Split __flush_tlb_range() into __flush_tlb_range_nosync() +
__flush_tlb_range(), in the same way as the existing flush_tlb_page()
arrangement. This allows calling __flush_tlb_range_nosync() to elide the
trailing DSB. Forthcoming "contpte" code will take advantage of this when
clearing the young bit from a contiguous range of ptes.
Ordering between dsb and mmu_notifier_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() has
changed, but now aligns with the ordering of __flush_tlb_page(). It has
been discussed that __flush_tlb_page() may be wrong though. Regardless,
both will be resolved separately if needed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-12-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Create a new layer for the in-table PTE manipulation APIs. For now, The
existing API is prefixed with double underscore to become the arch-private
API and the public API is just a simple wrapper that calls the private
API.
The public API implementation will subsequently be used to transparently
manipulate the contiguous bit where appropriate. But since there are
already some contig-aware users (e.g. hugetlb, kernel mapper), we must
first ensure those users use the private API directly so that the future
contig-bit manipulations in the public API do not interfere with those
existing uses.
The following APIs are treated this way:
- ptep_get
- set_pte
- set_ptes
- pte_clear
- ptep_get_and_clear
- ptep_test_and_clear_young
- ptep_clear_flush_young
- ptep_set_wrprotect
- ptep_set_access_flags
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-11-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ptep_clear() is a generic wrapper around the arch-implemented
ptep_get_and_clear(). We are about to convert ptep_get_and_clear() into a
public version and private version (__ptep_get_and_clear()) to support the
transparent contpte work. We won't have a private version of ptep_clear()
so let's convert it to directly call ptep_get_and_clear().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-10-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since set_ptes() was introduced, set_pte_at() has been implemented as a
generic macro around set_ptes(..., 1). So this change should continue to
generate the same code. However, making this change prepares us for the
transparent contpte support. It means we can reroute set_ptes() to
__set_ptes(). Since set_pte_at() is a generic macro, there will be no
equivalent __set_pte_at() to reroute to.
Note that a couple of calls to set_pte_at() remain in the arch code. This
is intentional, since those call sites are acting on behalf of core-mm and
should continue to call into the public set_ptes() rather than the
arch-private __set_ptes().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-9-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There are a number of places in the arch code that read a pte by using the
READ_ONCE() macro. Refactor these call sites to instead use the
ptep_get() helper, which itself is a READ_ONCE(). Generated code should
be the same.
This will benefit us when we shortly introduce the transparent contpte
support. In this case, ptep_get() will become more complex so we now have
all the code abstracted through it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-8-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now that the all architecture overrides of pte_next_pfn() have been
replaced with pte_advance_pfn(), we can simplify the definition of the
generic pte_next_pfn() macro so that it is unconditionally defined.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-7-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Core-mm needs to be able to advance the pfn by an arbitrary amount, so
override the new pte_advance_pfn() API to do so.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-6-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Core-mm needs to be able to advance the pfn by an arbitrary amount, so
override the new pte_advance_pfn() API to do so.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-5-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The goal is to be able to advance a PTE by an arbitrary number of PFNs.
So introduce a new API that takes a nr param. Define the default
implementation here and allow for architectures to override.
pte_next_pfn() becomes a wrapper around pte_advance_pfn().
Follow up commits will convert each overriding architecture's
pte_next_pfn() to pte_advance_pfn().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Refactor __split_huge_pmd_locked() so that a present PMD can be collapsed
to PTEs in a single batch using set_ptes().
This should improve performance a little bit, but the real motivation is
to remove the need for the arm64 backend to have to fold the contpte
entries. Instead, since the ptes are set as a batch, the contpte blocks
can be initially set up pre-folded (once the arm64 contpte support is
added in the next few patches). This leads to noticeable performance
improvement during split.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings", v6.
This is a series to opportunistically and transparently use contpte
mappings (set the contiguous bit in ptes) for user memory when those
mappings meet the requirements. The change benefits arm64, but there is
some (very) minor refactoring for x86 to enable its integration with
core-mm.
It is part of a wider effort to improve performance by allocating and
mapping variable-sized blocks of memory (folios). One aim is for the 4K
kernel to approach the performance of the 16K kernel, but without breaking
compatibility and without the associated increase in memory. Another aim
is to benefit the 16K and 64K kernels by enabling 2M THP, since this is
the contpte size for those kernels. We have good performance data that
demonstrates both aims are being met (see below).
Of course this is only one half of the change. We require the mapped
physical memory to be the correct size and alignment for this to actually
be useful (i.e. 64K for 4K pages, or 2M for 16K/64K pages). Fortunately
folios are solving this problem for us. Filesystems that support it (XFS,
AFS, EROFS, tmpfs, ...) will allocate large folios up to the PMD size
today, and more filesystems are coming. And for anonymous memory,
"multi-size THP" is now upstream.
Patch Layout
============
In this version, I've split the patches to better show each optimization:
- 1-2: mm prep: misc code and docs cleanups
- 3-6: mm,arm64,x86 prep: Add pte_advance_pfn() and make pte_next_pfn() a
generic wrapper around it
- 7-11: arm64 prep: Refactor ptep helpers into new layer
- 12: functional contpte implementation
- 23-18: various optimizations on top of the contpte implementation
Testing
=======
I've tested this series on both Ampere Altra (bare metal) and Apple M2 (VM):
- mm selftests (inc new tests written for multi-size THP); no regressions
- Speedometer Java script benchmark in Chromium web browser; no issues
- Kernel compilation; no issues
- Various tests under high memory pressure with swap enabled; no issues
Performance
===========
High Level Use Cases
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
First some high level use cases (kernel compilation and speedometer JavaScript
benchmarks). These are running on Ampere Altra (I've seen similar improvements
on Android/Pixel 6).
baseline: mm-unstable (mTHP switched off)
mTHP: + enable 16K, 32K, 64K mTHP sizes "always"
mTHP + contpte: + this series
mTHP + contpte + exefolio: + patch at [6], which series supports
Kernel Compilation with -j8 (negative is faster):
| kernel | real-time | kern-time | user-time |
|---------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| mTHP | -5.0% | -39.1% | -0.7% |
| mTHP + contpte | -6.0% | -41.4% | -1.5% |
| mTHP + contpte + exefolio | -7.8% | -43.1% | -3.4% |
Kernel Compilation with -j80 (negative is faster):
| kernel | real-time | kern-time | user-time |
|---------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| mTHP | -5.0% | -36.6% | -0.6% |
| mTHP + contpte | -6.1% | -38.2% | -1.6% |
| mTHP + contpte + exefolio | -7.4% | -39.2% | -3.2% |
Speedometer (positive is faster):
| kernel | runs_per_min |
|:--------------------------|--------------|
| baseline | 0.0% |
| mTHP | 1.5% |
| mTHP + contpte | 3.2% |
| mTHP + contpte + exefolio | 4.5% |
Micro Benchmarks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following microbenchmarks are intended to demonstrate the performance of
fork() and munmap() do not regress. I'm showing results for order-0 (4K)
mappings, and for order-9 (2M) PTE-mapped THP. Thanks to David for sharing his
benchmarks.
baseline: mm-unstable + batch zap [7] series
contpte-basic: + patches 0-19; functional contpte implementation
contpte-batch: + patches 20-23; implement new batched APIs
contpte-inline: + patch 24; __always_inline to help compiler
contpte-fold: + patch 25; fold contpte mapping when sensible
Primary platform is Ampere Altra bare metal. I'm also showing results for M2 VM
(on top of MacOS) for reference, although experience suggests this might not be
the most reliable for performance numbers of this sort:
| FORK | order-0 | order-9 |
| Ampere Altra |------------------------|------------------------|
| (pte-map) | mean | stdev | mean | stdev |
|----------------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 2.7% | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| contpte-basic | 6.3% | 1.4% | 1948.7% | 0.2% |
| contpte-batch | 7.6% | 2.0% | -1.9% | 0.4% |
| contpte-inline | 3.6% | 1.5% | -1.0% | 0.2% |
| contpte-fold | 4.6% | 2.1% | -1.8% | 0.2% |
| MUNMAP | order-0 | order-9 |
| Ampere Altra |------------------------|------------------------|
| (pte-map) | mean | stdev | mean | stdev |
|----------------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| contpte-basic | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1104.8% | 0.1% |
| contpte-batch | -0.3% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 0.1% |
| contpte-inline | -0.1% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.1% |
| contpte-fold | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.1% |
| FORK | order-0 | order-9 |
| Apple M2 VM |------------------------|------------------------|
| (pte-map) | mean | stdev | mean | stdev |
|----------------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| contpte-basic | 6.8% | 1.2% | 469.4% | 1.4% |
| contpte-batch | -7.7% | 2.0% | -8.9% | 0.7% |
| contpte-inline | -6.0% | 2.1% | -6.0% | 2.0% |
| contpte-fold | 5.9% | 1.4% | -6.4% | 1.4% |
| MUNMAP | order-0 | order-9 |
| Apple M2 VM |------------------------|------------------------|
| (pte-map) | mean | stdev | mean | stdev |
|----------------|------------|-----------|------------|-----------|
| baseline | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| contpte-basic | 1.6% | 0.6% | 233.6% | 0.7% |
| contpte-batch | 1.9% | 0.3% | -3.9% | 0.4% |
| contpte-inline | 2.2% | 0.8% | -1.6% | 0.9% |
| contpte-fold | 1.5% | 0.7% | -1.7% | 0.7% |
Misc
~~~~
John Hubbard at Nvidia has indicated dramatic 10x performance improvements
for some workloads at [8], when using 64K base page kernel.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20230622144210.2623299-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231115163018.1303287-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231204105440.61448-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231218105100.172635-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/633af0a7-0823-424f-b6ef-374d99483f05@arm.com/
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/08c16f7d-f3b3-4f22-9acc-da943f647dc3@arm.com/
[7] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240214204435.167852-1-david@redhat.com/
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/c507308d-bdd4-5f9e-d4ff-e96e4520be85@nvidia.com/
[9] https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-rr/-/tree/features/granule_perf/contpte-lkml_v6
This patch (of 18):
set_ptes() spec implies that it can only be used to set a present pte
because it interprets the PFN field to increment it. However,
set_pte_at() has been implemented on top of set_ptes() since set_ptes()
was introduced, and set_pte_at() allows setting a pte to a not-present
state. So clarify the spec to state that when nr==1, new state of pte may
be present or not present. When nr>1, new state of all ptes must be
present.
While we are at it, tighten the spec to set requirements around the
initial state of ptes; when nr==1 it may be either present or not-present.
But when nr>1 all ptes must initially be not-present. All set_ptes()
callsites already conform to this requirement. Stating it explicitly is
useful because it allows for a simplification to the upcoming arm64
contpte implementation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Similar to how we optimized fork(), let's implement PTE batching when
consecutive (present) PTEs map consecutive pages of the same large folio.
Most infrastructure we need for batching (mmu gather, rmap) is already
there. We only have to add get_and_clear_full_ptes() and
clear_full_ptes(). Similarly, extend zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() to
process a PTE range.
We won't bother sanity-checking the mapcount of all subpages, but only
check the mapcount of the first subpage we process. If there is a real
problem hiding somewhere, we can trigger it simply by using small folios,
or when we zap single pages of a large folio. Ideally, we had that check
in rmap code (including for delayed rmap), but then we cannot print the
PTE. Let's keep it simple for now. If we ever have a cheap
folio_mapcount(), we might just want to check for underflows there.
To keep small folios as fast as possible force inlining of a specialized
variant using __always_inline with nr=1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-11-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In tlb_batch_pages_flush(), we can end up freeing up to 512 pages or now
up to 256 folio fragments that span more than one page, before we
conditionally reschedule.
It's a pain that we have to handle cond_resched() in
tlb_batch_pages_flush() manually and cannot simply handle it in
release_pages() -- release_pages() can be called from atomic context.
Well, in a perfect world we wouldn't have to make our code more
complicated at all.
With page poisoning and init_on_free, we might now run into soft lockups
when we free a lot of rather large folio fragments, because page freeing
time then depends on the actual memory size we are freeing instead of on
the number of folios that are involved.
In the absolute (unlikely) worst case, on arm64 with 64k we will be able
to free up to 256 folio fragments that each span 512 MiB: zeroing out 128
GiB does sound like it might take a while. But instead of ignoring this
unlikely case, let's just handle it.
So, let's teach tlb_batch_pages_flush() that there are some configurations
where page freeing is horribly slow, and let's reschedule more frequently
-- similarly like we did for now before we had large folio fragments in
there. Avoid yet another loop over all encoded pages in the common case
by handling that separately.
Note that with page poisoning/zeroing, we might now end up freeing only a
single folio fragment at a time that might exceed the old 512 pages limit:
but if we cannot even free a single MAX_ORDER page on a system without
running into soft lockups, something else is already completely bogus.
Freeing a PMD-mapped THP would similarly cause trouble.
In theory, we might even free 511 order-0 pages + a single MAX_ORDER page,
effectively having to zero out 8703 pages on arm64 with 64k, translating
to ~544 MiB of memory: however, if 512 MiB doesn't result in soft lockups,
544 MiB is unlikely to result in soft lockups, so we won't care about that
for the time being.
In the future, we might want to detect if handling cond_resched() is
required at all, and just not do any of that with full preemption enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-10-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add __tlb_remove_folio_pages(), which will remove multiple consecutive
pages that belong to the same large folio, instead of only a single page.
We'll be using this function when optimizing unmapping/zapping of large
folios that are mapped by PTEs.
We're using the remaining spare bit in an encoded_page to indicate that
the next enoced page in an array contains actually shifted "nr_pages".
Teach swap/freeing code about putting multiple folio references, and
delayed rmap handling to remove page ranges of a folio.
This extension allows for still gathering almost as many small folios as
we used to (-1, because we have to prepare for a possibly bigger next
entry), but still allows for gathering consecutive pages that belong to
the same large folio.
Note that we don't pass the folio pointer, because it is not required for
now. Further, we don't support page_size != PAGE_SIZE, it won't be
required for simple PTE batching.
We have to provide a separate s390 implementation, but it's fairly
straight forward.
Another, more invasive and likely more expensive, approach would be to use
folio+range or a PFN range instead of page+nr_pages. But, we should do
that consistently for the whole mmu_gather. For now, let's keep it simple
and add "nr_pages" only.
Note that it is now possible to gather significantly more pages: In the
past, we were able to gather ~10000 pages, now we can also gather ~5000
folio fragments that span multiple pages. A folio fragment on x86-64 can
span up to 512 pages (2 MiB THP) and on arm64 with 64k in theory 8192
pages (512 MiB THP). Gathering more memory is not considered something we
should worry about, especially because these are already corner cases.
While we can gather more total memory, we won't free more folio fragments.
As long as page freeing time primarily only depends on the number of
involved folios, there is no effective change for !preempt configurations.
However, we'll adjust tlb_batch_pages_flush() separately to handle corner
cases where page freeing time grows proportionally with the actual memory
size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-9-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's add a helper that lets us batch-process multiple consecutive PTEs.
Note that the loop will get optimized out on all architectures except on
powerpc. We have to add an early define of __tlb_remove_tlb_entry() on
ppc to make the compiler happy (and avoid making tlb_remove_tlb_entries()
a macro).
[arnd@kernel.org: change __tlb_remove_tlb_entry() to an inline function]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240221154549.2026073-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-8-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Nowadays, encoded pages are only used in mmu_gather handling. Let's
update the documentation, and define ENCODED_PAGE_BIT_DELAY_RMAP. While
at it, rename ENCODE_PAGE_BITS to ENCODED_PAGE_BITS.
If encoded page pointers would ever be used in other context again, we'd
likely want to change the defines to reflect their context (e.g.,
ENCODED_PAGE_FLAG_MMU_GATHER_DELAY_RMAP). For now, let's keep it simple.
This is a preparation for using the remaining spare bit to indicate that
the next item in an array of encoded pages is a "nr_pages" argument and
not an encoded page.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We have two bits available in the encoded page pointer to store additional
information. Currently, we use one bit to request delay of the rmap
removal until after a TLB flush.
We want to make use of the remaining bit internally for batching of
multiple pages of the same folio, specifying that the next encoded page
pointer in an array is actually "nr_pages". So pass page + delay_rmap
flag instead of an encoded page, to handle the encoding internally.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's prepare for further changes by factoring it out into a separate
function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We don't need up-to-date accessed-dirty information for anon folios and
can simply work with the ptent we already have. Also, we know the RSS
counter we want to update.
We can safely move arch_check_zapped_pte() + tlb_remove_tlb_entry() +
zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() after updating the folio and RSS.
While at it, only call zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() if there is even
any chance that pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() would do *something*.
That is, just don't bother if uffd-wp does not apply.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We don't need uptodate accessed/dirty bits, so in theory we could replace
ptep_get_and_clear_full() by an optimized ptep_clear_full() function.
Let's rely on the provided pte.
Further, there is no scenario where we would have to insert uffd-wp
markers when zapping something that is not a normal page (i.e., zeropage).
Add a sanity check to make sure this remains true.
should_zap_folio() no longer has to handle NULL pointers. This change
replaces 2/3 "!page/!folio" checks by a single "!page" one.
Note that arch_check_zapped_pte() on x86-64 checks the HW-dirty bit to
detect shadow stack entries. But for shadow stack entries, the HW dirty
bit (in combination with non-writable PTEs) is set by software. So for
the arch_check_zapped_pte() check, we don't have to sync against HW
setting the HW dirty bit concurrently, it is always set.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP", v3.
This series is based on [1]. Similar to what we did with fork(), let's
implement PTE batching during unmap/zap when processing PTE-mapped THPs.
We collect consecutive PTEs that map consecutive pages of the same large
folio, making sure that the other PTE bits are compatible, and (a) adjust
the refcount only once per batch, (b) call rmap handling functions only
once per batch, (c) perform batch PTE setting/updates and (d) perform TLB
entry removal once per batch.
Ryan was previously working on this in the context of cont-pte for arm64,
int latest iteration [2] with a focus on arm6 with cont-pte only. This
series implements the optimization for all architectures, independent of
such PTE bits, teaches MMU gather/TLB code to be fully aware of such
large-folio-pages batches as well, and amkes use of our new rmap batching
function when removing the rmap.
To achieve that, we have to enlighten MMU gather / page freeing code
(i.e., everything that consumes encoded_page) to process unmapping of
consecutive pages that all belong to the same large folio. I'm being very
careful to not degrade order-0 performance, and it looks like I managed to
achieve that.
While this series should -- similar to [1] -- be beneficial for adding
cont-pte support on arm64[2], it's one of the requirements for maintaining
a total mapcount[3] for large folios with minimal added overhead and
further changes[4] that build up on top of the total mapcount.
Independent of all that, this series results in a speedup during munmap()
and similar unmapping (process teardown, MADV_DONTNEED on larger ranges)
with PTE-mapped THP, which is the default with THPs that are smaller than
a PMD (for example, 16KiB to 1024KiB mTHPs for anonymous memory[5]).
On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU, munmap'ing a 1GiB VMA backed by
PTE-mapped folios of the same size (stddev < 1%) results in the following
runtimes for munmap() in seconds (shorter is better):
Folio Size | mm-unstable | New | Change
---------------------------------------------
4KiB | 0.058110 | 0.057715 | - 1%
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[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129124649.189745-1-david@redhat.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218105100.172635-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809083256.699513-1-david@redhat.com
[4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231124132626.235350-1-david@redhat.com
[5] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
This patch (of 10):
Let's prepare for further changes by factoring out processing of present
PTEs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a selftest to cover the zswapin code path, allocating more memory than
the cgroup limit to trigger swapout/zswapout, then reading the pages back
in memory several times. This is inspired by a recently encountered
kernel crash on the zswapin path in our internal kernel, which went
undetected because of a lack of test coverage for this path.
Add a selftest to verify that when memory.zswap.max = 0, no pages can go
to the zswap pool for the cgroup.
[nphamcs@gmail.com: remove redundant comment, add success checks]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222043132.616320-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205225608.3083251-4-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "fix and extend zswap kselftests", v3.
Fix a broken zswap kselftest due to cgroup zswap writeback counter
renaming, and add 2 zswap kselftests, one to cover the (z)swapin case, and
another to check that no zswapping happens when the cgroup limit is 0.
Also, add the zswap kselftest file to zswap maintainer entry so that
get_maintainers script can find zswap maintainers.
This patch (of 3):
Make it easier for contributors to find the zswap maintainers when they
update the zswap tests.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205225608.3083251-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205225608.3083251-2-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
It can not improve the fragmentation if we isolate the target free pages
exceeding cc->order, especially when the cc->order is less than
pageblock_order. For example, suppose the pageblock_order is MAX_ORDER
(size is 4M) and cc->order is 2M THP size, we should not isolate other 2M
free pages to be the migration target, which can not improve the
fragmentation.
Moreover this is also applicable for large folio compaction.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/afcd9377351c259df7a25a388a4a0d5862b986f4.1705928395.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently zram allocates 2 physically contiguous pages per-CPU's
compression stream (we may have up to 4 streams per-CPU). Since those
buffers are per-CPU we allocate them from CPU hotplug path, which may have
higher risks of failed allocations on devices with fragmented memory.
Switch to virtually contiguous allocations - crypto comp does not seem
impose requirements on compression working buffers to be physically
contiguous.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240213065400.6561-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All platforms could benefit from page order check against MAX_PAGE_ORDER
before allocating a CMA area for gigantic hugetlb pages. Let's move this
check from individual platforms to generic hugetlb.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209054221.1403364-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The reclaimable number of anon pages used to set initial reclaim priority
is only based on get_swappiness(). Use can_reclaim_anon_pages() to
include NUMA node demotion.
Also move the swappiness handling of when !__GFP_IO in
try_to_shrink_lruvec() into isolate_folios().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-6-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rename max_seq to seq in struct lru_gen_mm_walk to keep consistent with
struct lru_gen_mm_state. Note that seq is not always up to date with
max_seq from lru_gen_folio.
No functional changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-5-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
struct lruvec* is already a field of struct lru_gen_mm_walk. Remove the
parameter struct lruvec* into functions that already have access to struct
lru_gen_mm_walk*.
Also, we do not need to handle reset histogram stats when
!should_walk_mmu(). Remove the call to reset_mm_stats() in
iterate_mm_list_nowalk().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-4-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
scan_control *sc does not need to be passed into should_run_aging(), as it
provides only the reclaim priority. This can be moved to
get_nr_to_scan().
Refactor should_run_aging() and get_nr_to_scan() to improve code
readability. No functional changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-3-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and refactoring"
This provides MGLRU code cleanup and refactoring for better readability.
This patch (of 5):
struct scan_control *sc is currently passed into try_to_inc_max_seq() and
run_aging(). This parameter is not used.
Drop the unused parameter struct scan_control *sc. No functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-1-kinseyho@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214060538.3524462-2-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The out-of-bounds test allocates an object that is three bytes too short
in order to validate the bounds checking. Starting with gcc-14, this
causes a compile-time warning as gcc has grown smart enough to understand
the sizeof() logic:
mm/kasan/kasan_test.c: In function 'kmalloc_oob_16':
mm/kasan/kasan_test.c:443:14: error: allocation of insufficient size '13' for type 'struct <anonymous>' with size '16' [-Werror=alloc-size]
443 | ptr1 = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr1) - 3, GFP_KERNEL);
| ^
Hide the actual computation behind a RELOC_HIDE() that ensures
the compiler misses the intentional bug.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240212111609.869266-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 3f15801cdc ("lib: add kasan test module")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The memalloc_noreclaim_save() function currently has no documentation
comment, so the implications of its usage are not obvious. Namely that it
not only prevents entering reclaim (as the name suggests), but also allows
using all memory reserves and thus should be only used in contexts that
are allocating memory to free memory. This may lead to new improper
usages being added.
Thus add a documenting comment, based on the description of
__GFP_MEMALLOC. While at it, also document memalloc_pin_save() so that
all the memalloc_ scopes are documented. For those already documented,
add missing Return: descriptions, and mark Context: description per
kernel-docs style guide.
In the comments describing the relevant PF_MEMALLOC flags, refer to their
scope setting functions.
[vbabka@suse.cz: fix issues that Mike pointed out]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215095827.13756-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240212182950.32730-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We may encounter duplicate entry in the zswap_store():
1. swap slot that freed to per-cpu swap cache, doesn't invalidate
the zswap entry, then got reused. This has been fixed.
2. !exclusive load mode, swapin folio will leave its zswap entry
on the tree, then swapout again. This has been removed.
3. one folio can be dirtied again after zswap_store(), so need to
zswap_store() again. This should be handled correctly.
So we must invalidate the old duplicate entry before inserting the
new one, which actually doesn't have to be done at the beginning
of zswap_store().
The good point is that we don't need to lock the tree twice in the normal
store success path. And cleanup the loop as we are here.
Note we still need to invalidate the old duplicate entry when store failed
or zswap is disabled , otherwise the new data in swapfile could be
overwrite by the old data in zswap pool when lru writeback.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209044112.3883835-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Every test result report in the compaction test prints a distinct log
messae, and some of the reports print a name that varies at runtime. This
causes problems for automation since a lot of automation software uses the
printed string as the name of the test, if the name varies from run to run
and from pass to fail then the automation software can't identify that a
test changed result or that the same tests are being run.
Refactor the logging to use a consistent name when printing the result of
the test, printing the existing messages as diagnostic information instead
so they are still available for people trying to interpret the results.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209-kselftest-mm-cleanup-v1-2-a3c0386496b5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction test".
A couple of small updates for the check_compaction selftest which make
it play more nicely with test automation systems.
This patch (of 2):
When the compaction test is run it checks to make sure that prerequistives
the test requires are available and skips the tests if not. When this
happens we log the test as a pass rather than a skip, log as a skip so
that the distinction is clear and automation can see unexpected skips.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209-kselftest-mm-cleanup-v1-0-a3c0386496b5@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240209-kselftest-mm-cleanup-v1-1-a3c0386496b5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Refactor compact_node() to handle both proactive and synchronous compact
memory, which cleanups code a bit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240208013607.1731817-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This adds the following new sysfs file tracking the number of successfully
released pages from a given CMA heap area. This file will be available
via CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS and help in determining active CMA pages available on
the CMA heap area. This adds a new 'nr_pages_released' (CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS)
into 'struct cma' which gets updated during cma_release().
/sys/kernel/mm/cma/<cma-heap-area>/release_pages_success
After this change, an user will be able to find active CMA pages available
in a given CMA heap area via the following method.
Active pages = alloc_pages_success - release_pages_success
That's valuable information for both software designers, and system admins
as it allows them to tune the number of CMA pages available in the system.
This increases user visibility for allocated CMA area and its
utilization.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206045731.472759-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON debugfs selftests dependency checker assumes debugfs would be
mounted at /sys/kernel/debug. That would be ok for many cases, but some
systems might mounted the file system on some different places. Parse the
real mount point using /proc/mounts file.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit ebb3f994dd ("mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in
'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'") fixes a pid leak bug in DAMON debugfs
interface, namely dbgfs_target_ids_write() function. Add a selftest for
the issue to prevent the problem from mistakenly recurring.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
commit 3479641796 ("mm/damon/dbgfs: protect targets destructions with
kdamond_lock") fixed a race of DAMON debugfs interface. Specifically, the
race was happening between target_ids_read() and dbgfs_before_terminate().
Add a test for the issue to prevent the problem from accidentally
recurring.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a selftest for DAMOS apply intervals. It runs two schemes having
different apply interval agains an artificial memory access workload, and
check if the scheme with smaller apply interval was applied more
frequently.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a selftest for verifying the DAMOS quota feature. The test is very
similar to sysfs_update_schemes_tried_regions_wss_estimation.py. It
starts an artificial workload of 20 MiB working set, run DAMON to find the
working set size, but with 1 MiB/100 ms size quota. Then, it collect the
DAMON-found working set size every 100 ms and check if the quota was
always applied as expected. For the confirmation, the tests shows the
stat-applied region size and the qt_exceeds stat.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Update the test-purpose DAMON sysfs control Python module to support DAMOS
apply interval.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Update the test-purpose DAMON sysfs control Python module to support DAMOS
stats.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and
corner cases".
Continue DAMON selftests' test coverage improvement works with a trivial
improvement of the test code itself. The sequence of the patches in
patchset is as follows.
The first five patches add two DAMON core functionalities tests. Those
begins with three patches (patches 1-3) that update the test-purpose DAMON
sysfs interface wrapper to support DAMOS quota, stats, and apply interval
features, respectively. The fourth patch implements and adds a selftest
for DAMOS quota feature, using the DAMON sysfs interface wrapper's newly
added support of the quota and the stats feature. The fifth patch further
implements and adds a selftest for DAMOS apply interval using the DAMON
sysfs interface wrapper's newly added support of the apply interval and
the stats feature.
Two patches (patches 6 and 7) for implementing and adding two corner cases
handling selftests follow. Those try to avoid two previously fixed bugs
from recurring.
Finally, a patch for making DAMON debugfs selftests dependency checker to
use /proc/mounts instead of the hard-coded mount point assumption follows.
This patch (of 8):
Update the test-purpose DAMON sysfs control Python module to support DAMOS
quota.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207203134.69976-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Some architectures, such as arm, have implemented optimized copy_page for
full page copying.
Replace the full page memcpy with copy_page to take advantage of the
optimization.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231007070554.8657-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: YJ Chiang <yj.chiang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, when a demotion occurs, it will prioritize selecting a node
from the preferred targets as the destination node for the demotion. If
the preferred node does not meet the requirements, it will try from all
the lower memory tier nodes until it finds a suitable demotion destination
node or ultimately fails.
However, the demotion target information isn't exposed to the users,
especially the preferred target information, which relies on more factors.
This makes it hard for users to understand the exact demotion behavior.
Rather than having a new sysfs interface to expose this information,
printing directly to kernel messages, just like the current page
allocation fallback order does.
A dmesg example with this patch is as follows:
[ 0.704860] Demotion targets for Node 0: null
[ 0.705456] Demotion targets for Node 1: null
// node 2 is onlined
[ 32.259775] Demotion targets for Node 0: perferred: 2, fallback: 2
[ 32.261290] Demotion targets for Node 1: perferred: 2, fallback: 2
[ 32.262726] Demotion targets for Node 2: null
// node 3 is onlined
[ 42.448809] Demotion targets for Node 0: perferred: 2, fallback: 2-3
[ 42.450704] Demotion targets for Node 1: perferred: 2, fallback: 2-3
[ 42.452556] Demotion targets for Node 2: perferred: 3, fallback: 3
[ 42.454136] Demotion targets for Node 3: null
// node 4 is onlined
[ 52.676833] Demotion targets for Node 0: perferred: 2, fallback: 2-4
[ 52.678735] Demotion targets for Node 1: perferred: 2, fallback: 2-4
[ 52.680493] Demotion targets for Node 2: perferred: 4, fallback: 3-4
[ 52.682154] Demotion targets for Node 3: null
[ 52.683405] Demotion targets for Node 4: null
// node 5 is onlined
[ 62.931902] Demotion targets for Node 0: perferred: 2, fallback: 2-5
[ 62.938266] Demotion targets for Node 1: perferred: 5, fallback: 2-5
[ 62.943515] Demotion targets for Node 2: perferred: 4, fallback: 3-4
[ 62.947471] Demotion targets for Node 3: null
[ 62.949908] Demotion targets for Node 4: null
[ 62.952137] Demotion targets for Node 5: perferred: 3, fallback: 3-4
Regarding this requirement, we have previously discussed [1]. The initial
proposal involved introducing a new sysfs interface. However, due to
concerns about potential changes and compatibility issues with the
interface in the future, a consensus was not reached with the community.
Therefore, this time, we are directly printing out the information.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/d1d5add8-8f4a-4578-8bf0-2cbe79b09989@fujitsu.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206020151.605516-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ryan Roberts