADV_COLLAPSE which necessarily needs to know what hugepage-aligned/sized regions are already pmd-mapped. In order to determine if a pmd already maps a hugepage, refactor mm_find_pmd(): Return mm_find_pmd() to it's pre-commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") behavior. ksm was the only caller that explicitly wanted a pte-mapping pmd, so open code the pte-mapping logic there (pmd_present() and pmd_trans_huge() checks). Undo revert change in commit f72e7dcdd252 ("mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault") that open-coded split_huge_pmd_address() pmd lookup and use mm_find_pmd() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706235936.2197195-9-zokeefe@google.com Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@google.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Souptick Joarder (HPE)" <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-06 23:59:26 +00:00
if (!pmd_present(pmde) || pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
goto out;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, mm, addr,
mm/mmu_notifier: contextual information for event triggering invalidation CPU page table update can happens for many reasons, not only as a result of a syscall (munmap(), mprotect(), mremap(), madvise(), ...) but also as a result of kernel activities (memory compression, reclaim, migration, ...). Users of mmu notifier API track changes to the CPU page table and take specific action for them. While current API only provide range of virtual address affected by the change, not why the changes is happening. This patchset do the initial mechanical convertion of all the places that calls mmu_notifier_range_init to also provide the default MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP event as well as the vma if it is know (most invalidation happens against a given vma). Passing down the vma allows the users of mmu notifier to inspect the new vma page protection. The MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP is always the safe default as users of mmu notifier should assume that every for the range is going away when that event happens. A latter patch do convert mm call path to use a more appropriate events for each call. This is done as 2 patches so that no call site is forgotten especialy as it uses this following coccinelle patch: %<---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ identifier I1, I2, I3, I4; @@ static inline void mmu_notifier_range_init(struct mmu_notifier_range *I1, +enum mmu_notifier_event event, +unsigned flags, +struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *I2, unsigned long I3, unsigned long I4) { ... } @@ @@ -#define mmu_notifier_range_init(range, mm, start, end) +#define mmu_notifier_range_init(range, event, flags, vma, mm, start, end) @@ expression E1, E3, E4; identifier I1; @@ <... mmu_notifier_range_init(E1, +MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP, 0, I1, I1->vm_mm, E3, E4) ...> @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4; identifier FN, VMA; @@ FN(..., struct vm_area_struct *VMA, ...) { <... mmu_notifier_range_init(E1, +MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP, 0, VMA, E2, E3, E4) ...> } @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4; identifier FN, VMA; @@ FN(...) { struct vm_area_struct *VMA; <... mmu_notifier_range_init(E1, +MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP, 0, VMA, E2, E3, E4) ...> } @@ expression E1, E2, E3, E4; identifier FN; @@ FN(...) { <... mmu_notifier_range_init(E1, +MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP, 0, NULL, E2, E3, E4) ...> } ---------------------------------------------------------------------->% Applied with: spatch --all-includes --sp-file mmu-notifier.spatch fs/proc/task_mmu.c --in-place spatch --sp-file mmu-notifier.spatch --dir kernel/events/ --in-place spatch --sp-file mmu-notifier.spatch --dir mm --in-place Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190326164747.24405-6-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 00:20:49 +00:00
addr + PAGE_SIZE);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
mm/various: give up if pte_offset_map[_lock]() fails Following the examples of nearby code, various functions can just give up if pte_offset_map() or pte_offset_map_lock() fails. And there's no need for a preliminary pmd_trans_unstable() or other such check, since such cases are now safely handled inside. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b9bd85d-1652-cbf2-159d-f503b45e5b@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09 01:29:22 +00:00
if (!ptep)
goto out_mn;
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
if (!pte_same(ptep_get(ptep), orig_pte)) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
goto out_mn;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table entry gets write-protected. With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse anonymous pages that are exclusive. For anonymous pages that might be shared, the existing logic applies. As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in combination with a page table entry. Especially PTE vs. PMD-mapped anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply. Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned. Long story short: once PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page, but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time for a simple PMD mapping of a THP. For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a page table entry". To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle. If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page, that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive. If GUP wants to take a reliably pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped (sub)page. This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully reliable. Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page possibly shared. Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page: * For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to share it. fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and the src_mm->write_protect_seq. * For KSM, this means sharing will fail. For swap this means, unmapping will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early. All three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry. This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up replacing the page instead of reusing it. It improves the situation for O_DIRECT/vmsplice/... that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still problematic. Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP users will fix the issue for them. I. Details about basic handling I.1. Fresh anonymous pages page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1). As that is the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code where we copy the page->mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out as exclusive. I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it simply reuses it. Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused. If exclusive, page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive. Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge pages are a scarce resource. I.3. Migration handling try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and __split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly. Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new "readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages. When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information. I.4. Swapout handling try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via page_try_share_anon_rmap(). If it fails because there are GUP pins on the page, unmap fails. For now, information about exclusivity is lost. In the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store that information in swap entries. I.5. Swapin handling do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that. do_swap_page() always has to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly. I.6. THP handling __split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity from the PMD to the PTEs. a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries. b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit. c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first. In case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split ordinarily. try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is still mapped via PTEs. When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually. I.7. fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types. a) Present anonymous pages page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will fail if the page is pinned. If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a PMD to handle it on the PTE level). Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon() page. fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages. b) Device private entry Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned. page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot fail because they cannot get pinned. c) HW poison entries PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table entry is just a placeholder after all. d) Migration entries Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries: possibly shared. I.8. mprotect() handling mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive migration entry: When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page, remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive" migration entry type. II. Migration and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins and marks the page possibly shared. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization 3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a readable migration entry 4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount) 5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and PTE-mapping a THP. III. Swapout and GUP-fast Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to make the following scenario impossible: 1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and clears exclusivity information on the page. 2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization. -> We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore. If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry, similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would apply. This is future work. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:44 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnonExclusive(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(kpage) && PageAnonExclusive(kpage), kpage);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
/*
* No need to check ksm_use_zero_pages here: we can only have a
* zero_page here if ksm_use_zero_pages was enabled already.
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
*/
if (!is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(kpage))) {
get_page(kpage);
mm/rmap: remove do_page_add_anon_rmap() ... and instead convert page_add_anon_rmap() to accept flags. Passing flags instead of bools is usually nicer either way, and we want to more often also pass RMAP_EXCLUSIVE in follow up patches when detecting that an anonymous page is exclusive: for example, when restoring an anonymous page from a writable migration entry. This is a preparation for marking an anonymous page inside page_add_anon_rmap() as exclusive when RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is passed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-7-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-10 01:20:43 +00:00
page_add_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, RMAP_NONE);
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
newpte = mk_pte(kpage, vma->vm_page_prot);
} else {
ksm: support unsharing KSM-placed zero pages Patch series "ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages", v10. The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM. The motivations to do this is seen at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@zte.com.cn/ In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled. This patch (of 5): When use_zero_pages of ksm is enabled, madvise(addr, len, MADV_UNMERGEABLE) and other ways (like write 2 to /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run) to trigger unsharing will *not* actually unshare the shared zeropage as placed by KSM (which is against the MADV_UNMERGEABLE documentation). As these KSM-placed zero pages are out of the control of KSM, the related counts of ksm pages don't expose how many zero pages are placed by KSM (these special zero pages are different from those initially mapped zero pages, because the zero pages mapped to MADV_UNMERGEABLE areas are expected to be a complete and unshared page). To not blindly unshare all shared zero_pages in applicable VMAs, the patch use pte_mkdirty (related with architecture) to mark KSM-placed zero pages. Thus, MADV_UNMERGEABLE will only unshare those KSM-placed zero pages. In addition, we'll reuse this mechanism to reliably identify KSM-placed ZeroPages to properly account for them (e.g., calculating the KSM profit that includes zeropages) in the latter patches. The patch will not degrade the performance of use_zero_pages as it doesn't change the way of merging empty pages in use_zero_pages's feature. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202306131104554703428@zte.com.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030928.185882-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-13 03:09:28 +00:00
/*
* Use pte_mkdirty to mark the zero page mapped by KSM, and then
* we can easily track all KSM-placed zero pages by checking if
* the dirty bit in zero page's PTE is set.
*/
newpte = pte_mkdirty(pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage), vma->vm_page_prot)));
ksm_zero_pages++;
mm->ksm_zero_pages++;
/*
* We're replacing an anonymous page with a zero page, which is
* not anonymous. We need to do proper accounting otherwise we
* will get wrong values in /proc, and a BUG message in dmesg
* when tearing down the mm.
*/
dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mm: ptep_get() conversion Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-12 15:15:45 +00:00
flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(ptep_get(ptep)));
mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ... and it is an optimization for those users. Everyone else is unaffected by it. When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range). But that notification is not necessary in all cases. This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end. It also adds documentation in all those cases explaining why. Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this: For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page table to access a process virtual address space). There is only 2 cases when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table lock when clearing a pte/pmd: A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault on zero page, __replace_page(), ...) Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write to a page that might now be used by something completely different. Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence to happen: - take page table lock - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify()) - set page table entry to point to new page If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for the device. Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/ PASID): Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too). [Time N] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {try to write to addrA} CPU-thread-1 {try to write to addrB} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA and populate device TLB} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB and populate device TLB} [Time N+1] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+2] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {write to addrA which is a write to new page} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {write to addrB which is a write to new page} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+4] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+5] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA from old page} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB from new page} So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value for addrB before seing the new value for addrA. This break total memory ordering for the device. When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock. This is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right after releasing page table lock before calling mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW. [jglisse@redhat.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16 01:34:07 +00:00
/*
* No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
* read only page with the same content.
*
* See Documentation/mm/mmu_notifier.rst
mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ... and it is an optimization for those users. Everyone else is unaffected by it. When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range). But that notification is not necessary in all cases. This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end. It also adds documentation in all those cases explaining why. Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this: For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page table to access a process virtual address space). There is only 2 cases when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table lock when clearing a pte/pmd: A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault on zero page, __replace_page(), ...) Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write to a page that might now be used by something completely different. Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence to happen: - take page table lock - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify()) - set page table entry to point to new page If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for the device. Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/ PASID): Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too). [Time N] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {try to write to addrA} CPU-thread-1 {try to write to addrB} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA and populate device TLB} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB and populate device TLB} [Time N+1] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+2] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {write to addrA which is a write to new page} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+3] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {preempted} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {write to addrB which is a write to new page} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+4] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {} DEV-thread-2 {} [Time N+5] --------------------------------------------------------------- CPU-thread-0 {preempted} CPU-thread-1 {} CPU-thread-2 {} CPU-thread-3 {} DEV-thread-0 {read addrA from old page} DEV-thread-2 {read addrB from new page} So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value for addrB before seing the new value for addrA. This break total memory ordering for the device. When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock. This is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right after releasing page table lock before calling mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW. [jglisse@redhat.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16 01:34:07 +00:00
*/
ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, newpte);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
folio = page_folio(page);
mm/munlock: rmap call mlock_vma_page() munlock_vma_page() Add vma argument to mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page(), make them inline functions which check (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) before calling mlock_page() and munlock_page() in mm/mlock.c. Add bool compound to mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page(): this is because we have understandable difficulty in accounting pte maps of THPs, and if passed a PageHead page, mlock_page() and munlock_page() cannot tell whether it's a pmd map to be counted or a pte map to be ignored. Add vma arg to page_add_file_rmap() and page_remove_rmap(), like the others, and use that to call mlock_vma_page() at the end of the page adds, and munlock_vma_page() at the end of page_remove_rmap() (end or beginning? unimportant, but end was easier for assertions in testing). No page lock is required (although almost all adds happen to hold it): delete the "Serialize with page migration" BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page))s. Certainly page lock did serialize with page migration, but I'm having difficulty explaining why that was ever important. Mlock accounting on THPs has been hard to define, differed between anon and file, involved PageDoubleMap in some places and not others, required clear_page_mlock() at some points. Keep it simple now: just count the pmds and ignore the ptes, there is no reason for ptes to undo pmd mlocks. page_add_new_anon_rmap() callers unchanged: they have long been calling lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable(), which does its own VM_LOCKED handling (it also checks for not VM_SPECIAL: I think that's overcautious, and inconsistent with other checks, that mmap_region() already prevents VM_LOCKED on VM_SPECIAL; but haven't quite convinced myself to change it). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-02-15 02:26:39 +00:00
page_remove_rmap(page, vma, false);
if (!folio_mapped(folio))
folio_free_swap(folio);
folio_put(folio);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
err = 0;
out_mn:
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
out:
return err;
}
/*
* try_to_merge_one_page - take two pages and merge them into one
* @vma: the vma that holds the pte pointing to page
* @page: the PageAnon page that we want to replace with kpage
* @kpage: the PageKsm page that we want to map instead of page,
* or NULL the first time when we want to use page as kpage.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*
* This function returns 0 if the pages were merged, -EFAULT otherwise.
*/
static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page *page, struct page *kpage)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
pte_t orig_pte = __pte(0);
int err = -EFAULT;
if (page == kpage) /* ksm page forked */
return 0;
if (!PageAnon(page))
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto out;
/*
* We need the page lock to read a stable PageSwapCache in
* write_protect_page(). We use trylock_page() instead of
* lock_page() because we don't want to wait here - we
* prefer to continue scanning and merging different pages,
* then come back to this page when it is unlocked.
*/
if (!trylock_page(page))
goto out;
if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails "err" needs to be left set to -EFAULT if split_huge_page succeeds. Otherwise if "err" gets clobbered with zero and write_protect_page fails, try_to_merge_one_page() will succeed instead of returning -EFAULT and then try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() will continue thinking kpage is a PageKsm when in fact it's still an anonymous page. Eventually it'll crash in page_add_anon_rmap. This has been reproduced on Fedora25 kernel but I can reproduce with upstream too. The bug was introduced in commit f765f540598a ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics") introduced in v4.5. page:fffff67546ce1cc0 count:4 mapcount:2 mapping:ffffa094551e36e1 index:0x7f0f46673 flags: 0x2ffffc0004007c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|swapbacked) page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page)) page->mem_cgroup:ffffa09674bf0000 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1222! CPU: 1 PID: 76 Comm: ksmd Not tainted 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 #1 RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1c4/0x240 Call Trace: page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20 try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x50b/0x780 ksm_scan_thread+0x1211/0x1410 ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100 ? try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x780/0x780 kthread+0xd9/0xf0 ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 Fixes: f765f54059 ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170513131040.21732-1-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-02 21:46:11 +00:00
if (split_huge_page(page))
goto out_unlock;
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* If this anonymous page is mapped only here, its pte may need
* to be write-protected. If it's mapped elsewhere, all of its
* ptes are necessarily already write-protected. But in either
* case, we need to lock and check page_count is not raised.
*/
if (write_protect_page(vma, page, &orig_pte) == 0) {
if (!kpage) {
/*
* While we hold page lock, upgrade page from
* PageAnon+anon_vma to PageKsm+NULL stable_node:
* stable_tree_insert() will update stable_node.
*/
set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
mark_page_accessed(page);
mm/ksm.c: mark stable page dirty The MADV_FREE patchset changes page reclaim to simply free a clean anonymous page with no dirty ptes, instead of swapping it out; but KSM uses clean write-protected ptes to reference the stable ksm page. So be sure to mark that page dirty, so it's never mistakenly discarded. [hughd@google.com: adjusted comments] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-16 00:55:15 +00:00
/*
* Page reclaim just frees a clean page with no dirty
* ptes: make sure that the ksm page would be swapped.
*/
if (!PageDirty(page))
SetPageDirty(page);
err = 0;
} else if (pages_identical(page, kpage))
err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
out_unlock:
unlock_page(page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
out:
return err;
}
/*
* try_to_merge_with_ksm_page - like try_to_merge_two_pages,
* but no new kernel page is allocated: kpage must already be a ksm page.
*
* This function returns 0 if the pages were merged, -EFAULT otherwise.
*/
static int try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item,
struct page *page, struct page *kpage)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int err = -EFAULT;
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
if (!vma)
goto out;
err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page, kpage);
if (err)
goto out;
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/* Unstable nid is in union with stable anon_vma: remove first */
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
/* Must get reference to anon_vma while still holding mmap_lock */
rmap_item->anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
get_anon_vma(vma->anon_vma);
out:
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mmap_read_unlock(mm);
trace_ksm_merge_with_ksm_page(kpage, page_to_pfn(kpage ? kpage : page),
rmap_item, mm, err);
return err;
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* try_to_merge_two_pages - take two identical pages and prepare them
* to be merged into one page.
*
* This function returns the kpage if we successfully merged two identical
* pages into one ksm page, NULL otherwise.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*
* Note that this function upgrades page to ksm page: if one of the pages
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* is already a ksm page, try_to_merge_with_ksm_page should be used.
*/
static struct page *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item,
struct page *page,
struct ksm_rmap_item *tree_rmap_item,
struct page *tree_page)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
int err;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, NULL);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!err) {
err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(tree_rmap_item,
tree_page, page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* If that fails, we have a ksm page with only one pte
* pointing to it: so break it.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (err)
break_cow(rmap_item);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
return err ? NULL : page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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static __always_inline
bool __is_page_sharing_candidate(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, int offset)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
VM_BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len < 0);
/*
* Check that at least one mapping still exists, otherwise
* there's no much point to merge and share with this
* stable_node, as the underlying tree_page of the other
* sharer is going to be freed soon.
*/
return stable_node->rmap_hlist_len &&
stable_node->rmap_hlist_len + offset < ksm_max_page_sharing;
}
static __always_inline
bool is_page_sharing_candidate(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
return __is_page_sharing_candidate(stable_node, 0);
}
static struct page *stable_node_dup(struct ksm_stable_node **_stable_node_dup,
struct ksm_stable_node **_stable_node,
struct rb_root *root,
bool prune_stale_stable_nodes)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
struct ksm_stable_node *dup, *found = NULL, *stable_node = *_stable_node;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
struct hlist_node *hlist_safe;
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
struct page *_tree_page, *tree_page = NULL;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
int nr = 0;
int found_rmap_hlist_len;
if (!prune_stale_stable_nodes ||
time_before(jiffies, stable_node->chain_prune_time +
msecs_to_jiffies(
ksm_stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs)))
prune_stale_stable_nodes = false;
else
stable_node->chain_prune_time = jiffies;
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(dup, hlist_safe,
&stable_node->hlist, hlist_dup) {
cond_resched();
/*
* We must walk all stable_node_dup to prune the stale
* stable nodes during lookup.
*
* get_ksm_page can drop the nodes from the
* stable_node->hlist if they point to freed pages
* (that's why we do a _safe walk). The "dup"
* stable_node parameter itself will be freed from
* under us if it returns NULL.
*/
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
_tree_page = get_ksm_page(dup, GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (!_tree_page)
continue;
nr += 1;
if (is_page_sharing_candidate(dup)) {
if (!found ||
dup->rmap_hlist_len > found_rmap_hlist_len) {
if (found)
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
found = dup;
found_rmap_hlist_len = found->rmap_hlist_len;
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
tree_page = _tree_page;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
/* skip put_page for found dup */
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (!prune_stale_stable_nodes)
break;
continue;
}
}
put_page(_tree_page);
}
ksm: optimize refile of stable_node_dup at the head of the chain If a candidate stable_node_dup has been found and it can accept further merges it can be refiled to the head of the list to speedup next searches without altering which dup is found and how the dups accumulate in the chain. We already refiled it back to the head in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, but we didn't refile it if not pruning (which is more common). And we also refiled it when it was already at the head which is unnecessary (in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, nr > 1 means there's more than one dup in the chain, it doesn't mean it's not already at the head of the chain). The stable_node_chain list is single threaded and there's no SMP locking contention so it should be faster to refile it to the head of the list also if prune_stale_stable_nodes is false. Profiling shows the refile happens 1.9% of the time when a dup is found with a max_page_sharing limit setting of 3 (with max_page_sharing of 2 the refile never happens of course as there's never space for one more merge) which is reasonably low. At higher max_page_sharing values it should be much less frequent. This is just an optimization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-4-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:08 +00:00
if (found) {
/*
* nr is counting all dups in the chain only if
* prune_stale_stable_nodes is true, otherwise we may
* break the loop at nr == 1 even if there are
* multiple entries.
*/
if (prune_stale_stable_nodes && nr == 1) {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* If there's not just one entry it would
* corrupt memory, better BUG_ON. In KSM
* context with no lock held it's not even
* fatal.
*/
BUG_ON(stable_node->hlist.first->next);
/*
* There's just one entry and it is below the
* deduplication limit so drop the chain.
*/
rb_replace_node(&stable_node->node, &found->node,
root);
free_stable_node(stable_node);
ksm_stable_node_chains--;
ksm_stable_node_dups--;
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
/*
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
* NOTE: the caller depends on the stable_node
* to be equal to stable_node_dup if the chain
* was collapsed.
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
*/
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
*_stable_node = found;
/*
* Just for robustness, as stable_node is
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* otherwise left as a stable pointer, the
* compiler shall optimize it away at build
* time.
*/
stable_node = NULL;
ksm: optimize refile of stable_node_dup at the head of the chain If a candidate stable_node_dup has been found and it can accept further merges it can be refiled to the head of the list to speedup next searches without altering which dup is found and how the dups accumulate in the chain. We already refiled it back to the head in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, but we didn't refile it if not pruning (which is more common). And we also refiled it when it was already at the head which is unnecessary (in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, nr > 1 means there's more than one dup in the chain, it doesn't mean it's not already at the head of the chain). The stable_node_chain list is single threaded and there's no SMP locking contention so it should be faster to refile it to the head of the list also if prune_stale_stable_nodes is false. Profiling shows the refile happens 1.9% of the time when a dup is found with a max_page_sharing limit setting of 3 (with max_page_sharing of 2 the refile never happens of course as there's never space for one more merge) which is reasonably low. At higher max_page_sharing values it should be much less frequent. This is just an optimization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-4-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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} else if (stable_node->hlist.first != &found->hlist_dup &&
__is_page_sharing_candidate(found, 1)) {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
ksm: optimize refile of stable_node_dup at the head of the chain If a candidate stable_node_dup has been found and it can accept further merges it can be refiled to the head of the list to speedup next searches without altering which dup is found and how the dups accumulate in the chain. We already refiled it back to the head in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, but we didn't refile it if not pruning (which is more common). And we also refiled it when it was already at the head which is unnecessary (in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, nr > 1 means there's more than one dup in the chain, it doesn't mean it's not already at the head of the chain). The stable_node_chain list is single threaded and there's no SMP locking contention so it should be faster to refile it to the head of the list also if prune_stale_stable_nodes is false. Profiling shows the refile happens 1.9% of the time when a dup is found with a max_page_sharing limit setting of 3 (with max_page_sharing of 2 the refile never happens of course as there's never space for one more merge) which is reasonably low. At higher max_page_sharing values it should be much less frequent. This is just an optimization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-4-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:08 +00:00
* If the found stable_node dup can accept one
* more future merge (in addition to the one
* that is underway) and is not at the head of
* the chain, put it there so next search will
* be quicker in the !prune_stale_stable_nodes
* case.
*
* NOTE: it would be inaccurate to use nr > 1
* instead of checking the hlist.first pointer
* directly, because in the
* prune_stale_stable_nodes case "nr" isn't
* the position of the found dup in the chain,
* but the total number of dups in the chain.
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
hlist_del(&found->hlist_dup);
hlist_add_head(&found->hlist_dup,
&stable_node->hlist);
}
}
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*_stable_node_dup = found;
return tree_page;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
static struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node_dup_any(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct rb_root *root)
{
if (!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node))
return stable_node;
if (hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist)) {
free_stable_node_chain(stable_node, root);
return NULL;
}
return hlist_entry(stable_node->hlist.first,
typeof(*stable_node), hlist_dup);
}
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* Like for get_ksm_page, this function can free the *_stable_node and
* *_stable_node_dup if the returned tree_page is NULL.
*
* It can also free and overwrite *_stable_node with the found
* stable_node_dup if the chain is collapsed (in which case
* *_stable_node will be equal to *_stable_node_dup like if the chain
* never existed). It's up to the caller to verify tree_page is not
* NULL before dereferencing *_stable_node or *_stable_node_dup.
*
* *_stable_node_dup is really a second output parameter of this
* function and will be overwritten in all cases, the caller doesn't
* need to initialize it.
*/
static struct page *__stable_node_chain(struct ksm_stable_node **_stable_node_dup,
struct ksm_stable_node **_stable_node,
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
struct rb_root *root,
bool prune_stale_stable_nodes)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node = *_stable_node;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node)) {
if (is_page_sharing_candidate(stable_node)) {
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
*_stable_node_dup = stable_node;
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
return get_ksm_page(stable_node, GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* _stable_node_dup set to NULL means the stable_node
* reached the ksm_max_page_sharing limit.
*/
*_stable_node_dup = NULL;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return NULL;
}
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return stable_node_dup(_stable_node_dup, _stable_node, root,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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prune_stale_stable_nodes);
}
static __always_inline struct page *chain_prune(struct ksm_stable_node **s_n_d,
struct ksm_stable_node **s_n,
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct rb_root *root)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return __stable_node_chain(s_n_d, s_n, root, true);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
static __always_inline struct page *chain(struct ksm_stable_node **s_n_d,
struct ksm_stable_node *s_n,
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct rb_root *root)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
struct ksm_stable_node *old_stable_node = s_n;
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct page *tree_page;
tree_page = __stable_node_chain(s_n_d, &s_n, root, false);
/* not pruning dups so s_n cannot have changed */
VM_BUG_ON(s_n != old_stable_node);
return tree_page;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* stable_tree_search - search for page inside the stable tree
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*
* This function checks if there is a page inside the stable tree
* with identical content to the page that we are scanning right now.
*
* This function returns the stable tree node of identical content if found,
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* NULL otherwise.
*/
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
static struct page *stable_tree_search(struct page *page)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
int nid;
struct rb_root *root;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
struct rb_node **new;
struct rb_node *parent;
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *stable_node_dup, *stable_node_any;
struct ksm_stable_node *page_node;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
page_node = page_stable_node(page);
if (page_node && page_node->head != &migrate_nodes) {
/* ksm page forked */
get_page(page);
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
return page;
}
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
nid = get_kpfn_nid(page_to_pfn(page));
root = root_stable_tree + nid;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
again:
new = &root->rb_node;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
parent = NULL;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
while (*new) {
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
struct page *tree_page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int ret;
cond_resched();
stable_node = rb_entry(*new, struct ksm_stable_node, node);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_node_any = NULL;
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
tree_page = chain_prune(&stable_node_dup, &stable_node, root);
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
/*
* NOTE: stable_node may have been freed by
* chain_prune() if the returned stable_node_dup is
* not NULL. stable_node_dup may have been inserted in
* the rbtree instead as a regular stable_node (in
* order to collapse the stable_node chain if a single
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
* stable_node dup was found in it). In such case the
* stable_node is overwritten by the callee to point
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
* to the stable_node_dup that was collapsed in the
* stable rbtree and stable_node will be equal to
* stable_node_dup like if the chain never existed.
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
*/
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (!stable_node_dup) {
/*
* Either all stable_node dups were full in
* this stable_node chain, or this chain was
* empty and should be rb_erased.
*/
stable_node_any = stable_node_dup_any(stable_node,
root);
if (!stable_node_any) {
/* rb_erase just run */
goto again;
}
/*
* Take any of the stable_node dups page of
* this stable_node chain to let the tree walk
* continue. All KSM pages belonging to the
* stable_node dups in a stable_node chain
* have the same content and they're
* write protected at all times. Any will work
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
* fine to continue the walk.
*/
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node_any,
GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
VM_BUG_ON(!stable_node_dup ^ !!stable_node_any);
if (!tree_page) {
/*
* If we walked over a stale stable_node,
* get_ksm_page() will call rb_erase() and it
* may rebalance the tree from under us. So
* restart the search from scratch. Returning
* NULL would be safe too, but we'd generate
* false negative insertions just because some
* stable_node was stale.
*/
goto again;
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page);
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
parent = *new;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
if (ret < 0)
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
new = &parent->rb_left;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
else if (ret > 0)
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
new = &parent->rb_right;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
else {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (page_node) {
VM_BUG_ON(page_node->head != &migrate_nodes);
/*
* Test if the migrated page should be merged
* into a stable node dup. If the mapcount is
* 1 we can migrate it with another KSM page
* without adding it to the chain.
*/
if (page_mapcount(page) > 1)
goto chain_append;
}
if (!stable_node_dup) {
/*
* If the stable_node is a chain and
* we got a payload match in memcmp
* but we cannot merge the scanned
* page in any of the existing
* stable_node dups because they're
* all full, we need to wait the
* scanned page to find itself a match
* in the unstable tree to create a
* brand new KSM page to add later to
* the dups of this stable_node.
*/
return NULL;
}
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
/*
* Lock and unlock the stable_node's page (which
* might already have been migrated) so that page
* migration is sure to notice its raised count.
* It would be more elegant to return stable_node
* than kpage, but that involves more changes.
*/
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node_dup,
GET_KSM_PAGE_TRYLOCK);
if (PTR_ERR(tree_page) == -EBUSY)
return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (unlikely(!tree_page))
/*
* The tree may have been rebalanced,
* so re-evaluate parent and new.
*/
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
goto again;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
unlock_page(tree_page);
if (get_kpfn_nid(stable_node_dup->kpfn) !=
NUMA(stable_node_dup->nid)) {
put_page(tree_page);
goto replace;
}
return tree_page;
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
if (!page_node)
return NULL;
list_del(&page_node->list);
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
rb_link_node(&page_node->node, parent, new);
rb_insert_color(&page_node->node, root);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
out:
if (is_page_sharing_candidate(page_node)) {
get_page(page);
return page;
} else
return NULL;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
replace:
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
/*
* If stable_node was a chain and chain_prune collapsed it,
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
* stable_node has been updated to be the new regular
* stable_node. A collapse of the chain is indistinguishable
* from the case there was no chain in the stable
* rbtree. Otherwise stable_node is the chain and
* stable_node_dup is the dup to replace.
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
if (stable_node_dup == stable_node) {
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_chain(stable_node_dup));
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_dup(stable_node_dup));
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/* there is no chain */
if (page_node) {
VM_BUG_ON(page_node->head != &migrate_nodes);
list_del(&page_node->list);
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
rb_replace_node(&stable_node_dup->node,
&page_node->node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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root);
if (is_page_sharing_candidate(page_node))
get_page(page);
else
page = NULL;
} else {
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rb_erase(&stable_node_dup->node, root);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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page = NULL;
}
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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} else {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node));
__stable_node_dup_del(stable_node_dup);
if (page_node) {
VM_BUG_ON(page_node->head != &migrate_nodes);
list_del(&page_node->list);
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node);
if (is_page_sharing_candidate(page_node))
get_page(page);
else
page = NULL;
} else {
page = NULL;
}
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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stable_node_dup->head = &migrate_nodes;
list_add(&stable_node_dup->list, stable_node_dup->head);
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return page;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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chain_append:
/* stable_node_dup could be null if it reached the limit */
if (!stable_node_dup)
stable_node_dup = stable_node_any;
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* If stable_node was a chain and chain_prune collapsed it,
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
* stable_node has been updated to be the new regular
* stable_node. A collapse of the chain is indistinguishable
* from the case there was no chain in the stable
* rbtree. Otherwise stable_node is the chain and
* stable_node_dup is the dup to replace.
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*/
ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case Patch series "KSMscale cleanup/optimizations". There are no fixes here it's just minor cleanups and optimizations. 1/3 removes makes the "fix" for the stale stable_node fall in the standard case without introducing new cases. Setting stable_node to NULL was marginally safer, but stale pointer is still wiped from the caller, this looks cleaner. 2/3 should fix the false positive from Dan's static checker. 3/3 is a microoptimization to apply the the refile of future merge candidate dups at the head of the chain in all cases and to skip it in one case where we did it and but it was a noop (to avoid checking if it was already at the head but now we've to check it anyway so it got optimized away). This patch (of 3): When the stable_node chain is collapsed we can as well set the caller stable_node to match the returned stable_node_dup in chain_prune(). This way the collapse case becomes indistinguishable from the regular stable_node case and we can remove two branches from the KSM page migration handling slow paths. While it was all correct this looks cleaner (and faster) as the caller has to deal with fewer special cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:02 +00:00
if (stable_node_dup == stable_node) {
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_dup(stable_node_dup));
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/* chain is missing so create it */
stable_node = alloc_stable_node_chain(stable_node_dup,
root);
if (!stable_node)
return NULL;
}
/*
* Add this stable_node dup that was
* migrated to the stable_node chain
* of the current nid for this page
* content.
*/
ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 If merge_across_nodes was manually set to 0 (not the default value) by the admin or a tuned profile on NUMA systems triggering cross-NODE page migrations, a stable_node use after free could materialize. If the chain is collapsed stable_node would point to the old chain that was already freed. stable_node_dup would be the stable_node dup now converted to a regular stable_node and indexed in the rbtree in replacement of the freed stable_node chain (not anymore a dup). This special case where the chain is collapsed in the NUMA replacement path, is now detected by setting stable_node to NULL by the chain_prune callee if it decides to collapse the chain. This tells the NUMA replacement code that even if stable_node and stable_node_dup are different, this is not a chain if stable_node is NULL, as the stable_node_dup was converted to a regular stable_node and the chain was collapsed. It is generally safer for the callee to force the caller stable_node to NULL the moment it become stale so any other mistake like this would result in an instant Oops easier to debug than an use after free. Otherwise the replace logic would act like if stable_node was a valid chain, when in fact it was freed. Notably stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node) would run on a stable stable_node. Andrey Ryabinin found the source of the use after free in chain_prune(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512193805.8807-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:59 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_dup(stable_node_dup));
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
VM_BUG_ON(page_node->head != &migrate_nodes);
list_del(&page_node->list);
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
stable_node_chain_add_dup(page_node, stable_node);
goto out;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
/*
* stable_tree_insert - insert stable tree node pointing to new ksm page
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* into the stable tree.
*
* This function returns the stable tree node just allocated on success,
* NULL otherwise.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
static struct ksm_stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct page *kpage)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
int nid;
unsigned long kpfn;
struct rb_root *root;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
struct rb_node **new;
struct rb_node *parent;
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *stable_node_dup, *stable_node_any;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
bool need_chain = false;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
kpfn = page_to_pfn(kpage);
nid = get_kpfn_nid(kpfn);
root = root_stable_tree + nid;
again:
parent = NULL;
new = &root->rb_node;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
while (*new) {
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
struct page *tree_page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int ret;
cond_resched();
stable_node = rb_entry(*new, struct ksm_stable_node, node);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_node_any = NULL;
ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune Some static checker complains if chain/chain_prune returns a potentially stale pointer. There are two output parameters to chain/chain_prune, one is tree_page the other is stable_node_dup. Like in get_ksm_page the caller has to check tree_page is NULL before touching the stable_node. Similarly in chain/chain_prune the caller has to check tree_page before touching the stable_node_dup returned or the original stable_node passed as parameter. Because the tree_page is never returned as a stale pointer, it may be more intuitive to return tree_page and to pass stable_node_dup for reference instead of the reverse. This patch purely swaps the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune as a cleanup for the static checker and to mimic the get_ksm_page behavior more closely. There's no change to the caller at all except the swap, it's purely a cleanup and it is a noop from the caller point of view. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-3-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:37:05 +00:00
tree_page = chain(&stable_node_dup, stable_node, root);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (!stable_node_dup) {
/*
* Either all stable_node dups were full in
* this stable_node chain, or this chain was
* empty and should be rb_erased.
*/
stable_node_any = stable_node_dup_any(stable_node,
root);
if (!stable_node_any) {
/* rb_erase just run */
goto again;
}
/*
* Take any of the stable_node dups page of
* this stable_node chain to let the tree walk
* continue. All KSM pages belonging to the
* stable_node dups in a stable_node chain
* have the same content and they're
* write protected at all times. Any will work
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
* fine to continue the walk.
*/
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node_any,
GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
VM_BUG_ON(!stable_node_dup ^ !!stable_node_any);
if (!tree_page) {
/*
* If we walked over a stale stable_node,
* get_ksm_page() will call rb_erase() and it
* may rebalance the tree from under us. So
* restart the search from scratch. Returning
* NULL would be safe too, but we'd generate
* false negative insertions just because some
* stable_node was stale.
*/
goto again;
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
ret = memcmp_pages(kpage, tree_page);
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
parent = *new;
if (ret < 0)
new = &parent->rb_left;
else if (ret > 0)
new = &parent->rb_right;
else {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
need_chain = true;
break;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
}
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_node_dup = alloc_stable_node();
if (!stable_node_dup)
return NULL;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&stable_node_dup->hlist);
stable_node_dup->kpfn = kpfn;
set_page_stable_node(kpage, stable_node_dup);
stable_node_dup->rmap_hlist_len = 0;
DO_NUMA(stable_node_dup->nid = nid);
if (!need_chain) {
rb_link_node(&stable_node_dup->node, parent, new);
rb_insert_color(&stable_node_dup->node, root);
} else {
if (!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node)) {
struct ksm_stable_node *orig = stable_node;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/* chain is missing so create it */
stable_node = alloc_stable_node_chain(orig, root);
if (!stable_node) {
free_stable_node(stable_node_dup);
return NULL;
}
}
stable_node_chain_add_dup(stable_node_dup, stable_node);
}
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
return stable_node_dup;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
/*
* unstable_tree_search_insert - search for identical page,
* else insert rmap_item into the unstable tree.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*
* This function searches for a page in the unstable tree identical to the
* page currently being scanned; and if no identical page is found in the
* tree, we insert rmap_item as a new object into the unstable tree.
*
* This function returns pointer to rmap_item found to be identical
* to the currently scanned page, NULL otherwise.
*
* This function does both searching and inserting, because they share
* the same walking algorithm in an rbtree.
*/
static
struct ksm_rmap_item *unstable_tree_search_insert(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item,
struct page *page,
struct page **tree_pagep)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
struct rb_node **new;
struct rb_root *root;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
int nid;
nid = get_kpfn_nid(page_to_pfn(page));
root = root_unstable_tree + nid;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
new = &root->rb_node;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
while (*new) {
struct ksm_rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
struct page *tree_page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int ret;
cond_resched();
tree_rmap_item = rb_entry(*new, struct ksm_rmap_item, node);
tree_page = get_mergeable_page(tree_rmap_item);
if (!tree_page)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return NULL;
/*
* Don't substitute a ksm page for a forked page.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
if (page == tree_page) {
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return NULL;
}
ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
parent = *new;
if (ret < 0) {
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
new = &parent->rb_left;
} else if (ret > 0) {
put_page(tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
new = &parent->rb_right;
} else if (!ksm_merge_across_nodes &&
page_to_nid(tree_page) != nid) {
/*
* If tree_page has been migrated to another NUMA node,
* it will be flushed out and put in the right unstable
* tree next time: only merge with it when across_nodes.
*/
put_page(tree_page);
return NULL;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
} else {
*tree_pagep = tree_page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return tree_rmap_item;
}
}
rmap_item->address |= UNSTABLE_FLAG;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
rmap_item->address |= (ksm_scan.seqnr & SEQNR_MASK);
DO_NUMA(rmap_item->nid = nid);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
rb_link_node(&rmap_item->node, parent, new);
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
rb_insert_color(&rmap_item->node, root);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_pages_unshared++;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return NULL;
}
/*
* stable_tree_append - add another rmap_item to the linked list of
* rmap_items hanging off a given node of the stable tree, all sharing
* the same ksm page.
*/
static void stable_tree_append(struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item,
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
bool max_page_sharing_bypass)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
/*
* rmap won't find this mapping if we don't insert the
* rmap_item in the right stable_node
* duplicate. page_migration could break later if rmap breaks,
* so we can as well crash here. We really need to check for
* rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN, but we can as well check
* for other negative values as an underflow if detected here
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
* for the first time (and not when decreasing rmap_hlist_len)
* would be sign of memory corruption in the stable_node.
*/
BUG_ON(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len < 0);
stable_node->rmap_hlist_len++;
if (!max_page_sharing_bypass)
/* possibly non fatal but unexpected overflow, only warn */
WARN_ON_ONCE(stable_node->rmap_hlist_len >
ksm_max_page_sharing);
rmap_item->head = stable_node;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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rmap_item->address |= STABLE_FLAG;
hlist_add_head(&rmap_item->hlist, &stable_node->hlist);
if (rmap_item->hlist.next)
ksm_pages_sharing++;
else
ksm_pages_shared++;
ksm: count ksm merging pages for each process Some applications or containers want to use KSM by calling madvise() to advise areas of address space to be MERGEABLE. But they may not know which applications are more likely to cause real merges in the deployment. If this patch is applied, it helps them know their corresponding number of merged pages, and then optimize their app code. As current KSM only counts the number of KSM merging pages(e.g. ksm_pages_sharing and ksm_pages_shared) of the whole system, we cannot see the more fine-grained KSM merging, for the upper application optimization, the merging area cannot be set easily according to the KSM page merging probability of each process. Therefore, it is necessary to add extra statistical means so that the upper level users can know the detailed KSM merging information of each process. We add a new proc file named as ksm_merging_pages under /proc/<pid>/ to indicate the involved ksm merging pages of this process. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, remove BUG_ON()s] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325082318.2352853-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@samsung.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-29 06:16:16 +00:00
rmap_item->mm->ksm_merging_pages++;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
/*
* cmp_and_merge_page - first see if page can be merged into the stable tree;
* if not, compare checksum to previous and if it's the same, see if page can
* be inserted into the unstable tree, or merged with a page already there and
* both transferred to the stable tree.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*
* @page: the page that we are searching identical page to.
* @rmap_item: the reverse mapping into the virtual address of this page
*/
static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
struct ksm_rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
struct page *tree_page = NULL;
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node;
struct page *kpage;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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unsigned int checksum;
int err;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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bool max_page_sharing_bypass = false;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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stable_node = page_stable_node(page);
if (stable_node) {
if (stable_node->head != &migrate_nodes &&
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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get_kpfn_nid(READ_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn)) !=
NUMA(stable_node->nid)) {
stable_node_dup_del(stable_node);
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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stable_node->head = &migrate_nodes;
list_add(&stable_node->list, stable_node->head);
}
if (stable_node->head != &migrate_nodes &&
rmap_item->head == stable_node)
return;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* If it's a KSM fork, allow it to go over the sharing limit
* without warnings.
*/
if (!is_page_sharing_candidate(stable_node))
max_page_sharing_bypass = true;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* We first start with searching the page inside the stable tree */
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
kpage = stable_tree_search(page);
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
if (kpage == page && rmap_item->head == stable_node) {
put_page(kpage);
return;
}
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
if (kpage) {
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 23:48:12 +00:00
if (PTR_ERR(kpage) == -EBUSY)
return;
err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, kpage);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!err) {
/*
* The page was successfully merged:
* add its rmap_item to the stable tree.
*/
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
lock_page(kpage);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_tree_append(rmap_item, page_stable_node(kpage),
max_page_sharing_bypass);
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
unlock_page(kpage);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
put_page(kpage);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return;
}
/*
ksm: take keyhole reference to page There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity. But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does it actually need to raise the reference count of that page? No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways according to particular rules. Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node). This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user of a struct page to put something which looks like the original stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives. There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page-> mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers, since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone. The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping. Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page(). But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3 (matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page-> mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case - already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
* If the hash value of the page has changed from the last time
* we calculated it, this page is changing frequently: therefore we
* don't want to insert it in the unstable tree, and we don't want
* to waste our time searching for something identical to it there.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
checksum = calc_checksum(page);
if (rmap_item->oldchecksum != checksum) {
rmap_item->oldchecksum = checksum;
return;
}
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
/*
* Same checksum as an empty page. We attempt to merge it with the
* appropriate zero page if the user enabled this via sysfs.
*/
if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
mm/ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference when KSM zero page is enabled find_mergeable_vma() can return NULL. In this case, it leads to a crash when we access vm_mm(its offset is 0x40) later in write_protect_page. And this case did happen on our server. The following call trace is captured in kernel 4.19 with the following patch applied and KSM zero page enabled on our server. commit e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring") So add a vma check to fix it. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 9 PID: 510 Comm: ksmd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 4.19.36.bsk.9-amd64 #4.19.36.bsk.9 RIP: try_to_merge_one_page+0xc7/0x760 Code: 24 58 65 48 33 34 25 28 00 00 00 89 e8 0f 85 a3 06 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 b8 <49> 8b 44 24 40 4c 8d 7c 24 20 b9 07 00 00 00 4c 89 e6 4c 89 ff 48 RSP: 0018:ffffadbdd9fffdb0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffda83ffd4be08 RBX: ffffda83ffd4be40 RCX: 0000002c6e800000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffda83ffd4be40 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffa11939f02ec0 R08: 0000000094e1a447 R09: 00000000abe76577 R10: 0000000000000962 R11: 0000000000004e6a R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffda83b1e06380 R14: ffffa18f31f072c0 R15: ffffda83ffd4be40 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0da43b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000002c77c0a003 CR4: 00000000007626e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ksm_scan_thread+0x115e/0x1960 kthread+0xf5/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [songmuchun@bytedance.com: if the vma is out of date, just exit] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add the conventional braces, replace /** with /*] Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring") Co-developed-by: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414132905.83819-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-21 01:14:04 +00:00
if (vma) {
err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
trace_ksm_merge_one_page(
page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address)),
rmap_item, mm, err);
mm/ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference when KSM zero page is enabled find_mergeable_vma() can return NULL. In this case, it leads to a crash when we access vm_mm(its offset is 0x40) later in write_protect_page. And this case did happen on our server. The following call trace is captured in kernel 4.19 with the following patch applied and KSM zero page enabled on our server. commit e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring") So add a vma check to fix it. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 9 PID: 510 Comm: ksmd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 4.19.36.bsk.9-amd64 #4.19.36.bsk.9 RIP: try_to_merge_one_page+0xc7/0x760 Code: 24 58 65 48 33 34 25 28 00 00 00 89 e8 0f 85 a3 06 00 00 48 83 c4 60 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 b8 <49> 8b 44 24 40 4c 8d 7c 24 20 b9 07 00 00 00 4c 89 e6 4c 89 ff 48 RSP: 0018:ffffadbdd9fffdb0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffda83ffd4be08 RBX: ffffda83ffd4be40 RCX: 0000002c6e800000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffda83ffd4be40 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffa11939f02ec0 R08: 0000000094e1a447 R09: 00000000abe76577 R10: 0000000000000962 R11: 0000000000004e6a R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffda83b1e06380 R14: ffffa18f31f072c0 R15: ffffda83ffd4be40 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0da43b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000002c77c0a003 CR4: 00000000007626e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ksm_scan_thread+0x115e/0x1960 kthread+0xf5/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [songmuchun@bytedance.com: if the vma is out of date, just exit] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add the conventional braces, replace /** with /*] Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring") Co-developed-by: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414132905.83819-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-21 01:14:04 +00:00
} else {
/*
* If the vma is out of date, we do not need to
* continue.
*/
err = 0;
}
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
/*
* In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
* need to continue. Otherwise we're done.
*/
if (!err)
return;
}
tree_rmap_item =
unstable_tree_search_insert(rmap_item, page, &tree_page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (tree_rmap_item) {
mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged, KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens. This bug can be reproduced by: * making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned) * enabling transparent hugepages * allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21) * filling it with the same values e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21) * performing madvise to make it mergeable e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE) * waiting for KSM to perform a few scans The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1 unshared and the rest volatile) The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is the one of the head of the compound page. This means that split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and will fail. This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if not necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 23:25:41 +00:00
bool split;
kpage = try_to_merge_two_pages(rmap_item, page,
tree_rmap_item, tree_page);
mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged, KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens. This bug can be reproduced by: * making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned) * enabling transparent hugepages * allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21) * filling it with the same values e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21) * performing madvise to make it mergeable e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE) * waiting for KSM to perform a few scans The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1 unshared and the rest volatile) The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is the one of the head of the compound page. This means that split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and will fail. This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if not necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 23:25:41 +00:00
/*
* If both pages we tried to merge belong to the same compound
* page, then we actually ended up increasing the reference
* count of the same compound page twice, and split_huge_page
* failed.
* Here we set a flag if that happened, and we use it later to
* try split_huge_page again. Since we call put_page right
* afterwards, the reference count will be correct and
* split_huge_page should succeed.
*/
split = PageTransCompound(page)
&& compound_head(page) == compound_head(tree_page);
put_page(tree_page);
if (kpage) {
2013-02-23 00:36:06 +00:00
/*
* The pages were successfully merged: insert new
* node in the stable tree and add both rmap_items.
*/
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
lock_page(kpage);
stable_node = stable_tree_insert(kpage);
if (stable_node) {
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
stable_tree_append(tree_rmap_item, stable_node,
false);
stable_tree_append(rmap_item, stable_node,
false);
}
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
unlock_page(kpage);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* If we fail to insert the page into the stable tree,
* we will have 2 virtual addresses that are pointing
* to a ksm page left outside the stable tree,
* in which case we need to break_cow on both.
*/
if (!stable_node) {
break_cow(tree_rmap_item);
break_cow(rmap_item);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged, KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens. This bug can be reproduced by: * making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned) * enabling transparent hugepages * allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21) * filling it with the same values e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21) * performing madvise to make it mergeable e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE) * waiting for KSM to perform a few scans The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1 unshared and the rest volatile) The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is the one of the head of the compound page. This means that split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and will fail. This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if not necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 23:25:41 +00:00
} else if (split) {
/*
* We are here if we tried to merge two pages and
* failed because they both belonged to the same
* compound page. We will split the page now, but no
* merging will take place.
* We do not want to add the cost of a full lock; if
* the page is locked, it is better to skip it and
* perhaps try again later.
*/
if (!trylock_page(page))
return;
split_huge_page(page);
unlock_page(page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
}
}
static struct ksm_rmap_item *get_next_rmap_item(struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot,
struct ksm_rmap_item **rmap_list,
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
unsigned long addr)
{
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
while (*rmap_list) {
rmap_item = *rmap_list;
if ((rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK) == addr)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return rmap_item;
if (rmap_item->address > addr)
break;
*rmap_list = rmap_item->rmap_list;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
free_rmap_item(rmap_item);
}
rmap_item = alloc_rmap_item();
if (rmap_item) {
/* It has already been zeroed */
rmap_item->mm = mm_slot->slot.mm;
ksm: count allocated ksm rmap_items for each process Patch series "ksm: count allocated rmap_items and update documentation", v5. KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. To determine how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise), they are using brings, so we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process The value "ksm_rmap_items" in it indicates the total allocated ksm rmap_items of this process. The detailed description can be seen in the following patches' commit message. This patch (of 2): KSM can save memory by merging identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs to generate rmap_items to save each scanned page's brief rmap information. Some of these pages may be merged, but some may not be abled to be merged after being checked several times, which are unprofitable memory consumed. The information about whether KSM save memory or consume memory in system-wide range can be determined by the comprehensive calculation of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. A simple approximate calculation: profit =~ pages_sharing * sizeof(page) - (all_rmap_items) * sizeof(rmap_item); where all_rmap_items equals to the sum of pages_sharing, pages_shared, pages_unshared and pages_volatile. But we cannot calculate this kind of ksm profit inner single-process wide because the information of ksm rmap_item's number of a process is lacked. For user applications, if this kind of information could be obtained, it helps upper users know how beneficial the ksm-policy (like madvise) they are using brings, and then optimize their app code. For example, one application madvise 1000 pages as MERGEABLE, while only a few pages are really merged, then it's not cost-efficient. So we add a new interface /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat for each process in which the value of ksm_rmap_itmes is only shown now and so more values can be added in future. So similarly, we can calculate the ksm profit approximately for a single process by: profit =~ ksm_merging_pages * sizeof(page) - ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(rmap_item); where ksm_merging_pages is shown at /proc/<pid>/ksm_merging_pages, and ksm_rmap_items is shown in /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143731.299702-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830143838.299758-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-08-30 14:38:38 +00:00
rmap_item->mm->ksm_rmap_items++;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
rmap_item->address = addr;
rmap_item->rmap_list = *rmap_list;
*rmap_list = rmap_item;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
return rmap_item;
}
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
/*
* Calculate skip age for the ksm page age. The age determines how often
* de-duplicating has already been tried unsuccessfully. If the age is
* smaller, the scanning of this page is skipped for less scans.
*
* @age: rmap_item age of page
*/
static unsigned int skip_age(rmap_age_t age)
{
if (age <= 3)
return 1;
if (age <= 5)
return 2;
if (age <= 8)
return 4;
return 8;
}
/*
* Determines if a page should be skipped for the current scan.
*
* @page: page to check
* @rmap_item: associated rmap_item of page
*/
static bool should_skip_rmap_item(struct page *page,
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item)
{
rmap_age_t age;
if (!ksm_smart_scan)
return false;
/*
* Never skip pages that are already KSM; pages cmp_and_merge_page()
* will essentially ignore them, but we still have to process them
* properly.
*/
if (PageKsm(page))
return false;
age = rmap_item->age;
if (age != U8_MAX)
rmap_item->age++;
/*
* Smaller ages are not skipped, they need to get a chance to go
* through the different phases of the KSM merging.
*/
if (age < 3)
return false;
/*
* Are we still allowed to skip? If not, then don't skip it
* and determine how much more often we are allowed to skip next.
*/
if (!rmap_item->remaining_skips) {
rmap_item->remaining_skips = skip_age(age);
return false;
}
/* Skip this page */
ksm_pages_skipped++;
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
rmap_item->remaining_skips--;
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
return true;
}
static struct ksm_rmap_item *scan_get_next_rmap_item(struct page **page)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
{
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
struct vma_iterator vmi;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
int nid;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node))
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return NULL;
mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot;
if (mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head) {
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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advisor_start_scan();
trace_ksm_start_scan(ksm_scan.seqnr, ksm_rmap_items);
/*
* A number of pages can hang around indefinitely in per-cpu
* LRU cache, raised page count preventing write_protect_page
* from merging them. Though it doesn't really matter much,
* it is puzzling to see some stuck in pages_volatile until
* other activity jostles them out, and they also prevented
* LTP's KSM test from succeeding deterministically; so drain
* them here (here rather than on entry to ksm_do_scan(),
* so we don't IPI too often when pages_to_scan is set low).
*/
lru_add_drain_all();
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/*
* Whereas stale stable_nodes on the stable_tree itself
* get pruned in the regular course of stable_tree_search(),
* those moved out to the migrate_nodes list can accumulate:
* so prune them once before each full scan.
*/
if (!ksm_merge_across_nodes) {
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *next;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct page *page;
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next,
&migrate_nodes, list) {
mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree ksmd needs to search the stable tree to look for the suitable KSM page, but the KSM page might be locked for a while due to i.e. KSM page rmap walk. Basically it is not a big deal since commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit"), since max_page_sharing limits the number of shared KSM pages. But it still sounds not worth waiting for the lock, the page can be skip, then try to merge it in the next scan to avoid potential stall if its content is still intact. Introduce trylock mode to get_ksm_page() to not block on page lock, like what try_to_merge_one_page() does. And, define three possible operations (nolock, lock and trylock) as enum type to avoid stacking up bools and make the code more readable. Return -EBUSY if trylock fails, since NULL means not find suitable KSM page, which is a valid case. With the default max_page_sharing setting (256), there is almost no observed change comparing lock vs trylock. However, with ksm02 of LTP, the reduced ksmd full scan time can be observed, which has set max_page_sharing to 786432. With lock version, ksmd may tak 10s - 11s to run two full scans, with trylock version ksmd may take 8s - 11s to run two full scans. And, the number of pages_sharing and pages_to_scan keep same. Basically, this change has no harm. [hughd@google.com: fix BUG_ON()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1902182122280.6914@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548793753-62377-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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page = get_ksm_page(stable_node,
GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK);
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (page)
put_page(page);
cond_resched();
}
}
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++)
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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root_unstable_tree[nid] = RB_ROOT;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
slot = list_entry(mm_slot->slot.mm_node.next,
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
/*
* Although we tested list_empty() above, a racing __ksm_exit
* of the last mm on the list may have removed it since then.
*/
if (mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head)
return NULL;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
next_mm:
ksm_scan.address = 0;
ksm_scan.rmap_list = &mm_slot->rmap_list;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
slot = &mm_slot->slot;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
mm = slot->mm;
vma_iter_init(&vmi, mm, ksm_scan.address);
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_lock(mm);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
goto no_vmas;
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
continue;
if (ksm_scan.address < vma->vm_start)
ksm_scan.address = vma->vm_start;
if (!vma->anon_vma)
ksm_scan.address = vma->vm_end;
while (ksm_scan.address < vma->vm_end) {
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
break;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*page = follow_page(vma, ksm_scan.address, FOLL_GET);
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(*page)) {
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
cond_resched();
continue;
}
if (is_zone_device_page(*page))
goto next_page;
if (PageAnon(*page)) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
flush_anon_page(vma, *page, ksm_scan.address);
flush_dcache_page(*page);
rmap_item = get_next_rmap_item(mm_slot,
ksm_scan.rmap_list, ksm_scan.address);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (rmap_item) {
ksm_scan.rmap_list =
&rmap_item->rmap_list;
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
if (should_skip_rmap_item(*page, rmap_item))
goto next_page;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
} else
put_page(*page);
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return rmap_item;
}
next_page:
put_page(*page);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
cond_resched();
}
}
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) {
no_vmas:
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
ksm_scan.address = 0;
ksm_scan.rmap_list = &mm_slot->rmap_list;
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
* Nuke all the rmap_items that are above this current rmap:
* because there were no VM_MERGEABLE vmas with such addresses.
*/
remove_trailing_rmap_items(ksm_scan.rmap_list);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
slot = list_entry(mm_slot->slot.mm_node.next,
struct mm_slot, mm_node);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
if (ksm_scan.address == 0) {
/*
* We've completed a full scan of all vmas, holding mmap_lock
* throughout, and found no VM_MERGEABLE: so do the same as
* __ksm_exit does to remove this mm from all our lists now.
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
* This applies either when cleaning up after __ksm_exit
* (but beware: we can reach here even before __ksm_exit),
* or when all VM_MERGEABLE areas have been unmapped (and
* mmap_lock then protects against race with MADV_MERGEABLE).
*/
hash_del(&mm_slot->slot.hash);
list_del(&mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
mmdrop(mm);
} else {
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item. task A (ksmd): |task B (the mm's task): | mm = slot->mm; | down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | | ... | | spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | | ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot; | | spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | |mmput() -> | ksm_exit(): | |spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); |if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) { | if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) { | easy_to_free = 1; | ... | |if (easy_to_free) { | mmdrop(mm); | ... | |So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput(). | up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already been freed to the kmem_cache. Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&mm->mmap_sem), will cause mmap_sem.count to become -1. As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has the same SMP race condition, so fix it too. My prev fix in function scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
/*
* mmap_read_unlock(mm) first because after
ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item. task A (ksmd): |task B (the mm's task): | mm = slot->mm; | down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | | ... | | spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | | ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot; | | spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | |mmput() -> | ksm_exit(): | |spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); |if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) { | if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) { | easy_to_free = 1; | ... | |if (easy_to_free) { | mmdrop(mm); | ... | |So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput(). | up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already been freed to the kmem_cache. Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&mm->mmap_sem), will cause mmap_sem.count to become -1. As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has the same SMP race condition, so fix it too. My prev fix in function scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
* spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock) run, the "mm" may
* already have been freed under us by __ksm_exit()
* because the "mm_slot" is still hashed and
* ksm_scan.mm_slot doesn't point to it anymore.
*/
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/* Repeat until we've completed scanning the whole list */
mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot;
if (mm_slot != &ksm_mm_head)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
goto next_mm;
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
advisor_stop_scan();
trace_ksm_stop_scan(ksm_scan.seqnr, ksm_rmap_items);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_scan.seqnr++;
return NULL;
}
/**
* ksm_do_scan - the ksm scanner main worker function.
* @scan_npages: number of pages we want to scan before we return.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int scan_npages)
{
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1] (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining needless uses with the following script: git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \ xargs perl -pi -e \ 's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g; s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;' drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid pathological white-space. No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0 for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64, alpha, and m68k. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5 Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # IB Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> # wireless drivers Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> # erofs Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:38 +00:00
struct page *page;
unsigned int npages = scan_npages;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
while (npages-- && likely(!freezing(current))) {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
cond_resched();
rmap_item = scan_get_next_rmap_item(&page);
if (!rmap_item)
return;
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
cmp_and_merge_page(page, rmap_item);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
put_page(page);
}
ksm_pages_scanned += scan_npages - npages;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static int ksmd_should_run(void)
{
return (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_MERGE) && !list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node);
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing)
{
unsigned int sleep_ms;
set_freezable();
set_user_nice(current, 5);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
wait_while_offlining();
if (ksmd_should_run())
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_do_scan(ksm_thread_pages_to_scan);
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
if (ksmd_should_run()) {
sleep_ms = READ_ONCE(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs);
wait_event_freezable_timeout(ksm_iter_wait,
sleep_ms != READ_ONCE(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs),
msecs_to_jiffies(sleep_ms));
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
} else {
wait_event_freezable(ksm_thread_wait,
ksmd_should_run() || kthread_should_stop());
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
}
return 0;
}
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
static void __ksm_add_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
if (vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE)
return;
if (vma_ksm_compatible(vma))
vm_flags_set(vma, VM_MERGEABLE);
}
static int __ksm_del_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
int err;
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
return 0;
if (vma->anon_vma) {
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, true);
if (err)
return err;
}
vm_flags_clear(vma, VM_MERGEABLE);
return 0;
}
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
/**
* ksm_add_vma - Mark vma as mergeable if compatible
*
* @vma: Pointer to vma
*/
void ksm_add_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags))
__ksm_add_vma(vma);
}
static void ksm_add_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0);
for_each_vma(vmi, vma)
__ksm_add_vma(vma);
}
static int ksm_del_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int err;
VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0);
for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
err = __ksm_del_vma(vma);
if (err)
return err;
}
return 0;
}
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
/**
* ksm_enable_merge_any - Add mm to mm ksm list and enable merging on all
* compatible VMA's
*
* @mm: Pointer to mm
*
* Returns 0 on success, otherwise error code
*/
int ksm_enable_merge_any(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int err;
if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags))
return 0;
if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags)) {
err = __ksm_enter(mm);
if (err)
return err;
}
set_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
ksm_add_vmas(mm);
return 0;
}
/**
* ksm_disable_merge_any - Disable merging on all compatible VMA's of the mm,
* previously enabled via ksm_enable_merge_any().
*
* Disabling merging implies unmerging any merged pages, like setting
* MADV_UNMERGEABLE would. If unmerging fails, the whole operation fails and
* merging on all compatible VMA's remains enabled.
*
* @mm: Pointer to mm
*
* Returns 0 on success, otherwise error code
*/
int ksm_disable_merge_any(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int err;
if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags))
return 0;
err = ksm_del_vmas(mm);
if (err) {
ksm_add_vmas(mm);
return err;
}
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
return 0;
}
int ksm_disable(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
mmap_assert_write_locked(mm);
if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags))
return 0;
if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags))
return ksm_disable_merge_any(mm);
return ksm_del_vmas(mm);
}
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
int err;
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
switch (advice) {
case MADV_MERGEABLE:
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE)
dax: remove VM_MIXEDMAP for fsdax and device dax This patch is reworked from an earlier patch that Dan has posted: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10131727/ VM_MIXEDMAP is used by dax to direct mm paths like vm_normal_page() that the memory page it is dealing with is not typical memory from the linear map. The get_user_pages_fast() path, since it does not resolve the vma, is already using {pte,pmd}_devmap() as a stand-in for VM_MIXEDMAP, so we use that as a VM_MIXEDMAP replacement in some locations. In the cases where there is no pte to consult we fallback to using vma_is_dax() to detect the VM_MIXEDMAP special case. Now that we have explicit driver pfn_t-flag opt-in/opt-out for get_user_pages() support for DAX we can stop setting VM_MIXEDMAP. This also means we no longer need to worry about safely manipulating vm_flags in a future where we support dynamically changing the dax mode of a file. DAX should also now be supported with madvise_behavior(), vma_merge(), and copy_page_range(). This patch has been tested against ndctl unit test. It has also been tested against xfstests commit: 625515d using fake pmem created by memmap and no additional issues have been observed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152847720311.55924.16999195879201817653.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 22:43:40 +00:00
return 0;
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
if (!vma_ksm_compatible(vma))
return 0;
mm: introduce arch-specific vma flag VM_ARCH_1 Combine several arch-specific vma flags into one. before patch: 0x00000200 0x01000000 0x20000000 0x40000000 x86 VM_NOHUGEPAGE VM_HUGEPAGE - VM_PAT powerpc - - VM_SAO - parisc VM_GROWSUP - - - ia64 VM_GROWSUP - - - nommu - VM_MAPPED_COPY - - others - - - - after patch: 0x00000200 0x01000000 0x20000000 0x40000000 x86 - VM_PAT VM_HUGEPAGE VM_NOHUGEPAGE powerpc - VM_SAO - - parisc - VM_GROWSUP - - ia64 - VM_GROWSUP - - nommu - VM_MAPPED_COPY - - others - VM_ARCH_1 - - And voila! One completely free bit. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-08 23:28:37 +00:00
if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags)) {
err = __ksm_enter(mm);
if (err)
return err;
}
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
*vm_flags |= VM_MERGEABLE;
break;
case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
if (!(*vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
return 0; /* just ignore the advice */
if (vma->anon_vma) {
mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock. With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas. Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements for the walk. The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into the area and be left out of migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804152724.3090321-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-04 15:27:19 +00:00
err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma, start, end, true);
if (err)
return err;
}
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
*vm_flags &= ~VM_MERGEABLE;
break;
}
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ksm_madvise);
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
int needs_wakeup;
mm_slot = mm_slot_alloc(mm_slot_cache);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (!mm_slot)
return -ENOMEM;
slot = &mm_slot->slot;
/* Check ksm_run too? Would need tighter locking */
needs_wakeup = list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
mm_slot_insert(mm_slots_hash, mm, slot);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
* When KSM_RUN_MERGE (or KSM_RUN_STOP),
* insert just behind the scanning cursor, to let the area settle
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
* down a little; when fork is followed by immediate exec, we don't
* want ksmd to waste time setting up and tearing down an rmap_list.
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
*
* But when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE, it's important to insert ahead of its
* scanning cursor, otherwise KSM pages in newly forked mms will be
* missed: then we might as well insert at the end of the list.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
if (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE)
list_add_tail(&slot->mm_node, &ksm_mm_head.slot.mm_node);
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
else
list_add_tail(&slot->mm_node, &ksm_scan.mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
set_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
mmgrab(mm);
if (needs_wakeup)
wake_up_interruptible(&ksm_thread_wait);
trace_ksm_enter(mm);
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
return 0;
}
ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmap Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; } The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly) tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0. So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap(); and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference. ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks. So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory. This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing memory for the unmerging fault to complete). But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case. We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so we hope to find a better solution. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:22 +00:00
void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
{
struct ksm_mm_slot *mm_slot;
struct mm_slot *slot;
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
int easy_to_free = 0;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
/*
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
* This process is exiting: if it's straightforward (as is the
* case when ksmd was never running), free mm_slot immediately.
* But if it's at the cursor or has rmap_items linked to it, use
* mmap_lock to synchronize with any break_cows before pagetables
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
* are freed, and leave the mm_slot on the list for ksmd to free.
* Beware: ksm may already have noticed it exiting and freed the slot.
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
slot = mm_slot_lookup(mm_slots_hash, mm);
mm_slot = mm_slot_entry(slot, struct ksm_mm_slot, slot);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) {
hash_del(&slot->hash);
list_del(&slot->mm_node);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
easy_to_free = 1;
} else {
list_move(&slot->mm_node,
&ksm_scan.mm_slot->slot.mm_node);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
}
}
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
if (easy_to_free) {
mm_slot_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9. So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. Use case 1: The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available. In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of workloads. Use case 2: The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings no benefit or even has overhead. We'd like to be able to enable KSM on a workload by workload basis. Use case 3: With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the current process: it is a workload-local decision. A considerable number of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if they are part of the same security domain). Only a higler level entity like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running one or more instances of a job. That job scheduler however doesn't have the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise calls. Security concerns: In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up. The problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about what else is running on a machine. Therefore it has to be very conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not. However, if the system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be safely enabled and is even desirable. Performance: Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%. Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine with 64GB main memory): full_scans: 445 general_profit: 20158298048 max_page_sharing: 256 merge_across_nodes: 1 pages_shared: 129547 pages_sharing: 5119146 pages_to_scan: 4000 pages_unshared: 1760924 pages_volatile: 10761341 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 stable_node_chains: 167 stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000 stable_node_dups: 2751 use_zero_pages: 0 zero_pages_sharing: 0 After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM. Detailed changes: 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 3. Add general_profit metric The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation, but not calculated. This adds the general profit metric to /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm. 4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat. 5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM. It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes. This patch (of 3): So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. To be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level. 1. New options for prctl system command This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second one to query the setting. The setting will be inherited by child processes. With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting. 2. Changes to KSM processing When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's. When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be inherited by the new child process. 1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag. When this flag is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a process. 2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA. 3) support disabling of ksm for a process This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been enabled for the process with prctl. 4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process This adds two new options to the prctl system call - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it). - query if ksm has been enabled for a process. 3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390 In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 05:13:40 +00:00
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY, &mm->flags);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
mmdrop(mm);
} else if (mm_slot) {
mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 04:33:25 +00:00
mmap_write_lock(mm);
mmap_write_unlock(mm);
ksm: fix oom deadlock There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
}
trace_ksm_exit(mm);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
struct folio *ksm_might_need_to_copy(struct folio *folio,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
{
struct page *page = folio_page(folio, 0);
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = folio_anon_vma(folio);
struct folio *new_folio;
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
if (folio_test_large(folio))
return folio;
if (folio_test_ksm(folio)) {
if (folio_stable_node(folio) &&
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
!(ksm_run & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE))
return folio; /* no need to copy it */
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
} else if (!anon_vma) {
return folio; /* no need to copy it */
} else if (folio->index == linear_page_index(vma, addr) &&
mm: ksm: fix use-after-free kasan report in ksm_might_need_to_copy When under the stress of swapping in/out with KSM enabled, there is a low probability that kasan reports the BUG of use-after-free in ksm_might_need_to_copy() when do swap in. The freed object is the anon_vma got from page_anon_vma(page). It is because a swapcache page associated with one anon_vma now needed for another anon_vma, but the page's original vma was unmapped and the anon_vma was freed. In this case the if condition below always return false and then alloc a new page to copy. Swapin process then use the new page and can continue to run well, so this is harmless actually. } else if (anon_vma->root == vma->anon_vma->root && page->index == linear_page_index(vma, address)) { This patch exchange the order of above two judgment statement to avoid the kasan warning. Let cpu run "page->index == linear_page_index(vma, address)" firstly and return false basically to skip the read of anon_vma->root which may trigger the kasan use-after-free warning: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ksm_might_need_to_copy+0x12e/0x5b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88be9977dbd0 by task khugepaged/694 CPU: 8 PID: 694 Comm: khugepaged Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE - 4.18.0.x86_64 Hardware name: 1288H V5/BC11SPSC0, BIOS 7.93 01/14/2021 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xf1/0x19b print_address_description+0x70/0x360 kasan_report+0x1b2/0x330 ksm_might_need_to_copy+0x12e/0x5b0 do_swap_page+0x452/0xe70 __collapse_huge_page_swapin+0x24b/0x720 khugepaged_scan_pmd+0xcae/0x1ff0 khugepaged+0x8ee/0xd70 kthread+0x1a2/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 Allocated by task 2306153: kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xd0 kmem_cache_alloc+0xc0/0x1c0 anon_vma_clone+0xf7/0x380 anon_vma_fork+0xc0/0x390 copy_process+0x447b/0x4810 _do_fork+0x118/0x620 do_syscall_64+0x112/0x360 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca Freed by task 2306242: __kasan_slab_free+0x130/0x180 kmem_cache_free+0x78/0x1d0 unlink_anon_vmas+0x19c/0x4a0 free_pgtables+0x137/0x1b0 exit_mmap+0x133/0x320 mmput+0x15e/0x390 do_exit+0x8c5/0x1210 do_group_exit+0xb5/0x1b0 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x21/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x112/0x360 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88be9977dba0 which belongs to the cache anon_vma_chain of size 64 The buggy address is located 48 bytes inside of 64-byte region [ffff88be9977dba0, ffff88be9977dbe0) The buggy address belongs to the page: page:ffffea00fa65df40 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888107717800 index:0x0 flags: 0x17ffffc0000100(slab) ================================================================== Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202102940.1069634-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-14 22:08:59 +00:00
anon_vma->root == vma->anon_vma->root) {
return folio; /* still no need to copy it */
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
}
if (PageHWPoison(page))
return ERR_PTR(-EHWPOISON);
if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio))
return folio; /* let do_swap_page report the error */
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
new_folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma, addr, false);
if (new_folio &&
mem_cgroup_charge(new_folio, vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL)) {
folio_put(new_folio);
new_folio = NULL;
ksm: reinstate memcg charge on copied pages Patch series "mm: fixes to past from future testing". Here's a set of independent fixes against 5.9-rc2: prompted by testing Alex Shi's "warning on !memcg" and lru_lock series, but I think fit for 5.9 - though maybe only the first for stable. This patch (of 5): In 5.8 some instances of memcg charging in do_swap_page() and unuse_pte() were removed, on the understanding that swap cache is now already charged at those points; but a case was missed, when ksm_might_need_to_copy() has decided it must allocate a substitute page: such pages were never charged. Fix it inside ksm_might_need_to_copy(). This was discovered by Alex Shi's prospective commit "mm/memcg: warning on !memcg after readahead page charged". But there is a another surprise: this also fixes some rarer uncharged PageAnon cases, when KSM is configured in, but has never been activated. ksm_might_need_to_copy()'s anon_vma->root and linear_page_index() check sometimes catches a case which would need to have been copied if KSM were turned on. Or that's my optimistic interpretation (of my own old code), but it leaves some doubt as to whether everything is working as intended there - might it hint at rare anon ptes which rmap cannot find? A question not easily answered: put in the fix for missed memcg charges. Cc; Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Fixes: 4c6355b25e8b ("mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.8] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008301343270.5954@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008301358020.5954@eggly.anvils Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-09-19 04:20:03 +00:00
}
if (new_folio) {
if (copy_mc_user_highpage(folio_page(new_folio, 0), page,
addr, vma)) {
folio_put(new_folio);
memory_failure_queue(folio_pfn(folio), 0);
return ERR_PTR(-EHWPOISON);
}
folio_set_dirty(new_folio);
__folio_mark_uptodate(new_folio);
__folio_set_locked(new_folio);
#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
count_vm_event(KSM_SWPIN_COPY);
#endif
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
}
return new_folio;
ksm: let shared pages be swappable Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
}
mm: don't be stuck to rmap lock on reclaim path The rmap locks(i_mmap_rwsem and anon_vma->root->rwsem) could be contended under memory pressure if processes keep working on their vmas(e.g., fork, mmap, munmap). It makes reclaim path stuck. In our real workload traces, we see kswapd is waiting the lock for 300ms+(worst case, a sec) and it makes other processes entering direct reclaim, which were also stuck on the lock. This patch makes lru aging path try_lock mode like shink_page_list so the reclaim context will keep working with next lru pages without being stuck. if it found the rmap lock contended, it rotates the page back to head of lru in both active/inactive lrus to make them consistent behavior, which is basic starting point rather than adding more heristic. Since this patch introduces a new "contended" field as out-param along with try_lock in-param in rmap_walk_control, it's not immutable any longer if the try_lock is set so remove const keywords on rmap related functions. Since rmap walking is already expensive operation, I doubt the const would help sizable benefit( And we didn't have it until 5.17). In a heavy app workload in Android, trace shows following statistics. It almost removes rmap lock contention from reclaim path. Martin Liu reported: Before: max_dur(ms) min_dur(ms) max-min(dur)ms avg_dur(ms) sum_dur(ms) count blocked_function 1632 0 1631 151.542173 31672 209 page_lock_anon_vma_read 601 0 601 145.544681 28817 198 rmap_walk_file After: max_dur(ms) min_dur(ms) max-min(dur)ms avg_dur(ms) sum_dur(ms) count blocked_function NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 0.0 NaN 0 0 0 0.127645 1 12 rmap_walk_file [minchan@kernel.org: add comment, per Matthew] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YnNqeB5tUf6LZ57b@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510215423.164547-1-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-19 21:08:54 +00:00
void rmap_walk_ksm(struct folio *folio, struct rmap_walk_control *rwc)
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node;
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
int search_new_forks = 0;
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_ksm(folio), folio);
/*
* Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications
* to that page's node of the stable tree.
*/
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
stable_node = folio_stable_node(folio);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
if (!stable_node)
return;
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
again:
hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28 01:06:00 +00:00
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = rmap_item->anon_vma;
mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent process and all its child processes. In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page. This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of 1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive than AIM7, but they are catching up. This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children. This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000 child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system. This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from O(N) to 2. The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions. A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under "the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic values for the same bitflag. Some test results: Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the pageout code. With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users. This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-05 21:42:07 +00:00
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
cond_resched();
mm: don't be stuck to rmap lock on reclaim path The rmap locks(i_mmap_rwsem and anon_vma->root->rwsem) could be contended under memory pressure if processes keep working on their vmas(e.g., fork, mmap, munmap). It makes reclaim path stuck. In our real workload traces, we see kswapd is waiting the lock for 300ms+(worst case, a sec) and it makes other processes entering direct reclaim, which were also stuck on the lock. This patch makes lru aging path try_lock mode like shink_page_list so the reclaim context will keep working with next lru pages without being stuck. if it found the rmap lock contended, it rotates the page back to head of lru in both active/inactive lrus to make them consistent behavior, which is basic starting point rather than adding more heristic. Since this patch introduces a new "contended" field as out-param along with try_lock in-param in rmap_walk_control, it's not immutable any longer if the try_lock is set so remove const keywords on rmap related functions. Since rmap walking is already expensive operation, I doubt the const would help sizable benefit( And we didn't have it until 5.17). In a heavy app workload in Android, trace shows following statistics. It almost removes rmap lock contention from reclaim path. Martin Liu reported: Before: max_dur(ms) min_dur(ms) max-min(dur)ms avg_dur(ms) sum_dur(ms) count blocked_function 1632 0 1631 151.542173 31672 209 page_lock_anon_vma_read 601 0 601 145.544681 28817 198 rmap_walk_file After: max_dur(ms) min_dur(ms) max-min(dur)ms avg_dur(ms) sum_dur(ms) count blocked_function NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 0.0 NaN 0 0 0 0.127645 1 12 rmap_walk_file [minchan@kernel.org: add comment, per Matthew] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YnNqeB5tUf6LZ57b@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510215423.164547-1-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-19 21:08:54 +00:00
if (!anon_vma_trylock_read(anon_vma)) {
if (rwc->try_lock) {
rwc->contended = true;
return;
}
anon_vma_lock_read(anon_vma);
}
mm anon rmap: replace same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree. When a large VMA (anon or private file mapping) is first touched, which will populate its anon_vma field, and then split into many regions through the use of mprotect(), the original anon_vma ends up linking all of the vmas on a linked list. This can cause rmap to become inefficient, as we have to walk potentially thousands of irrelevent vmas before finding the one a given anon page might fall into. By replacing the same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree (where each avc's interval is determined by its vma's start and last pgoffs), we can make rmap efficient for this use case again. While the change is large, all of its pieces are fairly simple. Most places that were walking the same_anon_vma list were looking for a known pgoff, so they can just use the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach() interval tree iterator instead. The exception here is ksm, where the page's index is not known. It would probably be possible to rework ksm so that the index would be known, but for now I have decided to keep things simple and just walk the entirety of the interval tree there. When updating vma's that already have an anon_vma assigned, we must take care to re-index the corresponding avc's on their interval tree. This is done through the use of anon_vma_interval_tree_pre_update_vma() and anon_vma_interval_tree_post_update_vma(), which remove the avc's from their interval tree before the update and re-insert them after the update. The anon_vma stays locked during the update, so there is no chance that rmap would miss the vmas that are being updated. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-08 23:31:39 +00:00
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach(vmac, &anon_vma->rb_root,
0, ULONG_MAX) {
mm/ksm.c: ignore STABLE_FLAG of rmap_item->address in rmap_walk_ksm() In our armv8a server(QDF2400), I noticed lots of WARN_ON caused by PAGE_SIZE unaligned for rmap_item->address under memory pressure tests(start 20 guests and run memhog in the host). WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 4641 at virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c:1826 kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 CPU: 4 PID: 4641 Comm: memhog Tainted: G W 4.17.0-rc3+ #8 Call trace: kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xa8/0xe0 kvm_age_hva+0x4c/0xe8 kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x54/0x98 __mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x6c/0xa0 page_referenced_one+0x154/0x1d8 rmap_walk_ksm+0x12c/0x1d0 rmap_walk+0x94/0xa0 page_referenced+0x194/0x1b0 shrink_page_list+0x674/0xc28 shrink_inactive_list+0x26c/0x5b8 shrink_node_memcg+0x35c/0x620 shrink_node+0x100/0x430 do_try_to_free_pages+0xe0/0x3a8 try_to_free_pages+0xe4/0x230 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x564/0xdc0 alloc_pages_vma+0x90/0x228 do_anonymous_page+0xc8/0x4d0 __handle_mm_fault+0x4a0/0x508 handle_mm_fault+0xf8/0x1b0 do_page_fault+0x218/0x4b8 do_translation_fault+0x90/0xa0 do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf0 el0_da+0x24/0x28 In rmap_walk_ksm, the rmap_item->address might still have the STABLE_FLAG, then the start and end in handle_hva_to_gpa might not be PAGE_SIZE aligned. Thus it will cause exceptions in handle_hva_to_gpa on arm64. This patch fixes it by ignoring (not removing) the low bits of address when doing rmap_walk_ksm. IMO, it should be backported to stable tree. the storm of WARN_ONs is very easy for me to reproduce. More than that, I watched a panic (not reproducible) as follows: page:ffff7fe003742d80 count:-4871 mapcount:-2126053375 mapping: (null) index:0x0 flags: 0x1fffc00000000000() raw: 1fffc00000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffecf981470000 raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff8017c001c000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero _refcount CPU: 29 PID: 18323 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W 4.14.15-5.hxt.aarch64 #1 Hardware name: <snip for confidential issues> Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x22c show_stack+0x24/0x2c dump_stack+0x8c/0xb0 bad_page+0xf4/0x154 free_pages_check_bad+0x90/0x9c free_pcppages_bulk+0x464/0x518 free_hot_cold_page+0x22c/0x300 __put_page+0x54/0x60 unmap_stage2_range+0x170/0x2b4 kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x30/0x40 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xb0/0xec kvm_unmap_hva_range+0x5c/0xd0 I even injected a fault on purpose in kvm_unmap_hva_range by seting size=size-0x200, the call trace is similar as above. So I thought the panic is similarly caused by the root cause of WARN_ON. Andrea said: : It looks a straightforward safe fix, on x86 hva_to_gfn_memslot would : zap those bits and hide the misalignment caused by the low metadata : bits being erroneously left set in the address, but the arm code : notices when that's the last page in the memslot and the hva_end is : getting aligned and the size is below one page. : : I think the problem triggers in the addr += PAGE_SIZE of : unmap_stage2_ptes that never matches end because end is aligned but : addr is not. : : } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); : : x86 again only works on hva_start/hva_end after converting it to : gfn_start/end and that being in pfn units the bits are zapped before : they risk to cause trouble. Jia He said: : I've tested by myself in arm64 server (QDF2400,46 cpus,96G mem) Without : this patch, the WARN_ON is very easy for reproducing. After this patch, I : have run the same benchmarch for a whole day without any WARN_ONs Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525403506-6750-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-14 22:26:14 +00:00
unsigned long addr;
cond_resched();
mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent process and all its child processes. In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page. This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of 1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive than AIM7, but they are catching up. This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children. This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000 child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system. This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from O(N) to 2. The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions. A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under "the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic values for the same bitflag. Some test results: Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the pageout code. With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users. This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-05 21:42:07 +00:00
vma = vmac->vma;
mm/ksm.c: ignore STABLE_FLAG of rmap_item->address in rmap_walk_ksm() In our armv8a server(QDF2400), I noticed lots of WARN_ON caused by PAGE_SIZE unaligned for rmap_item->address under memory pressure tests(start 20 guests and run memhog in the host). WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 4641 at virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c:1826 kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 CPU: 4 PID: 4641 Comm: memhog Tainted: G W 4.17.0-rc3+ #8 Call trace: kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xa8/0xe0 kvm_age_hva+0x4c/0xe8 kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x54/0x98 __mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x6c/0xa0 page_referenced_one+0x154/0x1d8 rmap_walk_ksm+0x12c/0x1d0 rmap_walk+0x94/0xa0 page_referenced+0x194/0x1b0 shrink_page_list+0x674/0xc28 shrink_inactive_list+0x26c/0x5b8 shrink_node_memcg+0x35c/0x620 shrink_node+0x100/0x430 do_try_to_free_pages+0xe0/0x3a8 try_to_free_pages+0xe4/0x230 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x564/0xdc0 alloc_pages_vma+0x90/0x228 do_anonymous_page+0xc8/0x4d0 __handle_mm_fault+0x4a0/0x508 handle_mm_fault+0xf8/0x1b0 do_page_fault+0x218/0x4b8 do_translation_fault+0x90/0xa0 do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf0 el0_da+0x24/0x28 In rmap_walk_ksm, the rmap_item->address might still have the STABLE_FLAG, then the start and end in handle_hva_to_gpa might not be PAGE_SIZE aligned. Thus it will cause exceptions in handle_hva_to_gpa on arm64. This patch fixes it by ignoring (not removing) the low bits of address when doing rmap_walk_ksm. IMO, it should be backported to stable tree. the storm of WARN_ONs is very easy for me to reproduce. More than that, I watched a panic (not reproducible) as follows: page:ffff7fe003742d80 count:-4871 mapcount:-2126053375 mapping: (null) index:0x0 flags: 0x1fffc00000000000() raw: 1fffc00000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffecf981470000 raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff8017c001c000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero _refcount CPU: 29 PID: 18323 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W 4.14.15-5.hxt.aarch64 #1 Hardware name: <snip for confidential issues> Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x22c show_stack+0x24/0x2c dump_stack+0x8c/0xb0 bad_page+0xf4/0x154 free_pages_check_bad+0x90/0x9c free_pcppages_bulk+0x464/0x518 free_hot_cold_page+0x22c/0x300 __put_page+0x54/0x60 unmap_stage2_range+0x170/0x2b4 kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x30/0x40 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xb0/0xec kvm_unmap_hva_range+0x5c/0xd0 I even injected a fault on purpose in kvm_unmap_hva_range by seting size=size-0x200, the call trace is similar as above. So I thought the panic is similarly caused by the root cause of WARN_ON. Andrea said: : It looks a straightforward safe fix, on x86 hva_to_gfn_memslot would : zap those bits and hide the misalignment caused by the low metadata : bits being erroneously left set in the address, but the arm code : notices when that's the last page in the memslot and the hva_end is : getting aligned and the size is below one page. : : I think the problem triggers in the addr += PAGE_SIZE of : unmap_stage2_ptes that never matches end because end is aligned but : addr is not. : : } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); : : x86 again only works on hva_start/hva_end after converting it to : gfn_start/end and that being in pfn units the bits are zapped before : they risk to cause trouble. Jia He said: : I've tested by myself in arm64 server (QDF2400,46 cpus,96G mem) Without : this patch, the WARN_ON is very easy for reproducing. After this patch, I : have run the same benchmarch for a whole day without any WARN_ONs Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525403506-6750-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-14 22:26:14 +00:00
/* Ignore the stable/unstable/sqnr flags */
addr = rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK;
mm/ksm.c: ignore STABLE_FLAG of rmap_item->address in rmap_walk_ksm() In our armv8a server(QDF2400), I noticed lots of WARN_ON caused by PAGE_SIZE unaligned for rmap_item->address under memory pressure tests(start 20 guests and run memhog in the host). WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 4641 at virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c:1826 kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 CPU: 4 PID: 4641 Comm: memhog Tainted: G W 4.17.0-rc3+ #8 Call trace: kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xa8/0xe0 kvm_age_hva+0x4c/0xe8 kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x54/0x98 __mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x6c/0xa0 page_referenced_one+0x154/0x1d8 rmap_walk_ksm+0x12c/0x1d0 rmap_walk+0x94/0xa0 page_referenced+0x194/0x1b0 shrink_page_list+0x674/0xc28 shrink_inactive_list+0x26c/0x5b8 shrink_node_memcg+0x35c/0x620 shrink_node+0x100/0x430 do_try_to_free_pages+0xe0/0x3a8 try_to_free_pages+0xe4/0x230 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x564/0xdc0 alloc_pages_vma+0x90/0x228 do_anonymous_page+0xc8/0x4d0 __handle_mm_fault+0x4a0/0x508 handle_mm_fault+0xf8/0x1b0 do_page_fault+0x218/0x4b8 do_translation_fault+0x90/0xa0 do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf0 el0_da+0x24/0x28 In rmap_walk_ksm, the rmap_item->address might still have the STABLE_FLAG, then the start and end in handle_hva_to_gpa might not be PAGE_SIZE aligned. Thus it will cause exceptions in handle_hva_to_gpa on arm64. This patch fixes it by ignoring (not removing) the low bits of address when doing rmap_walk_ksm. IMO, it should be backported to stable tree. the storm of WARN_ONs is very easy for me to reproduce. More than that, I watched a panic (not reproducible) as follows: page:ffff7fe003742d80 count:-4871 mapcount:-2126053375 mapping: (null) index:0x0 flags: 0x1fffc00000000000() raw: 1fffc00000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffecf981470000 raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff8017c001c000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero _refcount CPU: 29 PID: 18323 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W 4.14.15-5.hxt.aarch64 #1 Hardware name: <snip for confidential issues> Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x22c show_stack+0x24/0x2c dump_stack+0x8c/0xb0 bad_page+0xf4/0x154 free_pages_check_bad+0x90/0x9c free_pcppages_bulk+0x464/0x518 free_hot_cold_page+0x22c/0x300 __put_page+0x54/0x60 unmap_stage2_range+0x170/0x2b4 kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x30/0x40 handle_hva_to_gpa+0xb0/0xec kvm_unmap_hva_range+0x5c/0xd0 I even injected a fault on purpose in kvm_unmap_hva_range by seting size=size-0x200, the call trace is similar as above. So I thought the panic is similarly caused by the root cause of WARN_ON. Andrea said: : It looks a straightforward safe fix, on x86 hva_to_gfn_memslot would : zap those bits and hide the misalignment caused by the low metadata : bits being erroneously left set in the address, but the arm code : notices when that's the last page in the memslot and the hva_end is : getting aligned and the size is below one page. : : I think the problem triggers in the addr += PAGE_SIZE of : unmap_stage2_ptes that never matches end because end is aligned but : addr is not. : : } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); : : x86 again only works on hva_start/hva_end after converting it to : gfn_start/end and that being in pfn units the bits are zapped before : they risk to cause trouble. Jia He said: : I've tested by myself in arm64 server (QDF2400,46 cpus,96G mem) Without : this patch, the WARN_ON is very easy for reproducing. After this patch, I : have run the same benchmarch for a whole day without any WARN_ONs Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525403506-6750-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-14 22:26:14 +00:00
if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
continue;
/*
* Initially we examine only the vma which covers this
* rmap_item; but later, if there is still work to do,
* we examine covering vmas in other mms: in case they
* were forked from the original since ksmd passed.
*/
if ((rmap_item->mm == vma->vm_mm) == search_new_forks)
continue;
if (rwc->invalid_vma && rwc->invalid_vma(vma, rwc->arg))
continue;
if (!rwc->rmap_one(folio, vma, addr, rwc->arg)) {
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
return;
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
}
if (rwc->done && rwc->done(folio)) {
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
return;
}
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
}
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
}
if (!search_new_forks++)
goto again;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
/*
* Collect processes when the error hit an ksm page.
*/
void collect_procs_ksm(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill,
int force_early)
{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node;
struct ksm_rmap_item *rmap_item;
struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct task_struct *tsk;
stable_node = folio_stable_node(folio);
if (!stable_node)
return;
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
struct anon_vma *av = rmap_item->anon_vma;
anon_vma_lock_read(av);
mm: memory-failure: use rcu lock instead of tasklist_lock when collect_procs() We found a softlock issue in our test, analyzed the logs, and found that the relevant CPU call trace as follows: CPU0: _do_fork -> copy_process() -> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) //Disable irq,waiting for //tasklist_lock CPU1: wp_page_copy() ->pte_offset_map_lock() -> spin_lock(&page->ptl); //Hold page->ptl -> ptep_clear_flush() -> flush_tlb_others() ... -> smp_call_function_many() -> arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask() -> csd_lock_wait() //Waiting for other CPUs respond //IPI CPU2: collect_procs_anon() -> read_lock(&tasklist_lock) //Hold tasklist_lock ->for_each_process(tsk) -> page_mapped_in_vma() -> page_vma_mapped_walk() -> map_pte() ->spin_lock(&page->ptl) //Waiting for page->ptl We can see that CPU1 waiting for CPU0 respond IPI,CPU0 waiting for CPU2 unlock tasklist_lock, CPU2 waiting for CPU1 unlock page->ptl. As a result, softlockup is triggered. For collect_procs_anon(), what we're doing is task list iteration, during the iteration, with the help of call_rcu(), the task_struct object is freed only after one or more grace periods elapse. the logic as follows: release_task() -> __exit_signal() -> __unhash_process() -> list_del_rcu() -> put_task_struct_rcu_user() -> call_rcu(&task->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct) delayed_put_task_struct() -> put_task_struct() -> if (refcount_sub_and_test()) __put_task_struct() -> free_task() Therefore, under the protection of the rcu lock, we can safely use get_task_struct() to ensure a safe reference to task_struct during the iteration. By removing the use of tasklist_lock in task list iteration, we can break the softlock chain above. The same logic can also be applied to: - collect_procs_file() - collect_procs_fsdax() - collect_procs_ksm() Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828022527.241693-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-28 02:25:27 +00:00
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process(tsk) {
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
unsigned long addr;
struct task_struct *t =
task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
if (!t)
continue;
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach(vmac, &av->rb_root, 0,
ULONG_MAX)
{
vma = vmac->vma;
if (vma->vm_mm == t->mm) {
addr = rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK;
add_to_kill_ksm(t, page, vma, to_kill,
addr);
}
}
}
mm: memory-failure: use rcu lock instead of tasklist_lock when collect_procs() We found a softlock issue in our test, analyzed the logs, and found that the relevant CPU call trace as follows: CPU0: _do_fork -> copy_process() -> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) //Disable irq,waiting for //tasklist_lock CPU1: wp_page_copy() ->pte_offset_map_lock() -> spin_lock(&page->ptl); //Hold page->ptl -> ptep_clear_flush() -> flush_tlb_others() ... -> smp_call_function_many() -> arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask() -> csd_lock_wait() //Waiting for other CPUs respond //IPI CPU2: collect_procs_anon() -> read_lock(&tasklist_lock) //Hold tasklist_lock ->for_each_process(tsk) -> page_mapped_in_vma() -> page_vma_mapped_walk() -> map_pte() ->spin_lock(&page->ptl) //Waiting for page->ptl We can see that CPU1 waiting for CPU0 respond IPI,CPU0 waiting for CPU2 unlock tasklist_lock, CPU2 waiting for CPU1 unlock page->ptl. As a result, softlockup is triggered. For collect_procs_anon(), what we're doing is task list iteration, during the iteration, with the help of call_rcu(), the task_struct object is freed only after one or more grace periods elapse. the logic as follows: release_task() -> __exit_signal() -> __unhash_process() -> list_del_rcu() -> put_task_struct_rcu_user() -> call_rcu(&task->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct) delayed_put_task_struct() -> put_task_struct() -> if (refcount_sub_and_test()) __put_task_struct() -> free_task() Therefore, under the protection of the rcu lock, we can safely use get_task_struct() to ensure a safe reference to task_struct during the iteration. By removing the use of tasklist_lock in task list iteration, we can break the softlock chain above. The same logic can also be applied to: - collect_procs_file() - collect_procs_fsdax() - collect_procs_ksm() Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828022527.241693-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-28 02:25:27 +00:00
rcu_read_unlock();
anon_vma_unlock_read(av);
}
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
void folio_migrate_ksm(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *folio)
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node;
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio), folio);
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(newfolio), newfolio);
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(newfolio->mapping != folio->mapping, newfolio);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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stable_node = folio_stable_node(folio);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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if (stable_node) {
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(stable_node->kpfn != folio_pfn(folio), folio);
stable_node->kpfn = folio_pfn(newfolio);
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
/*
* newfolio->mapping was set in advance; now we need smp_wmb()
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
* to make sure that the new stable_node->kpfn is visible
* to get_ksm_page() before it can see that folio->mapping
* has gone stale (or that folio_test_swapcache has been cleared).
ksm: make KSM page migration possible KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove, which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life simple. But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block. Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series). It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page migration too. Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also has to worry about the KSM page being migrated. The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now. (Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.) You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
*/
smp_wmb();
set_page_stable_node(&folio->page, NULL);
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
static void wait_while_offlining(void)
{
while (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_OFFLINE) {
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
wait_on_bit(&ksm_run, ilog2(KSM_RUN_OFFLINE),
sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action' function to be provided which does the actual waiting. There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical. Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule(). So: Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action to make it explicit that they need an action function. Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use a standard one. The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action function. All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their action functions have been discarded. wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and interpolate their own error code as appropriate. The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function. David Howells confirms this should be uniformly "uninterruptible" The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call. A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action' functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan' field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan). As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So the distinction will still be visible, only with different function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the gfs2/glock.c case). Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware schedule call as NFS. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys) Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-07 05:16:04 +00:00
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
}
}
static bool stable_node_dup_remove_range(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long end_pfn)
{
if (stable_node->kpfn >= start_pfn &&
stable_node->kpfn < end_pfn) {
/*
* Don't get_ksm_page, page has already gone:
* which is why we keep kpfn instead of page*
*/
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
return true;
}
return false;
}
static bool stable_node_chain_remove_range(struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node,
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long end_pfn,
struct rb_root *root)
{
struct ksm_stable_node *dup;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
struct hlist_node *hlist_safe;
if (!is_stable_node_chain(stable_node)) {
VM_BUG_ON(is_stable_node_dup(stable_node));
return stable_node_dup_remove_range(stable_node, start_pfn,
end_pfn);
}
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(dup, hlist_safe,
&stable_node->hlist, hlist_dup) {
VM_BUG_ON(!is_stable_node_dup(dup));
stable_node_dup_remove_range(dup, start_pfn, end_pfn);
}
if (hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist)) {
free_stable_node_chain(stable_node, root);
return true; /* notify caller that tree was rebalanced */
} else
return false;
}
static void ksm_check_stable_tree(unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long end_pfn)
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
{
struct ksm_stable_node *stable_node, *next;
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
struct rb_node *node;
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
int nid;
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++) {
node = rb_first(root_stable_tree + nid);
while (node) {
stable_node = rb_entry(node, struct ksm_stable_node, node);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
if (stable_node_chain_remove_range(stable_node,
start_pfn, end_pfn,
root_stable_tree +
nid))
node = rb_first(root_stable_tree + nid);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
else
node = rb_next(node);
cond_resched();
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
}
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next, &migrate_nodes, list) {
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that collides with an existing stable node? ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize that it will not always match nid of kpfn. A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced. In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes (and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them): we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node. stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes. remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get forgotten and accumulate. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
if (stable_node->kpfn >= start_pfn &&
stable_node->kpfn < end_pfn)
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
cond_resched();
}
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
}
static int ksm_memory_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
unsigned long action, void *arg)
{
struct memory_notify *mn = arg;
switch (action) {
case MEM_GOING_OFFLINE:
/*
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
* Prevent ksm_do_scan(), unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items()
* and remove_all_stable_nodes() while memory is going offline:
* it is unsafe for them to touch the stable tree at this time.
* But unmerge_ksm_pages(), rmap lookups and other entry points
* which do not need the ksm_thread_mutex are all safe.
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
*/
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm_run |= KSM_RUN_OFFLINE;
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
break;
case MEM_OFFLINE:
/*
* Most of the work is done by page migration; but there might
* be a few stable_nodes left over, still pointing to struct
* pages which have been offlined: prune those from the tree,
* otherwise get_ksm_page() might later try to access a
* non-existent struct page.
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
*/
ksm_check_stable_tree(mn->start_pfn,
mn->start_pfn + mn->nr_pages);
fallthrough;
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
case MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE:
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm_run &= ~KSM_RUN_OFFLINE;
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
smp_mb(); /* wake_up_bit advises this */
wake_up_bit(&ksm_run, ilog2(KSM_RUN_OFFLINE));
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
break;
}
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
#else
static void wait_while_offlining(void)
{
}
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
long ksm_process_profit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return (long)(mm->ksm_merging_pages + mm->ksm_zero_pages) * PAGE_SIZE -
mm->ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/*
* This all compiles without CONFIG_SYSFS, but is a waste of space.
*/
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
#define KSM_ATTR_RO(_name) \
static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
#define KSM_ATTR(_name) \
static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RW(_name)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static ssize_t sleep_millisecs_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static ssize_t sleep_millisecs_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
unsigned int msecs;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int err;
err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &msecs);
if (err)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return -EINVAL;
ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = msecs;
wake_up_interruptible(&ksm_iter_wait);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(sleep_millisecs);
static ssize_t pages_to_scan_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_thread_pages_to_scan);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
static ssize_t pages_to_scan_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
unsigned int nr_pages;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
int err;
mm/ksm: add ksm advisor Patch series "mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor", v5. What is the KSM advisor? ========================= The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. Why do we need a KSM advisor? ============================== The number of candidate pages for KSM is dynamic. It can often be observed that during the startup of an application more candidate pages need to be processed. Without an advisor the pages_to_scan parameter needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. With the scan time advisor the pages_to_scan parameter based can be changed based on demand. Algorithm ========== The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - to limit CPU resource consumption Parameters to influence the KSM scan advisor ============================================= The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_mode 0: None (default), 1: scan time advisor - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time how many seconds a scan should of all candidate pages take - ksm_advisor_max_cpu upper limit for the cpu usage in percent of the ksmd background thread The initial value and the max value for the pages_to_scan parameter can be limited with: - ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch - ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch The default settings for the above two parameters should be suitable for most workloads. The parameters are exposed as knobs in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm. By default the scan time advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: - none and - scan-time. Resource savings ================= Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup. Once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. The new advisor works especially well if the smart scan feature is also enabled. How is defining a target scan time better? =========================================== For an administrator it is more logical to set a target scan time.. The administrator can determine how many pages are scanned on each scan. Therefore setting a target scan time makes more sense. In addition the administrator might have a good idea about the memory sizing of its respective workloads. Setting cpu limits is easier than setting The pages_to_scan parameter. The pages_to_scan parameter is per batch. For the administrator it is difficult to set the pages_to_scan parameter. Tracing ======= A new tracing event has been added for the scan time advisor. The new trace event is called ksm_advisor. It reports the scan time, the new pages_to_scan setting and the cpu usage of the ksmd background thread. Other approaches ================= Approach 1: Adapt pages_to_scan after processing each batch. If KSM merges pages, increase the scan rate, if less KSM pages, reduce the the pages_to_scan rate. This doesn't work too well. While it increases the pages_to_scan for a short period, but generally it ends up with a too low pages_to_scan rate. Approach 2: Adapt pages_to_scan after each scan. The problem with that approach is that the calculated scan rate tends to be high. The more aggressive KSM scans, the more pages it can de-duplicate. There have been earlier attempts at an advisor: propose auto-run mode of ksm and its tests (https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=166029880214485&w=2) This patch (of 5): This adds the ksm advisor. The ksm advisor automatically manages the pages_to_scan setting to achieve a target scan time. The target scan time defines how many seconds it should take to scan all the candidate KSM pages. In other words the pages_to_scan rate is changed by the advisor to achieve the target scan time. The algorithm has a max and min value to: - guarantee responsiveness to changes - limit CPU resource consumption The respective parameters are: - ksm_advisor_target_scan_time (how many seconds a scan should take) - ksm_advisor_max_cpu (maximum value for cpu percent usage) - ksm_advisor_min_pages (minimum value for pages_to_scan per batch) - ksm_advisor_max_pages (maximum value for pages_to_scan per batch) The algorithm calculates the change value based on the target scan time and the previous scan time. To avoid pertubations an exponentially weighted moving average is applied. The advisor is managed by two main parameters: target scan time, cpu max time for the ksmd background thread. These parameters determine how aggresive ksmd scans. In addition there are min and max values for the pages_to_scan parameter to make sure that its initial and max values are not set too low or too high. This ensures that it is able to react to changes quickly enough. The default values are: - target scan time: 200 secs - max cpu: 70% - min pages: 500 - max pages: 30000 By default the advisor is disabled. Currently there are two advisors: none and scan-time. Tests with various workloads have shown considerable CPU savings. Most of the workloads I have investigated have more candidate pages during startup, once the workload is stable in terms of memory, the number of candidate pages is reduced. Without the advisor, the pages_to_scan needs to be sized for the maximum number of candidate pages. So having this advisor definitely helps in reducing CPU consumption. For the instagram workload, the advisor achieves a 25% CPU reduction. Once the memory is stable, the pages_to_scan parameter gets reduced to about 40% of its max value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-18 23:10:51 +00:00
if (ksm_advisor != KSM_ADVISOR_NONE)
return -EINVAL;
err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &nr_pages);
if (err)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return -EINVAL;
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = nr_pages;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(pages_to_scan);
static ssize_t run_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_run);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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}
static ssize_t run_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
unsigned int flags;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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int err;
err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &flags);
if (err)
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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return -EINVAL;
if (flags > KSM_RUN_UNMERGE)
return -EINVAL;
/*
* KSM_RUN_MERGE sets ksmd running, and 0 stops it running.
* KSM_RUN_UNMERGE stops it running and unmerges all rmap_items,
* breaking COW to free the pages_shared (but leaves mm_slots
* on the list for when ksmd may be set running again).
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
*/
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
wait_while_offlining();
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
if (ksm_run != flags) {
ksm_run = flags;
if (flags & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE) {
mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin test_set_oom_score_adj() and compare_swap_oom_score_adj() are used to specify that current should be killed first if an oom condition occurs in between the two calls. The usage is short oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX); ... compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj); to store the thread's oom_score_adj, temporarily change it to the maximum score possible, and then restore the old value if it is still the same. This happens to still be racy, however, if the user writes OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX to /proc/pid/oom_score_adj in between the two calls. The compare_swap_oom_score_adj() will then incorrectly reset the old value prior to the write of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX. To fix this, introduce a new oom_flags_t member in struct signal_struct that will be used for per-thread oom killer flags. KSM and swapoff can now use a bit in this member to specify that threads should be killed first in oom conditions without playing around with oom_score_adj. This also allows the correct oom_score_adj to always be shown when reading /proc/pid/oom_score. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12 00:02:56 +00:00
set_current_oom_origin();
err = unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items();
mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin test_set_oom_score_adj() and compare_swap_oom_score_adj() are used to specify that current should be killed first if an oom condition occurs in between the two calls. The usage is short oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX); ... compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj); to store the thread's oom_score_adj, temporarily change it to the maximum score possible, and then restore the old value if it is still the same. This happens to still be racy, however, if the user writes OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX to /proc/pid/oom_score_adj in between the two calls. The compare_swap_oom_score_adj() will then incorrectly reset the old value prior to the write of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX. To fix this, introduce a new oom_flags_t member in struct signal_struct that will be used for per-thread oom killer flags. KSM and swapoff can now use a bit in this member to specify that threads should be killed first in oom conditions without playing around with oom_score_adj. This also allows the correct oom_score_adj to always be shown when reading /proc/pid/oom_score. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12 00:02:56 +00:00
clear_current_oom_origin();
if (err) {
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
count = err;
}
}
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
if (flags & KSM_RUN_MERGE)
wake_up_interruptible(&ksm_thread_wait);
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(run);
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_merge_across_nodes);
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
}
static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
unsigned long knob;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &knob);
if (err)
return err;
if (knob > 1)
return -EINVAL;
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
wait_while_offlining();
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
if (ksm_merge_across_nodes != knob) {
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
if (ksm_pages_shared || remove_all_stable_nodes())
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
err = -EBUSY;
else if (root_stable_tree == one_stable_tree) {
struct rb_root *buf;
/*
* This is the first time that we switch away from the
* default of merging across nodes: must now allocate
* a buffer to hold as many roots as may be needed.
* Allocate stable and unstable together:
* MAXSMP NODES_SHIFT 10 will use 16kB.
*/
buf = kcalloc(nr_node_ids + nr_node_ids, sizeof(*buf),
GFP_KERNEL);
/* Let us assume that RB_ROOT is NULL is zero */
if (!buf)
err = -ENOMEM;
else {
root_stable_tree = buf;
root_unstable_tree = buf + nr_node_ids;
/* Stable tree is empty but not the unstable */
root_unstable_tree[0] = one_unstable_tree[0];
}
}
if (!err) {
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
ksm_merge_across_nodes = knob;
ksm_nr_node_ids = knob ? 1 : nr_node_ids;
}
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
}
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
return err ? err : count;
}
KSM_ATTR(merge_across_nodes);
#endif
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
static ssize_t use_zero_pages_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_use_zero_pages);
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
}
static ssize_t use_zero_pages_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
bool value;
err = kstrtobool(buf, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_use_zero_pages = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(use_zero_pages);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
static ssize_t max_page_sharing_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_max_page_sharing);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
static ssize_t max_page_sharing_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
int knob;
err = kstrtoint(buf, 10, &knob);
if (err)
return err;
/*
* When a KSM page is created it is shared by 2 mappings. This
* being a signed comparison, it implicitly verifies it's not
* negative.
*/
if (knob < 2)
return -EINVAL;
if (READ_ONCE(ksm_max_page_sharing) == knob)
return count;
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
wait_while_offlining();
if (ksm_max_page_sharing != knob) {
if (ksm_pages_shared || remove_all_stable_nodes())
err = -EBUSY;
else
ksm_max_page_sharing = knob;
}
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
return err ? err : count;
}
KSM_ATTR(max_page_sharing);
static ssize_t pages_scanned_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_scanned);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_scanned);
static ssize_t pages_shared_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_shared);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_shared);
static ssize_t pages_sharing_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_sharing);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_sharing);
static ssize_t pages_unshared_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_unshared);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_unshared);
static ssize_t pages_volatile_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
long ksm_pages_volatile;
ksm_pages_volatile = ksm_rmap_items - ksm_pages_shared
- ksm_pages_sharing - ksm_pages_unshared;
/*
* It was not worth any locking to calculate that statistic,
* but it might therefore sometimes be negative: conceal that.
*/
if (ksm_pages_volatile < 0)
ksm_pages_volatile = 0;
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", ksm_pages_volatile);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_volatile);
static ssize_t pages_skipped_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_skipped);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_skipped);
static ssize_t ksm_zero_pages_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", ksm_zero_pages);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(ksm_zero_pages);
static ssize_t general_profit_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
long general_profit;
general_profit = (ksm_pages_sharing + ksm_zero_pages) * PAGE_SIZE -
ksm_rmap_items * sizeof(struct ksm_rmap_item);
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", general_profit);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(general_profit);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
static ssize_t stable_node_dups_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_stable_node_dups);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(stable_node_dups);
static ssize_t stable_node_chains_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_stable_node_chains);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(stable_node_chains);
static ssize_t
stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs);
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
}
static ssize_t
stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
unsigned int msecs;
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
int err;
err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &msecs);
if (err)
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
return -EINVAL;
ksm_stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs = msecs;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs);
static ssize_t full_scans_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_scan.seqnr);
}
KSM_ATTR_RO(full_scans);
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
static ssize_t smart_scan_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_smart_scan);
}
static ssize_t smart_scan_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
bool value;
err = kstrtobool(buf, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_smart_scan = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(smart_scan);
static ssize_t advisor_mode_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
const char *output;
if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_NONE)
output = "[none] scan-time";
else if (ksm_advisor == KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME)
output = "none [scan-time]";
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", output);
}
static ssize_t advisor_mode_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf,
size_t count)
{
enum ksm_advisor_type curr_advisor = ksm_advisor;
if (sysfs_streq("scan-time", buf))
ksm_advisor = KSM_ADVISOR_SCAN_TIME;
else if (sysfs_streq("none", buf))
ksm_advisor = KSM_ADVISOR_NONE;
else
return -EINVAL;
/* Set advisor default values */
if (curr_advisor != ksm_advisor)
set_advisor_defaults();
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(advisor_mode);
static ssize_t advisor_max_cpu_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", ksm_advisor_max_cpu);
}
static ssize_t advisor_max_cpu_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
unsigned long value;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_advisor_max_cpu = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(advisor_max_cpu);
static ssize_t advisor_min_pages_to_scan_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan);
}
static ssize_t advisor_min_pages_to_scan_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
unsigned long value;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(advisor_min_pages_to_scan);
static ssize_t advisor_max_pages_to_scan_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan);
}
static ssize_t advisor_max_pages_to_scan_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
unsigned long value;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_advisor_max_pages_to_scan = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(advisor_max_pages_to_scan);
static ssize_t advisor_target_scan_time_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_advisor_target_scan_time);
}
static ssize_t advisor_target_scan_time_store(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
int err;
unsigned long value;
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &value);
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
if (value < 1)
return -EINVAL;
ksm_advisor_target_scan_time = value;
return count;
}
KSM_ATTR(advisor_target_scan_time);
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] = {
&sleep_millisecs_attr.attr,
&pages_to_scan_attr.attr,
&run_attr.attr,
&pages_scanned_attr.attr,
&pages_shared_attr.attr,
&pages_sharing_attr.attr,
&pages_unshared_attr.attr,
&pages_volatile_attr.attr,
&pages_skipped_attr.attr,
&ksm_zero_pages_attr.attr,
&full_scans_attr.attr,
ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
&merge_across_nodes_attr.attr,
#endif
ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit Without a max deduplication limit for each KSM page, the list of the rmap_items associated to each stable_node can grow infinitely large. During the rmap walk each entry can take up to ~10usec to process because of IPIs for the TLB flushing (both for the primary MMU and the secondary MMUs with the MMU notifier). With only 16GB of address space shared in the same KSM page, that would amount to dozens of seconds of kernel runtime. A ~256 max deduplication factor will reduce the latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages to order of a few msec. Just doing the cond_resched() during the rmap walks is not enough, the list size must have a limit too, otherwise the caller could get blocked in (schedule friendly) kernel computations for seconds, unexpectedly. There's room for optimization to significantly reduce the IPI delivery cost during the page_referenced(), but at least for page_migration in the KSM case (used by hard NUMA bindings, compaction and NUMA balancing) it may be inevitable to send lots of IPIs if each rmap_item->mm is active on a different CPU and there are lots of CPUs. Even if we ignore the IPI delivery cost, we've still to walk the whole KSM rmap list, so we can't allow millions or billions (ulimited) number of entries in the KSM stable_node rmap_item lists. The limit is enforced efficiently by adding a second dimension to the stable rbtree. So there are three types of stable_nodes: the regular ones (identical as before, living in the first flat dimension of the stable rbtree), the "chains" and the "dups". Every "chain" and all "dups" linked into a "chain" enforce the invariant that they represent the same write protected memory content, even if each "dup" will be pointed by a different KSM page copy of that content. This way the stable rbtree lookup computational complexity is unaffected if compared to an unlimited max_sharing_limit. It is still enforced that there cannot be KSM page content duplicates in the stable rbtree itself. Adding the second dimension to the stable rbtree only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, provides for a zero memory footprint increase on 64bit archs. The memory overhead of the per-KSM page stable_tree and per virtual mapping rmap_item is unchanged. Only after the max_page_sharing limit hits, we need to allocate a stable_tree "chain" and rb_replace() the "regular" stable_node with the newly allocated stable_node "chain". After that we simply add the "regular" stable_node to the chain as a stable_node "dup" by linking hlist_dup in the stable_node_chain->hlist. This way the "regular" (flat) stable_node is converted to a stable_node "dup" living in the second dimension of the stable rbtree. During stable rbtree lookups the stable_node "chain" is identified as stable_node->rmap_hlist_len == STABLE_NODE_CHAIN (aka is_stable_node_chain()). When dropping stable_nodes, the stable_node "dup" is identified as stable_node->head == STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD (aka is_stable_node_dup()). The STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD must be an unique valid pointer never used elsewhere in any stable_node->head/node to avoid a clashes with the stable_node->node.rb_parent_color pointer, and different from &migrate_nodes. So the second field of &migrate_nodes is picked and verified as always safe with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case the list_head implementation changes in the future. The STABLE_NODE_DUP is picked as a random negative value in stable_node->rmap_hlist_len. rmap_hlist_len cannot become negative when it's a "regular" stable_node or a stable_node "dup". The stable_node_chain->nid is irrelevant. The stable_node_chain->kpfn is aliased in a union with a time field used to rate limit the stable_node_chain->hlist prunes. The garbage collection of the stable_node_chain happens lazily during stable rbtree lookups (as for all other kind of stable_nodes), or while disabling KSM with "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" while collecting the entire stable rbtree. While the "regular" stable_nodes and the stable_node "dups" must wait for their underlying tree_page to be freed before they can be freed themselves, the stable_node "chains" can be freed immediately if the stable_node->hlist turns empty. This is because the "chains" are never pointed by any page->mapping and they're effectively stable rbtree KSM self contained metadata. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix non-NUMA build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 22:36:55 +00:00
&max_page_sharing_attr.attr,
&stable_node_chains_attr.attr,
&stable_node_dups_attr.attr,
&stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs_attr.attr,
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
&use_zero_pages_attr.attr,
&general_profit_attr.attr,
mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Patch series "Smart scanning mode for KSM", v3. This patch series adds "smart scanning" for KSM. What is smart scanning? ======================= KSM evaluates all the candidate pages for each scan. It does not use historic information from previous scans. This has the effect that candidate pages that couldn't be used for KSM de-duplication continue to be evaluated for each scan. The idea of "smart scanning" is to keep historic information. With the historic information we can temporarily skip the candidate page for one or several scans. Details: ======== "Smart scanning" is to keep two small counters to store if the page has been used for KSM. One counter stores how often we already tried to use the page for KSM and the other counter stores how often we skip a page. How often we skip the candidate page depends how often a page failed KSM de-duplication. The code skips a maximum of 8 times. During testing this has shown to be a good compromise for different workloads. New sysfs knob: =============== Smart scanning is not enabled by default. With /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/smart_scan smart scanning can be enabled. Monitoring: =========== To monitor how effective smart scanning is a new sysfs knob has been introduced. /sys/kernel/mm/pages_skipped report how many pages have been skipped by smart scanning. Results: ======== - Various workloads have shown a 20% - 25% reduction in page scans For the instagram workload for instance, the number of pages scanned has been reduced from over 20M pages per scan to less than 15M pages. - Less pages scans also resulted in an overall higher de-duplication rate as some shorter lived pages could be de-duplicated additionally - Less pages scanned allows to reduce the pages_to_scan parameter and this resulted in a 25% reduction in terms of CPU. - The improvements have been observed for workloads that enable KSM with madvise as well as prctl This patch (of 4): This change adds a "smart" page scanning mode for KSM. So far all the candidate pages are continuously scanned to find candidates for de-duplication. There are a considerably number of pages that cannot be de-duplicated. This is costly in terms of CPU. By using smart scanning considerable CPU savings can be achieved. This change takes the history of scanning pages into account and skips the page scanning of certain pages for a while if de-deduplication for this page has not been successful in the past. To do this it introduces two new fields in the ksm_rmap_item structure: age and remaining_skips. age, is the KSM age and remaining_skips determines how often scanning of this page is skipped. The age field is incremented each time the page is scanned and the page cannot be de- duplicated. age updated is capped at U8_MAX. How often a page is skipped is dependent how often de-duplication has been tried so far and the number of skips is currently limited to 8. This value has shown to be effective with different workloads. The feature is currently disable by default and can be enabled with the new smart_scan knob. The feature has shown to be very effective: upt to 25% of the page scans can be eliminated; the pages_to_scan rate can be reduced by 40 - 50% and a similar de-duplication rate can be maintained. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ksm_smart_scan default true, for testing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-2-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-26 04:09:36 +00:00
&smart_scan_attr.attr,
&advisor_mode_attr.attr,
&advisor_max_cpu_attr.attr,
&advisor_min_pages_to_scan_attr.attr,
&advisor_max_pages_to_scan_attr.attr,
&advisor_target_scan_time_attr.attr,
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
NULL,
};
static const struct attribute_group ksm_attr_group = {
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
.attrs = ksm_attrs,
.name = "ksm",
};
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
static int __init ksm_init(void)
{
struct task_struct *ksm_thread;
int err;
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages) instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured zero pages. This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without breaking the COW. This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present, the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is checked to be equal to the target zero page. A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is disabled, for backwards compatibility. With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea] [imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
/* The correct value depends on page size and endianness */
zero_checksum = calc_checksum(ZERO_PAGE(0));
/* Default to false for backwards compatibility */
ksm_use_zero_pages = false;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
err = ksm_slab_init();
if (err)
goto out;
ksm_thread = kthread_run(ksm_scan_thread, NULL, "ksmd");
if (IS_ERR(ksm_thread)) {
pr_err("ksm: creating kthread failed\n");
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
err = PTR_ERR(ksm_thread);
goto out_free;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
err = sysfs_create_group(mm_kobj, &ksm_attr_group);
if (err) {
pr_err("ksm: register sysfs failed\n");
kthread_stop(ksm_thread);
goto out_free;
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
}
#else
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_MERGE; /* no way for user to start it */
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex); but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held throughout the dance. There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer. I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation. So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining() checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep. This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
/* There is no significance to this priority 100 */
hotplug_memory_notifier(ksm_memory_callback, KSM_CALLBACK_PRI);
ksm: memory hotremove migration only The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but do we need that yet? Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE candidates for migration. But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of ksm pages does not make sense yet. So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe. ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE. And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved. But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
#endif
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
return 0;
out_free:
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application tries to change them. Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child, ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes. Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans, in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures, called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an effective way. When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later. Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE). The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited). kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated, sharing identical content between different processes (pages unswappable in this release). pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages (kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count). pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping. sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default), write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running, write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak] Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
ksm_slab_free();
out:
return err;
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
}
mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig (built-in or absent) can never be modular. So using module_init as an alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading. Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing. The audit targets the following module_init users for change: mm/ksm.c bool KSM mm/mmap.c bool MMU mm/huge_memory.c bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE mm/mmu_notifier.c bool MMU_NOTIFIER Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier). However no observable impact of that difference has been observed during testing. One might think that core_initcall (l2) or postcore_initcall (l3) would be more appropriate for anything in mm/ but if we look at some actual init functions themselves, we see things like: mm/huge_memory.c --> hugepage_init --> hugepage_init_sysfs mm/mmap.c --> init_user_reserve --> sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes mm/ksm.c --> ksm_init --> sysfs_create_group and hence the choice of subsys_initcall (l4) seems reasonable, and at the same time minimizes the risk of changing the priority too drastically all at once. We can adjust further in the future. Also, several instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 23:53:30 +00:00
subsys_initcall(ksm_init);