Currently, DAMON sysfs interface doesn't provide a way for adjusting DAMON
input parameters while it is turned on. Therefore, users who want to
reconfigure DAMON need to stop DAMON and restart. This means all the
monitoring results that accumulated so far, which could be useful, should
be flushed. This would be inefficient for many cases.
For an example, let's suppose a sysadmin was running a DAMON-based
Operation Scheme to find memory regions not accessed for more than 5 mins
and page out the regions. If it turns out the 5 mins threshold was too
long and therefore the sysadmin wants to reduce it to 4 mins, the sysadmin
should turn off DAMON, restart it, and wait for at least 4 more minutes so
that DAMON can find the cold memory regions, even though DAMON was knowing
there are regions that not accessed for 4 mins at the time of shutdown.
This commit makes DAMON sysfs interface to support online DAMON input
parameters updates by adding a new input keyword for the 'state' DAMON
sysfs file, 'commit'. Writing the keyword to the 'state' file while the
corresponding kdamond is running makes the kdamond to read the sysfs file
values again and update the DAMON context.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-12-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Only '->kdamond' and '->kdamond_stop' are protected by 'kdamond_lock' of
'struct damon_ctx'. All other DAMON context internal data items are
recommended to be accessed in DAMON callbacks, or under some additional
synchronizations. But, DAMON sysfs is accessing the schemes stat under
'kdamond_lock'.
It makes no big issue as the read values are not used anywhere inside
kernel, but would better to be fixed. This commit moves the reads to
DAMON callback context, as supposed to be used for the purpose.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-11-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs 'state' file handling code is using string literals in both
'state_show()' and 'state_store()'. This makes the code error prone and
inflexible for future extensions.
To improve the situation, this commit defines possible input strings and
'enum' for identifying each input keyword only once, and refactors the
code to reuse those.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-10-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
'damon_set_regions()' is general enough so that it can also be used for
only creating regions. This commit makes DAMON sysfs interface to reuse
the function rather keeping two implementations for a same purpose.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit separates DAMON sysfs interface's monitoring context targets
setup code to a new function for better readability.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Having multiple targets for physical address space monitoring makes no
sense. This commit prohibits such a ridiculous DAMON context setup my
making the DAMON context build function to check and return an error for
the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429160606.127307-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit makes DAMON sysfs interface to support the fixed virtual
address ranges monitoring. After this commit, writing 'fvaddr' to the
'operations' DAMON sysfs file makes DAMON uses the monitoring operations
set for fixed virtual address ranges, so that users can monitor accesses
to only interested virtual address ranges.
[sj@kernel.org: fix pid leak under fvaddr ops use case]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220503220531.45913-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426231750.48822-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "support fixed virtual address ranges monitoring".
The monitoring operations set for virtual address spaces automatically
updates the monitoring target regions to cover entire mappings of the
virtual address spaces as much as possible. Some users could have more
information about their programs than kernel and therefore have interest
in not entire regions but only specific regions. For such cases, the
automatic monitoring target regions updates are only unnecessary overhead
or distractions.
This patchset adds supports for the use case on DAMON's kernel API
(DAMON_OPS_FVADDR) and sysfs interface ('fvaddr' keyword for 'operations'
sysfs file).
This patch (of 3):
The monitoring operations set for virtual address spaces automatically
updates the monitoring target regions to cover entire mappings of the
virtual address spaces as much as possible. Some users could have more
information about their programs than kernel and therefore have interest
in not entire regions but only specific regions. For such cases, the
automatic monitoring target regions updates are only unnecessary overheads
or distractions.
For such cases, DAMON's API users can simply set the '->init()' and
'->update()' of the DAMON context's '->ops' NULL, and set the target
monitoring regions when creating the context. But, that would be a dirty
hack. Worse yet, the hack is unavailable for DAMON user space interface
users.
To support the use case in a clean way that can easily exported to the
user space, this commit adds another monitoring operations set called
'fvaddr', which is same to 'vaddr' but does not automatically update the
monitoring regions. Instead, it will only respect the virtual address
regions which have explicitly passed at the initial context creation.
Note that this commit leave sysfs interface not supporting the feature
yet. The support will be made in a following commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426231750.48822-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426231750.48822-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON programming interface users can know if specific monitoring ops set
is registered or not using 'damon_is_registered_ops()', but there is no
such method for the user space. To help the case, this commit adds a new
DAMON sysfs file called 'avail_operations' under each context directory
for listing available monitoring ops. Reading the file will list each
registered monitoring ops on each line.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220426203843.45238-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In damon_sysfs_kdamond_release(), we have use container_of() to get
"kdamond" pointer, so there no need to get it once again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303075314.22502-1-xhao@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit links the DAMON sysfs interface to DAMON so that users can
control DAMON via the interface. In detail, this commit makes writing
'on' to 'state' file constructs DAMON contexts based on values that users
have written to relevant sysfs files and start the context. It supports
only virtual address spaces monitoring at the moment, though.
The files hierarchy of DAMON sysfs interface after this commit is shown
below. In the below figure, parents-children relations are represented
with indentations, each directory is having ``/`` suffix, and files in
each directory are separated by comma (",").
/sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin
│ kdamonds/nr_kdamonds
│ │ 0/state,pid
│ │ │ contexts/nr_contexts
│ │ │ │ 0/operations
│ │ │ │ │ monitoring_attrs/
│ │ │ │ │ │ intervals/sample_us,aggr_us,update_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ targets/nr_targets
│ │ │ │ │ │ 0/pid_target
│ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ ...
│ │ ...
The usage is straightforward. Writing a number ('N') to each 'nr_*' file
makes directories named '0' to 'N-1'. Users can construct DAMON contexts
by writing proper values to the files in the straightforward manner and
start each kdamond by writing 'on' to 'kdamonds/<N>/state'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228081314.5770-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON's debugfs-based user interface served very well, so far. However,
it unnecessarily depends on debugfs, while DAMON is not aimed to be used
for only debugging. Also, the interface receives multiple values via one
file. For example, schemes file receives 18 values separated by white
spaces. As a result, it is ineffient, hard to be used, and difficult to
be extended. Especially, keeping backward compatibility of user space
tools is getting only challenging. It would be better to implement
another reliable and flexible interface and deprecate the debugfs
interface in long term.
To this end, this commit implements a stub of a part of the new user
interface of DAMON using sysfs. Specifically, this commit implements the
sysfs control parts for virtual address space monitoring.
More specifically, the idea of the new interface is, using directory
hierarchies and making one file for one value. The hierarchy that this
commit is introducing is as below. In the below figure, parents-children
relations are represented with indentations, each directory is having
``/`` suffix, and files in each directory are separated by comma (",").
/sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin
│ kdamonds/nr_kdamonds
│ │ 0/state,pid
│ │ │ contexts/nr_contexts
│ │ │ │ 0/operations
│ │ │ │ │ monitoring_attrs/
│ │ │ │ │ │ intervals/sample_us,aggr_us,update_us
│ │ │ │ │ │ nr_regions/min,max
│ │ │ │ │ targets/nr_targets
│ │ │ │ │ │ 0/pid_target
│ │ │ │ │ │ ...
│ │ │ │ ...
│ │ ...
Writing a number <N> to each 'nr' file makes directories of name <0> to
<N-1> in the directory of the 'nr' file. That's all this commit does.
Writing proper values to relevant files will construct the DAMON contexts,
and writing a special keyword, 'on', to 'state' files for each kdamond
will ask DAMON to start the constructed contexts.
For a short example, using below commands for monitoring virtual address
spaces of a given workload is imaginable:
# cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/
# echo 1 > kdamonds/nr_kdamonds
# echo 1 > kdamonds/0/contexts/nr_contexts
# echo vaddr > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/operations
# echo 1 > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/targets/nr_targets
# echo $(pidof <workload>) > kdamonds/0/contexts/0/targets/0/pid_target
# echo on > kdamonds/0/state
Please note that this commit is implementing only the sysfs part stub as
abovely mentioned. This commit doesn't implement the special keywords for
'state' files. Following commits will do that.
[jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com: fix missing error code in damon_sysfs_attrs_add_dirs()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220302111120.24984-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228081314.5770-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SeongJae Park