linux-stable/mm
Yu Zhao bd74fdaea1 mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks
To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables
to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages.  A kill switch will be
added in the next patch to disable this behavior.  When disabled, the
aging relies on the rmap only.

NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the
2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages
to swapcache and unmaps them.

To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal
of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page
tables and the rmap, as usual.

An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows
its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated.  Given an
lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls
walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages
before it increments max_seq.

When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets
a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently.  Page table
walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated,
pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current
memcg is under reclaim.  Similarly, page table walkers will not promote
pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim.

This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables:
1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that
   page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since
   the last iteration.
2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so
   that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the
   query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or
   misplaced pages.
3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when
   CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y.
4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table
   spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the
   range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This
   improves the cache performance for workloads that have large
   numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5.

Server benchmark results:
  Single workload:
    fio (buffered I/O): no change

  Single workload:
    memcached (anon): +[8, 10]%
                Ops/sec      KB/sec
      patch1-7: 1147696.57   44640.29
      patch1-8: 1245274.91   48435.66

  Configurations:
    no change

Client benchmark results:
  kswapd profiles:
    patch1-7
      48.16%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
       8.20%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
       7.06%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       2.92%  ptep_clear_flush
       2.53%  __zram_bvec_write
       2.11%  do_raw_spin_lock
       2.02%  memmove
       1.93%  lru_gen_look_around
       1.56%  free_unref_page_list
       1.40%  memset

    patch1-8
      49.44%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
       6.19%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
       5.97%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       3.13%  get_pfn_folio
       2.85%  ptep_clear_flush
       2.42%  __zram_bvec_write
       2.08%  do_raw_spin_lock
       1.92%  memmove
       1.44%  alloc_zspage
       1.36%  memset

  Configurations:
    no change

Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3].
  kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/
[2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-9-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
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damon Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-09-26 13:13:15 -07:00
kasan - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
kfence kfence: add sysfs interface to disable kfence for selected slabs. 2022-09-11 20:25:52 -07:00
backing-dev.c mm: backing-dev: Remove the unneeded result variable 2022-09-11 20:26:02 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: Convert all PageMovable users to movable_operations 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
bootmem_info.c bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem 2022-08-28 14:02:45 -07:00
cma.c Revert "mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock" 2022-05-13 15:11:26 -07:00
cma.h mm/cma: provide option to opt out from exposing pages on activation failure 2022-03-22 15:57:09 -07:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug: show complete cma name in debugfs directories 2022-09-11 20:25:50 -07:00
cma_sysfs.c
compaction.c mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running() 2022-09-11 20:26:04 -07:00
debug.c mm: unexport page_init_poison 2022-03-24 19:06:45 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm 2022-06-27 12:52:53 -07:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: revert "make dma pool to use kmalloc_node" 2022-01-15 16:30:28 +02:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: declare early_memremap_pgprot_adjust() 2022-03-22 15:57:11 -07:00
fadvise.c riscv: compat: syscall: Add compat_sys_call_table implementation 2022-04-26 13:36:25 -07:00
failslab.c mm: fix missing handler for __GFP_NOWARN 2022-05-19 14:08:55 -07:00
filemap.c delayacct: support re-entrance detection of thrashing accounting 2022-09-26 19:46:07 -07:00
folio-compat.c mm/folio-compat: Remove migration compatibility functions 2022-08-02 12:34:04 -04:00
frontswap.c frontswap: don't call ->init if no ops are registered 2022-09-26 12:14:34 -07:00
gup.c Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-09-26 13:13:15 -07:00
gup_test.c mm: rename is_pinnable_page() to is_longterm_pinnable_page() 2022-07-17 17:14:27 -07:00
gup_test.h
highmem.c - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
hmm.c mm/swap: add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
hugetlb.c Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-09-26 13:13:15 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: use helper for_each_hstate and hstate_index 2022-09-11 20:25:53 -07:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.c mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: simplify reset_struct_pages() 2022-09-11 20:25:58 -07:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.h mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: improve hugetlb_vmemmap code readability 2022-08-08 18:06:43 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/memory-failure: disable unpoison once hw error happens 2022-06-16 19:11:32 -07:00
init-mm.c kernel/fork: Initialize mm's PASID 2022-02-14 19:51:47 +01:00
internal.h mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
interval_tree.c
io-mapping.c
ioremap.c mm: ioremap: Add ioremap/iounmap_allowed() 2022-06-27 12:22:31 +01:00
Kconfig mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Two followon fixes for the post-5.19 series "Use pageblock_order for cma 2022-05-27 11:40:49 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: MADV_COLLAPSE: refetch vm_end after reacquiring mmap_lock 2022-09-26 19:46:03 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak: make create_object return void 2022-09-11 20:26:10 -07:00
ksm.c mm: fix PageAnonExclusive clearing racing with concurrent RCU GUP-fast 2022-09-11 20:26:11 -07:00
list_lru.c mm: kmem: make mem_cgroup_from_obj() vmalloc()-safe 2022-06-16 19:48:31 -07:00
maccess.c asm-generic updates for 5.18 2022-03-23 18:03:08 -07:00
madvise.c Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-09-26 13:13:15 -07:00
Makefile mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers 2022-07-03 18:08:40 -07:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c mm: move tlb_flush_pending inline helpers to mm_inline.h 2022-01-15 16:30:27 +02:00
memblock.c memblock updates for v5.20 2022-08-09 09:48:30 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
memfd.c memfd: fix F_SEAL_WRITE after shmem huge page allocated 2022-03-05 11:08:32 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm/swap: add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
memory.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running() 2022-09-11 20:26:04 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/hugetlb: add dedicated func to get 'allowed' nodemask for current process 2022-09-11 20:25:50 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool: use might_alloc() 2022-06-16 19:48:30 -07:00
memremap.c mm/mremap_pages: save a few cycles in get_dev_pagemap() 2022-09-11 20:26:11 -07:00
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: migrate: do not retry 10 times for the subpages of fail-to-migrate THP 2022-09-26 19:46:07 -07:00
migrate_device.c mm: remember young/dirty bit for page migrations 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
mincore.c mm: teach core mm about pte markers 2022-05-13 07:20:09 -07:00
mlock.c mm: handling Non-LRU pages returned by vm_normal_pages 2022-07-17 17:14:28 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
mmap.c mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP boundaries 2022-09-11 20:25:47 -07:00
mmap_lock.c
mmu_gather.c mm/mmu_gather: limit free batch count and add schedule point in tlb_batch_pages_flush 2022-04-28 23:16:12 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier.c: fix race in mmu_interval_notifier_remove() 2022-04-21 20:01:10 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
mprotect.c memory tiering: hot page selection with hint page fault latency 2022-09-11 20:25:54 -07:00
mremap.c Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of readonly 2022-05-26 12:32:41 -07:00
msync.c
nommu.c mm: nommu: pass a pointer to virt_to_page() 2022-07-17 17:14:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: fix vm_oom_kill_table[] ifdeffery 2022-06-01 15:57:16 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device 2022-08-28 14:02:43 -07:00
page_alloc.c Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-09-26 13:13:15 -07:00
page_counter.c mm: page_counter: remove unneeded atomic ops for low/min 2022-09-11 20:26:01 -07:00
page_ext.c page_ext: introduce boot parameter 'early_page_ext' 2022-09-11 20:26:02 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: don't be stuck to rmap lock on reclaim path 2022-05-19 14:08:54 -07:00
page_io.c mm/page_io: count submission time as thrashing delay for delayacct 2022-09-26 19:46:08 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation: fix isolate_single_pageblock() isolation behavior 2022-09-26 12:14:34 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner.c: add llseek for page_owner 2022-09-11 20:25:59 -07:00
page_poison.c
page_reporting.c
page_reporting.h
page_table_check.c mm: fix use-after free of page_ext after race with memory-offline 2022-09-11 20:25:57 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/swap: add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: pagewalk: add api documentation for walk_page_range_novma() 2022-09-11 20:26:00 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace 2022-05-13 07:20:18 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c mm: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc for array allocations 2022-03-08 09:30:46 -05:00
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm: percpu: use kmemleak_ignore_phys() instead of kmemleak_free() 2022-07-17 17:14:47 -07:00
pgalloc-track.h
pgtable-generic.c mm: avoid unnecessary flush on change_huge_pmd() 2022-05-13 07:20:05 -07:00
process_vm_access.c
ptdump.c mm: sparsemem: use page table lock to protect kernel pmd operations 2022-03-22 15:57:08 -07:00
readahead.c filemap: Fix serialization adding transparent huge pages to page cache 2022-06-23 12:22:00 -04:00
rmap.c mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
rodata_test.c
secretmem.c mm: fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR 2022-09-11 16:22:31 -07:00
shmem.c shmem: update folio if shmem_replace_page() updates the page 2022-08-28 14:02:43 -07:00
shrinker_debug.c mm: shrinkers: fix double kfree on shrinker name 2022-07-29 18:07:13 -07:00
shuffle.c
shuffle.h
slab.c - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
slab.h mm/slab_common: move generic bulk alloc/free functions to SLOB 2022-07-20 13:30:12 +02:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common: move generic bulk alloc/free functions to SLOB 2022-07-20 13:30:12 +02:00
slob.c mm/slab_common: move generic bulk alloc/free functions to SLOB 2022-07-20 13:30:12 +02:00
slub.c kfence: add sysfs interface to disable kfence for selected slabs. 2022-09-11 20:25:52 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: move vmemmap code related to HugeTLB to hugetlb_vmemmap.c 2022-08-08 18:06:42 -07:00
sparse.c mm: memory_hotplug: enumerate all supported section flags 2022-07-03 18:08:49 -07:00
swap.c mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
swap.h mm/swap: remove the end_write_func argument to __swap_writepage 2022-09-11 20:25:50 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc for array allocations 2022-03-08 09:30:46 -05:00
swap_slots.c arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64 2022-07-20 10:52:40 +01:00
swap_state.c mm: fix VM_BUG_ON in __delete_from_swap_cache() 2022-09-11 16:22:31 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: cache swap migration A/D bits support 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Remove __delete_from_page_cache() 2022-06-29 08:51:05 -04:00
usercopy.c usercopy: use unsigned long instead of uintptr_t 2022-07-01 17:03:38 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm/uffd: reset write protection when unregister with wp-mode 2022-08-20 15:17:45 -07:00
util.c mm/util.c: add warning if __vm_enough_memory fails 2022-09-11 20:25:54 -07:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: extend find_vmap_lowest_match_check with extra arguments 2022-09-11 20:26:05 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure: fix data-race with memcg->socket_pressure 2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
vmstat.c memory tiering: rate limit NUMA migration throughput 2022-09-11 20:25:54 -07:00
workingset.c mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
z3fold.c mm: Convert all PageMovable users to movable_operations 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
zbud.c
zpool.c zpool: remove the list of pools_head 2022-01-15 16:30:31 +02:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: zs_object_copy: replace email link to doc 2022-09-11 20:25:56 -07:00
zswap.c mm/swap: remove the end_write_func argument to __swap_writepage 2022-09-11 20:25:50 -07:00